The Cloud Trust Global Team
We’ve assembled some of the brightest minds and IT problem-solvers to figure out how enterprises can reap the benefits of cloud computing that small businesses and individuals have been taking advantage of for a while now.
Our executives seek to augment their experience and professional knowledge by learning from your challenges and successes — and we hope to share the same here on the Trusted Cloud Services blog, case studies and resource pages.
Brian E. Boruff
TITLE: Vice President, Cloud Computing
JOINED CSC: January 2009
BACKGROUND: Started at Hewlett-Packard in 1982; 9 years at Apple; 15 years as a senior executive at Microsoft, most recently VP of Enterprise Services.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Leading a company-wide initiative to extend CSC’s global leadership in systems design and integration, outsourcing, infrastructure, and application development to a mix of on-premise and cloud computing delivery models
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Yogesh Khanna
TITLE: Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, ITIS, North American Public Sector, CSC
JOINED CSC: May 2003
BACKGROUND: He earned his MS in Systems Engineering and BS Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech, and attended Executive Education at Harvard University. Prior to CSC, Yogesh was the founder and CEO of MobileHelix, a venture-backed mobile application integration company. Before MobileHelix, Yogesh served in senior management and technical positions at DynCorp, GTE, Mitre, NEC America, and COMSAT.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Currently leading the cloud initiative within CSC's North American Public Sector, Yogesh is also an active member of CSC's Corporate Cloud Computing Initiative, leading his team to design and develop a comprehensive suite of orchestration layer services. He and his team are actively engaged with several clients to launch pilots that exploit CSC's cloud services and capabilities.
Sreedhar Kajeepeta
TITLE: Global VP & CTO, Technology Consulting Practices, GBS
JOINED CSC: 2006
BACKGROUND: Sreedhar spent 20 years with Covansys, where he founded their e-business practice, and also served as program director for Cambridge Technology Partners and a systems analyst for Tata Consultancy Services. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering and a master’s in computer technology.
CLOUD PROJECTS: GBS's consulting groups across the world specialize in cloud computing, SOA, Enterprise Transformation, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Application Development, Cyber-Security and Performance Management.
CONNECT: Twitter @Sreedhar_K, LinkedIn
Jay Noble
TITLE: Director Cloud Computing, Americas
JOINED CSC: May 2009
BACKGROUND: 25 years sales, marketing and cloud computing experience with a focus on delivering business value through technology integration.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, BPOS, Azure and Google Apps
CONNECT: Twitter @CSCTrustedCloud and Linkedin
Jim Naumovski
TITLE: Director Cloud Services Asia and Australia
JOINED CSC: 1995
BACKGROUND: Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Masters of Computer Science, University of Wollongong. Previous Roles: Researcher; Solutions Architec; Director of Enterprise Architecture, Design and Build AsiaPac; Director of Technology Consulting AsiaPac
CLOUD PROJECTS: Involved in CSC's IaaS strategy; Creation of cloud consultancy components, in particular Collaboration Assessment and OASIS makeover; Rollout of cloud offerings in APAC; core member of CSCs global cloud initiative.
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Ron Brown
TITLE: Technical Director, EMEA North
JOINED CSC: 1998
BACKGROUND: Over his 18 year career in the IT industry, he has accumulated a wide range of experience covering all aspects of business systems design and delivery. Ron is currently performing EMEA CTO duties, Executive member of the CSC Leading Edge Forum, Leader of the CSC Global Centre of Excellence for Business Process Management , and winner of both he CSC Leading Edge Forum Technical Excellence Award for Innovation and CSC President’s Award for Innovation.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Director of Cloud Computing Services EMEA
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Ronald (Ron) B. Knode
TITLE: Director, Global Security Solutions; Research Associate, Leading Edge Forum
JOINED CSC: Acquired through purchase of Atlantic Research Corporation (ARC) by CSC in 1995
BACKGROUND: BS, USNA, MS, USNaval Postgraduate School; PhD coursework, University of Maryland; adjunct faculty Towson University graduate program in the Center for Applied IT
CLOUD PROJECTS: Trusted Cloud Services; Orchestration Core; Trusted CloudVision; CloudTrust Protocol;
CONNECT: LinkedIn
Randy Arthur
TITLE: CTO — CSC Trusted Cloud Services
JOINED CSC: June 2001
BACKGROUND: Enterprise Windows, UNIX and Storage infrastructure Service Delivery; New Business Solution Development; Product Management; Technical and Business Strategy; Datacenter Optimization, Mainframe Virtualization, Quality Systems and Process Improvement (Six Sigma Certified); Project Management (PMP)
EDUCATION: Honours Co-Op Bachelor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, 1987.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); Automation and System Provisioning; Vendor Alliance activities; Cloud Roadmap and Technical Strategy; IaaS/PaaS Business Cases and Case Studies; Optimization Assessments; Infrastructure Virtualization
CONNECT: Twitter @RandyDArthur, LinkedIn, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Lori Salow Marshall
TITLE: Product Director, Infrastructure as a Service
JOINED CSC: July 2009
BACKGROUND: Founder of BizDev Experts LLC and a consultant to CSC. Over 20 years of experience in corporate strategy, development, management, enterprise sales and marketing. Formerly with Datacastle management and VP of Business Development for the Microsoft Alliances at Unisys Corporation. Lori earned her B.S. from Georgetown University.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Lori currently co-manages the development of CSC’s IaaS Cloud with Program Director Randy Arthur. She is focused on developing the most tangible, relevant public and private cloud offerings to drive adoption and early revenues, proving out the market models to drive CSC’s long-term success in the Cloud Services market.
CONNECT: Twitter @BizDevExperts, LinkedIn
M. Kitty Kelly
TITLE: Sales and Marketing Director, Cloud Services
JOINED CSC: July 2009
BACKGROUND: Prior to joining CSC, Kitty held the position of Services Marketing Director for Sun Microsystems and StorageTek, prior to its acquisition by Sun and led TeleWeb Operations for NCR and TeleSales/TeleMarketing Operations for Xerox in North America. Kitty holds an MBA for the University of Illinois.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Building a TeleSales function to improve sales coverage and CSC penetration of Cloud Services in the mid-market.
CONNECT: Twitter @kitkelly1, LinkedIn
Neil Salter
TITLE: Solutions Director
JOINED CSC: June 2008
BACKGROUND: Prior to joining CSC, Neil served as Director of IT Managed Services for GEC Marconi, Business Improvement Director and Director of Enterprise Programs for BAE Systems; for the past 4 years, he has worked as an independent consultant in both private and public sectors.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Neil is developing Trusted Cloud Services to support UK government.
CONNECT: LinkedIn
Doug Egan, CISSP, CISA
TITLE: IT Security Solutions
JOINED CSC: September 2007
BACKGROUND: Doug joined CSC with 26 years of experience in the industry working predominately in software engineering for large corporations,
including work with IBM, Lockheed, NASA, CyberGuard and Secure Computing Corporation as the Lead Security Assurance Engineer for Common Criteria and the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validations.
CLOUD PROJECTS: Trusted Cloud Security
CONNECT: LinkedIn