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Although my experience and much of my training is technical, I focus on people and leadership. When we treat each other with respect in every one of our interactions, we establish the cornerstone to working together effectively.
In every one of my engagements, I begin to work myself out of a job on the very first day I start. Through a mentoring relationship with you or your staff, my goal is to transfer my skills and knowledge to you or your staff. The mentoring relationship exists in the context of the accomplishment a task supporting real work. In the mentoring relationship, I work in partnership with you or your staff. As confidence grows, coach and guide in the finer details of the task. As proficiency is gained, support and reinforce efforts to complete the task. Finally, I step aside so that you proficiently and confidently accomplish the task, again and again.
Being an independent consultant is important to me. I enjoy the freedom that comes with it. And, it benefits my clients because they know I have no other vested interests other than creating the best consulting engagement that I possibly can for them and me.
Over the past 5 years, I have been actively involved in the Weinberg and Weinberg community. I have participated in the Problem Solving Workshop, Change Shop and the year long Systems Effectiveness Training. I am also involved in creating the Amplifying Your Effectiveness Conference.
I have 21 years of experience of the Information Technology industry. The first 16 of those were are American Express, where I worked myself up and out of the technical career path. My last job there was as an enterprise architect for its first online financial services project.
I have extensive experience in the:
Art of system architecture
Participation on projects
Management of projects
Discipline of systems analysis
Practice of object orientation
Design of information structures
Application of XML (Schemas and XSL)
Mostly, I get a thrill from elegantly designed software which meets the demands of the user unobtrusively. It happens all too rarely.
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