Principal at North Main
Greater Boston Area
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- Coach (through North Main) at Axway Software
- Principal at North Main
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- Chief Agilist (through North Main) at Globant
- Scrum Coach (through North Main) at Sabre Airline Solutions
- Chief Engineer (through North Main) at VA Software
- Chief Agilist at Borland Software
- Program Coach at ThoughtWorks
- Director, Product Management and Development at Segway
- New England Area Consulting Manager at Pretzel Logic
- Mgr Continuing Engineering at Wildfire
- Director, Consumer Products at Geisicke & Devrient of America
- Program Manager at TASC Inc.
- Systems Engineer at various
- Systems Engineer at Lockheed Sanders
- senior member of technical staff at grumman
- Technical Lead at MITRE
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Matt Gelbwaks’s Summary
Methodology Expert geared towards reducing time to market and increasing organizational productivity.
Program Manager with extensive experience in the delivery of products and enterprise IT projects. Experience in the application of Agile practices for efficient and reliable delivery of enterprise initiatives.
Matt Gelbwaks’s Experience
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Coach (through North Main)
Axway Software
(Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Acting as coach to SVP Engineering during final release of major new software product and supporting organizational transformation during buyout/merger. Also focusing on coaching teams and executives in both Silicon Valley and Sofia locations on methodology and development practices. Establishing major initiatives to increase throughput and completeness on development work.
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Principal
North Main
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
North Main is a coaching consultancy that specializing in increasing throughput and decreasing dysfunction. We specialize in agile methodologies and prescribe to the principles of integrity and collaboration amongst teams – striving to teach that the self-realized team can always produce more than the disjoined sum of its individuals. I believe deeply in the value of the application of an abstracted Deming Cycle to all business activities, encapsulated as:
➢ The act of Planning, not the existence of a Plan
➢ Decisive Execution and failing fast if necessary, not Tentative Implementation without institutional learning
➢ Retrospection and improvement, rather than aspersion and blame
➢ Collective soul, rather than individual heroes
We range world wide and coach both co-located and distributed teams. -
Chief Agilist (through North Main)
Globant
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year )
C-Level team member responsible for ensuring that all internally executed projects are optimized by process and that customers’ expectations are able to be met or surpassed. Supporting executives in creating global awareness of the company and their capabilities.
As a company, Globant is firmly convinced that our distributed agile approach can create the compelling differentiator allowing us to lead the international outsourcing community. -
Scrum Coach (through North Main)
Sabre Airline Solutions
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TSG; Airlines/Aviation industry)
September 2007 — January 2008 (5 months)
Fine tuning Agile and Scrum practices and mentoring of Agile Coaches in both Dallas and Krakow development offices.
Reported to the SVP of the POS Division in London. -
Chief Engineer (through North Main)
VA Software
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LNUX; Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — April 2007 (8 months)
C-Level position combining Development and Product Ownership responsibilities.
Focused on improving the delivery of technology and solutions to business stakeholders, complying with corporate governance mandates.
Drive innovative perspective and hands-on experience delivering large-scale software delivery projects.
Coach the use of agile engineering and management practices in our customers organizations leading to organizational transformation efforts. -
Chief Agilist
Borland Software
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Director of Development and Lead Methodologist for R&D
Chief Agilist role was an inward facing role with responsibility for corporate development methodology. In this capacity I spoke for the organization with respect to how we developed our software as well as continuously coaching teams to fine tune their approaches and optimize their throughput.
Directed development for the CaliberRM product line
Instituted agile methods to effectively leverage multi-site and offshore development models -
Program Coach
ThoughtWorks
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 5 months)
Agile Expert active in the enablement of organizations looking to improve their time to market and development productivity.
Manages system implementation projects using a variety of development methodologies. Industry experience includes financial services, commercial products, specialized systems, government and defense systems in a number of verticals -
Director, Product Management and Development
Segway
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years )
Responsible for methodology and business process re-engineering across the enterprise.
Established franchise entity as a trial distribution channel.
Developed and implemented product management and project development processes for both operations and engineering.
Designed and oversaw market research studies to understand usability, training requirements, adoption, and diffusion of product into various segments of the retail environment. -
New England Area Consulting Manager
Pretzel Logic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
Led consulting services practice for Change Management, Project Development Lifecycle, and Project Management Office services.
Specialized in the financial services vertical, focusing on developing strong program management methodologies within such process frameworks as the Capability Maturity Model, Critical Chain (Theory of Constraints), Balanced Scorecard, and Integrated Change Management. -
Mgr Continuing Engineering
Wildfire
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1999 — November 1999 (9 months)
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Director, Consumer Products
Geisicke & Devrient of America
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1999 (4 years )
Lead product development group for counter-top machines to process currency (Systems handle both fiduciary and counterfeit analysis tasks)
Directed development efforts of customized product derivatives for Federal Reserve Bank and other customers.
Directed efforts towards ISO 9001 certification. -
Program Manager
TASC Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
1990 — 1995 (5 years )
Business development on International Systems Integration efforts.
Developed a sustainable Quality Management infrastructure to support the software development process. Set up program metric collection and program management training and initiated separate Configuration Management and Quality Assurance groups, and worked towards the introduction of CMM and SW TQM principles. -
Systems Engineer
various
(Computer Software industry)
1983 — 1990 (7 years )
Prior to these positions, I held various roles with Defense Contractors working on both Strategic and Tactical systems for various government agencies. Most of these programs remain classified but covered technologies such as airborne surveillance, satellite communications, imagery analysis, and electronic warfare.
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Systems Engineer
Lockheed Sanders
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
January 1988 — October 1989 (1 year 10 months)
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senior member of technical staff
grumman
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1986 — 1988 (2 years )
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Technical Lead
MITRE
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
April 1984 — August 1986 (2 years 5 months)
