Tom works as the Director of Linux Interoperability, and heads Linux/Windows interoperability work, including leadership of the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab. This development lab undertakes much of the engineering work involved in the multi-year technical partnership with Novell.
Tom brings 30 years of engineering, management and community development experience to this effort – and the larger Microsoft community. Prior to joining Microsoft, Tom was the Director of Engineering at the Linux Foundation where he was responsible for managing a variety of technical initiatives. Earlier in his career, Tom led IBM’s Linux Technology Center in Portland, and spent 11 years at Sequent Computer Systems in the early days of SMP (symmetric multiprocessing).