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Armonk, NY-based International Business Machines Corporation has Promoted Jerry Cuomo as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
IBM is a global technology and innovation company headquartered in Armonk, NY. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 400,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world`s most advanced servers and supercomputers. Utilizing its business consulting, technology and R&D expertise, IBM helps clients become ""smarter"" as the planet becomes more digitally interconnected. IBM invests more than $6 billion a year in R&D, just completing its 18th year of patent leadership. IBM Research has received recognition beyond any commercial technology research organization and is home to 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards, and 10 Inductees in US Inventors Hall of Fame. The company was behind the inventions of the PC; SABRE travel reservation system; UPC codes, Watson, the Jeopardy!-playing computing system, and much more.
About the Person
Gennaro "Jerry" Cuomo (born 1962) is an American software engineer working for IBM since 1987. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of WebSphere, a business unit within IBM Software Group (SWG.) Holding the title of IBM Fellow, he is one of the founding fathers of IBM WebSphere Software.At IBM, Cuomo has led projects in the areas of mobile and cloud computing, web application servers, Java, TCP/IP, real-time collaboration software, and high-performance transactional systems. Cuomo currently has filed for over 45 US patents for IBM. Cuomo spent the first 9 years of his career working on advanced technology software at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. Cuomo has been part of the WebSphere Application Server engineering team from its inception in 1997. As an engineer on the WebSphere project, Cuomo has been involved in Web Server Performance, High Availability, Dynamic Caching, Edge Serving, Web Security. SOA, Web 2.0 and RESTful SOA via Project Zero,Appliances, Event Driven Architecture, Open Development, and Virtualization. Cuomo has been the WebSphere's Chief Technology Officer since 2006. He is currently CTO and Vice President of Business Strategy at IBM in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. He provides technical direction to the WebSphere portfolio and leads the technical executive leaders and development teams to "cultivate the future of WebSphere". In recent years Cuomo has been providing direction on IBM's strategy and product capabilities related to mobile and cloud computing. Specifically, Cuomo has been involved in defining the key attributes of cloud computing ,defining IBM's Platform-as-a-service strategy, approaches for measuring cloud performance, mobile computing and engaging enterprise strategy,[18] mobile development with JavaScript-based technologies and IBM's Internet of Things strategy. Cuomo has also been vocal about the positive impact the "mobile generation" will have on our society.
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