Bio

Thomas is a Distinguished Engineer (technical executive) at IBM Data and AI, leading Watson Studio on IBM Cloud and Cloud Pak for Data, integration architecture for Palantir for Cloud Pak for Data, and OpenPages SaaS on IBM Cloud architecture direction. Watson Studio is a cloud native collaborative data science and AI environment for data scientists, data engineers, AI experts, business analysts, and developers, allowing teams to gain insights, train/define and deploy ML/DO models, and get from insights to optimal actions. Previously, Thomas led architecture and technical strategy for IBM Connections, WebSphere Portal, and IBM OpenPages. On a one year assignment to the US 2013/14, Thomas led transformation of architecture, technical strategy, and devops process for IBM OpenPages Governance Risk Compliance, drove adoption of IBM Design Thinking, and became a trusted partner for major IBM OpenPages customers. Previously, Thomas led architecture and technical strategy for IBM Connections and integration with WebSphere Portal, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Management, design and development of Smart Social Q&A, become a trusted partner for large enterprise customers as well as customer councils, and helped accelerate sales. On a two year assignment to the US 2004-2006, Thomas led collaboration software architecture, development, and performance for messaging and web conferencing, achieving acceleration of development productivity and large improvements in performance and scalability. Previously, Thomas led architecture and technical direction for WebSphere Portal Platform and development of the WebSphere Portal Foundation, initiated and led the portal standards Java Portlet API and OASIS WSRP and Apache open source reference implementations, and initiated and led the Web 2.0 initiative for WebSphere Portal. As a trusted portal architect and leader in portal integration standards, Thomas played a key role in winning hearts and minds of initial reference customers and then many enterprise customers in Germany and Europe.