Bradley Ellison has moved out of the active blogging world and will no longer be posting within this blog.
Bradley (Brad) Ellison is the Manager of IT Global Infrastructure’s Global Data Centers team within Intel’s IT Organization. His responsibilities include Data Center Capabilities Planning, Standards, Physical Security, and Business Continuity Planning for Intel’s data centers world wide. His team is divided into representatives covering over 140 data centers in the Americas, Greater Asia, and Greater European Regions.
Ellison joined Intel in September of 1997 and has held various positions in Information Technology including individual contributor and management roles in Server Engineering, Engineering Computing, Enterprise Business Computing, and Global Infrastructure groups. From 1999 to 2002, Brad’s Production Engineering team was responsible for sustaining and support of Intel’s $2 Billion per month web based eBusiness infrastructure and systems. Prior to Joining Intel, Brad was Vice President and Senior Project Manager of Mapcom Systems, Inc., a geographic information systems consulting and data conversion company. Ellison currently sits on the Data Center Institute’s Board of Directors and is a charter member of the Infrastructure Executive’s Council’s Data Center Operations Council.
Ellison received a B.S. from the University of North Dakota in 1981 and an M.S. from Oregon State University in 1985.
Brian Willis is an Information Security Analyst within the Information Risk and Security group, part of Intel’s Information Technology (IT) group. Brian currently focuses on working with Host Governments on security and privacy legislation and regulation as it affects IT infrastructure. In addition, Brian works extensively on critical infrastructure protection issues as related to the cyber threat and leads the internal strategic cyber threat assessment capability. Prior to his current role, Brian has held a variety of Information Security and Privacy-related jobs within INtel including managing the European and Asian Regional Security teams, leading the Mergers and Acquisitions Security Team and as Information Security and Business Continuity Manager for IT.
Brian has over 15 years experience in the Information Security field and joined Intel’s Security Team in 1997. Prior to joining Intel, Brian held information security-related jobs within the public and private sector. Brian has obtained the CISSP, ISSAP, and ISSMP certifications. Additionally Brian is a member of the ITAA Board, ITAA Security Committee, IT SCC, IT ISAC Board, USCIB ICT Committee, CIPL and CIPAC. Brian is based in Washington State and enjoys fishing, video gaming and travelling.
David Sward is no longer an active blogger for IT@Intel. He has left Intel and moved on to new adventures.
David Sward was formerly a Senior User Experience Researcher at Intel Corporation, driving development and adoption of human-centered approaches to the design of new business solutions. David has established and managed cross-disciplinary groups that apply human-centered principles to the design and development of products and services. He helped develop and manage the IT Business Value Program within Intel’s IT organization. David has worked in the field of Human Factors Engineering since 1991 and is an Adjunct Faculty member in the Applied Psychology program at Arizona State University Polytechnic; teaching classes in Human Factors Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction. He is the author of Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology: Practical Strategies for IT and Business Manager.
David has a Bachelors of Science from Colorado State University and a Masters in Cognitive Psychology from New Mexico State University.
Eleanor Wynn is an Enterprise Architect, Social Computing. She has been with Intel since 2000, working in Information Technology Innovation, Strategic Capabilities, and Platform Business Technologies and Services. She has an extensive career working on social aspects of computing, including team and organizational based requirements for new technologies, and social networks. In IT she collaborated with others to create the usage model for a novel Intel developed 3D user interface, supporting the concept with social research and making the connection from needs to interface to architecture. She has run a “virtuality index” for four years to track how we do across time and space. She sponsored and conducted research on machine learning, Bayes Nets, game architectures and agent-based models, all to support how people work, think and cope in a large organization.
A complexity “maven”, Eleanor is Intel’s representative to Santa Fe Institute and NECSI. She earned a PhD from UC Berkeley in Linguistic Anthropology, did her doctoral research at Xerox PARC on situated knowledge in customer service, and influenced early efforts in user-centered design in Scandinavia. She has worked for BNR and as a consultant to Apple and other F/500 companies. She co-edits Information Technology & People, an Information Systems academic journal and has published considerably, as well as serving as Program and Organizing Chair for various IFIP conferences.
Heath Buckmaster is an Information Technology Manager in the Sales and Marketing Operations group, part of Intel’s Information Technology (IT) group.
Heath received a B.S. in Business Administration / Computer Information Systems from Appalachian State University, in the wonderful mountains of North Carolina. Although a native Tarheel, he moved across the country to join Intel in 1996, and has had various jobs ranging from database analyst, web developer, and team lead, to project manager, program manager, product line manager, organization development specialist, and people manager. Aside from normal job responsibilities, Heath is also actively involved as an instructor for various manager training courses at the company.
Outside Intel, Heath is an avid writer, and is currently working on five fiction novels for publication. For more information about Heath, you can also visit his personal website, Digital Heath.
Jeff Moriarty worked as a Social Media advocate with Intel IT. He has now moved on to a new role as Community Manager for Intel’s Mobile Developer Community. So all new postings will occur over there or on Open Port.
Jeff received a B.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University. He joined Intel in 1999 as a contractor, and was told that if the world did not end for Y2K we would make his employment more official, which we did in January, 2000. Prior to joining Intel, Jeff had his own software development company, and worked in the internet and eCommerce divisions of a Fortune 500 company in the Phoenix area. He also had a brief appearance in an episode of the X-Files, which is probably the most interesting fact in this paragraph.
John Mahvi is the PC Product manager for Intel IT. John’s role is to manage the PC offerings for Intel employees, including standards, support, deployment, and end of life. Intel’s PC Fleet is primarily mobile, so the primary focus of John’s activities is mobile (aka notebook) PCs.
John has bachelor and masters degrees from the University of Kansas, and has worked at Intel since 1994 in the Information Technology division, in roles including client network integration, e-mail, and PC management, and pretty much all things client.
Laurie Buczek is a web strategist for the IT@Intel program, part of Intel’s IT organization. Laurie is responsible for leveraging social media or web 2.0 to communicate externally the tribal knowledge of our IT department for the benefit of our IT peers.
Laurie transplanted from Boston to sunny Phoenix to joined Intel in 2001. Prior to Laurie’s current position within IT, Laurie was responsible for driving business client platforms and industry solutions in North and South America. Laurie has also held positions driving initiatives around Wireless Network Infrastructure, Embedded Products and Storage in Intel’s Communications Group. Laurie has spent over 15 years in high technology. In her past life before Intel, Laurie worked for Forrester Research and Gateway, Inc. She holds a B.A. from The Ohio State University.
Outside of Intel, Laurie spends her time “wrangling” two little munchkins. Laurie is also passionate about volunteering in the community and holds various leadership/board positions in The Junior League of Phoenix and advocates on behalf of abused and neglected children as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). You will find Laurie cheering on The Ohio State Buckeye football on fall Saturday mornings. Go Bucks!
Martin Curley is no longer actively posting in this blog.
Martin Curley is Senior Principal Engineer and Global Director of IT Innovation and Research at Intel Corporation managing a network of IT Innovation Centers catalyzing IT Innovation. Previously Martin held a number of IT Management positions for Intel including Director of IT Strategy and Technology based in Sacramento, California and Fab14 Automation Manager based in Dublin, Ireland. Martin has also held IT engineering and management positions at General Electric in Ireland and Philips in the Netherlands.
Martin has a degree in Electronic Engineering and a Masters in Business Studies from University College Dublin, Ireland. Martin is author of Managing Information Technology for Business Value published by Intel Press, January 04. Martin is also an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and the National College of Ireland.
Marin Menard is no longer actively posting within this blog.
Martin (Marty) Menard is director of the Platform Capability Group, a part of the Information Technology (IT) group at Intel. Menard reports to the office of the CIO and is responsible for information solutions for Intel’s product planning and design engineering groups, including platform planning, engineering team management and operations, and engineering computing. His group supports over 30,000 employees, including 24,000 engineers performing scientific computing that demand 61,000 servers running at a 60 percent utilization rate.
Menard joined Intel in 1983 as a Training Manager supporting Intel’s worldwide manufacturing organization. In his 20 year career at Intel, Menard has held numerous management positions in eBusiness, Product Marketing, and Information Technology. He also was an early pioneer in building the Intel Internet presence, in particular the developer and support sites for engineering professionals who design Intel products.
Prior to joining Intel, he consulted with the pulp and paper industry supporting new capacity and Greenfield start-up projects throughout North America. Menard received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and has a M.B.A. from Arizona State’s Executive MBA program.
Nathan is no longer an active blogger for IT@Intel. He has moved out of Intel IT into Intel Research.
Formerly a Principal Engineer in Intel’s Information Technology group, Nathan has been with Intel since 1982. He started as an engineer in device fabrication Q&R, but has gravitated towards IT, becoming Computing Productivity manager in 1994. His challenge is to initiate and develop solutions to problems straddling the border between human behavior and computing technology, in order to make Intel’s employees more effective while enabling them to balance their work and their life more harmoniously. He is also a passionate believer in sharing and cooperating across organizational boundaries, to which end he had founded ITshareNet, a collaborative site where you can find some of his solutions for download.
Nathan lives in Jerusalem, Israel, where he and his wife are parents to two grown kids. His hobbies include recreational computer programming, collecting artifacts from the history of computing, and reading. Nathan holds an MSc in Applied Physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
You are welcome to visit Nathan’s personal web site at http://www.nzeldes.com
Sean is no longer an active blogger for Intel. He has left Intel for new adventures.
Sean has been working with computers since nearly failing a FORTRAN class in college. He’s gotten over that early failure, however, and he’s currently the senior engineer on the core directory services team
and formerly one of the architects of Intel’s corporate forest. Sean is the author of “Windows 2000 Server: Planning and Migration” from Macmillan / New Riders. He is a Contributing Editor and technical editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine, and he speaks on Windows Server topics at conferences around the world.
Microsoft has awarded him a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for directory services for the last four years, a distinction he shares with less than 70 IT pros in the world.
In an effort to keep some balance in his life, he began practicing Okinawan karate in college and has kept at it ever since. He holds multiple black belts, including a fifth degree in Shorin ryu karate.
Sean has a lifelong love of music, especially classical and jazz. Though he’s taken a temporary leave of absence (for 25 years) from playing French horn, he married a professional clarinetist to ensure he’d always be near the sound of fervent practicing. He’s been a member of The Dallas Opera as a supernumerary (extra) since 1984, and is proud of the fact he’s the only dragon they’ve had since he began.
Sudip Chahal is the Compute and Storage Architect in the IT Enterprise Technical Architecture organization. His responsibilities include defining the long-term vision for the compute and storage environments and maintaining the compute and storage capability technology roadmaps for IT. He has M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering and his bachelors was in Electrical Engineering.
Tomas McInerney is a product manager within the mobile client platform engineering group of Intel IT. Tom has worked to manage the deployment of various remote connectivity capabilities to employees, some exciting some reassuringly mundane. Amongst other things Tom is currently focusing on wireless wide area networking technology including WiMAX and cellular data extending the reach of the enterprise anytime anywhere. Tom also spends time working with several local community involvement programs.
Tom joined Intel fresh from university receiving a B.S. in computing. Before joining Intel Tom worked in several roles within the legal sector as technical support fixing anything with a CPU, his first ‘real’ computer was an Amstrad 2086. He still keeps a Palm Pilot Pro in his desk drawer (with a snap on 56k modem) and occasionally boots up his Amiga 500+ to enjoy a spin on classic lemmings.
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