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Michael Lyons
Software Engineer
IBM
Location: 2455 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie Founded: 1911
• Was named Computing- Tabulating-Recording Company before becoming International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924
• Opened Poughkeepsie operations facility in 1941; 400-acre campus has 45 buildings
• IBM Poughkeepsie is the global hub for development and manufacturing of the z Systems mainframe
• 50 percent of the IBM Poughkeepsie workforce are engineers
• 30 percent of IBM Poughkeepsie workers have a master’s degree or higher
• More than 6,000 patents have been secured by IBM Poughkeepsie employees over its history
• IBM’s total revenue: $81.8 billion (2015)
• IBM’s operating pretax income: $17.7 billion (2015)
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