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Years of Experience
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4 years at Gartner
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29 years IT industry
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Roles and Responsibilities
David Williams is a research vice president in Gartner Research's IT Operations and Enterprise Management team. Mr. Williams focuses on IT operations management, fault management, event correlation and analysis (ECA), IT operations behavior learning technology, data center tools consolidation, data center automation, and run book automation (IT operations process automation).
Previous Experience
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Williams was vice president of marketing at AlterPoint, a pioneer of enterprise network configuration management products. Before AlterPoint, he was director of worldwide marketing at BMC Software and vice president of corporate marketing at IT Masters (acquired by BMC Software in April 2003). While working at IBM Tivoli, Mr. Williams held a number of executive roles, including vice president of product strategy and product management, responsible for Tivoli's $1.8 billion enterprise management portfolio. Prior to that, he was IBM Tivoli's director of corporate research and analysis. Mr. Williams' other experience includes being research director for Gartner's networked systems management service, European senior technologist for Unicenter at CA, and 10 years with Digital Equipment, where he held a number of roles, spanning computer operations, software services, software engineering, product management, and finally becoming the European systems and network product marketing manager.

Professional Background
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AlterPoint, Vice President Marketing, 2 years
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BMC Software/IT Masters, Vice President Marketing, 3 years
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IBM, Vice President Product Management and Product Strategy , 5 years
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