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Jim Batterson | James
Bullock | Pat Ferdinandi
| Fritz | Phil
Fuhrer | Jesse Gordon
| Don Gray
| Brian
Gulino | Peter Harris
| Joseph Howard | Kevin
Huigens | Steve Jackson
| James Jarrett
| Bob
King | Dave Kleist |
Henry Knapp | Brian
Knopp | Fredric Laurentine
| Pat McGee
| Nate
McNamara | George Olsen
| Mark Passolt | Sue
Petersen | Dwayne Phillips
| Brian
Richter | Sharon Marsh
Roberts | Brett Schuchert
| Stuart Scott | Dave
Smith |
Steve Smith | Daniel
Starr | Wayne Strider
| Pete TerMaat | Phil
Trice | Bill Trierweiler
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Marianne Tromp | Jerry
Weinberg | Kay Wise
Jim Batterson
Jim Batterson is an independent consultant living
in Richmond, Virginia. He is currently interested
in the craft of storytelling, and in particular,
positive and uplifting stories from the annals
of the cubicle farm that so many of us in the
technical world call our home away from home.
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James Bach www.satisfice.com
James Bach is the founder and principal consultant
of Satisfice, Inc., a software testing laboratory
in Front Royal, Virginia. He specializes in rapid
software testing techniques. James learned his
craft on the job at Apple Computer and Borland
International, and through the ministrations of
many wonderful mentors and colleagues.
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Marie A. Benesh
Marie is principal of Benesh & Associates, an
IT management consulting firm. With her wide range
of experience in IT management, Marie advises
clients on the issues that arise in managing human
resources, strategy development and implementation,
organization design, team development, and large-scale
project definition and management. Marie combines
a strong background in technology and enterprise
architecture with a natural talent for implementing
the governance and people structures that make
an organizational architecture effective.
Marie has implemented leading practices in software
engineering for organizations, and understands
the management of application development organizations.
She has a wealth of experience in project assessment
and consulting in PeopleSoft, an ERP-based system.
She has utilized her skills in Program Management,
Infrastructure Implementation and Management,
Release Management, IT/User Test Planning, and
Implementation within the university and corporate
arenas. Her clientele include major universities
and Fortune 500 corporations.
She focuses much of her consulting on the development
of IT leadership skills through individual coaching
and mentoring, performance-based review and development
processes, and team design and management. Marie
participates actively in groups that are focused
on uncovering leading practices in IT management
and in providing experiential learning opportunities
for leaders.
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James Bullock
In his more than eighteen years of building systems,
from lab automation and high-volume embedded controls
to enterprise data warehousing and ERP deployments,
James Bullock has been everything from a coding
"grunt" to a high-priced consultant.
Some of his embedded controls are still deployed,
and a data warehouse he architected six years
ago is still in use, among other apparent successes.
More important to James is the contact he maintains
with some folks from previous projects -- people
who not only built something good, but enjoyed
doing it.
Over time, James has become more interested
in how we go about building systems than in the
systems themselves. Jerry Weinberg's SHAPE forum
allows him to explore that.
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Pat Ferdinandi
www.SBDi-consulting.com
Pat is the president of Strategic Business Decisions,
a consulting company specializing in requirements
engineering, project management, and process improvement.
Pat's latest contribution is the introduction
of a Requirements Pattern (including Anti-Patterns)
that assists in capturing a fuller requirements
set for any type of project. The Requirements
Pattern is currently being used by Fortune 500
companies and will be discussed in her forthcoming
book: A Requirements Pattern: Succeeding in an
Internet Economy.
As a diversion from the hectic pace of Wall
Street, Pat -- with the help of her two-and-a-half-year-old
Solomon Island Eclectus, Scarlet -- developed
a Companion Parrot Care Guide as a donation to
the Oasis Sanctuary Foundation (www.the-oasis.org).
This thirty-six-page booklet eases the transfer
involved in temporary vacations and provides instructions
for permanent care by fully describing the specific
needs of your parrot.
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Fritz
Fritz has facilitated the technical work of system
administrators by developing software tools; now
he's learning to facilitate the human work of
tool developers.
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Phil Fuhrer
Phil Fuhrer is a systems architect at VoiceCue
Technologies, which provides voice recognition,
response, real-time billing, and provisioning
systems for wireless networks. Previously, with
thirty years of experience at Bell Laboratories,
Phil was responsible for architecture, reliability,
performance, network management, and requirements
for telephone switching and other systems. His
career spans analog and digital networks, and
he is looking forward to implementing wireless
broadband services. He specializes in reviews,
human development, and team effectiveness.
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Jesse M. Gordon
Jesse M. Gordon is a software performance analyst
for IBM, in Austin, Texas. He creates systems-level
views of how software systems are put together
and of how their components interact. These understandings
make it possible for him to improve the software's
performance.
Jesse joined IBM in 1990 after earning a B.A.
in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania
and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Michigan. Between undergraduate and graduate
school, he worked for three years as a software
systems analyst for BDM International in McLean,
Virginia.
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Don Gray
Don Gray works with manufacturers integrating
people, processes, and projects. This work involves
everything from the people involved to the sensors
to the production/process data. Don's been working
as an independent consultant since 1984. He likes
solving problems and working with people. He's
currently working on a better understanding of
how people interact in solving complex technical
problems. Having taught general computing (both
software and hardware) and application-specific
classes, Don has a unique perspective on life
(who else would write an article entitled "How
to Kill a Software Company"?)
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Brian Gulino
Brian Gulino builds databases and database-backed
Websites. He works closely with several companies
in southern California that do hardware integration,
hardware design, and Web-based instruction.
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Peter Harris
Deadlines, software bugs.
All are vanquished with a smile.
Coder treads lightly.
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Joseph Howard
I am 39, and am currently a consultant. I have
programmed computers from the age of 12, on PCs,
UNIX, and mainframes, and I've led a number of
relatively successful large and small projects.
I am married with two children. I spent six years
in the U.S. Army as a programmer, a barracks sergeant,
and a medic. I paint, fix my boat, read history,
and play the recorder (a Blockflute). I have a
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from NY
Regents, and I am currently working on a master's
degree in Computer Science.
Readers may note I don't mind making exploratory
statements in a forum to sound out ideas. It's
just a forum, a sandbox, to test and brainstorm
what might be alternative thoughts with other
thinkers. If everyone agrees at the outset, there
is nothing to learn.
I do feel that historically successful leaders
studied previously successful leaders. Many successful
leaders wrote well about leadership.
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Kevin Huigens
Kevin Huigens is a principal consultant for a
software management consulting firm. A graduate
of the December 1993 PSL workshop, Kevin has nineteen
years of experience in all aspects of software
management: coding, testing, requirements analysis,
project management, and more.
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Steven D Jackson
Steven D. Jackson is principal management engineer
at S. D. Jackson & Associates, an international
management consulting organization specializing
in assisting firms to substantially increase profits
through internally driven process improvements.
Steve has considerable experience in implementing
quality system processes and has worked for more
than thirty years in all aspects of engineering
and project management.
An international speaker and author, Steve has
developed and delivered many training courses
on quality and management subjects. As a Certified
Quality Auditor and Certified Quality Manager,
Steve has taught certification preparation classes
for local sections of the American Society for
Quality. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering/Business
Management and a Master's in Computer Science
from Nova University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Steve enjoys backpacking in the mountains and
is a competition handgun shooter.
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James Jarrett
James Jarrett is a lead software designer at
Rockwell Automation in Cleveland, Ohio. Specializing
in interaction design, requirements engineering,
and object-oriented development, he leads teams
to deliver products that delight their users.
Jim thrives on being a catalyst in his organization,
helping it move toward best practices and high-performance
teams. With varied interests including sociology,
science policy, and digital media, he brings a
multidisciplinary perspective and a strong intuitive
sense to his work and his world.
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Bob King
I work with people on project teams to build
and document the shared understanding needed to
get projects started on the path to success. Specifically,
I work with project managers to write statements
of work, with analysts to facilitate requirements
gathering and analysis, and with senior technical
people to design the solution. I have more than
twenty-one years of experience: in the first sixteen,
working myself up and out of American Express,
and in the last five, as an independent consultant.
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Dave Kleist
Dave Kleist, always interested in the next challenge,
has held a variety of positions in the IT field
during the last sixteen years, including project
manager, account manager, instructor, and developer.
He's even conned a few unsuspecting editors into
publishing articles that he's written. Currently,
Dave is the technical architect in the North American
Best Practices Lab for Adaytum, Inc.
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Henry Knapp
Holding a B.A. and an M.S. from UCSD (1969, 1971),
Henry Knapp went into software engineering full-time
in 1981, after using computers to run complex
simulations for a number of years. He has since
led the development of computer games, order entry
and billing systems, process control systems,
signal processing systems, and operating system
software in the U.S., Switzerland, and Taiwan.
He currently leads a group that develops storage
management software for the Solaris operating
system.
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Brian Knopp
Brian Knopp has worked in the software industry
for the past twelve years. His initial work was
in DOS, but since 1994, he has developed Windows
applications using Visual Basic against the three
major SQL platforms. Recently, he has begun developing
Web applications using ASP. He lives in Dallas
with his wife and son, where he hopes that the
Stars can finish better than they started.
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Fredric Laurentine
www.laurentine.com
Fredric Laurentine works with organizations of
all sizes leading groups of people through laughter
and ideas to a creative, more human future.
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Pat McGee
Pat McGee has programmed for all of his adult
life, in many different languages (including English),
and for many different processors, large and small
(including homo sapiens). Pat has written programs
to do scientific modeling, process improvement,
fraud detection, computer graphics, business systems,
and embedded control systems, and to break other
programs. He has led teams and has been called
the "best boss" and the "worst
boss" ever, though not on the same day or
by the same person, yet.
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Nate McNamara
www.conquerrsi.com
Nate McNamara held a variety of software engineering
roles before he suffered a severe repetitive strain
injury (RSI) that interrupted his career. Fortunately,
Nate is one of a handful of RSI victims who have
completely recovered, and he has successfully
resumed all of his pursuits. In addition to performing
object-oriented and Web software development and
training in the San Francisco Bay area, Nate now
presents seminars on curing RSI. For more information,
visit the Website listed above.
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George Olsen
George Olsen, principal of Interaction by Design,
has done award-winning user-experience design,
information architecture, and Web development
for start-ups, Hollywood studios, such as Disney,
and Fortune 500 companies, including Nestle and
Transamerica. In 1998, he was runner-up for Builder.com's
Web Innovator of the Year award for cofounding
The Web Standards Project. He has taught, written,
and spoken at numerous conferences about user-experience
design issues.
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Mark Passolt
Mark Passolt manages the development of advanced
scientific 3D visualization and collaboration
software at Schlumberger. The design and visualization
of large technical databases is the thread running
through most of his work with software over the
last twenty years. He has a master's degree in
Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. Outside of work, Mark enjoys woodworking
and dabbles in metalworking and stained glass.
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Sue Petersen
www.networkboy.com/suep
Sue Petersen is an anthropologist by training,
a programmer by avocation, and a manager by necessity.
She and her husband have owned and operated a
small plumbing repair shop since 1979.
Sue started programming in 1985, when she bought
her first PC for the business. Unable to find
a simple database for the business, she created
one herself. She started writing professionally
in 1995, when she sold her first article to Windows
Tech Journal. She wrote a regular book review
column for Visual Developer Magazine for many
years, and currently freelances for other publications
as well.
Sue's main professional interests are database
design, and software engineering and management.
She is currently programming in a Win32/Delphi
environment.
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Dwayne Phillips
Dwayne Phillips has been a systems and computer
engineer with the U.S. government since 1980.
He has written articles for magazines such as
The C/C++ Users Journal and The Cutter IT Journal,
and is author of The Software Project Manager's
Handbook. A native of Sweetwater, Louisiana, he
has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana
State University. He resides in Reston, Virginia,
with his wife, Karen, and three sons.
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Brian Richter
Brian Richter has been a professional software
developer on Long Island for nineteen years. He
started out writing video games, branched out
into character generators and teleprompters, and
now writes software for radars and air traffic
control systems. Outside of work, he is an accomplished
composer, pianist, and musician who performs in
and directs musical events and shows on Long Island.
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Sharon Marsh Roberts
Sharon Marsh Roberts works primarily with large
corporations on financial systems projects. She
originally worked on managing financial analysis
and reporting, but she discovered the challenge
of designing and implementing systems.
Sharon is currently helping launch a multi-organizational,
multidisciplinary team at Pfizer to comply with
a new FDA Rule, Financial Disclosure by Investigators.
She is focused on the business processes of capturing
disclosures from investigators and communicating
status to both investigators and drug teams.
Sharon is president of Roberts Financial Systems,
Inc. Her firm specializes in systems in financial
analysis, operations, and management information.
She designed and managed the implementation of
a managed healthcare system for one of the nation's
largest insurers. Her role is usually designer
or facilitator. A recent successful project was
the on-time delivery of a human resources system
that began late. Her current projects have been
impact analyses of Y2K issues and of other problems
in the pharmaceutical industry.
As former chairman of the Independent Computer
Consultants Association, her goal is to improve
project expertise. She seeks to creatively blend
the resources of corporations and their contractual
partners to meet business needs.
Sharon received an M.B.A. from New York University
in 1982 and an Advanced Professional Certificate
from the same institution in 1985. Her bachelor's
degree, from Bucknell University, is in Education
and German. She is a C.P.A. and a member of the
AICPA and the NYSSCPA.
Roberts Financial Systems, Inc., in Linden,
New Jersey, serves clients across the U.S. and
can be reached at (908) 862-4726.
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Brett Schuchert
Brett Schuchert's most recent work has dealt
with software architecture and with forming the
chaos at the beginning of a project. He is a teacher,
mentor, and consultant.
On and off since 1985, Brett has taught courses
on subjects ranging from computer literacy to
the formal analysis and design of software systems.
He has also served as architect, technical lead,
and individual contributor on several projects
in several domains.
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Stuart Scott
Stuart Scott is a principal consultant with Cambridge
Technology Partners, where he helps teams design
and carry out business transformation programs.
He is based in New York City.
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Dave W. Smith
Dave W. Smith has been taking on ambitious, and
sometimes desperate, projects in Silicon Valley
start-ups for the past twenty years. In his spare
time, Dave tries to catch up on his e-mail.
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Steve Smith
Steve Smith works at the intersection of people,
management, and systems, helping organizations
to become more productive.
Although most of Steve's career has been technical
-- starting in 1975 as a systems programmer --
over the years, his context has widened. Today,
Steve tackles the most difficult problem businesses
face -- managing technical people so they achieve
results rather than merely justify and deploy
the latest technology.
Steve is a consultant, author, speaker, and expert
facilitator and coach who honors and enhances
the wisdom that lies dormant in groups. Steve
works as a technical architect for EMC, a manufacturer
of intelligent storage systems, software, and
services.
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Daniel Starr
Daniel Starr still dresses in ways that put people
into chaos (these days, he's often seen in kilts,
as befits his Irish ancestry). After some twenty-six
years in the corporate world, during which he
evolved from software developer to software architect,
system architect, system architecture process
architect, and generalist-reviewer-opinion-generator,
finally reaching the position of Consulting Member
of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, he's
moving into writing and independent consulting.
In addition to his work in system architecture,
process, reviews, and retrospectives, he's writing
a vast, sprawling novel about time travel and
hair spray.
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Wayne Strider
Cofounder and vice president of Strider & Cline,
Inc., an IT management consulting firm based in
Kansas City, Missouri, Wayne's IT career spans
twenty-seven years. He conducts project reviews,
project retrospectives, and organizational assessments
for information technology organizations. Wayne
and his partner, Eileen Strider, annually cohost
their successful Leaders' Forum.
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Peter TerMaat
Pete is the founder and sole employee of the
Minneapolis consulting firm Up to Code, Inc.,
where he hopes someday to win "Employee of
the Month." He enjoys the quest for quality
software, whether playing the role of developer,
tester, manager, writer, trainer, or consultant.
After more than fifteen years in the world of
software, he still finds it all so exciting he
sometimes forgets to eat lunch.
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Phil Trice
Born on Davis Island in Tampa Bay, nurtured among
the brackish lagoons, saw palmetto woods of Florida
through mystical awakening in New York City and
maturing in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Philip
has been an originary explorer bridging ways of
ancient and modern teachings, arts and engineering,
mystical and physical, and natural and technological.
From a varied life path -- seeker, martial artist,
designer, healer, systems architect, entrepreneur
-- from seeking access to the magic of life to
a deep journey through his own shadow and light
-- Thunder Panther now explores shamanic ways
of Lover, Warrior, and Magician, weaving the Métis
ways of his path of heart among the forests and
waters of Northern Idaho.
Thunder Panther has founded NW Originary Arts
to assist businesses and individuals through projects,
consulting, workshops, and intensives; to balance
the aspects of story, substance, concept, passion,
and value; and to bridge the artificial and natural
realms, to co-venture with Earth and Spirit in
artful business, coevolving natural law and value.
He can be reached at ThunderPanther@nworiginaryarts.org.
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Bill Trierweiler
Bill Trierweiler has spent the last thirty years
looking for those moments that offer the possibilities
for congruent leadership. It has taken him from
the peace movement to tenant organizing to union
building to community development to software
development to systems change. He left Community
Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) to found the
Five Freedoms Center for Congruent Leadership.
He can be reached at btree@interaccess.com.
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Marianne Tromp
Marianne has been involved in scientific software
development since 1982. In 2001, Marianne started
a Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
in Madison, Wisconsin. Marianne especially enjoys
providing software engineers with tools, guidelines,
processes, and coaching, to free them to do the
work they most enjoy doing.
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Gerald M. Weinberg www.geraldmweinberg.com
Jerry Weinberg has worked on transforming software
organizations for more than forty years. He is
author, coauthor, or editor of scores of articles
and books that cover all phases of software development.
Innovative as a systems thinker, Jerry's classic
works include Are Your Lights On?, The Psychology
of Computer Programming, and An Introduction
to General Systems Thinking. Jerry's books
on phases of the software life cycle include
Exploring Requirements, Rethinking Systems Analysis
and Design, The Handbook of Walkthroughs, Inspections,
and Technical Reviews, and General Principles
of Systems Design. His books on leadership
include Amplifying Your Effectiveness, Becoming
a Technical Leader, The Secrets of Consulting,
More Secrets of Consulting, and the Quality
Software Management four-volume series.
To many, Jerry is as well-known for his workshops
for software leaders as he is for his books. Workshops
include Problem Solving Leadership (PSL), the
Congruent Organizational Change-Shop, and Systems
Effectiveness Management (SEM). He is also a cofounder
of the AYE Conference.
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Kay Wise
TheWiseChoice.com
Kay A. Wise, president of TheWiseChoice.com,
has more than thirty years of leadership in business
and technology, including years as software engineer,
database administrator, entrepreneur, project
manager, and program director. Kay now works full-time
as a consultant, speaker, writer, and teacher,
emphasizing the politics and practical issues
of launching and steering change projects in technology-intensive
environments.
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