Brian leads outbound product management for network observability and network automation for IBM. Brian joined IBM with over 25 years of experience in the network management and monitoring space at Novell, Cisco and SevOne where he focused primarily on product management, product marketing and strategic alliance efforts of early stage products for emerging technologies in enterprise and service provider markets. Brian believes in enabling customers and partners to integrate products and technologies via open APIs and interfaces to solve the individual customer needs, earning two US Patents (US06584507 and US 06957256) for Linking External Applications to a Network Management System.