My Background
I’ve worked in tech for a while, focusing on developers, open source, DevOps and cloud. I’ve held roles at Dell, Sun Microsystems, and Sony in Tokyo. Currently I’m a TechField day delegate serving as an industry advisor to enterprise tech companies.
At Dell, I founded and led Project Sputnik, growing it from a $40K experiment into a Linux developer laptop and workstation portfolio generating tens of millions in annual revenue. While at Sun, I drove the company’s Linux strategy, served as an open-source evangelist, built and led Java.com and spearheaded the effort to establish manufacturing in Brazil.
My tech career began in Tokyo at Sony in their workstation division, followed by a brief detour into dental floss marketing at Johnson & Johnson (remember, you don’t have to floss them all, just the ones you want to keep).
Personal
I grew up in Honolulu, went to Williams College and Harvard Business School, and now live outside Austin, Texas. My family and I emigrated from Silicon Valley nearly 20 years ago and have never looked back.