About Barry Campbell
Open Source Suit (business blog)
Barry Campbell is a communications manager and business strategist with over 20 years of professional experience in Information Technology. Barry excels at explaining complex technical concepts to nontechnical audiences, and at managing and motivating creative, business and technical staff to produce high-quality deliverables on demanding schedules.
Barry has led, managed, written and contributed to the development of commercial and public-sector proposals that have brought in significant new business for companies ranging from small, regionally-focused consulting firms to major multinational corporations.
He has experience analyzing, understanding, and addressing the business needs of prospective customers, and building and presenting persuasive business cases that help convert qualified leads to closed sales and realized revenue.
In his current role as Director of Communications at The OpenNMS Group, Barry is responsible for technical and marketing communications, industry analyst relations, and information management.
Previously, Barry was a senior manager with IPsoft, a global managed service provider based in New York City, and Barry has also held senior positions at Column Technologies, Capgemini and Summit Systems (now Misys Banking), and as an independent consultant his clients have included IBM and GlaxoSmithKline (formerly GlaxoWellcome.)
Barry is a PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) Registered Practitioner, and also holds ITIL v2 Foundation certification.
Barry blogs about the business of open source software at Open Source Suit.
Updated 25 June 2010