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Tom Pazar, BS
Senior Staff Member

“Human and computing resources need to work together like a cross-functional work team to achieve an organization’s goals and objectives.”

My work focuses on enterprise-wide knowledge management that enables leaders and managers to put their organization’s “whole brain” to work. This means viewing knowledge as information whether it’s stored and manipulated in a silicon-based system like a computer or a carbon-based system like an employee’s brain. In today’s information intensive environment, human and computing resources need to work together like a cross-functional work team to achieve an organization’s goals and objectives.

Tom’s Background and Expertise

Tom has over 25 years of experience as a computer systems researcher and developer. He started his research at Strategy One, a Carnegie Mellon University-based computer systems design and engineering consulting group. While there, he focused on configuration, performance tuning, capacity and disaster prevention/recovery planning of large and complex network computer systems. Tom was instrumental in the architectural design and configuration of local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area network (WAN) routers and sophisticated network switches on high-speed data lines. Tom joined Bell Laboratories, the R&D division of ATT and Lucent, as a telecommunications researcher and developer. His primary areas of focus were voice over internet protocol (VOIP), super capacity C/O switching stations, computer based voice, video and application conferencing, and rapid prototype development of wireless mobile computing device interfaces for VOIP and messaging. In 2001, Tom joined Granite Technologies Inc. as the Director of Research and Development to lead the R&D and software engineering efforts. He has a unique ability to see the human-factors of software design before it is engineered, dramatically cutting down the development time for new innovations. Tom has a BS in Computer Science from Duquesne University.

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