H. Brian Smith
Senior Manager Kraft Global Technology Office - Mobility Architecture
Kraft Foods

Brian Smith is the Senior Manager at Kraft Foods,responsible for global
architecture in the emerging mobility space. Mr. Smith is responsible for developing the roadmaps/lifecycle and toolboxes that set direction and investments in mobility architecture, addressing connectivity for global clients. Mobility at the firm primarily consists of converged devices including next generation phones and PDA's. The roadmaps include developing global strategies for device direction, policy, security and authentication. The mobility space includes functions that enable collaboration by combining technologies across cellular access, presence and enhanced communications. Mr. Smith's previous positions with Kraft were in manufacturing SPC and logistics, most recently building location-based services to enable real-time fleet management. These solutions combined GPS satellite location tracing with GPRS communications to build event-based business processes. Mr.Smith attended Northwest Nazarene College and Rutgers University where he studied inorganic chemistry and metallurgy. This lead to developing fuel cell vehicles and patents for metal bromide fuel cells. Mr. Smith also worked at Biomet, working with device communications that remotely manage patient care and collect statistics for FDA submissions.