Les Smith

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About Les Smith

Les is a highly regarded Information Technology leader with extensive experience managing and designing successful commercial software products. He has a proven history of managing start-up operations and building high performing teams. He has a demonstrated ability to manage financial objectives and meet program milestones. He has expertise in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle. This includes RAD, Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies. He is also a Certified ScrumMaster. Earlier in his career he led the original R&D team who constructed the SCT/SunGard "Banner Series". This solution is still the most successful ERP suite of products in Higher Education history.Les has held leadership roles and participated in multiple international technology standards-setting committees in the education domain. He is a frequent speaker at national conferences related to technology in education.Specialties: IT Strategic Planning,Agile Alliance - Certified ScrumMaster,Oracle and Microsoft technology,Software Dev Life Cycle,User Experience, Project Management,Web Services,EAI & SaaS,SOA, J2EE,International experience, Mentoring and staff development,