CTO - Americas at Ivar Jacobson Consulting
Greater Denver Area
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- CTO - Americas at Ivar Jacobson Consulting
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- Pogram Director, Emerging Technologies at IBM
- Director at Rational Software
- Product Manager at Gemstone Corporation
- Senior Consultant at Oracle
- Project Lead at Continental Illinois Bank and Trust
- Project Lead at Continental Bank currently known as Bank of America
- Education
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business
- Michigan State University
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Kurt Bittner’s Summary
The more experience I have with software development projects, the more I am convinced that the critical success factors are "soft": the ability to recruit good people and to mold them into effective teams; the ability to communicate clearly and effectively; and the ability to screen out the "noise" to focus on the truly essential. Technology comes and goes, and is relatively easy for smart people to pick up. What is harder is to find smart people with the right team orientation, motivation and work culture values to build effective teams. These are the things that interest me the most and lead to the best results.
Kurt Bittner’s Specialties:
software development tools and practices, agile development techniques, teaching, mergers and acquisitions, software product development
Kurt Bittner’s Experience
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CTO - Americas
Ivar Jacobson Consulting
(Computer Software industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
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Pogram Director, Emerging Technologies
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
March 2003 — April 2007 (4 years 2 months)
Early in my tenure I worked in the services organization establishing Communities of Practice to enable community-based skills and knowledge-sharing. In 2004-2005 I managed an acquisition of a small privately-held software company. My last 2 years with IBM were focused on initiating and bringing to market a significant new technology platform for software development tools.
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Director
Rational Software
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RATL; Computer Software industry)
June 1994 — February 2003 (8 years 9 months)
Early experience focused on consulting with clients to help them improve their software development capabilities. Later joined the Rational Unified Process development team in its early years and was a key contributor to the Requirements and Analysis and Design content. My last role at Rational was leading the development of requirements management tooling, including a substantial overhaul of RequisitePro. Rational was acquired by IBM in 2003.
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Product Manager
Gemstone Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1992 — June 1994 (1 year 9 months)
Responsible for product direction, working with customers to communicate capabilities and understand needs, working with marketing to develop effective messages, and working with engineering to ensure the right capabilities were developed and delivered to customers.
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Senior Consultant
Oracle
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
January 1989 — October 1992 (3 years 10 months)
Responsible for working with prospects/customers, demonstrating product capabilties, developing prototypes, recommending and presenting solutions, and ensuring success in deployments.
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Project Lead
Continental Illinois Bank and Trust
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
October 1982 — December 1988 (6 years 3 months)
Early experience included being the business analyst on a major overhaul of financial accounting (general ledger) system. Later experience included being project leader on the initial development and ongoing evolution of a decision support and management reporting system used to oversee the liquidation of collateral assets and problem loans.
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Project Lead
Continental Bank currently known as Bank of America
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1982 — 1988 (6 years)
Kurt Bittner’s Education
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business
BS , Finance , 1979 — 1982
Summa Cum Laude
- Activities and Societies:
- Beta Gamma Sigma
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Michigan State University
Economics, English 1978 — 1979
- Activities and Societies:
- student government, Honors College
Additional Information
Kurt Bittner’s Websites:
Kurt Bittner’s Interests:
helping organizations and teams be more effective in the way they develop software. I have written two books in this area: Use Case Modeling, and Managing Iterative Software Development Projects, both published by Addison-Wesley.
Kurt Bittner’s Groups:
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Continental Bank Alumni
Kurt Bittner’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- reference requests
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