About Eddie

Eddie is currently the Chairman of Go Virginia Region 2, a non-profit organization that works to promote economic development in Virginia.

He retired as Corporate Vice President of GE Predix and Industrial Applications. In this role, he led the development and delivery of GE Digital’s portfolio of Predix-powered applications and solutions for improving industrial insights and productivity. He joined GE Digital via its acquisition of Meridium and focused on digital products ranging from manufacturing solutions to Asset Performance Management (APM) applications and other technologies that allow customers to digitize their operations and unlock unprecedented productivity.

Prior to Meridium, he was the Vice President of Developer Marketing and Evangelism at Juniper Networks. His team was responsible for the marketing, strategy, and external evangelism of Junos and the Junos Space Platform. During his tenure, the group launched the Juniper Developer Network and increased the number of active developers by more than 500%. Other accomplishments included the creation of a scalable interactive online community and marketplace.

Before Juniper, Eddie was a Partner and General Manager of the Microsoft Developer Platform and Tools group. Here his team was responsible for strategy, evangelism, planning, and marketing for products like Visual Studio, Expression, .NET, IIS, and Silverlight. He also managed teams at Microsoft that focused on the technical enablement of the Global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community.

He spent time at webMethods, where he worked on a team that focused on complex enterprise integration problems and supported the efforts of the ISV Community. He has also worked in the Product Management Group at Lotus Development as an Information Architect for GSA and in the U.S. Navy’s Network Security and Systems procurement.

Eddie holds a DCs in Computer Science and is a member of ARRL, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

In his spare time, he enjoys coding, development methodologies (SDLC, Waterfall, and Agile), Program Management, and delivering projects on time and within budget. He is also a pilot, sailor, and amateur radio operator.