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IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, California)
 Design Researcher, User System Ergnomics Research Lab
Senior Product Manager, alphaWorks
Early in my career, I was recruited to lead the product management for an IBM research platform called alphaWorks. alphaWorks was positioned to connect IBM technology research to external third-party interests and to broaden the IBM research ecosystem.  Our team of designers and software developers was formed at the IBM Hawthorne Center  in upstate New York and quickly moved to the IBM Almaden Research Center in Silicon Valley. 
 
We represented the “we’re not your father’s IBM” marketing movement giving us carte blanche by the IBM C-suite vice presidents and the CEO at that time, Lou Gerstner, to develop a cutting-edge internet enterprise product. As the lead product manager, I was the liaison between our team, our IBM C-suite sponsors, and Studio Archetype, a design firm contracted to develop the alphaWorks brand.
 
alphaWorks, became that platform for researchers across IBM’s global research centers to form communities-of-practice for their research platforms, for IBM staff to write articles on trending technology topics, and to provide a technology transfer licensing service. As the project evolved, our team worked very closely with the IBM JAVA marketing team toward the inaugural JAVA One conference.
Design Researcher
​User System Ergonomics Research Lab
I leveraged my alphaWorks position to participate in
cutting edge IBM computer science research. 

As a forever curious artists who integrated computational and electronic technologies into my projects, I took advantage of the opportunity to join the IBM Almaden User-System Ergonomics Research (USER) lab as a visiting design researcher.  The USER lab, headed by an IBM Fellow, was an early prototype for the field of human computer interaction. In the USER lab, I participated in research on cognitive tutors for learning, concepts for augmented reality workspaces, and human-to-human data transmission using near-field wireless technologies.  The later project was based on the Personal Area Network technology (not related to 802.15.4 concept of PAN) developed by an MIT researcher. With a team of international fellows, I implemented the technology in a prototype personalized exercise machine prototype - a precursor to many of the more sophisticated personalized coaching workout machines that are on the market today.   I was also exposed to other computer science mavericks in computation, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and design through my colleagues in the lab and our annual “New Paradigms for Using Computers” symposium.