Michael Nygard

Michael Nygard

Technology Leader and Dynamicist

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Current
  • Speaker at JAOO Conferences
  • Speaker at No Fluff, Just Stuff
  • Technical Director at Verizon Business
Past
  • 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
Education
  • California Institute of Technology
Connections
333 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

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)

    2008Present (1 year )

  • Speaker

    No Fluff, Just Stuff

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2007Present (2 years )

  • Technical Director

    Verizon Business

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

    January 2006Present (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 2004December 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 2003December 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 2001October 2003 (2 years 7 months)

  • Chief Scientist

    Javelin Solutions

    (Computer Software industry)

    19982001 (3 years )

  • Software developer

    US Bank

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

    19971998 (1 year )

  • Chief Architect, Advanced Technologies Initiative

    Long-Term Capital Management

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

    May 1997May 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  • Sr. Member of Technical Staff

    TASC

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

    September 1995April 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 1989December 1993

    Activities and Societies:
    Blacker House, SEDS

Additional Information

Michael Nygard’s Websites:

Michael Nygard’s Interests:

Writing, dynamical systems, physics, cosmology, six sigma, organizational development, strategic planning, lean development, theory of constraints

Michael Nygard’s Groups:

NoFluffJustStuff

  •    Caltech Alumni Association
  •    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
  •    Agile Alliance
  •    JAOO
  •    Totality Alumni
  •    Twin Cities Software Consultants
  •    JAOO Aarhus
  •    JAOO Brisbane
  •    JAOO Sydney
  •    JavaOne 2008
  •    Hadoop Users
  •    OTUG
  •    Colorado Software Summit
  •    Emerging Technology Leaders' Network
  •    Javelin Solutions Alumni

Michael Nygard’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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