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Marilyn Bush
CMMI V1.2 The good, the bad and the ugly
 Marilyn Bush, an independent software and systems management consultant, specializes in working with executive managers. She is one of the authors of CMMI Assessments: Motivating Positive Change (2005) and The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process (1995) and an author of the SEI's CMM Introductory Course. She is a transition partner for the CMMI v1.1 and v1.2 and is authorized to lead CMMI Appraisals (SCAMPI A, B, and C) and to teach the SEI Introduction to the CMMI. As a visiting scientist at the SEI she helped revamp the SEI CBA IPI Assessment Method and Lead Assessor Course. Bush, who divides her time between the US and Europe, is an expert on how European and American software practices diverge and overlap. |
"Leo"
Fighting international terrorism with process improvement
 "Leo" With ten years experience as a software engineer Leo has lead and worked with many projects to improve their delivery capability. Coming across CMMI for the first time he applied it to his own project, and in doing so was the first in his organisation to demonstrably improve the maturity of a project. Leo is now working as a mentor and tutor helping projects throughout his organisation make similar improvements. |
Jay Douglass
The Future of CMMI
CMMI-ACQ
 Jay Douglass has worked at the SEI for eleven years. His focus has been primarily developing business opportunities with commercial organizations. Jay has worked with all SEI programs and was an instructor of the Introduction to the CMM Course for 3 years. Jay has worked for Control Data, Digital Equipment Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Black Box Corporation in a variety of Sales and Business Management functions. His community involvement has included co-founding the Software Business Forum, Serving on the development Board of The Carnegie, Chairing the committee for the Carnegie Science Award for Excellence in IT, and served as President of Dance Alloy, a local performing arts company for the past three years.
Jay's current responsibilities include business development team lead for the International Process Research Consortium, business development team lead and liaison for SEI-Europe, and account executive for numerous domestic and European commercial collaboration partners. The core strategy of the IPRC was a result of Jay’s initiative. Jay also regularly delivers the Process Improvement and CMMI Overview to SEI customers.
He has presented SEI Overviews globally and has been invited to numerous forums and customer locations to present overviews of process improvement and the CMMI. Jay has been interviewed and quoted in numerous technical and software industry trade publications. Jay's educational background includes a BS in Business Administration from Miami University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. |
Kieran Doyle
Chairman of Practitioner Stream
 Kieran Doyle is a leading process improvement consultant with Lamri Ltd, he specialises in the practical application of the CMMI in a business context. Kieran has helped a global defence contractor in their CMMI journey to maturity level 3 and supported CMMI programmes in many industry sectors including Telecoms, Finance and Retail. Before becoming a consultant Kieran lead the process improvement programme for System X software development within Marconi. He has also held posts in Programme & Project Management, Quality Management and Software Engineering. Kieran is currently making the transition to full SEI approved lead appraiser status for CMMI. |
Steve Evans
Global Deployment of CMMI Appraisal Activities
 Steve Evans is a Senior Manager in the Accenture Financial Services Operating Group, where he serves as a Global CMMI Capability Lead. In this role he focuses on Delivery Transformation through the application of Quality Management. Steve has an Honours Batchelor of Science Degree in Management Science from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Steve has written papers for the Business Process Re-engineering & Management Journal and the Benchmarking for Quality Management & Technology publications. Steve is based in the UK. |
Neil Grover
CMMI and Introduction
10 Myths about generic practices
 Neil Grover is an SEI authorised SCAMPI Lead Appraiser with extensive experience in the application of CMM and CMMI. As a Managing Consultant with Lamri Ltd, he has performed SCAMPI appraisals and provided process improvement consultancy to a wide range of clients, including large systems integrators, telecoms providers, IT security specialists and UK government departments. Prior to joining Lamri, Neil led the global Process Improvement and Quality Assurance team for the Rates, Market Risk and e-Commerce businesses in JP Morgan Chase Investment Bank. |
Gary Guttridge
Bridging the gap between CMMI and ITIL
 Gary Guttridge has more than 25 years experience in IT, almost all of his career specialising in aspects of IT change and the disciplines to manage change. Between 1998 and 2003 Gary was the application release manager becoming the manager responsible for global application delivery processes in HSBC. In 2004 left HSBC to set-up an independent consultancy, Change Manage IT Ltd, to bring his experience to other customers in IT. Today he specialises in helping customers challenged to implement change control processes for new technologies such as SOA and web technologies and services. Gary presented at the international Gartner Application Development summit (2006) and regularly speaks at UK and international ITIL conferences and various vendor conferences
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Keith Mantell
The CMMI and RUP
| Keith Mantell is a Senior Architect in IBM Rational's Services Team in the UK. He has over 20 years experience of software development processes, techniques and tools for both IBM product development and services. He works as a project manager and architect applying RUP and programme management techniques to customer engagements. |
Peter Mothersill
Conference and Getting Started Stream Chairman
 Peter Mothersill has over twenty years’ experience of senior management in various technology sectors. Early telecom, data and satellite broadcasting experience with subsidiaries of ITT, the Rockwell Corporation and BAe in diverse operations, project and sales management roles, led to his appointment as general manager of Data Broadcasting International. There he was responsible for winning exclusive ten year government franchises for data broadcasting with ITV and Channel 4 and the subsequent implementation of point to multipoint broadcast systems for a wide variety of retail organisations. Latterly, he was made managing director of COLT Internet, a start-up subsidiary of COLT Telecommunications, developing the company in five years from its inception to over £100million turnover operating out of thirteen European countries. Currently he devotes most of his time to property development and working as a non-executive director with small business enterprises.
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Paul Morgan
Lessons learnt on the journey to ML4
 Paul Morgan has over 20 years experience of business administration and technical program management within the commercial and government industry sectors. He joined GTECH in 1997 as the Director with responsibility for managing multi-million dollar system deliveries utilizing software development centres located in UK, Ireland, and Northern Europe. In 2001 he was invited to set up a new Software Engineering Process Group with responsibility for leading the corporate-wide software process improvement initiative. This led in 2004 to a successful Level 3 CBA IPI in an organization spanning across six continents. He has experience of working within a number of different process improvement frameworks including, ISO9001 TICKIT, BS7799 Information Security, Capability Maturity Model (CMM®), Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®). Paul has a BSc, MBA, and PMP and in 2004 was awarded the company’s Outstanding Leadership award in recognition of the contribution his team has made in enhancing GTECH’s delivery capability. |
David Piper
Managing Institutionalization
 David Piper has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years and a member of the Lamri CMMI consulting team. He specializes in helping Lamri's clients to successfully drive process change and improvement. David is co-author of Service- and Component- Based Development which describes Select's Perspective development method. |
Adam Shepperson
Getting a Lean, Six Sigma and CMMI approach to business improvement
 Adam Shepperson is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lean Master and CMMI process improvement consultant, joining Lamri in 2006. Previously he worked in the the automotive industry supporting manufacturing, research and development and test facilties accross mainland Europe and the US providing internal consultancy and deploying combined CMMI maturity level 2/3 and ISO 15504 compliant processes. He worked for a number of years developing safety critical real-time engine and transmission control systems progressing to project, subcontract and programme management. During this time Adam was awarded 2 patents for innovative and quality derived product and process inventions. Adam has experience of many different process models including TICKET, CMMI, ISO 9000/TS 16949 and ISO 15504 (SPICE). |
Ramana Vemuri
Mark Smith
CMMI the Accenture Experience
 Mark Smith is a Senior Executive in the Accenture Financial Services Operating Group, where he serves as Global Director of Quality & Risk. In this role he focuses on delivery excellence, client satisfaction, operational risk management and business process improvement. Mark is also responsible for maintaining external quality certifications. Mark has a Special Honours Batchelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and a Master of Science Degree in Computing. He is Chartered Engineer and a member of the British Computer Society. Mark has written numerous papers, co-authored two books and has one European patent-pending on various Quality topics. |
Ramana Vemuri
Achieving and Maintaining CMMi Level 5 (The Journey)
Richard Woodgate
Driving to CMMI ML5
 Richard Woodgate Until the end of 2005, Ric held the position of Head of Business Process at Aerosystems International. AeI is a major supplier of systems and software to the military and transport sector, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems. In this role he managed AeI's CMMI programme, taking the company from CMM Level 2 to CMMI Level 4, the first SEI-registered Appraisal at Level 4 in the UK. Ric is also part of the BAE Systems corporate process improvement structure, where he leads internal CMMI appraisals (Class B and C) across the whole of BAE Systems, as well as developing and maintaining training courses. Ric is now directing a major IT project to support Boeing Helicopter fleet maintenance activities, where he is implementing CMMI principles in a service based environment. Ric is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the IET and Association of Project Management. He has a degree from Cambridge University in Electrical Sciences. |
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