Zacharias Beckman

Current

• Vice President at System Technology Institute, Inc.

Past

• Vice President of Engineering at Practice Technologies, Inc.
• Director of Research & Development at LegalEdge Software
• Director, ISV Support & Engineering at SeeBeyond Technology Corporation

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Education

• University of Iowa

Recommended

25 people have recommended Zacharias

Connections

264 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Website

Zacharias Beckman’s Summary

I’ve been a technologist for nearly three decades in which I’ve acquired technical breadth and honed leadership skills. As a team leader my strongest assets are my ability to deliver projects on-time and on-budget, inspire those around me, create more collaborative, more productive environments, mentor, motivate, educate and create purpose and focus.

I believe one of the most important things an organization can do is make an investment in its most valuable resource: The people that define it, that set it apart. My work with System Technology Institute gives me an opportunity to teach what I’ve learned and help organizations develop and prepare teams for success.

Zacharias Beckman’s Specialties:

Program management, team development and mentoring, creating collaborative, focused environments. Creating effective strategies that enable progress on all fronts. Process reengineering.

Zacharias Beckman’s Experience

• Vice President

  System Technology Institute, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

  Directed online virtual entertainment system, YooStar™, for WongDoody / United Future from inception to world-wide launch in August 2008 with Best Buy and Harrods (www.yoostar.com).
  
  Defined and directed Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) programs at Practice Technologies, Fios Inc., LegalEdge Software, SeeBeyond Technology Corporation and United Future.
  
  Developed systems engineering, management and assurance improvement courses in Scrum, Agile, the Rational Unified Process, Program Management, Project Management, Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Structured Software Testing, Unified Modeling Language, Object Oriented Analysis & Design, and Software Metrics.
  
  Directed Military and Government program acquisition and execution with USAF, NSA, DoD, USMC, DoJ, DLSC, Langley, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, FBI and other organizations.
  
  Directed software development and professional services at Practice Technologies, leading an engineering staff of 45. Lowered costs by 75%, attaining profitability while competing head-to-head with WestLaw and LoisLaw.
  
  Built 2nd-generation technology teams for Fios, Inc. and LegalEdge Software, directing content and evidence collection, technology direction and development of 2nd-generation legal case management solutions.
  
  Subject Matter Expert / Certified Trainer in SCM, SQA, UML, OOAD, OOADC, Project and Process Lifecycles, Scrum, Rational Unified Process.

Zacharias Beckman’s Education

• University of Iowa

  Computer Science, Science, minor in Business Administration 1984 — 1989

Additional Information

Zacharias Beckman’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Website

Zacharias Beckman’s Groups:

Standards: Rational Unified Process (RUP), PMI PgMP, Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), Software Configuration Management (C.SCM.S), Software Quality Assurance (C.SQA.S), ISO9000/TQM.

•    IASE
•    eOffice
•    Executive Suite
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Society for Software Quality | San Diego
•    CMMI Adopters
•    Contract Engineers
•    Aerospace Professionals
•    University of Iowa Alumni Networking
•    Startup Specialists
•    Semper Fi Network - United States Marine Veterans - USMC
•    e-Commerce Solutions
•    Lean 6 Sigma- USA & Middle East GCC
•    National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
•    System Technology Institute
•    Defense & Aerospace
•    Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) San Diego Chapter
•    Military Logistics
•    SWOT Team Strategies

Zacharias Beckman’s Honors:

Finding Your Way: Navigating The Methodology Maze, a roadmap to successfully adopting process within your organization, (work in progress); Fundamentals of Software Program Management, managing ongoing interdependent projects, 2008; Introduction to Scrum, Agile Methods and the Rational Unified Process, adopting Rational and Scrum throughout work and life, 2007; Introduction to Agile Methods, understanding and applying Agile, 2006. Patents: Holds four patents in business process modeling, data representation and software-based signal systems. Blog: www.rational-scrum.com.