Ken Judy

Current

Vice President Engineering at Simon and Schuster

Past

Agile coach and product owner at NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions
Vice President - Software Development at Oxygen Media
Director - Software Development at Oxygen Media

Sr./Lead Software Developer at Oxygen Media
Programmer at USWest Creative Services

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Education

Whitman College

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Ken Judy’s Summary

Experienced software executive manager, developer, product owner and agile coach managing product and development staff to build consumer windows applications, web applications and internal IT solutions.

For six years, I've been learning, practicing and coaching agile software development because it fosters passionate, focused teams.

“Agile” is about the material and human good we create when we respect our co-workers tell truth to our employers, strive to improve, and care for the people affected by the software we help build.

I am a Certified Scrum Practitioner and an IEEE Computer Society Certified Software Development Professional.

Papers:
"Using Agile Practices to Spark Innovation" HICSS 2007.
"Collective Product Ownership with Scrum" Agile 2007.
"Great Scrums Require Great Product Owners" HICSS 2008

Presentations:
"Dead Sheepdog: Ethics presentation & open space" Agile 2008
"CEO as Product Owner" Nov '07 Scrum Gathering
"Agile Development and Ethics" Nov '07 Scrum Gathering

Ken Judy’s Specialties:

agile software development with scrum, introducing agile practices into an organization, agile product ownership

Ken Judy’s Experience

Vice President Engineering

Simon and Schuster

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Obstacle remover, problem solver, delivery manager/scrum master, and occasional coder working with internal and external development teams and reporting to the EVP, Chief Digital Officer.
Agile coach and product owner

NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NYX; Financial Services industry)

June 2008 — October 2008 (5 months)

Volunteered as product owner for Common Customer Gateway Euronext Paris. Applied Agile practices and values on a high stakes, global project flagged as in "red". Worked with team to provide onsite presence and release plan estimated by team, prioritized by me and revisited weekly. Built trust with customer by accommodating formal planning, providing weekly trending, scope changes and risks, and removing or escalating obstacles to delivery. Raised team morale by engaging them in decisions, clarifying goals and stakes, assuming personal accountability for backlog, planning from their commitments, and championing their cause with management.

Coached Scrum techniques for an XP team: tools and techniques for planning and reporting on releases and iterations, role and responsibilities of agile product owners and agile values of trust and transparency between customers and the development team. Cultivated and advised other advocates in development and product management.
Vice President - Software Development

Oxygen Media

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

March 2006 — February 2008 (2 years )

Oversaw development of internal and consumer software using staff, outsource and freelance. Managed product owners, user experience design and development. Reported to CTO.

Introduced agile practices. Team practiced Scrum for 3 years. XP 4 years.

Participated in product conception, vision, business plan and modeling, release planning, feature backlog and scrum management for Ript. Team successfully delivered to each milestone from usability, alpha and beta tests to partner distribution. Product received high favorability ratings in focus grouping with target consumers.

Co-authored Babynamer business plan to re-build site. In the first four the site achieved a 250% growth in unique visitors without paid promotion.

Participated in NBC-Universal/Oxygen intregration process and was retained in my position by NBCU.

Internal solutions built by the team in .NET, SQL Server Data Analysis Services were adopted by NBC-Universal.
Director - Software Development

Oxygen Media

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

March 2004 — March 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Re-organized app support team into a project office. Trained business to reduce support load and moved first response for custom apps into systems. Reduced head count 2/3 while allowing people to transition into productive roles in other teams.

Managed Oxygen's Affiliate Site outsource. Project completed on time and on budget. Resulting site won design and trade awards.

Streamlined Oxygen web production, training marketing staff in html markup and leveraging existing creative services. As a result, supported Oxygen's four b2b web properties with no additional staff.
Sr./Lead Software Developer

Oxygen Media

(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

October 1999 — March 2004 (4 years 6 months)

Individual contributor and lead on successful project to move web properties from ATG Dynamo to C#.NET.

Individual contributor and lead on successful mission critical project to move network operations center from NY to Denver with extensive modification of legacy applications and integrations with new automation and character generators.

Failure would have interrupted main revenue stream. Project had aggressive, hard delivery date, introduced new hardware and software and required extensive modification of legacy apps. Introduced risk-based project management with cross-functional team which mitigated potential show-stopper issue. New center opened on time with desired functionality.

Individual contributor on projects employing Java EJB, ATG Dynamo, Weblogic and Oracle.
Programmer

USWest Creative Services

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

July 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 4 months)

Developed GUI client for MDS PushCaster, an integrated monitoring tool to allow managers to view alarms and health report data for WANs maintained by US West Managed Data Services. Application used Java RMI and asynchronous threading, custom UI components, OEM GUI Libraries, AWT and later Swing.

Wrote applications for Denver Nuggets/Pepsi Center luxury boxes including a real-time food ordering system and user/group administration service employing Java Servlets, Applets, RMI, JNDI and LDAP .

Tech lead for the ITraining intranet allowing employees to request class registration and to record and report their training history. Tools provided manager reports and admin of the training tracks and schedules. Implemented as DHTML templates and object-oriented PERL scripts using DBI/DBD to connect to an Informix database.