John Heintz

Current

Owner at Gist Labs

Past

Test Automation Architect at Headspring Systems
Principal Consultant at New Aspects of Software
Process and Technology Consultant at Whole Foods Market

Advisory Engineer at Cobalt Group
Senior Developer at Innodata Isogen
Software Developer at Platinum Technology
Software Developer at ICON Computing
IT Developer at Entergy

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Education

University of Michigan

Recommended

7 people have recommended John

Connections

173 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

John Heintz’s Summary

John D. Heintz is the Owner and principal consultant of Gist Labs.

Who am I professionally:
* An Agile/Lean coach and mentor enabling teams and organizations to deliver more quickly and reliably.

* Connoisseur of high-leverage technologies to gain competitive advantage: REST, Scala, Erlang, Spring.

Personally, I am a husband, father, mediocre handyman, and amateur canoeist.

John Heintz’s Specialties:

Agile and Lean coaching, test automation and TDD, RESTful Web architecture, Spring, Hibernate, Java, Python development.

John Heintz’s Experience

Owner

Gist Labs

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

I've started my own consultancy.

There are two things that motivated this move:
1) Gist Labs lets me take advantage of the things I'm really good at: software and agile consulting.
2) Being in business for myself will teach me real lessons in accounting, marketing, contracts, and everything else I don't really know about.
Test Automation Architect

Headspring Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2008 — March 2009 (7 months)

Test Automation Architect for Juvenile Justice management system.
Principal Consultant

New Aspects of Software

(Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — September 2008 (3 years )

New Aspects is a great place to work and grow. I still work through New Aspects and recommend them.
Process and Technology Consultant

Whole Foods Market

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Advisory Engineer

Cobalt Group

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2004 — October 2005 (1 year )
Senior Developer

Innodata Isogen

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1999 — November 2004 (5 years )
Software Developer

Platinum Technology

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PLAT; Computer Software industry)

June 1998 — May 1999 (1 year )

Platinum Technology bought ICON Computing in June, 1998. The Catalysis component modeling method was integrated into the Platinum consulting network.

My responsibilities included the continued tool development to support the Catalysis method.
Software Developer

ICON Computing

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 2 months)

Tool development for Catalysis Component Method.
IT Developer

Entergy

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Utilities industry)

June 1995 — May 1997 (2 years )

Developed Corrective Action and Response workflow system for nuclear power plants.