SPEAKER BIOS

Andy Painter has over 16 years of professional software development experience. Andy has experience as a developer, technical lead, architect and project lead with hands on experience with all aspects of the application development cycle utilizing a myriad of methodologies, languages and tools.  Over the last 5 years, Andy has coupled that deep technology experience with Agile practices to create teams and environments that are hyper-productive.  This unique combination of experience gives some real-world experience on how best to establish an Agile organization and teams through an enablement process that allows an organization, teams, and individuals to achieve a hyper-productive state delivering continuous streams of value through quality software.

AgileBill Krebs has over 20 years experience as developer, performance engineer and consultant including work at IBM, Davisbase, and in the healthcare field. Since 2001, he's used and taught Agile software development methods such as Scrum and lean to more than 2,000 engineers and managers worldwide. He's presented at education and Agile conferences, and IBM Research.

Bill's certifications include PMI-ACP, CSM/CSP, Innovation Games (R), and ICAgile Team Coach (ICP-TC). He is a member of PMI, the Agile Leadership Network (ALN), Scrum Alliance, Agile Alliance. Bill's post graduate coursework includes classes from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, 3dGameLab, and work on his Masters degree at Boise State University.

Currently Bill is an Enterprise Agile coach in the healthcare industry and hosts an online Agile study group with over 200 members.

Bob Galen is president & principal consultant at RGCG, LLC and director, agile solutions at Zenergy Technologies, a North Carolina-based firm specializing in agile testing and leading agile adoption initiatives. Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to software development, project management, software testing, and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile and Scrum Alliances. In 2009, Robert published Scrum Product Ownership :Balancing Value from the Inside Out which addresses the gap in guidance toward effective agile product management. You can reach Robert at [email protected] or [email protected]

Carl Parziale is a Senior Vice President at Bank of America leading the technology transformation of the bank’s item-processing research, resolution, and reconcilement technology offering.   In this role he manages the existing system platforms as well as the initiative and teams for the transformation where they are applying Scrum and XP practices on a large project inside a traditionally waterfall organization.     For nearly 15 years he has been on the never-ending journey to achieve better Agile and Engineering techniques both with software he’s written and teams he’s led, and he dabbles in Android Application development where he keeps his software development skills from getting rusty.

Damon Poole’s 22 years of software experience spans from small co-located teams all the way up global development organizations with hundreds of teams.  Damon is a past President and Vice President of Agile New England. He writes frequently on the topic of Agile development, is the author of the web book “Do It Yourself Agile,” and a pioneer in the area of Multistage Continuous  Integration and mixing Scrum and Kanban. He is also a co-founder and past CEO and CTO of AccuRev where he created multiple Jolt Award winning products including AccuRev and AccuWorkflow.  Damon has spoken at numerous conferences including Agile and Beyond 2010-2012, Agile Business Conference, Q-Con, Agile 2008-2012, and Agile Development Practices and has trained thousands of people on Agile techniques.

David Poore has over 13 years of large business systems implementation experience including work within the Department of Defense and Bank of America.  David leads the Portfolio Management function for the Consumer Purchasing and Marketing Technology team and is responsible for delivering the business portfolio through the Lean Agile practice.  This is inclusive of transforming business requirements to features and capabilities that can easily be sized, prioritized and delivered incrementally with a continued focus of business value.  Key functions under David included Portfolio/Program management, Scrum, Business Analysis and Change Management.

David Simner started playing with computers when he stuffed sweets into my parents' floppy disk drive when he was 5. They weren't happy. When he was 10, he progressed onto something much more fun: coding!  After a brief stint pretending to be an academic, he returned to what he loves. For the past 4 years he's been a software developer at Red Gate.  There have been lots of mistakes and learning along the way, but that’s what makes it fun: he now knows that “Minimally Viable” includes writing the clean-up code, because otherwise you’ll spend nearly a grand on Amazon S3 before anybody notices; luckily his boss was forgiving.  In his spare time he tries to convince my train-obsessed friends to give up their obsession, and despite claiming not to be able to cook, he “product manages” his partner's Fair Trade Cook Book website.

 Garren DiPasquale is a freelance User Experience Consultant dedicated to helping clients solve problems thru deliberate and creative design. He is a passionate design evangelist known nationally for allowing reason to drive his creative process, and for giving life to brands, interactions, and experiences.

Garren’s experience with the design process leads to identifying problems and developing creative solutions that serve a purpose. His process and creative thinking skills have allowed him to design and develop innovative solutions for his clients. He has helped to create and develop applications and user experiences for organizations such as Bank of America, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Muzak and Chick-fil-a. Additionally, Garren has been involved in several technology startups, serving in various roles, from Director of Application Development to Board Advisor. When Garren is not solving problems with design, he speaks on the subject.  For more information about Garren, please contact him at (704) 879-1643, or via email at [email protected]. 

 Isaac comes to LeadingAgile from AVI/SPL where he served as the VP of Product Development after they acquired Informata – a video/telepresence company. He was instrumental in providing transition assistance in product backlog and product development teams while cultivating a delivery-oriented culture that values products based on market needs. Isaac is focused on working with teams within the enterprise to help them move past incorrect assumptions about what is possible for their organizations.  With experience in both the private and public sectors, Isaac’s areas of expertise include business process automation, research and development, and product commercialization using agile development methodologies.

His real-world experience includes co-inventing 100s of patent claims for the leading video communication and automation software in the VNOC managed services industry and leading research & development organizations that performed innovative research on   collaborative technologies, processes and products for the Intelligence communities within the Air Force Research Lab and the Science and Technology communities within the Department of Homeland Security.  

Isaac’s work has been recognized through patents, acquisitions, and led to Peerless Technologies Corp. being awarded an Edison Emerging Technology Award by then Ohio Governor Bob Taft in 2005

Jared Richardson has been involved with Agile since the term was coined. He sold his first software program in 1991 and has been in the field ever since. He works as an Agile coach through his company Agile Artisans. He's authored several books, including the best selling Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects (http://pragprog.com/book/prj/ship-it) . Jared is a frequent conference speaker and lives with his wife and children in North Carolina where they recently, quite by accident, became backyard chicken farmers.

Joe Little is an Agile Coach and Trainer at LeanAgileTraining.com.  He is a Certified Scrum Trainer, and has an MBA.  Joe has 20+ years in consulting and new product development in New York, London, Charlotte and elsewhere.  Clients have ranged from Northrop Grumman to JP Morgan Chase, to small software firms in Winston-Salem and Rochester.  He is a strong advocate of Lean (see Taiichi Ohno and the Poppendiecks).
The key results he wants: a better life for each team member, for the team, and for the customers.
Joe has twice spoken at Agile20xx, several times at Agile Tour events, and has spoken publicly many other places (eg, Southern Fried Agile).  He works regularly with Jeff Sutherland and other great coaches.  http://LeanAgileTraining.com, [email protected]

Jonathan Harding is the devOps lead for the Bank of America Consumer Purchasing and Marketing team driving strategy and implementation of enterprise agile enablement, systems, automation, and test instrumentation.  Jonathan supports the Lean Agile ops for this team spanning 10 applications within Bank of America’s e-Commerce group enabling (big A) Agile from idea to implementation with ALM and devOps best practices and tools.  Jonathan has 17 years of technology experience in a variety of roles ranging from development, build and release engineering, large cluster implementation, application architecture, application management, with 7 years experience in application lifecycle management, and devOps. 

Jon Terry is Chief Operating Officer of LeanKit. Prior to joining LeanKit, Jon held a number of senior IT positions with hospital-giant HCA and its subsidiary HealthTrust Purchasing Group. During that time he was among those responsible for launching HCA’s widespread adoption of Lean/Agile methods. Jon earned his Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain and his Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washingron University. He is a Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Master, and a Kanban Coaching Professional.

Kelley Horton has more than 20 years of product development and IT leadership experience (including Silicon Valley start-ups) with particular focus on Lean Agile development life cycle processes and enterprise program management – the kind of program management that provides value versus the kind the gets in the way and slows things down.  She recently transitioned to an executive lean-agile coaching role, partnering with Bank of America’s Consumer Purchasing and Marketing technology leadership team on their scaled lean-agile transformation journey.  Kelley is a certified SAFe Agilist.

Ken Pugh is a developer of a wide variety of applications from real-time systems to medical information to financial analysis. Provide expert testimony in computer-related cases. Corporate training in object-oriented analysis and design, Java, C/C++, C#, requirements, testing, security, and program development processes. Author of six books on programming and UNIX, including a Jolt Award winner. Presented talks at numerous national conferences. Specialties include: Training; software development processes; requirements; object-oriented analysis and design; programming; testing; security; real-time control and data collection; financial analysis; expert testimony.

Laure is a Professor in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Her research focuses on software security particularly in relation to healthcare IT; agile software development practices and processes; software reliability, software testing and analysis; open source software development; and broadening participation and increasing retention in computer science.

Lee is an experienced Agile practitioner, coach, and mentor who is passionate about working with organizations to help them consistently deliver high-value, high-quality products and services. He is energized by helping people at all organizational levels, employing a common-sense approach to make Agile principles and practices relevant and effective. Lee has guided scores of organizations across the globe, and typically works with several different organizations each month. In his role as Enterprise Agile Coach with VersionOne, Lee's focus is on Agile program and portfolio management.

 Business Analyst by trade, collaborative entrepreneur at heart; Leslie has over 10 years of experience in information technology and digital business strategy. Her diverse experience working in a start-up, small business, Fortune® 500 & Fortune® 50 organizations across a variety of industries partnered with her passion for high quality analysis and process optimization makes her well suited for assisting organization and individuals with embracing Agile. She is a constant student of the art of software development and has a firm believe that IT systems and solutions are the undercurrent of a business that propels it forward towards success.

Leslie’s attention to detail, engaging personality, strategic insight & communication style allow her to work across all levels of an organization building rapport and driving engagement with individual contributors as well as executive leadership.

Mark Wanish is a Bank of America Technology Executive responsible for the account opening process in the online / mobile channel and establishing a core omni-channel capability that can be leveraged across the bank to provide a consistent experience for customers.  As the Consumer Purchasing & Marketing Technology Executive, he is responsible for the marketing, promotional, and ad campaign creation and generation through various channels to optimize communications and interactions with the customer.  In this role, he led a two-pronged transformation that started with an organizational focus on aligning a heavily matrixed business and technology organization that traditionally leveraged waterfall practices and processes to structure itself as a lean-agile organization.  This was followed by implementing a full Agile ALM execution model and ensured that the delivery change encompassed idea to implementation.  Mark is well known for being a transformational leader and has spent the past 15 years working around the globe.   

Mary Gorman, Vice President of Quality & Delivery with EBG Consulting, is an expert business analyst, facilitator, coach and trainer. She has deep expertise in business systems and product development. Mary works with global clients, speaks at industry conferences, and writes on requirements topics for the Agile and business analysis community. She is a Certified Business Analysis Professional™ and Certified Scrum Master. Mary was instrumental in developing the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® and the IIBA® certification exam. She is a contributor to the PMI Requirements Management Community of Practice. Mary is co-author with Ellen Gottesdiener of the recently released book "Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis".

Mary Lynn Manns is a professor in the department of Management at UNC Asheville and the co-author (with Linda Rising) of the popular book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, which documents the successful strategies used by leaders of change in many different types and sizes of organizations throughout the world. Mary Lynn teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on change leadership and has done numerous presentations and consultations on the topic of leading organizational change in organizations such as amazon.com, P&G, Microsoft, and Avon. She continues to study solutions to problems encountered by leaders of change as she prepares for the publication of her second book, More Fearless Change, due out in early 2014.

Steve Davis has over 20 years of professional information technology experience.  He has hands on experience with all aspects of the application development life-cycle utilizing a myriad of methodologies. Steve has learned and applies with teams that people and results are what matter most. He has participated in the development and deployment of large enterprise systems such as SAP, SharePoint, and Oracle as well as custom built solutions in healthcare, financial services, insurance, ecommerce, retail, construction and other industries. Steve has demonstrated an ability to work at a very detailed level coaching teams while communicating effectively & building trust with senior executives. In that capacity Steve led teams which deployed and supported technology solutions to over 50 ecommerce and retail customers. Significant experience with PMO Development, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Team Development, Business Analysis, and more. Outstanding leader with proven mentoring, team building, analytical, problem solving, and communication skills. Over 9 years of Agile Implementation, Coaching and Training experience, working with over 300 Agile teams. Experience working with organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 50 to startup.

Tim Hahn is a IBM Distinguished Engineer and has been with IBM for 22 years. He is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Enterprise Modernization within the IBM Software Group Rational organization. He is responsible for strategy, architecture, and design for Rational's Enterprise Modernization products which bring innovative and vibrant technology to meet the needs of a diverse user community focused on Enterprise Modernization, multi-platform application development, and getting the greatest value possible from the tools they use.

Tim previously worked in the IBM Software Group Tivoli organization as the Chief Architect for Secure Systems and Networks, working on security product strategy, architecture, design, and development. Tim has worked on a variety of products in the past including lead architecture, design, and development for the IBM Encryption Key Manager and the z/OS Security Server LDAP Server. Tim's expertise is multi-faceted including application development tools and techniques, software security, directory services, and System z systems.

Tim has published numerous articles discussing the usage of Rational and Tivoli Security products in end-to-end deployment environments and is a co-author of two books: “e-Directories: Enterprise Software, Solutions, and Services” and “Mainframe Basics for Security Professionals”. 

Wayne Pauli is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of the College of Business and information Systems of Dakota State University. In addition he is the Director of the Center of Excellence in Computer Information Systems, the faculty advisor for the national honor society Phi Eta Sigma, and a co-chair of the faculty and staff portion of DSU 2.0 – The Capital Campaign. Over the years Wayne has also been very active in service to the DSU community. Dr. Pauli holds a PhD in Organization and Management form Capella University of Minneapolis, MN, a Masters in Information Systems form Dakota State University and a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD. In addition Wayne is a graduate of the Colorado Graduate School of Banking held at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. Pauli became associated with Dakota State University in 1998 and has held various positions for the University during the past 11 years. Prior to coming to Madison and to DSU Wayne had a 20 year career as a banker in South Dakota, Colorado, and Minnesota. He has also been an entrepreneur having started several businesses.

ABOUT GEAR STREAM

Gear Stream helps enterprise and fast-growing entrepreneurial organizations to deliver products and services that create strategic advantage—guiding companies to design and shape human collaboration networks that radically improve support for business and product strategy and Lean-Agile execution models.  The result is sustainable organizational growth and performance improvement, products and services that users love, and innovative practices that have a lasting impact on profits, market leadership, and corporate sustainability.

GEAR STREAM PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Helix™—A Framework for Scaling Organizational Innovation and Agility

Helix™ is an enterprise framework for enabling continuous organizational Lean and Agile change. The framework is designed to foster radically improving product development innovation and Agile program execution.  The Helix™ framework includes deep operational forensic discovery tools, a rich Agile Solution Pattern Library, and execution-monitoring tools that enable better decision making at the executive, portfolio, and team execution levels.

Surge™—A Lean and Continuous Flow-Based Portfolio Management System

Surge™ is a lean portfolio to execution operating model designed to avoid the heavy, overly complex Agile Scaling Frameworks currently in vogue, including SAFe™ and DAD™.   Surge™ fosters a flow-based planning and requirements demand management model designed to support any delivery model, including lean, agile, hybrid, and waterfall.  

Agile GPS™—A Mobile Platform for Scaling Agile Coaching and Agile Team Mastery 

Gear Stream has announced a pre-launch beta program for their mobile and cloud based Agile learning, assessment, and coach management system.  This system is the first of its kind, focused on helping mid-sized and large enterprise companies optimize and actively manage Agile mastery across large numbers of teams. Gear Stream will be demoing the Agile GPS at the upcoming SFA.  For those interested in receiving an invitation for free Agile training, and a free beta program license, please visit the Agile GPS pre-launch site:

http://www.gearstream.com/Agile-GPS-Beta.html

Enterprise, Program, and Team Coaching

Gear Stream employs a network of Enterprise, Program, and Team coaches skilled with transforming every level of an organization, including executives, program leaders, and teams.  All Gear Stream coaches are certified and proven in the application of Helix™, Surge™, and Agile GPS™.  These frameworks integrate social and organizational science, adaptive and human-centered design, and a rich solution library of proven Lean and Agile patterns.  The result is a sustainable approach to change that drives lasting innovation and business outcomes. 

Gear Stream, Inc. is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, with regional offices in New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, Atlanta, and Chicago.