Over the past 20 years, Rob has been helping software and service organizations with the adoption of new technology at Fortune 1000 companies. A true trusted advisor with strong relationship building skills and a keen sense for aligning business requirements with the capabilities of technology. A broad skill set allows Rob to qualify, design, pilot, and quantify the value of a solution allowing the business to quickly understand the return on investment.
After a successful product management and development career at D&B Software, Rob was recruited by Group Bull (Integris) as a solutions architect to help build their Mainframe to Open Systems Integration practice. The experience hardened his software development skills with production implementation experience at some of the largest Financial Services institution in the US.
In 1998, Rob joined BEA Systems through the WebLogic acquisition spending the next 3 years driving product adoption of J2EE in the Northeast and providing technical leadership for indirect channels business helping it grow from $25m to $100m by implementing repeatable solutions with leading OEMs, ISVs and systems integrators.
Most recently, Rob's focus has been helping early stage software companies build key technical and business relationships with large Financial Services companies in Boston, London, and New York. His expertise with front office, back office, and eCommerce combined with specific skills in high performance computing, distributed architectures, and large scale IT Operations are an asset to any team. He has been a consultant in residence at leading financial services organization; Standard Charter Bank, Credit Suisse, HSBC, RBS, and State Street working on specific implementation in the areas of, Data Center Consolidation, Virtualization, Network Security Operations, FX, pricing, trade analytics, and compliance reporting (BASEL2, SOX, PCI).
In recent projects, Rob has utilized Solution Selling techniques and the Agile Development Methodology to build customer relationships and to show quantifiable results quickly.