The ACM will be hosting:
Gary Foster
Partner, Director - Technical Solutions and Operational Support
IBM GBS - Application Innovation Services
His presentation is entitled "Working in IBM Global Services - Public Sector"
When: Tuesday 8pm
Where: CoC 102
Food: Pizza and Drinks
Gary will cover,
- IBM
- Global Business Services – Public Sector
- Application Innovation Services – Service Areas
- Project Profiles
- Career Perspective
There will also be a question and answer session
About Gary Foster:
Gary Foster is a Partner within IBM’s Global Business Services organization. Gary leads the Application Innovation Services IT Infrastructure Development organization serving Public Sector. In his Service Area Leader role, Gary has responsibility for providing Infrastructure solutions and services in support of our Public Sector customers. His organization consists of over four hundred and fifty technical professionals, ranging from project managers, system administrators, network specialists, infrastructure architects, data center operations, solution principal, high performance computing specialist and business operations personnel. Prior to his appointment to Service Area Leader, Gary served as Delivery Executive, responsible for the overall delivery of IBM’s 800M portfolio of Federal contracts.
Prior to his joining Public Sector team, Gary served as Senior Project Executive on several of IBM’s large commercial outsourcing contracts, including NASCO, G.E Capital, AK Steel and Freeport McMoRan. Over his 27 years of experience working at IBM, Gary has held a variety of leadership positions with a primary focus on program delivery and business growth.
Gary is a Certified Project Manager and a member of the North America Project Management and IBM Project Executive Certification boards. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
About IBM ( Wikipedia ):
International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or "Big Blue"; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services, hosting services and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
With over 350,000 employees worldwide, IBM is the largest information technology employer in the world. IBM holds more patents than any other technology company.IBM has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and IBM Research has eight laboratories worldwide. IBM employees have earned five Nobel Prizes, five Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. As a chip maker, IBM is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders.
