About me
Chris is a Distinguished Engineer for Database Technology and a lead architectfor the Data Management portfolio within the Mainframe Division of BroadcomSoftware Group. He oversees strategy and architecture decisions for theBroadcom database products IDMS and Datacom, as well as for the DB2 and IMSTools portfolios.With 35+ years of mainframe database experience, Chris has a deepunderstanding of how hardware and software can work together to solve real-world problems. He regularly engages with customers on new developmentprojects, prioritizing requirements and advising them on how to best usetechnology to achieve their business goals.Prior to joining Broadcom, Chris worked at IBM for more than three decades andwas a Distinguished Engineer for the Db2 for z/OS development team. He ledinitiatives that enable customers to more easily utilize data from more than onecountry in their applications, scale workloads horizontally as well as vertically onthe mainframe, and control when new capabilities are enabled at the system level,as well as on an application-by-application basis.Chris is based in Nevada and is an alum of CalPoly SLO.
