Jerald Murphy
Senior Vice President and Service Director, Infrastructure, Networking, and Security
Director of Research Operations The Robert Frances Group

Jerald Murphy is a Vice President and Service Director for Robert Frances Group.

Mr. Murphy is one of the industry's leading authorities on enterprise IT infrastructure design and management. He has spent more than 20 years doing engineering research and helping to develop infrastructure and management strategies for many of the largest global companies and service providers. Mr. Murphy's areas of primary coverage for RFG include databases, end-user compute platforms, network design, servers, and storage. Additional focus areas include quality of service (QoS), security, and service provider outsourcing.

Before joining RFG, Mr. Murphy was Senior Vice President and Service Director for Meta Group's infrastructure strategies service. Prior to that, he was director of network management services for RPM Consulting. At that firm, he was responsible for defining the network management architecture process and advising network management vendors on product architectural enhancements. Before RPM Consulting, Mr. Murphy was manager of MCI's Systems Integration Group, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of MCI's data network management operations centers. He also redesigned MCI's customer data network management systems to be one of the largest integrated management platforms of its kind.

Mr. Murphy has a B.S.E.E. from the United States Military Academy and an M.S.E.E. from Princeton University. Mr. Murphy has published peer-reviewed research with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in VLSI signal processing, and is currently chair for the Princeton alumni school selection committee for New Jersey. He has spoken at numerous conferences, including the Enterprise Management Forum, the OpenView Forum, and The Telemanagement Forum, and at Syracuse University.