Tim started with IBM in 2006, joining a team developing one of the industries first “DevOps” tools and acquiring over 20 US Patents in the areas of Deployment Automation, Deployment Modeling, and Deployment Planning.  In 2013 after IBM acquired a leading Deployment Automation tooling startup called UrbanCode, Tim joined the UrbanCode development team helping to deliver new integrations with IBM products and open source tools such as Chef. Since 2014 Tim has been an instrumental part of IBM’s field team traveling the world implementing new automation solutions and exalting the promises of DevOps.