Carlos Casanova is the President of K2 Solutions Group, Inc. and the co-author of “The CMDB Imperative: How to realize the dream and avoid the nightmares”. Mr. Casanova delivers professional services, training and technology solutions that support the delivery of IT Service Management and Knowledge Management initiatives including the CMDB/CMS. He is widely published, an editor and writer for the itSMF USA Newsletter, Treasurer for the itSMF New England LIG and President elect of the itSMF USA Sustainability SIG

Prior to K2 Solutions, Mr. Casanova was a Sr. Enterprise Architect with MetLife, Inc. where he was the visionary and manager for the first CMDB deployment and subsequently helped design its second generation, enterprise-wide ITSM platform. He is regular speaker at major ITIL conferences on Configuration Management and CMDB, has several ITIL certifications and is well known and respected by ITIL leaders.

Mr. Casanova's career spans electronic engineering hardware design, military contracting, software architecture, management consulting, business process modeling, account management, entrepreneurial startups and technology architectures. In addition, his professional experience in IT Risk Management, Business Continuity and IT Security has provided him with a broad foundation and perspective that enables him to maintain a constant client/end user focus with integrity and objective reasoning at the core of all his designs.

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