Dr. Michael L. Brodie works on large-scale strategic Information Technology (IT) opportunities and challenges for Verizon Communications senior executives. His primary interest is in delivering business value from advanced and emerging technologies and practices to enable business objectives while optimizing and transforming IT. In addition to Computer Science he addresses business and economic issues such as computing-communications-entertainment-business convergence and the economic impact of IT. His research focus is on advanced computational models and architectures and the large-scale information systems that they must support. He is concerned with the Big Picture, business and technical contexts, core technologies, and integration within a large scale, operational telecommunications environment.