Michael Nygard

Current

Speaker at JAOO Conferences
Speaker at No Fluff, Just Stuff
Technical Director at Verizon Business

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Past

Consultant at Advanced Technologies Integration
Director of Engineering at Totality
Founder at Halley's Fifth

Chief Scientist at Javelin Solutions
Software developer at US Bank
Chief Architect, Advanced Technologies Initiative at Long-Term Capital Management
Sr. Member of Technical Staff at TASC

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Education

California Institute of Technology

Recommended

5 people have recommended Michael

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Michael Nygard’s Summary

Author of "Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software"
http://bit.ly/ReleaseIt

Contributor to "Beautiful Architecture"
http://bit.ly/BeautifulArchitecture

Experience in applying technology in the service of business. Can bridge the gap between IT goals (architecture, design, infrastructure, operations) and business (ROI, NPV, payback time) to optimize financial outcomes.

Key understanding of using time as a weapon.

Michael Nygard’s Specialties:

High availability, performance improvement, stability improvement, troubled project rescue and salvage.

Sythesis of business and technology. Using a lean/agile approach to unlocking financial value with technology.

Dynamics of information systems, complex adaptive systems, and organizations.

Agile development, Object thinking, Systems thinking, Enterprise Integration.

Java, Objective-C, Ruby.

Lean. Six Sigma. Incremental Funding Methodology.

Catalyst for improvement.

Michael Nygard’s Experience

Speaker

JAOO Conferences

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
Speaker

No Fluff, Just Stuff

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )
Technical Director

Verizon Business

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

January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

Beginning in January 2009, I am in the "Innovation Incubator" in Verizon Global Services division. We deliver hosting, application management, infrastructure management, security solutions---powered by Cybertrust---and a wide range of cosourced and outsourced IT services.

My role in the Innovation Incubator is to find novel ways to combine or create services for high leverage, impact, and value. In short, I'll be doing the bleeding on the "bleeding edge".

From January 2006 to December 2008, I was Director of Sales Engineering for the Central and Southeast regions of the United States. I supported sales for colocation, premium hosting, and application management.

As always, I drove leaner processes to increase throughput, decrease effort, and scale to higher revenue with higher profitability. This involved reducing waste, eliminating non-value-add steps, improving tooling, improving quality, and reducing needless iterations. In short, Lean Sales Engineering.
Consultant

Advanced Technologies Integration

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 1 month)

Agile software development for a national photography company. Replaced the company's key digital enhancement, sales, and production system in eight months. Once deployed, studios with our software reported increased sales, customer satisfaction, and user delight.
Director of Engineering

Totality

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

June 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 7 months)

Managed engineers in several locations. Supervised service delivery for clients representing $1M / month. Devised infrastructure and operational solutions for clients in retail, travel, and hospitality industries.
Founder

Halley's Fifth

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 7 months)
Chief Scientist

Javelin Solutions

(Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years )
Software developer

US Bank

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

1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Chief Architect, Advanced Technologies Initiative

Long-Term Capital Management

(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Investment Management industry)

May 1997 — May 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Sr. Member of Technical Staff

TASC

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

September 1995 — April 1997 (1 year 8 months)

Developed custom software applications for the military and intelligence agencies. Applications included GPS devices; telemetry for aircraft, ships, armored vehicles, and armaments; and intelligence resource planning.

Michael Nygard’s Education

California Institute of Technology

B.S. , Engineering and Applied Science , September 1989 — December 1993

Activities and Societies:

Blacker House, SEDS