Michael Vizdos

Current

Certified Scrum Trainer & Agile Entrepreneur at Vizdos Enterprises, LLC

Past

President at Ronin International, Inc.
President at OutSourcers, Inc.
Director, Professional Services at Brience

Manager, Consulting Division at TRACI Network Solutions
Director, Midrange Systems at Eclipsys
Systems Engineer at Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

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Education

Florida Atlantic University

Recommended

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Michael Vizdos’s Summary

Hi,

I am a Certified Scrum Trainer (www.michaelvizdos.com/scrum) -- and actively coach clients around the world with moving toward more iterative and incremental software development practices.

I am co-author of a book on the Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) with Scott Ambler (see www.amazon.com or your nearest Borders).

I maintain a site about Scrum which includes comic strips and blog entries -- take a look at www.implementingscrum.com.

I am using this tool to increase my professional network. More information about me can be found at www.michaelvizdos.com.

Thanks for reading this.

- mike

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Michael Vizdos
www.michaelvizdos.com
www.implementingscrum.com

Michael Vizdos’s Specialties:

Certified Scrum Trainer --> I am available to certify people as a CSM anywhere in the world! Also, if your agile team is having problems (or you are interested in converting to more agile development methodologies) please contact me ASAP. This is what I *do* for a living... please see my listed recommendations.

Co-author -- "The Enterprise Unified Process: Extending the Rational Unified Process" 2005

Please review www.michaelvizdos.com for more information.

Michael Vizdos’s Experience

Certified Scrum Trainer & Agile Entrepreneur

Vizdos Enterprises, LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

Ronin International, Inc. folded as a corporate entity on 12/31/2005. Scott Ambler and I are on good terms and continue to collaborate. It is a small world.

I am actively training and coaching clients who are interested in implementing agile software development processes (Scrum and others).

Most recently, I have been working with very small firms and some of the largest enterprise organizations that are rolling out various agile practices.

I am interested in forging ahead with strategic partnerships.

I am also looking for people who are interested in investing in companies running in an agile manner. I am currently personally investing in projects and want to start scaling them.
President

Ronin International, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2001 — December 2005 (4 years 4 months)

Responsible for the Professional Services Organization and coaching clients on agile project management related issues.

Internationally publish, speak, and mentor on both agile and prescriptive methodologies.

Work with prospects during pre-sales opportunities to help identify resources on specific projects, close contracts, and communicate with clients throughout the different engagements around the world.
President

OutSourcers, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 7 months)

Built a firm with two consulting divisions including traditional and prepaid services.

The traditional division focused on delivering services to large corporations that included: custom programming, project management, coaching, and business process re-engineering.

The prepaid division focused on delivering services to small and mid-size businesses that included an outsourced 24*7*365 fixed-price toll-free monthly help desk PC support package.

Sold the company and went to work full time with Ronin International (they were a client since September 11, 2001).
Director, Professional Services

Brience

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 4 months)

Was responsible for creating a new Professional Services Organization. The team grew from two people to over twenty-five and was made up of Project Managers, Developers, Architects, and QA roles.

The core products for any implementation included OpenWave servers linked by custom applications.

Responsibilities included developing and improving a consistent implementation methodology, management and leadership of the team, and interaction with key stakeholders in all projects including on-site work in Latin America with prospects and customers on implementation planning and consulting engagements.

The company was sold, and the team was eliminated.
Manager, Consulting Division

TRACI Network Solutions

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1999 — April 2000 (9 months)

Contracted with TRACI to develop a new consulting practice for their company.

Created internal processes for the company sales and development staffs and brought on new projects implementing this methodology.

When the contract was completed, I joined the pre-IPO opportunity at Brience.
Director, Midrange Systems

Eclipsys

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ECLP; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 8 months)

Eclipsys was high growth start-up Hospital IT Company that went public. Joined pre-IPO and managed a team located in Mountain Lakes, NJ and Boston, MA.

We were responsible for all midrange systems run out of the Network Operations Center and program management of all internal programming assignments for the company.

Coordinated over twenty-five simultaneous projects and worked with people from all parts of the company as needed (virtual team concept). The projects included a variety of deliverables – from web-enabled products to interfacing the client-server environment with their mainframe customers, to working with third party hardware and software vendors in negotiating terms.

Upon arrival, worked with the Lab of Computer Sciences at Massachusetts General Hospital developing a computer based medical record system in a consulting role with Eclipsys.

I left because I did not want to relocate to New Jersey.
Systems Engineer

Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

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

January 1990 — December 1996 (7 years )

Joined EDS directly out of college and successfully completed the Systems Engineering Development program. At a corporate level, helped establish an Education Outreach program with local elementary schools and completed the Leadership Internship program.

Worked at various locations for EDS clients including:

Domino Sugar, Manhattan, New York. Worked on an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation.

Compaq, Houston, Texas. Completed an assignment to develop a prototype and functional design specifications for a new router product.

IBM, Boca Raton, Florida. From August of 1992 through November of 1995, was involved with our technical client teams.