Andrew Gordon Director, Open Source Solutions Federal Systems Unisys Corporation (3BKG)
Andrew Gordon is director, Open Source Solutions with Unisys Federal Systems, based in Reston, Va. He is responsible for leading the open source business vision for Federal Systems, shaping the Federal strategic open source solutions portfolio and helping federal government clients harness the power of open source as a flexible, reliable and cost effective option for business critical software. Before joining Unisys, Andrew served as vice president, Engineering, at FiveRuns, a professional open source software company whose products are completely developed with open source and serve the open source software market. He was responsible for architecture, design and implementation of JMX Java and J2EE-based client side adapters for Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL and Apache on Linux and Windows platforms. Previously, Andrew was director of Product Development at Butterfly.net, a leading provider of highly scalable grid computing architectures for the online video game market. He drove the definition and execution of strategic and tactical product plans for Butterfly’s online game managed service, e-commerce website and game development IDE. Andrew has 25 years of enterprise software experience and acumen for identifying technology trends and delivering cutting edge products. He is a member of the American Council of Technology/Industry Advisory Council (ACT/IAC) ET-SIG open source subcommittee and a member of the Open Technology Development working group. Andrew holds a bachelor of science degree in Accounting from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. (3BKH)