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Edgardo J. Marill - Professional Career Summary
Summary
of Technical
Experience:
Excellent
track
record in
conceiving
and
producing
high-technology-based
products
in the
fields of
multimedia,
engineering/scientific,
education,
and
enhanced
personal
communications
devices
and
services;
good
understanding
of
emerging
technologies
and their
cost/value
tradeoffs,
leverage
of open
industry
standards;
broad-base
view of
the
technical
drivers in
the
information
industry. Summary of M
Quantum Corporation (1995 to 2001): Joined Quantum Corporation, a manufacturer of disk drives for personal computers, in December of 1994. Daisy and I made the decision to relocate to the Bay Area after Maynard Webb, great friend and co-worker at IBM, asked me to join him to assist him in running Information Systems for Quantum. Soon after that, unfortunately, he left Quantum and I remained as Acting Vice-President of Information Systems, a post I held for over a year. Maynard has since gone on to bigger and better things, and is now, as of February, 2005, Chief Operating Officer (number 2 guy) at Ebay. I subsequently became a key member of the IT team at Quantum, reporting to the Vice President of Information Systems. I was named Director of World-Wide Business Management. Responsibilities included negotiation of all high-value service contracts with communications and IT service suppliers. I continued in this post as Director of WW Business Management until Quantum's major line of business was acquired by Maxtor Corporation, a competitor, in 2001. Maxtor outsourced all of its IT services. At this time I formally retired. Daisy and I "made a sharp left turn" after going under the Golden Gate Bridge in October 2001, and headed for home in the Florida Keys. We arrived at our current location in June of 2003. (for the story of our trip, go to www.marill.com/siesta)
Market
Development,
Intelligent
Communications
Services
Project
Senior
consulting
role,
defining
the
business
opportunity
in
enhanced
communications
services,
targeted
initially
at the
business
professional.
Scope
of effort
includes
selecting
beach-head
target
markets,
refining
the
feature/function
mix,
defining
pricing,
terms
&
conditions,
and
customer
support
requirements. 1988
to 1992 -
Product
Manager of
Multimedia
Systems:
Managed
the
development
team for
the first
totally
integrated
CD-ROM
based
multimedia
system, in
conjunction
with a
corporate
thrust to
lead the
multimedia
PC market.
1985
to 1988 -
Various
Systems
and
Operations
Management
Assignments: Systems
Manager
for IBM Office
Systems:
Implemented
workstation
products
in support
of the IBM
Corporate
Office
strategy.
Directed
large hw/sw
product
management
teams
across two
major
sites,
Boca Raton
and
Austin,
totaling
over 300
people.
Significant
challenges
were the
differences
in culture
of the two
sites, and
the lack
of a
cohesive
overall
product
direction
that would
bring the
PC Office
team
together.
Moving the
successful
but
old-technology
IBM
DisplayWrite
word
processor
to the
new,
all-points-addressable
technology
was a
major
source of
frustration
during
this time.
IBM top
management
did not
see the
importance
of this
major
shift and
I did not
get the
required
support to
drive the
transition.
For my
drive to
transition
to a new
word-processing
base, I
was taken
out of the
IBM Office
management
chain by
then
Division
President
William H.
Lowe. The
originally
very
successful
DisplayWrite
family of
software
products
continued
its quick
march
towards
eventual
doom,
becoming
just a
footnote
in today's
exciting
world of
word
processing. Manager
of Information
Svstems
(CIO in
today's
terms) for
IBM's
Entry
Systems
Division ($3Billion+
revenue in
1986): Was
put in
place to
manage the
consolidation
of
information
systems
dispersed
across the
country as
well as
two
development
labs, with
an initial
combined
staff of
over 325
people.
One
center was
mainframe-oriented,
and
supported
the
traditional
manufacturing
and
development
functions
on the
site: Also
supported
VM/Profs
Email
support,
telephone-related
services,
and
high-compute
engineering
design
applications.
The
much
younger
and
inexperienced
IBM PC
business
had its
own
Information
Systems
center,
with
geographically
distributed
System
38's, used
primarily
for order
entry and
distribution.
Integrating
the two
cultures
and
achieving
significant
reductions
in cost
and
personnel
were key
objectives
here. 1982 to 1985 - Project Manager for the IBM PC Engineering-Scientific Series: 1980 to 1982 - IBM PC "Founding Member":
-
Was
named
manager of
product
plans for
the IBM
PC.
Exerted
major
influence
in key
project
decisions
(open
architecture,
industry
standards,
and the
importance
of
detailed
technical
documentation.
Personally
spearheaded
the
early
evangelic
team that
energized
the
then-emerging
ISV's for
virtually
all
software,
and much
add-on
hardware.
-
Major
responsibilities
included
defining
the
framework
of
business
relationships
for the
acquisition
and
publishing
of
vendor
software
by IBM.
-
"Discovered"
the work
of Dr.
John Henry
Martin and
convinced
IBM's Don
Estridge
(IBM's
original
top PC
executive)
to develop
a
marketing
relationship
with Dr.
Martin to
offer the
"Writing
to
Read"
program.
This
program
received
national
acclaim,
and became
been the
cornerstone
of IBM's
K-12
education
market
strategy
for many
years, a
major coup
against
the
entrenched
Apple
presence
there. 1970
to 1979 -
Various
IBM
Assignments
in
Programming,
Planning,
and
first-line
IBM
Management.
These
assignments
related to
System/7,
Series/1,
System/3
Model 6
and
System/23
DataMaster
computing
systems,
the entry
level
computers
in IBM at
that time.
RCA Computer Systems Division (1966 to 1970) Worked as a Systems Programmer/Analyst in compiler development for RCA's flagship computer product line, and developed information systems applications in support of a major manufacturing plant. FORMAL
EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, 1964, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florida, 1965, Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, 1966 Master of Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University, 1974 IBM's President's Class at Harvard University's Business School, (3 weeks), 1984 Graduated from Huntingdon High School, in Huntingdon, PA, in 1961 Attended Ruston Academy (K thru 11th grade) until 1960 in Havana, Cuba
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