Early in his career David worked as both a hardware engineer and software engineer, focusing on IBM mainframes. During the birth of the PC in 1981 he became IBM's first official â"technology evangelist" traveling the world, updating customers on IBM's software strategy. Later David went on to lead IBM's evangelism and strategy efforts around Web services, SOA, and then IBM's WebSphere software offerings. Most recently David managed the IBM Solutions Experience Lab in Austin Texas, and the IBM Extreme Blue innovation laboratory, also in Austin. Today he is helping shape IBM's strategic efforts around innovation in BigData and other emerging technologies.

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