ALM Forum Keynote & Plenary Speakers

Aaron Bjork is a Principal Group Program Manager working on Team Foundation Server (TFS). He is responsible for the process templates, reporting solutions, and Agile experiences that ship with TFS. Prior to joining Team Foundation Server in 2008, Aaron worked as a software engineer and development lead in Visual Studio. Aaron is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions and has a strong desire to see teams improve their software engineering practices. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Washington. Aaron is an avid golfer, and loves spending time with his wife and three kids.

Twitter: aaronbjork

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[Keynote] Scaling Agile and DevOps

Ten reasons your Agile team will fail

ALM Industry Panel

Aaron Rudger is senior product marketing manager for Web performance at Keynote, a mobile and website testing and monitoring company. He is responsible for articulating Keynote’s Web performance monitoring strategy and validating it with customers, analysts and partners. Rudger has more than 15 years of experience in the CRM, IT Management and ecommerce industries.

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Top Tips to Overcome the Language Barrier between the Business and IT Teams

Twitter: al_wagner

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Continuous Testing in Today’s DevOps World

Andrew has more than 10 years of industry experience and has held various senior leadership roles w/in product management, product strategy and business development.

Prior to joining HP, Andrew held a senior leadership role at Infragistics, the creators of NetAdvantage, a suite of user experience developer tools that drove the UI of many products including HP Quality Center. Andrew holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Bradley University.

Twitter: AndrewMFlick

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ALM Industry Panel

Andy Troutman is the software development manager for AWS CodeDeploy, and has been working on developer tools at Amazon for over 7 years. Andy loves to help customers solve issues of scale with automation, tooling, and improved development processes. If you come hear him speak, or see him on the conference floor, he'd love to hear about how AWS can better help customers manage their application development processes in the cloud.

Twitter: the_mantrourt

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Software Delivery Patterns in the Cloud

Anthony Borton is the lead ALM consultant for Enhance ALM Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in Application Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Visual Studio. He delivers training on Microsoft’s ALM products through Seattle-based training provider, QuickLearn Inc and is the lead ALM trainer behind www.alm-training.com

Anthony is a sought after trainer and has delivered technical training and consulting in the United States, Europe and all across the Asia Pacific region. He is a Microsoft MVP (Visual Studio ALM), a Microsoft Certified Trainer and was Australia’s first Professional Scrum Developer Trainer.

Twitter: AnthonyBorton

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Workshop: Enhance your Application Lifecycle using Visual Studio Online and TFS

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Automating deployments with Desired State Configuration

Named by Wired.com as one of the ten most influential persons in cloud computing, Bernard Golden serves as Vice President, Strategy for ActiveState Software. Prior to ActiveState he was Senior Director, Cloud Computing, for Dell Computer, which he joined when it acquired Enstratius, a leading cloud management software company, where he served as Vice President, Enterprise Solutions.

Bernard also serves as the cloud computing advisor for CIO Magazine; his blog has been named to over a dozen “best of cloud computing” lists and is read by tens of thousands of persons each month. He is a highly regarded speaker, and has keynoted cloud conferences around the world.

Bernard is the author or co-author of four books on virtualization and cloud computing, including his most recent book, Amazon Web Services for Dummies, published in Autumn 2013.

Twitter: bemardgolden

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Jumpstarting Your Microservices Future

Twitter: bsktcase

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Effectively Measure Your Teams without Subjugating Them

Workshop: Fundamentals of Lean Software Delivery

Christopher Brown was most recently Vice President of Operations at Fastly, and was previously CTO at OpsCode. Prior to Opscode, Chris was with Microsoft where he was a Director of Engineering for the Edge Computing Network within Global Foundation Services. Prior to Microsoft, Christopher was a Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Christopher has 18 years of software engineering and leadership experience and holds several patents in the areas of Internet routing, VM/runtime hosting, content delivery and cloud computing.

Twitter: skeptomai

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What is a 'DevOps Transformation?'

Chris is an Engineering Manager at Etsy, an online marketplace for unique goods known for continuous deployment and experimentation. Currently he manages a Growth team at Etsy focused on growing Etsy's user base through engaging early experiences on web and native apps.

While the Growth team is focused on building and enhancing products through experimentation and user analysis, Chris was also heavily involved in the early internationalization of Etsy's website and efforts to expand to new markets. He also spent a few years working at Microsoft on the Exchange team as an engineer.

Twitter: christopherjee

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More than Code: How Etsy Engineers Drive Product Changes

Chris Kinsman is Chief Architect at PushSpring. Prior to that he joined Vertafore as VP and Chief Architect in 2006, and then served as VP Development. Prior to Vertafore, Kinsman worked for AMS Services, a business unit of Vertafore, as a consultant to the development team and as a lead architect. During his tenure at Vertafore Kinsman moved his teams to a more agile development model and has driven the adoption of a number of ALM practices. Prior to joining AMS Services, served as vice president of technology for DevX.com.

Twitter: chriskinsman

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[Plenary] Fireside Chat: Scaling from the Cloud to In-House: The Business and Technical Cases

Chris Sells has been a software engineer of one kind or another since he was 14 years old. He's worked at Intel and Microsoft, has started his own companies, has written a dozen books, given countless conference talks and has done everything from QA to developer, consultant to VP, technical support to CTO, chief architect to conference organizer. Currently, Chris is a Product Manager at Google focused on tools for cloud developers.

You can read more about Chris on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/csells), Amazon (http://amazon.com/Chris-Sells/e/B001H6OL1K), Twitter (http://twitter.com/csells) and his own web site (http://sellsbrothers.com).

Twitter: csells

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Trends in Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

Chris Sterling is involved with all things Cloud Foundry at CenturyLink Cloud. Chris has an extensive technology, process, and consulting background and brings his experience and deep passion for software development into his daily work and presentations. Chris published the book Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change with Addison-Wesley in 2010 to provide a framework for teams and organizations to assess and manage debt their software delivery efforts. He has spoken at many conferences and user groups on topics such as continuous delivery, Lean Startup, software architecture, technology management, and Lean and Agile methods. Chris has also successfully supported the efforts of organizational change, Lean, Agile, and Continuous Delivery across multiple verticals with organizations in range of 10 to 800 people.

Twitter: csterwa

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Reduce Time to Value: Focus on Configuration Management Debt First

Dan has been coaching, coding and consulting for over 20 years, with a focus on applying systems thinking and simple technology to solve complex business problems. He uses techniques from Lean operations, Theory of Constraints and Agile software development to help IT organisations anticipate and respond to the challenges of changing business needs.

Dan is the originator of Behaviour-Driven Development, an agile approach to software development that encourages teams to deliver the software that matters by emphasising the interactions between stakeholders. He also proposed Deliberate Discovery, which challenges assumptions around software planning and estimation. He argues that there are no best practices and that everything we do is subject to opportunity cost.

He is a popular keynote and session speaker at international technology conferences, on topics as diverse as software architecture, behavioural psychology, simplicity, uncertainty and learning. His presentation style has been described as Eddie Izzard meets the Architect from The Matrix.

Twitter: tastapod

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[Keynote] Software, Faster: Accelerating Agile Delivery

Why Agile Doesn't Scale (and What You Can Do about It)

Dan Piessens is a Senior Agile Consultant with Centare where he infects his clients with agile principles, DevOps and developer craftsmanship.  Having 13 years of experience in the software industry, Dan has designed and built world class enterprise applications in the transportation, insurance, manufacturing and healthcare industries.  Dan has been a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion since 2008 and has been an advisor on numerous projects. As a national speaker Dan has spoken at conferences such as Agile 2014 and That Conference, and has been featured on Podcasts like .NET Rocks. His latest endeavors involve guidance for development teams on 'continuous everything' and promoting best practices for the latest Microsoft web and cloud platforms.

Twitter: dpiessens

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From Rags to Riches: Transforming a Team with Continuous Delivery

Based in Seattle, Washington, Darren K. Davis is currently the Director of Software Engineering in the Strategy and Innovation group of Providence Health and Services, the third-largest not-for-profit health care company in the U.S. Prior to that, he led the web and mobile engineering teams for Starbucks, overseeing a variety of product releases, including the first rollout of their ground-breaking mobile payment app. Before joining Starbucks, Darren worked for Corbis, and was instrumental in the creation of the Kanban development methodology. Before starting his career in software engineering 18 years ago, he was a professional actor, and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting.

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The Secret History of Kanban

Dave West is the Chief Product Officer at Tasktop. In this capacity, he engages with customers and partners to drive Tasktop's product roadmap and market positioning. As a member of the company's executive management team, he also is instrumental in building Tasktop into a transformative business that is driving major improvements in the software industry. As one of the foremost industry experts on software development and deployment, West has helped advance many modern software development processes, including Agile and Lean methodologies, process improvement, and project and requirements management. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, that helped define new software modeling and application development processes. West's experience includes traditional and object-oriented development for enterprise applications and executive consulting, where he implemented new development processes and tools for IT organizations in Europe and North America. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational, later adding componentization, SPEMM and support for Agile development. He also managed the development of IBM solutions to support efficiencies in the financial services, product development and government industry sectors.

After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. During the past four years he served as Vice President and Research Director at Forrester Research, where he worked with leading IT organizations and solutions providers to define, drive and advance major Agile-based methodology breakthroughs in the enterprise. West holds a B.A. in Computing and Business from Huddersfield University in the UK and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Southbank University (UK). Follow @DavidJWest on Twitter

Twitter: DavidJWest

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ALM Analyst Panel

David Starr is a professional software craftsman committed to improving agility, collaboration, and technical excellence in software development. He is the founder of Elegant Code Solutions, has served in numerous leadership contexts, and was as an early and consistent advocate for agile software development.

He has successfully led product development initiatives and organizational transitions in numerous positions including Chief Software Craftsman at Scrum.org, Sr. Program Manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft, Chief Software Architect, Director of Product Development, Pluralsight Author, independent consultant, and master trainer.

David speaks at various international conferences, is a frequent guest on various podcasts, author of articles throughout the technology industry, Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio ALM.

Twitter: ElegantCoder

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Workshop: Big Scrum: Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise

Dominica trains organizations to use the Kanban method to improve workflow and throughput. She’s keen on providing visibility and transparency across teams to bring alignment to the entire organization.

Over the last 18 years, Dominica’s worked with large and small companies in training and coaching, configuration management, build and deployment automation, server and environment maintenance, and project and release management

Dominica combines experience, practice, and theory to help teams level up their capability. Her work focuses on methods for managing and improving workflow and communication between and within departments, especially the workflow through IT and Operations. In addition, as a proponent of the DevOps movement, Dominica works to bridge the gap between Development and Operations teams.

Twitter: dominicad

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Staying Focused with Conflicting Priorities

Dr. Eray Tüzün currently works as Senior Software Architect at Havelsan. He has over 15 years of experience designing and building software. He has previously worked as a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft in Microsoft Online Services group, Senior Software Engineer at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Research Engineer at CWRU Genomics Center. He is a MCSD for Application Lifecycle Management and started teaching 'Application Lifecycle Management' in Bilkent University, the first ever undergraduate level class in the subject.

Eray Tüzün received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science and holds a Phd in Information Systems focusing on software reuse and productivity.

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Experiences Adopting ALM in a Hybrid Organization

J. Paul Reed has over a decade experience in build engineering, release management, software configuration management, and process design, with a focus on discovering business requirements and integrating those needs to get products shipped faster and more reliably.

He draws on experiences in aviation and other mission critical disciplines to implement technical solutions which also address human factors, complex-systems theory, and organizational dynamics, resulting in more stable, versatile, and anti-fragile solutions for your engineering organization.

Having worked with teams of all sizes, from three-person startups to release engineering groups supporting thousands of developer, he tailors solutions to specific operational and organizational requirements and helps scale them as company and products change and grow.

Twitter: SoberBuildEng

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The Changing Role of Release Engineering in a DevOps World

Jens Donig is Senior Consultant for Systems Engineering with HOOD Group. He specializes in Requirements Engineering and Agile Software Development processes. Since 2009 he has focused on Analysis and Design of ALM workflows. He uses model-based methods to bridge the gap between abstract high-level processes and the actual flow of work.

Jens engages in advancing the state of the art in ALM. He is recognized as experienced consultant, Certified UML Professional (OCUP), frequent speaker, and coauthor of the book Perfekte Softwareentwicklung.

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Smart ALM

Twitter: Je2Do

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How Large Global Enterprises can use ALM Tools for Application Delivery

Twitter: bcferrycoder

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Microservices and PaaS

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Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Hybrid Cloud

ALM Industry Panel

Kartik brings deep experience in ideating, defining, developing and launching products through On Premise and SaaS channels. Prior to CollabNet, Kartik was the Vice President of R&D and Product Officer at Serena Software responsible for the Serena Business Manager (SBM), Release Manager and Service Manager products and led global development team s at Oracle.

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From an ALM Perspective: 3 Prerequisites Before Jumping on the DevOps Bandwagon

Kate Matsudaira is an experienced technology leader. She worked in big companies like Microsoft and Amazon, 3 successful startups (Decide acquired by eBay, Moz, and Delve Networks acquired by Limelight), before starting her own company Popforms (https://popforms.com/). Having spent her early career as a software engineer she is deeply technical and has done leading work on distributed systems, cloud computing and mobile. However, she has shown herself as more than just a technology leader by managing entire product teams, research scientists, and building her own profitable business.

She is a published author, keynote speaker, and has been honored with awards like Seattle's top 40 under 40. She sits on the board of the ACM Queue, maintains a personal blog at katemats.com.

Twitter: katemats

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Where Does Success Come From?

Kevin is Chief Information Office for HedgeServ Dynamic and a visionary IT strategist and author, with over 25 years experience directing companies to success through a combination of scientific research, thought leadership and technology architecture. Kevin is the author / coauthor of seven IT management books including the best-selling novel 'The Phoenix Project' and 'The Visible Ops Handbook'. He has spoken at renowned institutions including Carnegie Mellon University and the National Academies of Science.

Twitter: kevinbehr

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[Plenary] Systems, Complexity, and Taking on Myths and Legends around Culture

mark is VP of Technical Operations where he is responsible for migrating Moz from the public cloud to their in-house private cloud. Previously Mark worked for MediaNet and Satori Software.

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[Plenary] Fireside Chat: Scaling from the Cloud to In-House: The Business and Technical Cases

Martin Hinshelwood is a consultant for naked ALM Consulting, a technical and management consultancy based in Scotland, and working across Europe, that focuses on helping organisations modernise their development processes and enable a greater degree of business agility. Martin believes that every company deserves high quality software delivered on a regular cadence that meets its customer’s needs.

To enable this, not only is he a Professional Scrum Trainer and EBM Consultant with Scrum.org, he works closely with Microsoft with Visual Studio ALM and has been a Visual Studio ALM MVP since 2008 and a Visual Studio ALM Ranger since 2010.

Martin writes often on his blog and contributes to stackoverflow.

Twitter: MrHinsh

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Big Scrum: All You Need and It’s Not Enough

Workshop: Big Scrum: Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise

Dr. Martin Kuenzle is Program Manager and Principal Consultant for Application Lifecycle Management with evosoft, a subsidiary of the Siemens corporate group. He coaches teams that deliver consulting, solutions, and lifecycle services around Microsoft TFS to various industries. Together with Jens Donig he invented the method of Value-oriented Practices (v-o-p). He is product owner and chief architect of the Siemens Solutions Framework (SSF) for integrated ALM.

Before his current assignment, Martin has worked in the Healthcare sector for 12 years. He held various positions in software engineering and management. His area of expertise includes product line engineering, distributed development, and agile in the large. He is a frequent speaker at software conferences. Martin holds a PhD in mathematics and certifications as Requirements Engineer, Systems Engineer, Configuration Manager, Trainer, and Scrum Master.

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Smart ALM

Matt is a technical product manager at Pivotal. He is a 15 year veteran of the enterprise IT industry, with experience spanning numerous business domains.

Matt is obsessed with the idea that enterprise IT “doesn’t have to suck,” and spends much of his time thinking about lean/agile software development methodologies, DevOps, architectural principles/patterns/practices, and programming paradigms, in an attempt to find the perfect storm of techniques that will allow corporate IT departments to not only function like startup companies, but also create software that delights users while maintaining a high degree of conceptual integrity. His current focus is driving Pivotal’s solutions around supporting microservices architectures with Cloud Foundry and Spring.

Matt has spoken at conferences ranging from JavaOne to OSCON to YOW!, is a five-year member of the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, and serves as Technical Editor of NFJS the Magazine. Matt is also the founder and past president of the Memphis Java User Group.

Twitter: mstine

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To Microservics and Beyond

Workshop: Architecting for Continuous Delivery with Microservices

Matt Stratton is a solutions architect at Chef, where he demonstrates how Chef’s automation platform provides speed and flexibility to clients’ infrastructure. He is devoted to concepts like Continuous Delivery and Infrastructure as Code, and his license plate actually says 'DevOps'.

Twitter: mattstratton

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The Five Love Languages of DevOps

Melinda-Carol Ballou serves as Program Director for IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management research. In this role, Ms. Ballou provides thought leadership, expert opinion, research, and analysis through comprehensive research on application life-cycle management (ALM), with specific focus on software life-cycle process configuration and management, software quality, and IT governance software. Ms. Ballou also offers competitive intelligence and consulting on key aspects of the ALM market to service providers, investment firms, and G2000 end-user companies.

Ms. Ballou comes to IDC with over 18 years of extensive experience in IT research and analysis. Prior to joining IDC, Ms Ballou founded Ballou IT Strategies, an independent consulting company that offered analysis of PPM and ALM, as well as supporting collateral to G2000 end-user clients and software providers. Ms. Ballou also served as Senior Program Director at META Group, and during her eleven years with META successfully established and evolved the software development life-cycle management and project and portfolio management research practices. Ms. Ballou has also held various editorial positions, including Senior Writer/Senior Editor for ComputerWorld, and Staff Writer/Senior Editor for Digital Review.

Ms. Ballou holds a Masters Degree in Professional Writing from MIU, and a BA from Williams College in Philosophy and Music.

Twitter: melindaballou

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ALM Industry Panel

Twitter: mik_kersten

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ALM Integration Patterns: From Build Automation to Continuous Collaboration

Twitter: sonofgarr

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Freedom and Responsibility at Netflix: Centralized Team in a Decentralized World

Mitch has been managing projects for over fourteen years and has numerous plan-driven and agile projects under his belt.

Mitch honed his agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live. Mitch's first agile team at Microsoft was coached by Ward Cunningham (creator of the wiki and co-creator of Extreme Programming), Jim Newkirk (creator of nUnit) and David Anderson (Kanban advocate).

While at Microsoft, he transitioned from Program Manager to Agile Coach, working hand-in-hand with groups throughout their transition to Agile practices. After Microsoft, Mitch was the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium Corporation where he practiced agility on the projects he ran every day while coaching customers on agile practices and lessons on agile adoption worldwide.

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Certified ScrumMaster courses, Agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs and white papers.

He is the author of 'Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing' presented and published at the Agile 2006 conference, 'Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned in the Field' presented and published at the Fall 2007 PMI Global Congress in Atlanta, Georgia and 'The Impacts of Poor Estimating - and How to Fix It' presented and published at the winter 2007 SQE Agile development conference in Orlando, Florida.

Twitter: mglacey

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Certification and Professional Standards

As the head of Threat Stack's operations and support teams, Pete is focused on delivering the highest level of service, reliability, and customer satisfaction to Threat Stacks growing user base. Previously, he was the head of automation and release engineering at Dyn, managing and deploying to mission critical global DNS infrastructure. Prior to Dyn, Pete was the Director of Technical Operations for Amazon-Backed cloud archiving company Sonian.

Twitter: petecheslock

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Continuous Security

Peter Provost is a Principal Group Program Manage for Microsoft Visual Studio where he focuses on analytics, agile development tooling, code-centric modeling and product extensibility. Prior to that, Peter managed the patterns & practices development team at Microsoft where they created Guides, Software Factories and Application Blocks like Enterprise Library and the Composite User Interface Application Block. Before joining Microsoft, he was a consultant in the Rocky Mountain region focusing on Microsoft technologies and agile software development techniques. He has spoken at a number of conferences and user groups and has written articles on test-driven development, ASP.NET, Web services and other topics.

Twitter: pprovost

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'I Think' vs 'I Know' – Why You Need Customer Analytics

Twitter: rebeccaparsons

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Evolutionary Architecture and Micro-Services

Twitter: rseroter

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Week in the Life: How one Org’s People, Processes and Technology Deliver Services Effectively

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Your Agile Team Needs a Therapist

Twitter: royrapoport

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Operational Insight: Concepts and Real-World Applications

Twitter: samueldfell

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Making CD Safe for Ops: Introducing Monitoring Earlier in the Agile Cycle

Sarah Bird serves as the CEO of Moz, the world leader in search, social, and content marketing software. Prior to Moz, Sarah practiced law and travelled the world. Sarah regularly speaks about inbound marketing, business models, entrepreneurship, women in tech, and fostering an inspiring company culture. She also serves on the Board of the Washington Technology Industry Association.

Twitter: sarahbird

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[Plenary] Fireside Chat: Scaling from the Cloud to In-House: The Business and Technical Cases

Twitter: scottwil

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[Keynote] Lessons Learned Over a Decade of Micro-service Deployments

Skip Angel is a Agile Coach, Trainer and Consultant for Rally Software based in Seattle, WA. He has 25 years of experience in software development in a variety of roles such as Developer, Project Manager, Consultant and Chief Technology Officer.

Skip has provided solutions in several industries including travel, healthcare, automotive care, retail, social networking and financial. Today he provides thought leadership, training and coaching to new and experienced teams interested in agile practices including Lean/Kanban, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP). He also has a unique focus in helping companies achieve organizational agility beyond development teams using a mix of techniques and models like SAFe, Lean Startup, Lean UX, Leadership Agility and others.

As an external coach and trainer, Skip has provided public and private courses to all sizes of product development and IT organizations. He has also been an embedded coach for pilot teams and enterprise transformation efforts across multiple local and distributed teams across US and India.

Skip is a Certified SAFe Agilist, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and Innovation Games Certified Facilitator. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Oral Roberts University.

Skip’s community endeavors include being a member of the Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, and local agile and software improvement user groups. He has created several blogs, a podcast, and is active using social networking with others in the community. He is also a frequent speaker at process improvement related and project management conferences and events.

Twitter: skipangel

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Building the Right Thing

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Devops and Security: Will they blend?

Twitter: sspeiche

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Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Hybrid Cloud

Twitter: stevenborg

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Workshop: Fundamentals of Lean Software Delivery

Thomas Murphy is a research director with Gartner, where he is part of the Application Strategies and Governance group.

Mr. Murphy has more than 25 years of experience in IT, spending time as a developer, product manager, technical editor and industry analyst. Prior to rejoining Gartner, he worked at Microsoft in the Visual Studio Team System group. Previously, he was an analyst with Meta Group and Gartner. He has served on the board of directors for the OMG and led product strategies at ObjectShare. Early in his career, he served as a technical editor at Software Development and AI Expert magazines and built custom tools for scientific research and embedded systems. His development experience includes embedded systems, Smalltalk, Java, and model-based environments and agile techniques.

Mr. Murphy has degrees in Computer Engineering and Mathematics at the Ohio State University and University of Utah.

Twitter: metamurph

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ALM Industry Panel

[Plenary] Fireside Chat: Scaling from the Cloud to In-House: The Business and Technical Cases

Wayne Heller is Sr. Director of Nordstrom Business Architecture. The mission of Business Architecture is to ensure exceptional customer experiences and superior company performance by providing a wide range of services that unite business and technology. He and his team help their Nordstrom business partners achieve their short and long-term goals by applying an enterprise end-to-end perspective in the building of capabilities, process, and technology. Wayne is passionate about the potential of combining architecture with storytelling to connect the dots between possibility and reality to make business better. In his spare time, he is a coach and mentor for First Lego League Robotics, an amateur astronomer, and is assembling an Open ROV underwater exploration robot with his four children.

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[Keynote] From IT to Business Technology: Enterprise Transformation of a Traditional Business