March 2011, IBM. Role

Staff engineer on an industrial condition-monitoring solution

Promoted to staff software engineer, I built middleware for an industry solution that spots failure symptoms in high-value plant assets, and led the team's invention mining.

  • Leadership
  • Delivery

3

invention disclosures from the team

from IP mining sessions I led

5

internal conference abstracts

What would have happened

The new center of excellence would have lacked a single owner for its middleware and team tooling.

The call

Own the middleware component and the team's practices, not just my code.

What I did

Owned middleware and integration services, ran Scrum for the 2011 deliveries, owned the team's tooling and led sessions that mined inventions from the team's work.

What changed

The team submitted 3 invention disclosures, 5 internal conference abstracts and 2 internship ideas.

Proof

The original documents are held in my private record and can be shared on request.