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

21 people have recommended Zacharias

Connections

247 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 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 7 months)

  Defined and directed Software Development Life Cycle programs at Practice Technologies, Fios Inc., LegalEdge Software, SeeBeyond and WongDoody/United Future.
  
  Directed Military and Government program acquisition and execution with USAF, NSA, DoD, USMC, DoJ, DLSC, FBI, Lockheed, others.
  
  Directed engineering and operations staff of 45 at Practice Technologies. Lowered costs by $1.8M, attaining profitability and competing head-to-head with WestLaw and LoisLaw.
  
  Directed evidence collection solutions at Fios, Inc., supporting remote evidence collection exceeding 10 terabytes with Ford, Merck, others.
  
  Directed development of American Defender Web Edition at LegalEdge Software, a 2nd-generation legal case management system deployed to over 1,000 firms nationwide.
  
  Developed systems engineering, management and assurance improvement courses in Scrum, Agile, the Rational Unified Process, Program Management, Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Structured Software Testing.

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 Honors:

Publications:
Finding Your Way: Navigating The Methodology Maze, a roadmap to successfully adopting process within your organization, 2008 (pending publication); 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:
Modeling business processes with interpreted scriptable software workflows, 2002; Organizing, tracking and delivering digital assets through workflows, 2001; Representing and interacting with a collection of structured data tables as fewer tables, 2001; Generating event-driven messages from database software to signal systems that reference data, 2001.