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Hall Enterprises advises those interested in fast, predictable, innovative and customer centric platform and product development. I advise primarily software organizations and regulated life science/ medical device companies. I help you to improve your organization and reach new heights in quality, innovation and speed of delivery. Working directly with you and your teams, I help you advance a culture of Agility. • Record of improving delivery productivity by driving successful transformations to Agile frameworks and technical best practice.• Coaching, mentorship and training for any organization desiring a more digitally native and technically excellent way of working.• Multiple rescues of floundering ‘Agile in name only’ transformations.• Specialist in Scrum for R&D, Scrum in Hardware and Scrum at Scale.

Playbook/ Accuer is a mid-stage startup supporting the Agile in Hardware and Systems Development market. I advise the founders and development team at Playbook on company growth, particularly accelerating product development, as the company matures and expands.

ThoughtWorks is a global consultancy providing Agile and Lean advisory and delivery services. • Customer facing Principal on programs with Fortune 500. Led broad delivery engagements from acceleration of a COTS migration to development of custom business intelligence platforms. • Merger acquisition planning and execution for two multi-billion dollar enterprises.• Co-creator of ThoughtWorks’ Enterprise Lean Portfolio framework.• Advisor to CIO’s on strategic and operational transformations.• Portfolio management and technology planning; developed operating models to accelerate innovation and the realization of Lean Enterprise benefits in IT, finance, HR, sales and operations.• Funded new business initiatives and transformation through enterprise assessment and budget recommendations to lower ongoing operational costs by 20%. • Communication planning and change management for cultural change at all organizational levels. BI/Data Analytics, Cloud platforms and business models, mobile /responsive design first, data modeling and business analytics, DevOps /CD, & Scrum.

Bio-Rad Laboratories develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of innovative products and solutions for university and research institutions, hospitals, public health and commercial laboratories, as well as the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and food safety industries.• Led Software for Bio-Rad’s Life Science divisions creating solutions for a wide variety of regulated and life science markets.• With a staff of 60, led multiple successful concurrent product development programs advancing genomic and proteomic platforms contributing to $500M in revenue• Developed and reinforced a customer centric, customer first culture. • Harmonized Software development across multiple divisions transforming all product groups from waterfall stage-gate development to Agile frameworks. • Expanded Software IP Portfolio, nurturing over a dozen new patents.• Improved productivity - quadrupling of releases per year and a reducing defects to effectively zero. • Collaborated closely with marketing and product management improving responsiveness and accountability. Instituted end user immersion sessions to receive regular feedback - communication and alignment between product management and engineering became seamless. • Spearheaded embrace of engineering best practices (automated continuous integration, test, and deployment; unit testing; design/architectural/code reviews) • Led re-architecting of products for ease-of-use, maintainability, scalability and clarity of function. • Created the first cloud strategy for data integration across Bio-Rad’s life science platforms.

Through its Predictive Analytics unit (formerly Strategic Analytics), Argus™ delivers innovative solutions in financial services by providing predictive analytics and scenario-based forecasting that enables retail lenders to quantify the impact of the economy across all consumer portfolios. • Led software engineering - development, architecture, test, deployment and support. Responsibilities outside of engineering included HR and accounting management.• Doubled customization capacity. • Released three new versions of LookAhead and TrueCapital enterprise products for regulated financial markets.• Represented technical vision in executive strategic and tactical planning. • Sales and marketing improvement to shorten sales cycle by half. Trained / on boarded new sales team members to lessen the demands on development staff for field support.• Hired exceptional talent, doubling development staffing in less than a year. • Enabled rapid and efficient growth by migrating groups from ad hoc development to Agile development. Created and staffed quality assurance and configuration management groups. Introduced automated unit and functional regression testing and continuous integration. Products developed and released include: LookAhead 4.0.X, 4.1.X, and 4.2.0; TrueCapital 1.0.X and 1.1.0.

NCGR is a nonprofit research institute that applies bioinformatics, software engineering and next-generation sequencing to solve the preeminent challenges of 21st century biology through collaborative research and services.• Led software engineering and operations: business development, software development, project management, sustaining engineering, web administration, database administration, quality assurance, configuration management and infrastructure development and improvement. • Integral part of the strategic and financial turnaround at NCGR - from multi-million dollar losses to break even in less than three years.• Drove executive strategic and tactical shifts in technical direction; facilitated a migration in business to human health from plant research initiatives. • Won new multi-million grants from DOD, NSF and NIH. • Multiple public facing bio-informatics discovery, data mining and modeling sites designed, created and reliably served and maintained achieving five 9’s of availability. Drove more page views and longer engagement through re-designed layout, better search engine (such as it was) tie in and increasing content relevance. • Improved productivity and reliability by migrating groups from ad hoc development to Agile software engineering practices. Instituted short cycle iterative development, peer review, project tracking and reporting, automated build and test. Trained all developers in Agile, OOAD, QA, CM and infrastructure delivery automation technology and philosophy. Technologies: Sybase 12x, Oracle 9.x, Oracle 10g, Apache/Tomcat, Resin, JRUN, XML, Java, C++, JSP, servlets, struts, Perl, Junit, CVS, Flash

Applied Biosystems designed, developed and manufactured instruments and reagents for life science, pharma and clinical researchers and scientists. • Released multiple financially successful enterprise analysis, security, and database applications for high throughput genetic sequencing instruments, proteomics analysis, and laboratory workflow in a variety of markets. • All deliverables were met or exceeded on or ahead of schedule. Low defect count.• Migrated teams from ad hoc and waterfall development to Scrum. Instituted Agile best practices: automated build and test, automated unit and integration tests, development and quality assurance use of code coverage tools, and project schedule tracking and re-conciliation. • Managed Oracle database administrator and configuration manager for the Santa Fe site.Technologies: Java(JDBC, Swing, J2EE), XML, junit (including jfc module), Oracle 9.x/8.x, perl, PVCS, Jcover, FDA 21CFR11, RUP, CMM, UML, OOAD, Rational Rose / RequisitePro, Project.

Developed and supported enterprise multi-media asset management products. Technologies used: JAVA/ EJB / RMI / Swing/ AWT/ Persistence PowerTier EJB Server / SQL / Quicktime.

Team lead for integration group. Developed applications for integration testing of Informix Dynamic Server. Managed test specification authoring and maintenance, team project and individual schedules, in addition to design duties.

Responsible for electrical and software integration on the AKT 1600 and 3500 liquid crystal display manufacturing systems. Managed implementation, and test of a distributed real time control system. Leveraged staff to meet new development, manufacturing, field support, and special project needs. Involved in all aspects of product development from concept through field support.Systems Engineering Manager – PVD (Plasma Vapor Deposition) Division (1996-97)Led electrical and software integration on AKT 1600 and 3500 liquid crystal display manufacturing systems. Program Manager - PVD Development (1995-96)Led design of sputter etch module and integration with existing platform. Led refit of applications lab tool for sale to manufacturing customer. Met or exceeded all evaluation criteria. Process Engineering Supervisor - PVD Development (1993-95)Co-inventor of planer magnetron source for AKT 1600 and 3500 liquid crystal display manufacturing systems. Created Plasma Vapor Deposition process engineering group.