He is a designated CA Architect and serves on CA’s Patent Review Board. He has experience in SaaS, storage, and relational database technologies and is an author and speaker on leadership, management, and database performance topics. Richard served on the PASS Board of Directors from 1999 to 2014 as a Founding Member liaison and served as a senior board advisor to the International DB2 User Group (IDUG). He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Northern Illinois University and his MBA from the University of Illinois.