Previous Experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Rollings was a Managing Principal for Momentum Strategies, a private consultancy performing strategic program management, data strategy, enterprise architecture and governance consulting. Experience he gained at Momentum included establishing a global program office for data quality and interoperability, as well as implementing related governance changes for a global payment processing organization. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and Practice Lead for Meta Group's domestic strategy consulting practice, providing IT strategy, enterprise architecture, IT investment management, portfolio and program management, and organization development consulting to Fortune 1000 and public sector organizations. His role included the development and implementation of IT investment plans and IT management processes that align application, infrastructure and other technology investments with strategic business drivers and objectives. While at Meta Group, he created an enterprise architecture project delivery methodology and co-created Meta Group's value management and portfolio management method an approach to create, analyze, balance and manage a given IT investment or asset portfolio. Prior to Meta Group, Mr. Rollings was responsible for enterprise architecture at Anheuser-Busch where his experience included managing sales and marketing systems, as well as serving as a strategist responsible for information-based selling strategy.

Professional Background

• Anheuser-Busch, Enterprise Architect, 3 years
• Meta Group, Vice President and Practice Lead, 6 years
• Momentum Strategies, Managing Principal, 3 years

Education

• B.S., Computer Science, University of Missouri

Industry Awards/Accolades

• Winner of 2013 Research Thought Leadership Award for Research about how to prepare for the changing IT career
• Winner of Gartner's 2017 Thought Leadership Award for research busting AI myths