Mar 2019 – Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International has more than 20 years of senior-level management and alliance experience, along with significant open source community experience. Throughout her career she has developed strategic relationships with chip, hardware, and software providers, system integrators, business partners, clients and developers

Jan 2017 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Board member of the Open Mainframe Project to collaborate on open software and integration of Mainframes into strategic imperatives for members, partners, developers, and clients.

Sep 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Responsible for strategic growth and proliferation of IBM Z global partnerships, software, and community. Strengthen and grow existing and new workloads on IBM Z. Drive meaningful relationships with system integrators, software providers, academic partners, clients, developers, and students. Build industry momentum and passion for the platform through developer advocacy, hackathons, open source communities, user groups, industry events, social media, talent cultivation, training, and recruiting. Create cloud user forums for porting and optimizing code, learning through code patterns and expert videos, blogs, and other communication. Represent IBM as Open Mainframe Project Board member.

Mar 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Drive OpenPOWER growth and mutual benefit for IBM, the OpenPOWER Foundation, and OpenPOWER members through building strategic relationships and cultivating opportunity. Build the first Open community to include hardware providers, software developers, and end users in the same tent. Drive strategic partnerships for Open system design with global partners in high performance computing and scale out systems for massive data centers. Closely collaborated across multiple open source communities including Open Compute Project and OpenPOWER.

Jun 2006 – Mar 2014 · 7 yrs 9 mos

• IBM matchmaker. Drive strategic relationships between IBM Systems and Technology Group and external companies including acquisitions, alliances, and other relationships.

May 2005 – Aug 2005 · 3 mos

• The Extreme Blue internship program is IBM's incubator for talent, technology, and business innovation challenges project teams of technical and MBA interns (along with their technical and business mentors) to start something BIG by developing new high-growth businesses.
• Defined market entry strategy for shared resource multimodal applications with internal/external business case
• Led client relationship through multimodal technical framework definition and deployment
• US Patent granted

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Global

• Elected President and IBM Director on OpenPOWER Foundation Board. Lead and evangelize OpenPOWER mission as the most open architecture for collaboration with industry leaders in hardware, software, and optimized stack solutions. Connect end users and developers with compelling price-performance opportunities from innovators throughout the OpenPOWER community. Inspire a revolution.

Sep 2002 – Jul 2004 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Primary responsibilities include management of daily operations for the corporate design department, leadership of long-term strategy and planning, as well as ongoing staff development and hiring. The creative department is focused primarily on printed research materials across nearly 40 different internal areas of the corporation.

Jul 2000 – Oct 2002 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Led strategy, development, and launch of profitable digital media business incubator
• Structured financial strategy, including financing through community economic development group, and segmented pricing strategy to ensure minimum 4% profit margins
• Conceptualized and implemented successful marketing campaign on budget of less than 5% of annual sales to run business at 95% capacity
• Coordinated alternative use of space including pro-bono art shows, informal and formal business leadership networking, and local media gatherings
• Led complete renovation of former auto parts storage area to create the incubator while maintaining original business launch budget and scope

Jun 1999 – Oct 2002 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Developed and implemented core business in strategy consulting for nonprofit and commercial sectors resulting in consistent profitability without external funding
• Led training sessions on relationship building, business plan development, and financial strategy for clients and on a volunteer basis for local nonprofits
• Found, negotiated and managed client relationships

Jun 1999 – Feb 2001 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Designed, developed, and managed large-scale business-to-business loyalty program and signed prominent clients such as MasterCard International and Citibank
• Negotiated and leveraged over 40 high-level business offers with multi-national corporations valued at $2 million - Researched and implemented long-term strategic growth initiatives in North America and Europe to position business unit for venture capital funding

Sep 1998 – Jun 1999 · 9 mos

• Consulted magazine publishers on effective advertising sales strategies
• Managed 16 auditors in New York City and Washington, D.C. regional offices including $1.5 million budget responsibility
• Expanded and strengthened relationships with German publishers seeking to satisfy demands of U.S. advertisers
• Assisted in technology development and implementation to heighten demographic auditing efficiency
• Budgeted, forecasted, and reconciled expenses and income for division as well as developed long-term resource planning

Jan 1997 – Sep 1998 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Publication demographics auditor in Chicago and Washington D.C.
• Granted the 1998 BPA International President's Award for exemplary service