Tom Soderstrom is the IT Chief Technology Officer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He decided early on to create a cloud computing commodity board. Read his reasoning behind creating the board and a list of ways to avoid problems with your cloud vendor in his article, "Six ways to avoid cloud missteps."
Tom serves as the IT Chief Technology Officer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his mission is to identify and infuse new IT technologies into JPL's environment. He has led remote teams and large scale IT best practices development and change efforts in both small startup and large commercial companies, in international venues, and in the US Government arena. Some of the companies he has worked for include Telos, enterWorks, User Technology Associates, Digital Island, Exodus, Cable & Wireless, and Raytheon.
