Rick Grashel is a Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder at Red Oak Compliance Solutions at Red Oak Compliance (ROC). He possess expertise in agile methodologies, scrum, enterprise software, software development, tomcat and 44 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Rick is a passionate thought leader with exceptional technical and managerial prowess. He is a visionary that is able to drive focus to product, organizational or process development required to achieve business success. Having worked alongside Rick over the last 5 years, I have drawn from his seasoned ability to rally small,local or large,global teams of various engineering roles and establish a productive dynamic of empowered and motivated people centered around Agile principles and the software they develop. It has been a pleasure to witness Rick's teams deliver new, complete market offerings in incremental fashion that continuously delight customers with every release. Rick has a gift in being able to deeply connect with individuals and successfully align and increase their contributions toward high impact results. This includes operating across multiple boundaries and disciplines to effectively work with key influencers. I confidently recommend Rick to any forward thinking organization needing someone to develop a value based product strategy and possessing a natural talent to inspire the action required for on-time product delivery developed against high quality standards.", "I initially worked for Rick as a software engineer at Initiate, during a time in which he introduced Agile development to the R&D organization. As my manager, Rick understood when to shield the team from distractions, and when to provoke us with new challenges. Rick also understands how to develop skills in others, and help them to achieve their career goals. For example, Rick spearheaded my transition into a Development Manager role, and helped serve as a mentor to me in that transition. Over the years I worked with him at Initiate, and later at IBM, Rick consistently demonstrated an ability to motivate his teams to operate at a high level of technical excellence, with a focus on innovation and quality. Rick's experience as a technical thought leader would be an asset to any organization, especially those wanting to transition to a more customer-focused, Agile development model. I would gladly work with him again.", and "Rick is a passionate and deeply committed software manager. He combines a thorough understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the software industry with an intuitive ability to motivate people. He has time and again demonstrated that he can get the people he manages to gel as a team and out perform expectations. Rick has all the necessary qualifications one would expect in a veteran software director. In my opinion though the right reason to hire Rick is because the company is looking for a highly motivated and passionate leader who knows how to coax the best out of his team as well as himself day in and day out. Rick is by far, one of the best mentors I have ever had. Highly recommended without any qualifications!"