Joe is currently Content and Electronic Media Manager in the Premier Executive Program in Hewlett-Packard's Business Customer Organization. He writes and edits articles for publications and Web sites that go to the executives of HP's largest customers and partners and frequently speaks with customers and partners, primarily describing HP's strategies and e-services initiatives. He writes a daily Joe's Journal that's distributed on an internal HP Web site. He manages the Corporate Briefing Program that hosts high level visitors to HP. He is the editor of HP's IT Journal, a quarterly magazine distributed to over 15,000 senior executives at HP's enterprise customers.
In his 25 years at HP, he held information technology management positions both in divisions and in companywide functions. He was active in HP's quality community for over fifteen years and was a lead reviewer in HP's Quality Maturity System, a process for continuously improving the quality of organizational management. He was Planning and Quality Manager for HP's companywide IT function for four years. He also served as the controller of a business division for three years.
Before coming to HP, Joe worked for seven years at a small company that sold software and IT services to the insurance industry and was president of that company. Joe started his career as a sales representative and a systems engineer for IBM. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.
In 1988, Joe wrote the book: Guidelines on the Use of Personal Computing in the Corporate Environment, published by Prentice-Hall. He writes book reviews for ACM Computing Reviews and for HP's IT Journal.
Joe reads about 10 non-fiction books and about 40 magazines a month, mostly on business, technology, and all sorts of history plus three daily newspapers. He also reads mysteries, thrillers, and science-fiction. He's an avid photographer and is struggling to learn the wonders of Adobe Photoshop. His wife is the executive director of a nationwide school organization, and he has two daughters and a step daughter.