Ken Ritchie

Past

• Training Architect, Hattiesburg Global Development Center at BearingPoint, HGDC
• Development Project Manager at ThePort Network, Inc.
• Systems Engineer / Evangelist at JBoss a division of Red Hat

• Senior Mentor at Process Exhange
• Software Architect at Object Systems Group
• Architecture & Process Consultant at Capital One Finance
• Architecture & Process Consultant at Sprint PCS
• Senior Mentor at TogetherSoft (now Borland)
• Project Manager at DMR Consulting (Amdahl-Fujitsu)

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Education

• The University of Connecticut
• USAF School of Applied Aerospace Sciences, Keesler

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Ken Ritchie’s Summary

Agile Coach in Software Development Process and Engineering Management.

Helping others build great systems and businesses, by:
1. Building people - coworkers, colleagues, competitors;
2. Reaching out - to clients, customers, communities; and
3. Finding a better way - in ideas, tools, process improvement.

EXPERIENCE: Proven contributor and collaborator in custom software development, systems engineering, project management, process improvement, integration, deployment, operations, support, marketing, sales, education, training and mentoring. Broad range of environments, applications, scope and scale; from autonomous real-time embedded systems to interactive global networks and business applications.

Ken Ritchie’s Specialties:

Project turn-around. Building software development teams by coaching, facilitating, mentoring. Multi-domain object modeling, data modeling, business process improvement, requirements management, systems analysis and design, enterprise architecture integration. Scrum and Feature Driven Development (FDD), UML, RUP, full SDLC QA. Balancing (people + process + technology + funding) for pragmatic returns on investments (ROI).

Ken Ritchie’s Experience

• Training Architect, Hattiesburg Global Development Center

  BearingPoint, HGDC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BE; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  Created and delivered (with 22 SME's) training for 31 CS grads hired as Application Developers for Java, .NET, SAP, Oracle.
  
  "The summer 2007 core training program was, by far, the most successfully delivered on-boarding training program...to date." --Manager, QA, Training, Process, Architecture
  
  Coached a technical team of 9 to successful turn-around, building a platform for Enterprise Global Risk and Compliance Solutions.
  
  "Ken's biggest contribution to the project has been to make the Engagement Team have realistic expectations about the project, and keep the developers isolated from project-management issues. An equally important contribution was the agile-process Ken introduced...keeping the development team on track with high morale and yet have the ET participate in the process. Ken's biggest strength has been to see patterns in project management where other people only see an isolated instance. ...that ultimately helps everybody." --Technical Lead, .NET Integration

• Development Project Manager

  ThePort Network, Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Systems Engineer / Evangelist

  JBoss a division of Red Hat

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

  July 2006 — January 2007 (7 months)

  Atlanta -- Systems Engineering (Sales). Specializing in the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) and Red Hat Application Stacks (RHAS).

• Senior Mentor

  Process Exhange

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2004 — January 2006 (2 years)

  Domain and Process Modeler, System and Software Architect, Agile Project Management Mentor. Teaching and applying Feature Driven Development (FDD), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Business Process Management (BPM), Software Process Improvement (SPI).
  
  Chief Architect for Process Exchange at Kaiser Permanente for the "EMC2" Enterprise Middleware Modernization Project, from proof of concept through Stage II rollout. Developed a template-based middleware development framework for use by Enterprise Architects to design ESB Message Broker solutions for VETRO (Validate, Enrich, Transform, Route, Operate) models in support of HL7 messaging.
  
  Taught Requirements Development and Management (RDM) methodology and administration of Borland CaliberRM and Together Architect. Provided expert advice to clients for improving requirements management and problem modeling strategies.
  
  Co-authored Borland DevCon 2005 tutorial on domain modeling.

• Software Architect

  Object Systems Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2002 — September 2003 (1 year)

  Assigned to Capital One Finance. See below...

• Architecture & Process Consultant

  Capital One Finance

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  October 2002 — September 2003 (1 year)

  Chief editor of the RUP-based Requirements Management Plan for Fraud Technologies Integrated Defense Plan (IDP). Established Peer Review and Quality Control Board iteration process, yielding major improvements in quality of requirements artifacts. (This became a company best practice.)
  
  Led the Application Design Modeling team and introduced domain object modeling in conjunction with system use case models for the IDP Risk Assessment Platform development project.
  
  "These documents are some of the best that I have ever seen developed here at Capital One," [Capital One Business Systems Analyst, Requirements Manager for Fraud Technology, representing Fraud IDP on the company-wide Solution Delivery Methodology matrix group, a Center Of Excellence (COE) in Capital One].
  
  Participant in cross-functional Solution Development Methodology (SDM) meetings, a company-wide forum at Capital One Finance.

• Architecture & Process Consultant

  Sprint PCS

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

  December 2001 — July 2002 (8 months)

  Architecture & Process Mentor, Architecture Group. Chief editor for SprintPCS specification of Feature Driven Development (FDD) for large scale iterative, incremental development. Advisor to Senior Director for Software Development, defined company-wide development progress dashboard metrics “at Sprintpcs.com ... over 250 people practicing Feature Driven Development and reporting their progress to me at the monthly operations review." --Scott B. Relf, EVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Sprint PCS.
  
  Lead Architect for 3G Multi-Media project (3G is Third Generation PCS), collaborating with peer architects in Sprint Network Management Systems Division and Real™ Networks (third party streaming media).
  
  Served as Iteration Advocate (technical deputy project manager) for [codename] release of the PCS 3G wired web portal, www.sprintpcs.com. Responsible for weekly facilitation of Iteration Review Meetings, daily project risk identification and issue tracking.

• Senior Mentor

  TogetherSoft (now Borland)

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

  February 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Recruited/coached 13 project Mentors, eastern North America staff (1/3 global PSO). Developed/delivered "hands-on" workshops: How To Build Better Object Models, Practical UML, How To Run Successful Software Projects, How to Build Better Patterns in Java. Trained others using Together ControlCenter. Keynoted at road shows. Authored marketing materials, product tutorials, company web content. Led company and partner pilot projects for Business Process Management (BPM) product (Participate/Fast-Forward) through alpha pre-release. Led Business Process Pattern working group of thought leaders and experts. Presented at Java User Group (JUG) and other forums. The only non-Sprint speaker on the all-day agenda for three annual Sprint Object Oriented User Group 2000 meetings. Spoke as a scheduled session presenter at ATG Open 2001. Demonstrated Together ControlCenter products and answered questions as an exhibit booth staffer for TogetherSoft at Sun JavaOne 2000 and 2001, and ATG Open 2001.

• Project Manager

  DMR Consulting (Amdahl-Fujitsu)

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1999 — January 2000 (7 months)

  Planned, bid, staffed and managed the CHATT Bulk Load (ETL) development project (on time, on budget) for BellSouth Business Systems (Atlanta), a solution delivery project (firm fixed price). Tailored the DMR MacroScope project management methodology, creating accelerated, overlapping phases—resulting in early delivery. Recruited and coached product delivery team members, including business analyst, programmer (PL/SQL), technical writer, and consulting database administrators (Oracle). Facilitated all technical walk-through and project management review meetings with client staff. Controlled all project deliverables. Also contributed to definition of DMR corporate Software CMM (Capability Maturity Model) readiness plan and preliminary assessment.

Ken Ritchie’s Education

• The University of Connecticut

  BFA (Music), studied Music, Math, EE, CS.

  Worked through college as a paid programmer-analyst and research assistant.

  Activities and Societies:

  University Concert Choir (40 voices), professional dance-rock band (5).

• USAF School of Applied Aerospace Sciences, Keesler

  30BR3031, Communications Maintenance (C4I Management)

  Graduated early, with Top Honors. Assigned to HQ, Strategic Air Command (1st Aerospace Communications Group Command) as "Fully Qualified Automated Systems Analyst" (C3031) 4 years ahead of normal progression, developing command-control-communications software for US DoD, Space Division.

  Activities and Societies:

  Junior Officer Council (Recorder), Offutt AFB.

Additional Information

Ken Ritchie’s Interests:

Visual design methods and patterns. Concept modeling at all levels in any problem domain. Software Engineering Management (SEM) and Software Process Improvement (SPI). User Experience (UX) and End User Programming (EUP).

Ken Ritchie’s Groups:

Agile Alliance. Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN). International Association of Software Architects (IASA). Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG). Technology Executives Networking Group (TENG)., ValueTrain, TENG

•    TENGAtlanta
•    Agile Project Management
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Interaction Design Association
•    Agilistas
•    Appcelerator RIA Group
•    Scrum Practitioners
•    Atlanta Java User Group
•    Agile Coaching
•    Agile Atlanta User Group

Ken Ritchie’s Honors:

Certified ScrumMaster (Hubert Smits, 2006), Pull Thinking (Ken Meyer, 2004). Six Sigma Green Belt certified (Larry Aft, PE, 2003). Senior Coad Certified Mentor (Peter Coad, 2000) and Coad Certified Instructor (1993). Congruent Leadership Change Shop (Weinberg & Weinberg, 2002). Problem Solving Leadership (Weinberg & Weinberg, 1985).

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