Richard A. Piña
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Technology Management
- Phone: 914 830 2595
- Email: richpina@gmail.com
- Location: Six Metrotech Center Brooklyn, NY 11201
Education
Polytechnic Institute of New York University , Class of 2012
Ph.D., Technology Management
Columbia University , Class of 2008
M.S., Technology Management
Experience
IBM
Technical Advisor and Chief Architect
I am a zen-like loyalist to Mother IBM and have had the good fortune to experience the many diverse dimensions of the company. I have held positions in areas ranging from application design and development with clients, to industry and systems research at the TJ Watson Research Center.
From: November 1983 to present
Courses Taught
Graduate School: MG 8653 - Managing Technological Change and Innovation.
Research Interests
- Conjoined Business and IT Innovation for Revenue Generation
- Extracting Business and Societal Value from the Cloud Computing Paradigm
- High Performance Infrastructures to Maximize Return on Firm Investment
- Data Center Capacity and Operational Efficiency
Awards + Distinctions
- 2010 IBM Community Service Nominee to HENACC
- 2010 IBM Role Model Nominee to SHPE
Hometown
Fleetwood, NY
Affiliations
- Distinguished Master Architect, Open Management Group
- Member of the IEEE, ACM, SHPE and the New York Academy of Science
General / Collaborative Research
- Computationally-Dense and Energy Efficient IT System Designs and Facilities
- A Petabyte-Scale High Performance Data Persistence System
Favorite Activities
- Weight Training
- Cycling
- Woodworking
- Making Automobiles Go Fast
Biography
Richard Piña is a senior engineer and the global technical leader for the Morgan Stanley IBM account team. He has over 25 years of project leadership, applied engineering and research experience in the design, development, and integration of hardware, software and systems in the financial markets, insurance and media industries. He holds a BS Manhattan College, a MS from Columbia University, and is actively pursuing a PhD in Technology Management at New York University.