#381 Howard Boville, Head of IBM Hybrid Cloud (Hosted by Brad Sousa)
Today we have Brad Sousa, CTO of AVI Systems, hosting Howard Boville, the Head of IBM Hybrid Cloud. And they discuss how to propagate your vision throughout an organization. IBM’s recent innovations in hybrid cloud, and why it’s important to find engineers that not only have the right talent, but also the right attitude for the job.
All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
To learn more about IBM Hybrid Cloud, check them out at https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hybrid
To learn more about AVI Systems, check them out at https://www.avisystems.com
About Howard Boville:
Joining IBM on May 1, 2020, Howard Boville is Senior Vice President of IBM Hybrid Cloud. He directs IBM’s global network of more than 60 cloud data centers across 19 countries and 18 availability zones across six regions.
Howard has 25 years of experience working as a business technologist across sales, marketing, product development, engineering, operations and contracts.
Most recently he was Chief Technology Officer for Bank of America, responsible for the company’s infrastructure strategy across its eight lines of business.
During his eight years at the bank he led the transformation of its infrastructure, delivering one of the largest internal private clouds, which underpinned Bank of America's digital transformation and growth strategy.
Under Howard's leadership the bank's cloud strategy entered a new phase whereby Bank of America made the joint announcement of the world’s first financial services-ready public cloud with IBM in November 2019. The idea was to create an industry platform that financial services and SaaS providers alike could operate in that meets the high standards and controls necessary for this market.
While at the bank, Howard also led its strategy for “Work Place of the Future” covering the bank’s 90,000-person technology and operations workforce.
Howard joined Bank of America in August 2012 from British Telecom, where he served in its Global Services Division. During his time there he led global sales, marketing and product development teams across multiple market verticals.
Howard earned a Bachelor of Arts in business from Teesside University in Middlesbrough, U.K., and a Diploma of Business Studies from Leeds University, Leeds, U.K. He is married with three children and lives in New York City.
About IBM:
IBM is a leading cloud platform and cognitive solutions company. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 350,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. With Watson, the AI platform for business, powered by data, we are building industry-based solutions to real-world problems. For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents.
About Brad Sousa:
Industry authority on visual collaboration, Unified Collaboration, digital media, video over IP, collaboration within classified applications, and visual collaboration for healthcare and distance learning. Brad’s experience and expertise makes the difference between integrating collaborative technologies, and create enterprise-wide adoption that changes organizational cultures and accomplishes broad organizational strategic initiatives. Brad is a key note speaker at symposiums and workshops addressing the application of technology in education and the effects on academic outcomes; the use of classified and unclassified visual collaboration; how enterprise collaboration and adoption of visual communications improves productivity and ROI.
Pioneered the use of MPEG multicast for statewide and district-wide distance learning applications with notable programs such as Hacienda LaPuete’ USD (three time recipient of the Smithsonian Award for Technology in Academics), the Modern Red School House (Kayenta USD) and The Cascade Consortium (distance learning network supporting central Washington State).
About AVI Systems:
Communication Liberation Most organizations have one principal requirement for their audiovisual (AV) technology: that it frees them to do their jobs. That’s why the best system is one that opens the lines of communication, then gets out of the way. It’s also why AVI designs our systems to be easy to integrate, intuitive to operate, and simple to maintain. This is our definition of Communication Liberation, and it's reflected in the incredible diversity of AV solutions that we provide for business, commercial, education and government clients across the U.S. Founded in 1974, AVI Systems has 16 offices throughout the Midwest, Central Southwest and on the West Coast, giving us a regional presence and national reach. We owe a great part of our success to having the most highly trained, capable and motivated team of experts in the AV industry. As a 100 percent employee-owned company, we are able to attract and retain the most qualified people by treating every individual as a crucial member of AVI. We provide them the opportunity and encouragement to grow in their careers and empower our employee-owners with stock ownership via 401(k) matching, dividends and profit sharing. The people of AVI not only share in the success of our company, they share a conviction that technology should liberate, not impede. And working together, we provide integrated audiovisual solutions that remove barriers instead of creating them, freeing our customers to seize opportunity and imagine new possibilities.