Brian is passionately committed to helping companies make the transition to DevSecOps / Agile / Lean processes and increased team productivity.His most recent professional focus has been primarily on software development consulting within the Enterprise Software space.In the past Brian worked within commercial software (COTS) product markets in various functional capacities – covering diverse problem areas, from operating system and compiler development, to enterprise financial systems and mobile apps. He also has substantial experience with e-commerce systems transacting in excess of $3B (Toyota Motor Sales), and real-time predictive analytics solutions preventing credit and debit card fraud (FICO Falcon Fraud Manager). Brian’s background is rooted in the operating system and the object-oriented technology community. He started as a software engineer on UNIX and C/C++ architectures, led quality assurance teams for UNIX kernel development efforts (AIX), and managed several test engineering organizations for commercial Smalltalk compiler teams (ParcPlace-Digitalk, Enfin).Based on his early exposure to Agile thinking within the Smalltalk community, Brian was an early adopter of DevOps practices, including the early application of Kent Beck’s now famous xUnit framework for Smalltalk. As early as 1996 he was an adopter of automated pipelines allowing continuous integration practices.During the course of his career, Brian has held many roles, including successful stints as Practice Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, DevOps Coach, Agile Coach, and member of development teams.In addition, he has held numerous functional management roles: VP of Professional Services, Senior Program Manager, Director of Quality Assurance, and Director of Quality Engineering.His multifaceted background gives Brian the ability to understand (and explain) DevOps / Agile / Lean and its implications equally well from multiple perspectives: from the development team to the executive board.