Chairman at Scrum Training Institute
Greater Boston Area
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- Chairman at Scrum Training Institute
- Senior Advisor at OpenView Venture Partners
- Senior Advisor at OpenView Labs, LLC
- CEO at Scrum, Inc. powered by OpenView Labs
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- CTO & Worldwide Scrum Consulting Practice Manager at PatientKeeper, Inc.
- CTO & SVP Engineering and Product Development at IDX Systems
- VP Engineering at Individual Inc.
- VP Object Technology at VMARK Corp.
- VP Object Technology at Easel Corporation
- President at Object Databases
- VP Engineering at Graphael, Inc.
- VP Engineering at Saddlebrook Corp.
- VP Advanced Systems at Mid-Continent Computer Services
- Asst. Prof. Radiology, Biometrics, Preventive Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Education
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- University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Stanford University
- West Point
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Jeff Sutherland’s Summary
Jeff Sutherland started his career as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force where he achieved Top Gun status in 1967 and flew 100 combat missions over North Vietnam. His last two tours of duty were at Stanford University where he received a M.S. in Statistics and the United States Air Force Academy where he taught Mathematics, Statistics, and Probability. After 11 years as a pilot, he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Medical School where he received his Doctoral degree. As Asst. Prof.of Radiology, Biometrics, and Preventive Medicine he co-founded the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research under the sponsorship of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling and for eight years was the Principle Investigator of a National Cancer Center research grant that ran all IT programs for the Colorado Regional Cancer Center. This involved data collection on all cancer patients in Colorado and integration with a national registry, clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and research on super computer mathematical models of carcinogenesis.
In 1983 he joined a banking company that operated 150 banks throughout North America where he was VP of Advanced Systems and General Manager of their ATM Business Unit. He has been VP of Engineering and CTO of nine software companies. In the first four companies he prototyped Scrum and in the fifth company created Scrum as we know it today. His initial goal was the success of Scrum, now used in 84% of software companies globally. His next goal is to replace traditional project management with Agile processes worldwide to make work better for developers, systems better for end users, and revenue growth easily achievable for management. Short term he is helping Openview Venture Partners to change the world of investment in software companies by using Scrum to achieve extraordinary investment goals.
Jeff Sutherland’s Specialties:
Jeff is Chairman of the Scrum Training Institute, CEO of Scrum, Inc. and Senior Advisor and Agile Coach to OpenView Venture Partners. He created the first Scrum in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber, to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. As VP of Engineering and CTO of nine software companies he prototyped Scrum in four companies and in the fifth company created Scrum as we know it today. His last eight companies have been Scrum companies.
Jeff Sutherland’s Experience
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Chairman
Scrum Training Institute
(Privately Held; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
The Scrum Training Institute is the premier global provider of certified Scrum training and consulting. Founded by four of the leading Scrum experts in the US, Europe, and Asia, STI provides a complete solution for companies seeking high-impact results from Scrum and Agile development. Our team includes the leaders of some of the largest enterprise Scrum implementations to date, totaling thousands of employees worldwide. The STI founders are some of the most experienced Scrum practitioners anywhere, and worked with many of the world’s best-known companies on their Scrum and Agile implementations, companies ranging from Google and Microsoft to IBM, Oracle, HP, among many others. The STI has a full-time presence by its founders in the US, Europe, and Asia, and is the largest provider of certified Scrum training in India. We have extensive experience using Scrum successfully for offshore and multi-location development, including in a services environment and at CMMI Level 5 organizations.
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Senior Advisor
OpenView Venture Partners
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Dr. Sutherland has trained the OpenView Venture Partners team in Agile processes and they will be the first venture group to run all operations with Scrum. The group has a $200M portfolio of funded companies and all of them use Agile processes. Jeff is working with each of the companies training and consulting on the Scrum development process and using Scrum as an agent of organizational transformation driving the Scrum process up through senior management and into the Board room.
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Senior Advisor
OpenView Labs, LLC
(Computer Software industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
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CEO
Scrum, Inc. powered by OpenView Labs
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Scrum, Inc. is hosted by OpenView Labs to help provide best practices in software development to porfolio companies funded by Openview Venture Partners. Training, coaching, mentoring, and consulting on Agile development is provided by Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D., Co-Creator of Scrum, and partners worldiwide. Scrum, Inc. is a founding member of the Scrum Training Institute helping large and small organizations in Europe, Asia, and the Americas rollout Agile processes to radically improve productivity and quality for software development in a similar way to Toyota improving automobile production. Many companies working with Scrum, Inc. have tripled both both productivity and revenue in the first year of Agile deployment. This requires aggressive commitment to performance improvement by management and software development teams. We have many choices of who to work with and enjoy working most with companies that want to go from good to great.
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CTO & Worldwide Scrum Consulting Practice Manager
PatientKeeper, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — June 2008 (8 years 6 months)
New venture in healthcare mobile/wireless computing. Design and deploy platform architecture to support financial and clinical applications on all major mobile device types and the web with backend integration to all heathcare vendor systems and homegrown clinical data repositories via web services, HL7, or direct SQL binding. Used the Scrum Agile Development Process (Type C Scrum) to achieve industry leadership for the PatientKeeper Platform (GartnerGroup, 2002).
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CTO & SVP Engineering and Product Development
IDX Systems
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GE; Computer Software industry)
September 1996 — December 2000 (4 years 4 months)
Introduced Scrum to a nationwide team of over 500 developers with a $47M budget. Launched the first web-enabled patient information system (Outreach) and the first physician's practice management system on the web (IDXSite); a high-volume transaction processing application. OutReach provides physicians with web-browser Internet access to important patient financial and clinical information. IDXsite provides complete billing, accounts receivable, scheduling, and manage care claims processing for physician groups.
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VP Engineering
Individual Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
June 1996 — August 1996 (3 months)
Co-founded Individual in 1988 to bring out the first personalized newspage. In 1996, I returned to introduce Scrum when the company went public
The Individual experience demonstrated that Scrum is extremely well suited to internet development, even when using older technologies (no Java). A highly productive Scrum implementation delivered two new products in three months.
Individual was acquired by NewsEdge and is now owned by Office.com. Personal NewsPage is still alive at individual.com on the web.
This is one of the many technologies I created together with many great developers that lives on in company after company - the Matisse object database, Personal NewsPage, Object Studio and its derivative works, the IDX web desktop now GE Healthcare's front end, PatientKeeper's mobile technology used by Cerner, GE, and others, and the most popular of all, the Scrum development process. -
VP Object Technology
VMARK Corp.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
May 1995 — May 1996 (1 year 1 month)
In 1995, VMARK acquired Easel Corporation. Introduced Ken Schwaber to the first Scrum development team and we agreed that he would roll out the Scrum process industrywide. Helped Ken write the first paper on Scrum which was published at OOPSLA'95.
Worked worldwide with VMARK subsidiaries in the U.S., Europe, and Australia to evangelize object-oriented development and Scrum. Ran the first senior management team Scrum to roll out new internet products at VMARK.
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VP Object Technology
Easel Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
May 1993 — May 1995 (2 years 1 month)
This is the company where Scrum was born. I was hired into Easel Corporation as Chief Engineer for developing a new product, Object Studio, the first object-oriented analysis and design tool to implement round trip engineering.
I led the team that invented Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and used it to deliver two major releases of Object Studio in 1994. In 1995, provided Kent Beck background information on Scrum which helped him with the invention of eXtreme Programming. In 1995, Easel Corporation was acquired by VMARK. It was at VMARK that I introduce Ken Schwaber to the first Scrum team and he agreed to expand Scrum outside of Easel into the software industry worldwide. -
President
Object Databases
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1989 — May 1993 (3 years 8 months)
Developed and deployed the Matisse Object Database, still considered the fastest and most reliable database in existence in $10B nuclear reprocessing plants all over the world. Captures all sensor readings in real-time in these plants, runs lights out without downtime for years at a time, and is 15 times faster than the Sun native file system.
Helped bring in venture funding for Object Databases which created the Matisse Corporation, now located in Mountain View, CA. -
VP Engineering
Graphael, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1988 — October 1989 (1 year 10 months)
Brought the french GBASE Lisp Object Database to the U.S. and deployed it in advanced technology groups at Boeing, Titan, TASC, American Airlines, etc. As a Graphael consultant, responsible for developing next generation architecture for Boeing Computer Services based on object technology.
This company was restructured as Object Databases and is now Matisse Corporation, a venture backed firm in Mountain View, CA. -
VP Engineering
Saddlebrook Corp.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1986 — December 1987 (1 year 7 months)
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VP Advanced Systems
Mid-Continent Computer Services
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1983 — May 1986 (3 years 1 month)
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Asst. Prof. Radiology, Biometrics, Preventive Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Biotechnology industry)
January 1980 — May 1983 (3 years 5 months)
Jeff Sutherland’s Education
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University of Colorado School of Medicine
Ph.D. , Biometrics, Radiology, Preventive Medicine , June 1975 — September 1980
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Stanford University
M.S. , Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science , September 1970 — June 1972
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West Point
B.S. , Engineering, Mathematics, Economics , June 1960 — June 1964
Additional Information
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Jeff Sutherland’s Interests:
My hobby is a passionate interest in electronic medicine, using electromagnetic devices to eliminate pathogens, affect cellular function, DNA, and protein creation. I am a well known, international leader in this emerging technology area with a worldwide client base. One of my future startups will be in this area as the technology matures.
Jeff Sutherland’s Groups:
Co-Chair, HL7 Orders and Observations Technical Committee, 2003-2007
Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, 2003-2007
Founder, Agile Alliance, 2001
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1988-Present
IEEE Computer, 1988-Present
Object Management Group, 1990-1997
Chair, Joint Committee ODMG/ANSI X3H2/ANSI X3H7
Secretary, ANSI X3H2 Object Information Management
Director, Smalltalk Industry Council
Secretary, ASC X3H7 Object Information Management
ANSI X3H2 SQL3 Database
MIT Enterprise Forum
Massachusetts Software Council
Chair, ACM OOPSLA Business Objects and Component Workshop, 1995-2000
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The Chief Technology Officer
Jeff Sutherland’s Honors:
Microsoft Business Framework Advisory Council, 2003-2006
Co-Investigator, OR of the Future, University of Maryland Medical System, 2003-2005
One of the “Most Influential Forces in Healthcare IT,” Advance for Health Information Executives Journal, October, 2000
President's Council, ACCION International, Cambridge, 1992-1995
Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 26th Edition, 1989
Kellogg National Fellowship, an innovative three-year leadership training program sponsored and funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 1983-1986
USAF Academy Fellowship, Stanford University, 1970-1972
Distinguished Flying Cross, 11 Air Medals, Commendation Medal, 100 reconnaissance missions over North Vietnam, United States Air Force, 1967-1968
Top Gun, RF4C Phantom Aircraft Commander Training Squadron, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, 1967
Distinguished Graduate, US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Phi Kappa Phi, 9th in class of 600, 1964
Full Scholarship, Columbia University, 1959-1960
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