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Colin J. Parris, Ph.D.
Vice President, Digital Convergence
IBM Research
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Parris is currently Vice President, Digital Convergence, in the IBM Research
Group. Under his leadership IBM has formed an emerging business born from
the IBM Innovation Jam around emerging technologies and virtual worlds. His
business takes an (end-to-end systems perspective to bringing highly visual,
interactive interfaces into the world of business, science, healthcare and
education. He is currently a member of the IBM Integration and Values Team
and on the Board of Governors of the IBM Academy of Technology.
In his previous role Dr. Parris was Vice President, System Assurance &
Post-Sales Technical Support, in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. In
this role he was responsible for end-to-end quality, system test, post-sales
technical support, and lab-based STG services for all of the IBM server and
storage products. These products include the IBM eServer System z, System i,
System p, System x, and TotalStorage product families. He is also
responsible for the quality, bench marking, and compliance testing of all
high performance systems products.
Prior to his Systems role Dr. Parris was Vice President, Strategic Growth
Development, in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. In this role his major
responsibilities were the commercialization of the Blue Gene Supercomputer
and Cell-Based Processor Systems technology. Prior to that Dr. Parris was
Vice President, Technology, at the IBM Corporation. His main
responsibilities included leading the IBM Corporate Technology Team which
oversees the company's current and future technology directions and
directing IBM’s talent activities to attract, develop, and retain top
technical talent.
Dr. Parris has also held several other technical and business executive
positions at IBM, Tivoli, and Prodigy Services Company. These positions
include Director, Communication Sector Solutions and SWG WW Linux
Integration Centers in the IBM Software Group, Director, OS/2 and Solutions
Technology in the IBM Software Group, Solutions and Strategy organization,
Vice President, Strategy and Solution Management, of the Net Gen Market
group at Tivoli Systems, Director of Integrated Computing Environment (ICE)
Solutions in the Network Computing Software Divisions (NCSD) in the IBM
Software Group (SWG), the Director of Customer Care & Billing Development
and Internet Technologies in the Communication Sector in IBM Global
Industries, and the Director of Network Architecture at the Prodigy Services
Company.
Dr. Parris has also had several research positions at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson
Research Center and at (then) AT&T Bell Laboratories where he was actively
involved in research in e-commerce, mobile agents, and high speed
communication networks. He has published numerous papers and has patents in
the areas of network management, multimedia systems, and mobile agents.
Dr. Parris has received a Doctorate of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.E.E.), a Masters in the
Science of Management (M.S.M) from Stanford University, Stanford (Sloan
Fellow), a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at the University of California, Berkeley (M.S.E.E.C.S), and a Bachelor of
Science in Electrical Engineering at Howard University (B.S.E.E.). He has
also received various technical and community honors and awards.
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