Engineering Digital Alerts

Mark is with Persistent Systems responsible for the IBM ELM and Dassault Systems sales and delivery in the regions Nordics, Benelux and DACH. Prior to Persistent Systems Mark has 18 years of experience with IBM in sales and delivery for engineering, supply chain and industrial maintenance solutions. Mark has managed comprehensive projects in a regulated industries like pharmaceutical, automotive, nuclear and oil and gas. Mark have delivered projects in the digitization of process and the application of artificial intelligence.

Galina Mishiev is Global AI Applications Leader focused on driving the AI leadership and value. Frequent event speaker and SME evangelizing IBM AI point of view and driving the leadership in the market. A trusted advisor, facilitated global operations for Watson IoT, empowering the Watson IoT Sales executive team. Her many roles included leading WIOT marketing team, portfolio and product marketing, as well as both pre-sales and post-sales engagements of IBM Rational software managing and ensuring success of large deployments and complex multi-million dollar projects.

Erin O’Connor is the AI in Engineering Offering Team Manager, focused on infusing AI into the IBM Engineering portfolio of offerings, to improve efficiency, and insight for engineering project teams. Erin is a frequent event speaker and SME championing IBM Engineering solutions. She has been in Offering Management over 8 years driving increased client value of the IBM Engineering solution. Prior to her focus on AI in Engineering, Erin’s focus was on the IBM Engineering SaaS offerings. Erin’s has been with IBM for over 20 years in numerous roles.

Michael Nees is focussed on helping customers improve their ability to innovate and improve productivity and process performance.

After spending 15 years in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) domain at IBM, Michael joined the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) domain in 2004 to broaden and reuse his knowledge in the area of software development for both the IT- and Systems development. As a result his experience in the area of “Systems Engineering practices” across mechanical- , electrical- and software engineering domains is broad. Michael has a sales/consulting track record of more than 32 years in IT for Engineering (PLM and ALM) and his experience helps him to not “sell” products by function and feature but sell solutions that align to customers’ needs and that will bring real tangible business results and benefits.

He became a member of the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) & IoT team at its inception in 2016 and he joined Persistent Systems in 2018.

Geoffrey Clemm is a PSL Distinguished Engineer, with over 30 years of industrial experience designing, implementing, and deploying software development tools. His primary responsibilities include IBM’s ELM (Engineering Lifecycle Management) offerings and Software Configuration Management technologies.

Geoff is the primary author of RFC-3253, the IETF standard versioning protocol, and is specification lead for JSR-147, the JCP standard versioning API. In addition to his development responsibilities, Geoff is the Technical Advocate for a set of large Enterprise early adopter customers, where he guides their deployment and usage of the ELM solution.

Karl is the UK Sales Director at Persistent Systems dedicated to client success using the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Solutions. As an ex IBMer of 7 years (coming from the Rational Brand) Karl has worked across industries to help transform and establish efficient development processes using the IBM technology. His recent move to Persistent was a natural extension to his IBM career by connecting users to the development team at Persistent for product roadmaps, feature requests etc. Persistent develops the Engineering Lifecycle Management solution (Including DOORS) on behalf of IBM and in a great place to help maximise existing investments with Persistents expertise and unique IP in this space.

Bertrand has spent 25 years in the software industry and gets his energy from the field. His focus is to support Industrial Offerings. He is now leading integration products and services offerings, enabling his customers to build end to end digital design and process on top of their preferred engineering platform. For the last 20 years Bertrand has engaged successfully in multiple industries such as blast furnace, chewing gum tablets, car fleet, grain silo and fighters.

Munaf’s career has spanned 20 years in the IT industry. He had his start at IBM working in the WebSphere Organization working both on the distributed and zOS platforms. Over the years he has run many development teams and DevOps teams at IBM. Currently, he runs the Persistent Industrial Services Practice for Persistent where his focus is on ELM, PLM, IoT and Managed Services.

Will Streit is Director of Offering Management for IBM, where he leads both Engineering Lifecycle Management and Connected Vehicle Insight. He has also managed IBM’s IoT data platform offerings, with a focus on automotive, industrial, and asset-related systems. Previously, Will ran Mergers and Acquisitions for IBM IoT. Beginning his career as a developer, he has since covered both offering management and business development at IBM across Internet of Things, Industry Solutions, and Business Analytics. Based in Austin, Will has an MBA from Duke University and is a PhD Candidate at Texas Tech University.