Rob Vogelbacher

Experience

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  Keane

  Jul 1997 - Dec 1998

  Senior Consultant

  Integrated legacy systems with PC network architectures and designed and deployed local area network topologies. Remediated both PC and mainframe-based legacy system applications for Year 2000 compliance. Managed PC hardware and related assets using systems inventory and analysis packages.

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  Inforte

  Dec 1998 - Aug 2002

  Technical Architect

  Designed and developed technical specifications for both custom and packaged solutions, including hardware recommendations, network topology, and scalability/availability considerations. Responsible for identifying new and emerging technologies in addition to compiling project implementation guidelines and best practices.

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  Sogeti

  Aug 2002 - Aug 2003

  Principal Consultant

  Technical architect with joint responsibility for delivery and sales support. Instrumental in winning multi-million dollar engagements through proposal creation, RFP responses and presentations. Provided knowledge leadership and expertise for procuring projects and integration efforts.

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  Independant Consultant

  Aug 2003 - May 2006

  President

  Application development, system architecture, interface, and conversion consulting for large enterprises. Network and hardware consulting for Chicago small businesses. Web Development with PHP, MySql, and Apache on Linux. Bioinformatics research with DePaul University, University of Chicago, Argonne National Lab.

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  Inforte

  Jun 2006 - Mar 2007

  Principal Consultant

  Contributed across several disciplines and functional areas to enhance Inforte’s Managed Analytics delivery capabilities. Application design and architecture, data warehouse systems support, as well as data modeling and analysis using SAS and machine learning tools.

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  Pono Products Inc. dba ReusableBags.com / Reuseit.com

  Mar 2007 - Oct 2010

  Chief Technology Officer

  Ownership of all technical systems – both customer-facing and internal throughout organization. Significantly expanded the company's infrastructure while reducing risk exposure through the deployment of database replication, improving release management, and geographically distributing servers. Streamlined order fulfillment through custom integration with shipping vendor APIs. Managed onsite and contract technical personnel as well as site release processes using Agile methods. Actively developed in PHP, JavaScript and Mysql on open source platform to increase sales conversions. Show less

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  IBM

  Aug 2010 - Sept 2018

  North American lead technical pre-sales architect for Watson IoT Solutions providing technical leadership and oversight to a team of senior solution architects as well as active mentorship and guidance to early professionals. Hands-on architect responsible for designing, developing, and demonstrating first-of-a-kind IoT solutions highlighting the unique value of advanced IBM technologies at the intersection of IoT, Cloud, and AI. Acts as customer advocate to offering owners and development teams to capture field feedback for continuous solution improvement. Show less Responsible for ensuring the creation of successful enterprise analytics solutions which solve customers’ business problems from inception through execution. Acts as integral part of the selling team throughout the project life cycle from pre-sales through delivery, design, and implementation. Establishes strong working relationships with clients as a trusted technical advisor and IT solution partner. Understands and helps refine clients’ high level requirements and architects predictive analytics solutions based upon client needs, which often span multiple product lines and technologies. Demonstrates expert-level knowledge that covers technical, data, applications, network, and business architectures. Show less

  • NA Technical Sales Lead Architect - Watson IoT Platform & Solutions

    Jul 2016 - Sept 2018

  • Predictive Analytics Enterprise Architect

    Aug 2010 - Jul 2016
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  Google

  Oct 2018 - now

  • Field Solution Architect - AI Infrastructure

    Sept 2024 - now

  • AIML Specialist Customer Engineer

    Jul 2020 - Sept 2024

  • Cloud Customer Engineer

    Oct 2018 - Sept 2024