
Director at Velocity Partners, LLC
United States

Director at Velocity Partners, LLC
United States
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Consulting, Agile, Scrum, Nearshore, Mentoring, Outsourcing, Offshore, Software Development, Argentina,
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years)
We are professional services firm dedicated to our client’s success through the exceptional delivery of Agile projects. We believe in partnering with our customers to provide project delivery and sustained product development assistance. We offer our services by way of three practices: Onsite consultants; Agile coaching and Nearshore Services in Buenos Aires. Our clients require flexibility to adjust the size of their teams to increase investments in order to ensure future success, drive efficiency and match revenue. Velocity Partners’ has developed a unique Lean driven co-engineering service allowing you to add and reduce team members quickly and seamlessly. Using Nearshore teams in times zone similar to U.S. teams allows for a high level of team collaboration eliminating the sizable “process debt” seen with traditional offshore teams. The high ROI and ability to do Agile using our model is saving clients significant development dollars while keeping the quality of the product high.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 6 months)
Senior Technical PM consultant for Net Objectives running mid sized Agile teams. Clients included Microsoft as a PM for a data warehouse project developing an internal reporting system for employee metrics, (C#, SQL, ASP.Net) and AlaskaAir.Com where I was a PM for a large BI/Data warehousereporting system for flight metrics (C#, Oracle RDBMS - data warehouse / data mart development),
(Privately Held; Insurance industry)
June 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 9 months)
Development Manager for Safeco Insurance. Implemented Agile and XP practices for Development, QA and BA teams utilizing MS technologies (C#, Asp.Net, SQL). Projects inlcuded a re-design of a large SaS policy entry and reporting systems for business partners.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Retail industry)
February 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 5 months)
Program Manager in Performance engineering. Managed a team responsible for the performance of the www.Amazon.com webiste. Projects included improving the reponse time of the order pipeline to improve increased throughput and drive additional sales.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Medical Devices industry)
June 1989 — February 2000 (10 years 9 months)
System Manager in Philips RD. Managed a team reponsable for the final API test and approval of FDA mendical develices.