Brian Walsh

Technology and software leader, focused on helping people do their best work. Serving as a leader building teams that build and deliver simple, effective software solutions to overcome everyday challenges.

Highlights

  • Own software powering the livelihood of 20M people and 5M properties across NY & MA as Director, Head of Software Engineering @National Grid

  • Built the #1 banking app as VP, Chief of Staff to Digital Banking @U.S. Bank

  • Moving an enterprise SaaS to AWS and saving $20m/yr cost as Head of IT PMO & Chief of Staff to CIO @Digital River

  • Modularizing an old ecommerce system to enable direct-to-customer (B2C) sales as Technical Program Manager @Samsung

About

Building for a greater purpose, transforming tech teams to enable business by building simple, effective software solutions to overcome everyday challenges. These are solutions I buy myself and use everyday.Twenty years' experience in Digital Transformation and Information Technology (IT) executive leadership with Microsoft, IBM, National Grid, U.S. Bank, Samsung, and Raytheon. Successfully owned technology reaching 20+ million customers, annual budgets of $150M, organizations over 1,000 developers, and direct orgs over 100+ devs. Fortunate to build the #1 mobile banking app for U.S. Bank, in-app direct-to-customer sales for Samsung, big data, and grid edge IoT platform for National Grid, and countless solutions in-between.

Resume

About me

B+ just be positive (5/1/2024) I recorded this brief YouTube video to share my passion for encouraging others.

Podcasts, etc.

Making a positive impact (7/1/2024) Russ Hedge and I met to discuss my passion for people on Episode 427 of his 'Marketing with Russ' podcast

Very's Over the Air Podcast (6/18/2024) Advancements in energy management, particularly in empowering consumers with actionable insights, require embracing innovative technologies...

From Hurdles to Heights Brian Walsh's Inspiring Tech Journey via ThePackBuzz (5/28/2024)

DTECH24 Energy Insights via MarketScale article (5/6/2024)Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) 2.0 emerges as a beacon of innovation and sustainability in the face of rising energy costs and the urgent need for cleaner, more efficient energy use. IoT/edge-computing is redefining energy management and conservation.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is the Bridge to Better Energy Management and a Clean Energy Ecosystem Where Everyone Wins article

DTECH24 Speaker Spotlight
National Grid’s Brian Walsh on AMI 2.0 via Power-Grid (2/16/2024)Industry watchers and regulatory bodies have long criticized utilities for not generating enough
customer and societal benefits, especially around past AMI deployments. Now, increasingly
aggressive decarbonization goals are accelerating the energy transition.