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As former CTO, Strategic Technology, Mr. Watson specialized in external technology and its intersection with NetApp products and services. By working with partners around the world, he learned about emerging technologies and techniques that complemented NetApp offerings. Mr. Watson's responsibilities included discovering, tracking, and recommending acquisition or partnering mechanisms related to emerging external technologies that complemented the company's internal product development strategy. Before joining Network Appliance, Mr. Watson worked for companies such as Auspex Systems, Lockheed Martin, Prime Computer, and Data General in roles such as aerospace engineering, software development, performance engineering, technical evangelism, consulting, and technical marketing. During his tenure in these positions, he developed valuable insight and a pragmatic perspective on how customers make technology decisions. Mr. Watson has a bachelor of arts degree in physics from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. What The Experts Are Saying: "The Index Engines Appliance is an out of the box approach" - Marc Farley President Building Storage "deploying inline indexing into their existing storage area networks, IT departments will dramatically increase the ROI of their existing data backup process by adding sophisticated search capabilities at no additional operational expense." - Arun Taneja, Founder Taneja Group "Index Engines Appliance breathes fresh life into enterprise search". | 