Paul Reed

Paul Reed

Technology and Product Strategy at Memento

Location
Greater Boston Area
Industry
Information Technology and Services

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Paul Reed's Overview

Current
  • Board of Directors at Early Investors
  • Director of Technology and Product Strategy at Memento, Inc.
Past
Education
  • Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business
  • University of York
  • Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham
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Paul Reed's Summary

Paul has spent his career creating and delivering leading edge solutions to real-world business problems. From the early days of the commercial Internet where he pioneered product and solution development for the IBM Internet Division, to working with government and industry researchers in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. More recently he has been responsible for defining technology and product strategy at Memento; owning the platform product, while driving the broader technology direction for the fraud detection suite.

Paul Reed's Experience

Board of Directors

Early Investors

June 2010Present (1 year 8 months)

Director of Technology and Product Strategy

Memento, Inc.

March 2008Present (3 years 11 months)

Program Manager

IBM Office of the CIO

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

April 2007March 2008 (1 year)

Created and managed a program to bring external startup technologies into IBM.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

November 2001April 2007 (5 years 6 months)

Variety of projects deploying leading edge solutions in the data analytics and information organization space. Project teams consisted of a partnership between product and research staff, in addition to customers. My role focused on infrastructure and middleware architecture and development to support the analytic approaches.

Program Manager

IBM Extreme Blue Program

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2001October 2001 (10 months)

Managed the technical side of IBM’s “top gun” internship for engineering and business students. Role included: recruiting, sourcing and defining projects, day-to-day management of the teams, and post program placement.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

January 1996December 2000 (5 years)

Managed the installation of all venue networks in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympic Games, including customer hosting hotels, Olympic Village, sponsor village, and IBM Press Café.

Webmaster for many major international sport event web sites: Australian Open, Wimbledon, Roland Garros, US Open Tennis, The Masters, Kasparov vs. Deep Blue Rematch (ibm.com/chess), Superbowl, and Nagano Winter Olympic Games. End-to-end responsibility to deliver the solution to the customer from content and application design, through to hosting architecture and venue operations.

Architect for the global hosting infrastructure for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games (olympics.com): servers, networks, geo-load balancing and caching, CDN integration, application design and testing, security, operations, disaster recovery, change management, staffing and shift planning. This infrastructure was subsequently used to host ibm.com.

Led the design and development of the content management system (CMS) and tools used to securely integrate third party data, venue results feeds, and editorial content. Parts of this tool set were subsequently integrated into IBM WebSphere.

Co-inventor of the patented technology underlying IBM SurfAid, a web data mining, metrics and analytics product. This technology was spun out into the company Coremetrics.

Software Engineer

IBM UK Ltd

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

October 1992December 1995 (3 years 3 months)

Supported and developed IBM Mail Exchange, a worldwide mainframe email and EDI service. Pioneered the development of a gateway to allow sending and receiving of SMTP mail to the Internet.

Designed, developed and deployed the first web site for the International Olympic Committee (www.olympic.org). Presented to the IOC executive board at ASOIF 1995 (Association des Fédérations Internationales Olympiques d'été) in Monaco on the evolution and future of the Internet.

Paul Reed's Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

    • Scrum Alliance
    • October 2011 to November 2013

Paul Reed's Education

Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business

MBA

20082010

University of York

BSc, Computer Science

19891992

Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham

A-Levels, Maths, Physics, Computer Science

19841989

Paul Reed's Additional Information

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Interests:

Running, sailing, skiing.

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Honors and Awards:

Graduate Paper Award at TRI-Ada 1992 for a paper derived from my final year thesis; "Experiences in Implementing Ada9x Protected Records and Requeue".
IBM Excellence Award, 1998, 2000
IBM Invention Plateau Award, 1999, 2006
IBM Corporate Award, 2001

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