Rational Straddles Java and .NET (Continued)
About Mike Devlin
Mike Devlin is general manager, Rational software, IBM Software Group. The former chief executive officer of Rational Software Corporation, he served on the Board of Directors after co-founding the company in 1981, and was responsible for leading the software team that built Rational's original products. Mike currently spends more than half of his time working directly with customers and partners in pursuit of Rational's mission: to ensure the success of customers who depend on developing or deploying software.
His greatest accomplishment at Rational, by his own reckoning, has been building a team committed to a common mission and a common culture of customer success. In addition, he was personally responsible for forging and maintaining the company's key strategic partnerships, including those with Microsoft and IBM. Many of his ties with members of IBM's Software Group leadership team date back to between 1988 and 1991, when Rational built its core strategy around partnering with IBM.
Before founding Rational with Air Force Academy classmate Paul Levy, Devlin worked on critical command and control software development projects at the USAF Satellite Control Facility.
Born in 1955, he grew up near Phoenix, Ariz., where his father designed autopilots and flight control systems for Sperry Flight Control Systems (now part of Honeywell). After graduating at the top of his class from the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he earned both a B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.S. in computer science, he attended Stanford University on a National Science Foundation fellowship, earning an M.S. in computer science. Mike enjoys hunting, shooting, and weightlifting. He does not golf.
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