Beth Heather Macy

BETH HEATHER MACY

Agile Trainer, Scrum Mentor and Process Improvement Consultant

beth@bhmconsulting.net BHM Consulting, Inc. www.bhmconsulting.net

66 Old Point Rd

Newbury, MA 01951 CERTIFIED SCRUM Master

(978)465-6825

SUMMARY:

      Certified SCRUM Master and SCRUM Practitioner.

      Results driven software process improvement Vice President/CTO level professional with extensive experience building and re-engineering organizations for success.

      Technically savvy with strong leadership skills.

Accomplishments include:

      Mentored CTOs and teams in various start-ups to improve agility of software development

      Introduced SCRUM methodology in NEU and WPNI to streamline delivery practices.

      Track record of product delivery on time and with high quality and customer satisfaction.

      Skilled at delivering software projects in many different environments including, among others, many types of internet/web based software, media delivery, application software, jobs focused software, and content management workflow tools.

      Proven expertise in remote development, including creating and leading strong technical development teams across cultural and geographical barriers.

      Ability to demonstrate, mentor and train others in Agile, and SCRUM and effective product development techniques.

      Highly skilled at guiding projects from inception to delivery in a flexible, timely, cost effective manner.

      Developed the vision for, the technological approach for, and led a University-wide project to create a single person identity, and prevent SSN data theft, throughout over 200 systems and various offices/departments, converting over 20million person records.

      Led architecture, data warehousing definition, design reviews for web application development, and project management.

      Led globally distributed, cross-functional projects and teams up to 245 people strong.

      Changed a disorganized, inexperienced group of individuals following a waterfall methodology, into a team that worked together to create possibilities and deliver in a timely manner through iterative development with incremental and successful releases.

      Changed legacy code with waterfall processes to web services and reusable code modules with agile delivery.

      Mentored and taught SCRUM techniques to The Washington Post and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive staff and teams.

BETH HEATHER MACY                     beth@bhmconsulting.net                                    978-465-6825                             Page Two

EXPERIENCE:

BHM CONSULTING Inc, Newbury, MA                                                                                                             2001 - Present

Agile Mentor and Trainer

Insight Venture Capital Companies, New Your, New York                                                                                    2009 – Present

       Ongoing Scrum and Agile mentor and trainer to a variety of portfolio companies.

SCRUM Training

Newsweek.com, theRoot.com, Arlington, VA                                                                                                                    Oct 2008

       Co-Led SCRUM training session.

Executive Process Consultant

WPNI, Arlington, VA                                                                                                                                        2007 – Sep 2008

Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive developed and maintains on-line news and applications that work synergistically with the Washington Post newspaper, Budget Travel magazine, and Newsweek magazine. Also developed and supported theRoot, Sprig and Slate websites.

       Initiated SCRUM methodologies, agile development practices, shared components, and training across the organization.

       Led WPNI ecommerce, mobile and web technologies groups for WashingtonPost.com (6M-12M page views per day) and BudgetTravel.com. Drove development of theRoot (1M page views in 1^st month of deployment), including requirements definition, staffing, budget, development, and rollout. Also stabilized and led Slate.com (1M-3.5M page views/day).

       Stabilized the washingtonpost.com publishing/production systems. Reduced unexpected outages from twice a week to once in six months.

       Changed the development culture from an over the wall mentality to one of strong partnership with the product teams.

       Re-established the credibility of the technical team with a consistent track record of delivering high quality software on time.

       Hired and trained strong first level managers for each washingtonpost.com product team. Rebuilt engineering team.

       Cited for being an example of WPNI Excellence for all employees.

ESCHER GROUP, Cambridge, MA

Postal automation software company                                                                                                                   2007

Acting Vice President of Development:

       Led Cambridge Development, Documentation and Quality assurance groups. Coordinate work with Dublin and Singapore offices.

       Instituted agile development methodologies and created roadmap for international Post Office automation

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA                                                                                                      2002 - 2007

Process Improvement Consultant, Contract CTO:

       Defined, budgeted, staffed, led the Enterprise Data Integration and SSN replacement vision, architecture and implementation. Using agile techniques, delivered real time web services as front-end interfaces for various databases and legacy systems. Also consultant for the Office of Planning and Research. Drove Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system requirements gathering and vendor selection.

       Led matrixed development teams across infrastructure, mainframe and application groups, with approximately 30 ongoing projects across 150 plus people. Managed architecture, data warehousing, web application development and project management.

       Administered, negotiated, defined work for off-shore consulting in India resulting in considerable cost savings on software rewrites.

       Re-engineered the NU Information Service development processes, guiding implementation of flexible and agile process to align with the university slogan of: IS as a Business.
This resulted in significant cost savings with more efficiently utilized resources.

VERTEX SOFTWARE LTD, Pune, India (2002)

Process Consultant, Offshore Development Center

       Evaluated associated ISO 9002 documentation for fit with US market. Mentored Project Leads in Pune, which resulted in helping them understand their US customers and ended up increasing customer satisfaction and Vertex revenues.

THIRDAGE, San Francisco, CA (2001 - 2002)

Consulting CTO

       Renegotiated IT contracts for savings of over $6K per month, and increased reliability and security of network infrastructure.

       Evaluated potential acquisitions and outsourcing opportunities, saving over $100K.

       Successfully managed consulting process with hardware/software teams in India, New York, and California.

OPENPAGES, INC., Westford, MA                                                                                                                                 1999 - 2001

Content management software company and eCatalog network services (ASP)

Vice President of Engineering

       Built and led an Engineering team to produce a state-of-the art, multi-tier, distributed, web-based application, generating over $1.7M within three months. Eliminated maintenance nightmare by producing one version of custom software and reduced costs by approximately 40% by outsourcing ContentWare maintenance to a firm in India.

       Restructured 245 person Moscow Development team to save money and better utilize resources. Site Manager for the Moscow operation which including responsibility for HR, Finance, Office Mgt, Dev, QA, Doc, PM, Cooks and Drivers. Managed eight engineering groups including Development, Program Management and QA consisting of 190 engineering staff and a budget of $8.5M.

       Introduced release cycles, development methodology, schedules, configuration management, Beta, Design Partners, post project reviews, and other techniques to ensure timely delivery.

BETH HEATHER MACY                                 beth@bhmconsulting.net                                                                   Page Three

BHM CONSULTING, Newbury, MA.                                                                                                                   1996 - 1999

Executive Consultant

Concurrent consulting assignments at SoftImage, Montreal, Canada and Avid Technologies, Tewksbury, MA

SoftImage is a Canadian based 3-D software company acquired by Avid Technology, a media editing hardware/software corporation.

       Guided major rescheduling for 3-D project to produce predictable ship date, instituting solid project management techniques.

       Partnered with Vice President and extended management team to reengineer 3-D business unit, streamlining organizations and processes, delivering the final product on time and within budget, against all expectations by the acquiring company.

       Co-led Engineering and Test efforts, taught scheduling skills and mentored managers in project management skills. Troubleshot areas as needed on major releases resulting in significant timely delivery of multiple simultaneous releases.

       Successfully shipped various Media Composer and Broadcast releases within two weeks of predicted First Customer Ship resulting in initially unanticipated revenue stream.

       Coordinated external development project with Microsoft resulting in product available early to revenue generating customers.

Outsource Solutions, Waltham, MA

Staffing firm

       Worked with CEO and start-up management team to define corporate structure, processes and timetable for start-up.

Furneaux Associates, Waltham, MA

Venture capital firm.

       Evaluated various start-ups from a technical viewpoint for venture capital firm resulting in firm successfully investing in companies through my recommendations.

LOTUS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION/IBM, Cambridge, MA.                                                                           1994 - 1996

Leading developer of global desktop applications.

Senior Director, IBM Global Network, Notes Service Development (1996)

Senior Director, Lotus SmartSuite Central/Global QA, Automation, and Engineering (1995)

Director Development Shared Components (1994)

APPLE COMPUTER, Cupertino, California                                                                                                                    1993 - 1994

Computer manufacturer of hardware and software applications.

Manager, International Software

LOTUS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION/IBM, Cambridge, MA                                                                                        1984 - 1993

Director DOS Spreadsheets (1992 - 1993)

Product Manager/Senior Development Manager (1990 - 1992)

Senior Development Manager (1988 - 1990)

Principal Engineer (1987 - 1988)

Development Manager/QA Supervisor (1985 - 1986)

Senior Software Engineer (1984 - 1985)

Software Engineer/Project Lead (1984)

UNITED STATES NAVY

       Lieutenant (O-3), United States Navy. Honorable Discharge (duties classified); RECWO, Mathematics Instructor

EDUCATION: BS, Mathematics, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA

                        Enrolled in Cambridge College Graduate studies: Masters in Psychology and Counseling with completion June 2010.

PATENTS:

Patent applications filed with US Patent and Trademark Office:

       Multi-site Tracking and Analysis Software, Application Number: 09/491,482, Filed Jan 24, 2000, Santanu Paul, Clint Bidlack, Beth Macy.

       Efficient Management and Distribution of Product Information, Application Number: 60/245,016, Provisional filed on November 1, 2000. Santanu Paul, Beth Macy, and Catherine Iannuzzo.

Patents in process:

       Targeted Alert and Message Data and Workflow Management System, Siva Ghatti, John Brandolini, Beth H. Macy, Art Mahoney

HONORS AND RECOGNITION:

       Nominated for Northeastern University 2005 Aspiration Award

OTHER:

       Six Sigma Green Belt certified (2006); Completed PMP certification prep course (2006)

       BMRC (Boston Medical Reserve Corps) Volunteer

       ACE Certified personal trainer, AIFE Adult Certified Trainer