Kerrie Holley
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Holley, 2012.
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| Born |
Kerrie Lamont Holley September 7, 1954 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Kenwood Academy B.A. DePaul University Juris Doctorate DePaul University |
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| Years active | 1976–present |
| Organization | Optum Fellow |
Kerrie Lamont Holley (born September 7, 1954) is an American software architect, author, researcher, consultant, and Inventor and UnitedHealth Group, Optum Technology's first Technical Fellow. Holley is a retired IBM Fellow. Holley served as Vice President and CTO at Cisco responsible for their analytics and automation platform. Holley is known internationally for his innovative work in architecture and software engineering centered on the adoption of scalable services, next era computing, service-oriented architecture and APIs. Holley is currently focused on AI in healthcare with an emphasis on machine learning and deep learning. Holley currently serves as a trustee board member for DePaul University.
Born in 1954, Holley was raised by his maternal grandmother on Chicago's south side. While never having met his father and living in a neighborhood marked by poverty and gang activity, Holley defied social odds by channeling his love for math and science through his academic studies. He became a student at the Sue Duncan Children’s Center in 1961 where he was tutored in math and science. As he excelled in the program, he became a tutor at the Center, later tutoring former United States Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan and actor Michael Duncan Clarke. After graduating from Kenwood Academy in 1972, Holley went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from DePaul University in Chicago; followed by a Juris Doctor Degree in 1982 from DePaul University College of Law.In 2016, Kerrie Holley was conferred a Doctor of Humane Letters from DePaul University, College of Communication / College of Computing and Digital Media.
Holley joined IBM in 1986 as an Advisory Systems Engineer. In 1990 he became an analytics consultant with IBM’s consulting group, now called IBM Global Business Services. He was appointed Chief Technology Officer of IBM’s GBS, AIS and IBM's SOA Center of Excellence where he works with clients to create flexible applications that enable companies to respond to rapidly changing markets. SOA (service-oriented architecture) is a software design methodology based on structured collections of discrete software modules, known as services, that collectively provide the complete functionality of a large or complex software application.
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