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John Lockhart
Product Manager, Edge Solutions Global / Digital Cities
As Product Manager, Edge Solutions Global Digital Cities, John Lockhart’s primary roles are to ideate and drive the Edge Solution Strategy, Ecosystem partner alignment and solution roadmap for Dell’s Global Digital Cities, and align to critical technologies addressing Government, Public and Federal initiatives delivering Outcomes which foster innovation, efficient operations, and citizen liveability. Including City-wide enhancements designed to simplify, optimize and secure city operations at scale in the continuously evolving complex needs of communities in a sustainable approach.
John previously worked as Lead Sustainability Consulting technologist leading Government and Enterprise customers through the Digital Transformation journey aligning disparate government systems, business units and operations into a seamlessly Integrated Operations Platform (IOP), the fabric design focusing on AI driven orchestration and automation, leveraging comparative analytics within disparate data sets resulting rapid decision making. GIS-based complex event processing delivered through KPI-driven dashboards into a single horizontal control center. From the sustainability side, John thrives when ideating and designing sustainable solutions, harmonizing energy, water, and waste production and consumption utilization models delivering specific outcomes aligned with achieving carbon net-zero targets.
John supports public sector and large enterprise organizations through visioning, planning, design, and platform implementation delivering business outcomes leveraging his expertise in digital cities technology, digital transformation, integrating highly complex functional city systems and citizen services. Previously John held numerous roles in Digital Edge, Cloud Client Computing, and Desktop Virtualization in APJ.
John holds an M.B.A in Entrepreneurship from Nova Southeastern University, a B.S. in Information Technology and brings more than 10 years’ Smart Cities insight with more than 28 years IT consultative experience including roles in product management, pre-sales and technical consulting roles with both global and regional responsibilities, spanning Business Development, Solutions Consulting and partner ecosystem development. John joined Dell in 2011, previously worked for Citrix Systems and Microsoft Corporation.