NEXBRIDGE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Managing Director
• Director of Client Services, and Director of Product Management

Randall has been involved in the IT industry since the mid 1970's and became a software development professional in 1980 when he joined Facet Data Inc. in Montreal as a software developer. With direct mentoring from the President, a Concordia University professor, Randall became adept at building robust, long-term solutions for Facet's clients. Moving to Toronto in 1982 to study at the University of Toronto specifically to gain strong theoretical understanding of Computer Science, Randall linked up with Vericom Systems Ltd., as a programmer/analyst. With that company, Randall was involved in the development of: a database-engine; bank funds transfer system; satellite communications; and data encoding. As well, Vericom afforded Randall the opportunity to act as a user-liaison for an on-air election forecasting and tabulation system for a TV network. Mr. Becker is a published, key subject matter expert in Software Configuration Management, Zero Latency Enterprises, product management, software architecture, change management and agility, solution deployment, and their related business process analysis and design, as well as HP NonStop systems. A selection of his publications are listed below. He also engages in public speaking and has been a keynote within the NonStop/Connect community. Randall also does some volunteer work, and was on the Board of Directors of the Richmond Hill Board of Trade for six years. He also is a contributor to the ITUGLIB Technical Committee. His Open Source contributions include git and OpenSSL where he is the platform maintainer for the NonStop platforms.