William Hume

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

2019 - Current

Wisdom LLP is a consulting firm to technology companies which offers extensive experience to help companies in need. Our core competencies are software engineering, sales, marketing and chief executive. We assist companies large and small who are looking to benefit from proven track records. Wisdom also manages a fund which focuses especially on early stage opportunities run by experienced people.

Executive Engineering Consultant

2016 - 2016

Director Development, Watson Health

2015 - 2015

Responsible for building Health Care applications, technical advantage is IBM Watson Natural Language Processing Technology. Currently building out a team which will understand and distill the contents of EMRs (Electronic Medical Records).

Director Watson Core Technology & Linguistic Products, Watson Solutions Division

2011 - 2015

ﾟ Key development executive responsible for building of Watson Core Platform, which supports delivery of all of IBM’s Watson (descendent of Jeopardy! System) commercial offerings: UX, Tooling, Algorithmic & Runtime to support enterprise scalability. ﾟ Led development to delivery of two commercial offerings, “Watson Engagement Advisor” , a virtual agent, and “Watson Discovery Advisor” for Research oriented users, e.g. Pharma. ﾟ Played an essential role in the early adoption “convert technology to product” successes for Watson offerings, achieving customer value and cognitive system performance (accuracy and precision) through expansion of language processing components and application of adaptation process. ﾟ Created methodology and tooling for commercial, repeatable “Watson Adaptation Process” used to create solutions. ﾟ Built a talented, engaged team starting with me as employee #1 to achieve above objectives. ﾟ Created an Agile-based process that delivers every three weeks to both hosted and on premise and now is building to delivery as services architecture.

Director Domino and Lotus Live Notes

2009 - 2011

ﾟ Essential role in the delivery of Lotus Live Notes, SaaS offering of IBM’s email capability. Comprehensive competitive hosted mail service: multi tenant, lights out automated, HA/DR, multi client. IBM secure and $5 per user per month mail box. Currently supporting hundreds of thousands of users and customers at 99.95% availability. ﾟ Essential role in maintaining IBM’s high revenue, extremely profitable Domino based email and “collaboration” application business through product modernization, efficiency improvement & customer engagement

Director of Development, Lotus Domino

2005 - 2009

ﾟ Spearheaded Domino modernization strategy in Jan 2009. Strengthened competitive position: storage reduction, security consistency, and quality of service and modernization of Domino App Development. Teams varied in size from 100 to 400 engineers and technicians. ﾟ Worked closely with sales team in many customer saves and wins which maintained substantial product revenue and profitability ﾟ Implemented hugely successful Lean/Agile approach for extremely large, preexisting software product line to reduce cycle time and waste, meet critical business needs and empower engineers. ﾟ Delivery of many new product versions to cost, quality and schedule objectives for $1B product line. ﾟ Led initiative and successfully resolved quality problems of large software product line. Supported transition of portion of team on to new product opportunities for future growth. ﾟ Collaborated with key business partners and IBM partners to deliver complete solution. e.g. RIM (Blackberry) and Virus/SPAM vendors. ﾟ Led integration and transition of the talented Notes and Domino teams into IBM Software Group with minimal employee loss.

Director of Lotus Collaborative Clients

2003 - 2005

* Essential to delivery and success of the first “AJAX” email client, Lotus “iNotes” in early 2001. Revolutionary at the time, it predated Outlook Web Access. * Drove the deployment of Lotus Notes 6.5 and 7, especially the success and acceptance of the first integrated chat capability into an email client, "Notes integrated Sametime".

Vice President of Development

1999 - 2001

• Reported to a founder of Iris Associates, which built Notes line of successful, revolutionary “collaboration” products. Responsible for a team of over 500 developers and L3 support staff. IBM subsidiary ran as an independent software development team with a very different culture. • Essential to building of Lotus Notes/Domino 6, 9/2001, which drove a 25% increase in revenue to the product’s peak. N/D 6 addressed key competitive weaknesses and quality issues. • Product line encompassed many technologies including Messaging, Directory, Security Infrastructure, Data Base, App Development, Web Server, Rich and Web Client, Java, and many