Ken M.

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About Ken M.

I'm a catalyst.drop me in and watch the reaction speed up. I help organizations, large and small, improve their processes, get automated, and get modern. I build great teams, and great systems. I believe that the best in the industry have these qualities: • Intelligence • Integrity • Drive • Customer focus • Humility • Exhibit individual excellence • Passionate about technology I believe I’m one of the best and I expect it from my team. I first learned the power of automation when I was 8 years old. My father had bought and built a "Heathkit" computer - one you have to solder the wires together. He was teaching me "basic" in his spare time. One day while my parents were at the grocery store, my brother and I built a pile of couch coushins and were jumping off the 3rd story spiral stairs into that pile when they came home. My dad sat us down with a giant roll of paper he'd got at the Boeing surplus store and said "you will write times.'the house is not a gymnasium'!" He left, and my brother and I were writing. I went to the computer and typed: 10 PRINT "The house is not a gymnasium" 20 GOTO 10 RUN the dot-matrix okidata printer started humming. my dad came downstairs furious -"I told you not to get up until you were done writing." I said."I think it's only up to 300 or so. should I let it go to or stop it now?" He was both proud and pissed. And I learned that automation could solve real-world problems. Forever a fan. Specialties: Account Management, People Management, Leadership, Solving Problems, Software Testing, Automation tools design, Strategy, Critical thinking, Engineering Agreement, Team building, Sales and Pre-sales technical analysis. • More than 26 years’ experience in software development teams (17 years in leadership roles) • Involved in all stages of the service and application lifecycle: pre-sales, sales, RFP, SOW, recruiting, product development, project management, managed services, release, & support • Built teams from scratch to be successful and produce a high ROI • Customer sizes from startup to fortune 100 • Industries: Healthcare, Banking/Finance, Travel, Energy, Aerospace and Retail/Apparel • Transformation: create efficiency, get agile, get to the cloud, shift left, automate, & DevOps • Multiple concurrent projects, overlapping releases, multiple clients, on time and on budget. • Cryptocurrency Enthusiast and investor