Tim Kasse

Current

Principal Consultant at Delta Axiom
CEO & Principal Consultant at Kasse Initiatives LLC
CEO & Principal Consultant at Kasse Initiatives

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Past

Principal Consultant at Process Plus
CEO at Institute for Software Process Improvement
Project Manager at Software Engineering Institute

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Education

Southern Methodist University
University of Arizona

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Tim Kasse’s Summary

Software Programmer

Manager of Software Development

Manager of Hardware Project - From Design through Full Production Yields - Factory Automation - Motorola Microsystems

Software Quality Management

Engineering Evaluation
- Software
- Hardware
- Peripheral Qualification
- Process Development
- Quality Assurance
- Configuration Management
- Systems Testing
- Performance Evaluation

Tim Kasse’s Specialties:

Process Improvement and Quality Management consulting for all levels of management and practitioners for Systems, Software, and Hardware Engineering

Coaching of Senior Management Teams

Organizational Change to accompany process improvement changes

Quality Assurance

Configuration Management

Peer Reviews
- Inspections
- Structured Walkthroughs

Requirements Engineering

Risk Management

Outsourcing Management

Tim Kasse’s Experience

Principal Consultant

Delta Axiom

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Danish Alliance Partner
CEO & Principal Consultant

Kasse Initiatives LLC

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

July 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)
CEO & Principal Consultant

Kasse Initiatives

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

July 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)

Kasse Initiatives LLC is a full-service process improvement and quality management consulting company that supports an organization's process improvement initiatives to ensure measureable results
Principal Consultant

Process Plus

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2007 (8 years)
CEO

Institute for Software Process Improvement

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1991 — June 1999 (7 years 7 months)

ISPI was a process improvement consulting company founded by Jeff Perdue and Tim Kasse in December 1991. Both Jeff and Tim worked at the Software Engineering Institute under the direction of Mr. Watts Humphrey.

Tim and Jeff were contributing authors to the Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM)

Tim lead the development of the Software Process Assessment Method while he was at the SEI which started the Assessment Industry based on the CMM and now CMMI in October 1990
Project Manager

Software Engineering Institute

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

1988 — 1991 (3 years)

Tim Kasse’s Education

Southern Methodist University

M.A.S. , Computer Science , 1974 — 1976

Studied Compiler Theory, Fault Tolerant Computing, Structured Design and Structured Analysis, Hardware Programming Languages

Activities and Societies:

Graduate Assistantship in Telecommunications sponsored by Collins Radio - DR. John Fike - Professor

Graduate Assistantship in Compiler Theory - Dr. Richard Frailey - Professon
University of Arizona

BS , Systems Engineering , 1968 — 1973

Graduated with a 3.56 average and was one of 5 students who graduated with a B.S. in Systems Engineering.

Activities and Societies:

Tau Beta Pi - National Engineering Honor Society (President of School Chapter)
Phi Kappa Pi
Student Religious Council President
Head of "One Parent Program"
Church Lecturer