Sam Greenblatt was the chief technology office and architecture (CTO) in the Enterprise Solution Group of the Dell Corporation. Prior he was
Chief Technology Officer for webOS and its technical strategy and project at
Hewlett-Packard Prior to that he was in charge of Enterprise Business Solutions architecture as the CTO, previously CTO for HP.com and CTO for the LaserJet Enterprise Solutions group and General Manager of Core Technologies IPG within Hewlett-Packard's Imaging and Printing Group. He also ran the Core Technology Group which is responsible all software within both LaserJet and Inkjet Technology. Greenblatt spearheaded HP's move into alliance partnerships with Adobe and Microsoft by transitioning internal developed software to partner software. He has transformed HP's IPG software development process by moving them to
Agile software development, metrics-based testing, and joint quality programs with customer support and external partners to increase IPG market share through usability and quality.
Career
Greenblatt also served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Programs for the corporate office of Hewlett-Packard and was responsible for competitive analysis and industry analysis of HP's position in the marketplace. He presented to the board of directors and the executive committee on key analysis of HP's position.
Prior to joining Hewlett Packard, Greenblatt was the senior vice president of Innovation for
Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). He ran CA's intellectual property portfolio, labs and technical leadership council. Previously he was Chief Architect for the Linux Technology Group at CA, where he was responsible for the cross brand integration of Linux technology. He worked with CA's strategic customers and the IT industry to help formulate strategy in emerging Linux technologies. A recognized expert in networked computing, system management and object technology, Mr. Greenblatt worked closely with customers to deliver solutions that focus on emerging technologies. Greenblatt joined CA in 1994 and has held senior management positions in development and cross-platform product strategy. He contributed to the development of CA's Unicenter and solutions and has served on technical advisory boards for several of CA's largest customers.
Before CA, Greenblatt was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development at
Candle Corporation, where he managed key software application projects in communications, distributed processing, applications and development tools, and project management techniques in systems management. Prior to Candle, Greenblatt held management positions at
ARCO,
Commodore International
Commodore International (other names include Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Mac ...
and
Arthur Andersen
Arthur Andersen was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporat ...
.
Boards and Teaching
Greenblatt has served on the graduate faculties of Temple University and
La Salle University, was on the board of the
Object Management Group
The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies.
Business activities
The goal of the OMG was a common portable and interoperab ...
and sat on the Open Source Development Lab Board (Linux Foundation), Eclipse and the Plone Foundation which he founded. He sat on the board of
Ingres. He was a member of the Architecture Board at
The Open Group
The Open Group is a global consortium that seeks to "enable the achievement of business objectives" by developing "open, vendor-neutral technology standards and certifications." It has over 840 member organizations and provides a number of servi ...
and was the chairman of the DMI Committee on systems management. He is well known for his work on object protocols and their abstraction. He is a recognized expert in
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...
and
open source. He was on the Advisory board of Linux World Magazine for which he has also been an author. He was the keynote at Linux World 2004 and Linux World Japan in 2003.
Patents
Greenblatt is a co-inventor on three key U.S. patents: USP 5848234 entitled “Object Procedure Messaging Facility” covering object message passing, and USP 5809238 entitled “Data Server with Event Driven Sampling” covering object data stores and USP 6718399 “Communications on a Network”.
See also
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Inkjet technology Inkjet technology originally was invented for depositing aqueous inks on paper in 'selective' positions based on the ink properties only. Inkjet nozzles and inks were designed together and the inkjet performance was based on a design. It was used a ...
External links
Q&A: Sam Greenblatt -- Application Development TrendsSam Greenblatt quotes/ Linux World/ Greenblatt leaves HP
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Sam As A Penguin
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Fox School of Business and Management alumni
Hewlett-Packard people
Living people
Businesspeople from Philadelphia
American chief technology officers
Year of birth missing (living people)