Bren:Alumni

Hi Alums, I just wanted to introduce myself as another blogger to the ICS Alumni website. I’ll be posting articles that I think you’ll find interesting on a range of topics, some IT and some not IT related. Read more about me below.

Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Retail On Demand Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO), the IBM skunkworks organization missioned to increase IBM business and technical solutions within the Retail industry. He was formerly with the IBM Global Services Linux and Grid EBO building IBM’s initial entry into the Linux and Grid Computing market, IBM Global Services Application Services and IBM Sales and Distribution Technical Sales Support.

Due to the dynamic nature of the EBO, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business and technical development from technical pre-sales, solution design and implementation, offering development to ecosystem enablement.

As a result of his thought leadership and business and technical knowledge in the Open Source and Linux space, he was the Co-Leader of the IGS Open Source Community of Practice, an IBM internal grassroots knowledge network, where he co-leads community, communication and knowledge sharing activities for 7,100+ IBMers.

Not at work, Mr. Wong is very active in Asian American Civil Rights and is an officer for the Organization of Chinese Americans and was a past president of the University of California Irvine Alumni Association Information and Computer Science Chapter. He enjoys traveling all over the world, eating at local mom and pop restaurants, shopping, learning about anything and everything, donating time to worthy causes and helping his family’s business.

You can read his blog at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/PragmaticOpenComputing and you can reach him at atwong@alumni.uci.edu