Dave Brillhart
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Dave Brillhart is a Sr. IT Architect for IBM Global Technology Services. He is part of the ITS Delivery organization, leading teams of Architects and Specialists, designing and delivering advanced IT infrastructure solutions to clients, focusing on aligning IT with business, transforming IT using leading technology and process, and optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of IT services.

IBM Client Experience
State Street Corporation [SSC] Boston, MA May05-Nov05
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center [UPMC] Oakland, PA Nov05-current

Sun Client Experience
Prior to joining IBM in May of 2005, Dave worked for Sun Microsystems for 10 years as a Solution Architect. Since 1995, Dave has consulted for over 150 major accounts across the US and in several countries, including:
GE (General Electric) , Walt Disney, AOL (America OnLine), Motorola, Carnival Cruise Lines, Bank of America, NASA, Lockheed Martin, FedEx, UPS (United Postal Service), Office Depot, Sprint, Capital One, NASDAQ, NASD, ADP (Automatic Data Processing), Duke Energy, Eckerd Drugs, Delta Air Lines, Continental Airlines, Harris, The Vanguard Group, HSN (Home Shopping Network), Coca-Cola, International Speedway (Daytona), State of Georgia, USAF (Air Force), NDC Health, International Paper, Hershey Foods, Cisco, Volvo, BellSouth, University of Florida, Adelphia Cable, CNN, Cox Cable, Southern Company, CSX Railroad, DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), Nielsen Ratings, Nextel, UUnet, Home Depot, Six Continents Hotels [Holiday Inn], GEICO, Royal Caribbean, Alamo Rent A Car, Union Planters Bank, Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Texas Instruments, Dell, Nortel, AT&T, Northrop Grumman, Westinghouse, Siemens, eTrade, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), Federal Reserve, NFC (National Finance Center), Progress Energy, Tyco, Chep, Fidelity Investments, Celera Genomics, Patrick AFB, BD Pharmaceutical Systems, Cingular Wireless, GTE, Enron, Schlumberger, Tekelec, Convergys, Ocwen Financial, Choicepoint, XM Radio, Marshall Space Center, Worldcom, MCI, Hughes Network Systems, Network Solutions, Lucent Technologies, Fieldcrest Cannon, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Baltimore Sun, ARINC, Cirent Semiconductor, NIH (National Institutes of Health), Comcast, SAS, HBO, Time-Warner, Alltel, AutoNation, Qwest Communications, Corrections Corp, Scientific-Atlanta, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fisher Scientific, The College Board, PRC (Precision Response Corp), Mindspring/Earthlink, MAMSI (Mid Atlantic Medical Services), Source Medical, Health South, WPNI (Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive), PNC Financial, Mirant Corp, Ryder System, Owens Corning, Walmart, Interpath Communications, Census Bureau, DHR, T. Rowe Price, T-OnLine [Germany], Ericsson/EHPT [Sweden], etc...

IT organizations are feeling intense pressure to operate like a true business partner. The "business of IT" involves:
 And if that weren't enough to keep IT management up at night, consider these additional realities:
Whew! A world-class IT operation has a half-life measured in dog years. Continuous adaptation and innovation is the key to success.

So, how do I help? My primary client focus area is architecting the Service Oriented Infrastructure (aka: On Demand Operating Environment). This involves the virtualization of resources (network, storage, compute) upon which infrastructure services and business applications are automatically provisioned and managed by an intelligent framework, based on business policy and priority, to achieve contracted service level objectives, optionally metered using a utility cost model.

I'm also developing a Service Oriented Application model in which workload is designed to automatically discover available compute nodes across which it is distributed for resiliency and scalability. This is being developed as a working prototype and a related conference paper.

People and process are also being addressed by many clients through the application of ITIL standards. This is a strategy to achieve Operational Excellence through the establishment and execution of industry-accepted Best Practices across a collection of process disciplines in the delivery and support of IT Services. The common goal of these standards is to: drive business alignment and improved QoS at a reduced cost. I will be taking the ITIL Service Master certification exam this June.

My experiences at IBM and Sun Microsystems have provided an opportunity to learn from and contribute to the design of world class data center solutions and operations. Prior to that, I spent many years as an IT customer - a staff-level systems administrator, in charge of a number of 24x7x365 datacenters that were scattered around the world supporting mission critical semiconductor fabrication. Any downtime would have cost the business unrecoverable loss of production and revenue. My early days included the design and coding of an Expert System that controlled the multi-stage photolithography process of a high-volume production semiconductor fab. It optimized manufacturing yield by learning from and controlling the quality of the complex process. I presented my work at an IEEE conference in San Francisco, one week before the earthquake in 1989. Here is my paper: "An expert system for real-time process characterization and control [photolithography]". I've written dozens of publications since. But that was my first.

I also led the team which brought the original Harris Corporation website online in 1994! The most interesting part of that experience was the collaboration between Marketing, PR, Sales, Design Engineering, Customer Support, IT, and a handful of old school C-level execs :-) Talk about Paradigm Shift! Back then it was a big deal. Today we can't imagine doing business (effectively) without an Internet presence.

I currently reside in Orlando, and when I'm not on the road you can bet I'm enjoying time with my wife and two fantastic children. Or playing the sax with our contemporary church band (audio clip of one of my sax solos, from our latest CD), or capturing life with my digital camera, or running or biking with my black lab, or maybe even getting away on a family camping trip. I'm also under contract with Prentice-Hall to author a book on Computing Technology, but that will likely end up a causality of higher priority interests.

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