We have an incredible keynote speaker lined up for you.
Lyssa Adkins
Monday February, 24th 2020
Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She loves it when groups "sing."
Her current client focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multi-department impediments is her definition of happy.
Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG WomeninAgile programs.
For years, Lyssa has been a passionate player in the Agile Coaching profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and currently serves as President Emerita as well as co-leads ACI's competence-based coaching curriculum. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication.
Lyssa likes to explore facilitating intense conflict, societal change, organizational change, the benefits and costs of being human in the workplace, agile coaching, agile transformation, adult human development, human systems dynamics, the role of nature, and books of all sorts. She tends toward a balance of the provocative and practical, and likes to make sure she really listens to someone's question before responding.
Her current client focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multi-department impediments is her definition of happy.
Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG WomeninAgile programs.
For years, Lyssa has been a passionate player in the Agile Coaching profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and currently serves as President Emerita as well as co-leads ACI's competence-based coaching curriculum. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication.
Lyssa likes to explore facilitating intense conflict, societal change, organizational change, the benefits and costs of being human in the workplace, agile coaching, agile transformation, adult human development, human systems dynamics, the role of nature, and books of all sorts. She tends toward a balance of the provocative and practical, and likes to make sure she really listens to someone's question before responding.
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Session and Workshop Speakers
Alejandro Rodriguez Vega
Enterprise Agile Coach Passionate about agile product and business development. Committed to help organizations balancing demand and capacity to deliver in a more predictable way at a sustainable pace.
Alex Kanaan
IT Leader, Portfolio Manager and Business Agility consultant with expertise in establishing PMOs and transforming organizations from Waterfall to Agile using Scrum, Kanban and SAFe. Over 15 years engaging IT and business leaders to deliver complex projects globally with Accenture, Microsoft, and the United Nations.
Anjali Leon
Awakening new possibilities by connecting people to people, to ideas, and to purpose. Anjali shares her unique blend of emerging thought leadership and down-to-earth style to educate, inform, and inspire people to do their best work as she helps organizations navigate the powerful cultural and market shifts occurring in business and society today. Her coaching and consulting practice, PPL Coach, specializes in blending Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile principles and practices that ignite curiosity, create connection, facilitate co-creation, leverage wisdom networks, and embrace 'eco-vitalized being' to create valuable, innovative and purposeful solutions for all stakeholders with a broader and bolder win-6 attitude.
Anjali has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Drexel University and numerous Project Management, Leadership, and Agile Certifications under her belt. She is the proud founder of the thriving South Florida Women in Agile group and she shares her enthusiasm and belief in an Agile way of thinking and working as an engaging speaker, community organizer and mentor for budding Agilists particularly women.
Anthony Adanuty
Anthony is currently Director of Canada Services Delivery at Ultimate Software. Anthony is a seasoned software and services professional who has spent the last 15 years at Ultimate Software leading delivery services teams as part of Software-As- A-Service roll out projects in the USA and Canada. Anthony was a co-founder of a British software company sold to Ultimate Software in 2006 and has since pioneered Agile adoption in a services environment driven by customer delivery dates and task completion.
Barbara Tonelli
Barbara Tonelli, PMP, CHRL is a Practice Leader for Ultimate Software's Canadian Launch team and has been working in the Human Capital Management industry for 20 years. She helped pioneer the introduction of Agile for Services to her implementation team in 2016 where they leverage Kanbanize to drive performance and efficiency within Launch. She is passionate about the Agile Methodology and how its adoption can transform the professional services industry. .
Becky McNeeley
Becky has been working in the IT industry for over 25 years and has spent the last ten years leading software development teams at Ultimate Software. She currently works on the Lean Agile Process Improvement team at Ultimate as a Principal Agile Coach. Her focus is on coaching and training software development teams on Kanban and Lean principles in order to bring efficiency and predictability to the organization.
Cat Swetel
Cat is an engineering manager with experience applying Agile and lean principles in a variety of settings: from startups to large enterprises, warehouses to web, etc. She is passionate about increasing diversity in STEAM as a means of creating possibilities for a more equitable human future based on generative institutions. In her leisure time, Cat enjoys hiking, making jokes about bitcoin, and reading feminist literature.
Cheryl Hammond
Cheryl Hammond, a.k.a. bsktcase, has a couple decades' experience as a software developer in the private and public sectors. She led her team's successful adoption of Scrum-ban for a mission-critical regulatory compliance project under multi-agency state and federal government oversight, and mentored former COBOL devs into true-believing unit-testing XP evangelists, all of which leads her to believe that anything is possible. She is not sorry for her many biases, including strong preferences for servant-style leadership and team-based, holistic problem-solving and a strong aversion to agile zealotry. Whether consulting or in-house, Cheryl endeavors to make life suck less for software delivery organizations and the humans who inhabit them.
Chris Shinkle
Chris is a practitioner and maker. He is a thought leader and continually initiates new ideas and continuous improvement at SEP. His experience comes from building products with many large clients in a variety of industries: aerospace, medical, healthcare, finance, etc. He introduced and guided SEP's adoption of Agile in 2004 followed by Lean and Kanban in 2007.
Colleen Johnson
Colleen is the CEO and cofounder of ScatterSpoke, a space for more effective team retrospectives. In her coaching, she applies a systems thinking approach to aligning agile methodologies across the enterprise and works with clients to apply the right cultural and context-driven practices to create sustainable agility. She is an expert in the Kanban method of software delivery and advocates for Lean practices of customer-centered product discovery. She has served as a board member for Agile Denver and as a chair for 2016 & 2017 Mile High Agile Conferences. She is an active board member for the Agile Uprising.
Deema Dajani
Deema is an SPCT Advisor at Scaled Agile. Drawing on her successful Startup background and an MBA from Kellogg Northwestern University, Deema helps large established institutions create the environment to shape disruption with business agility transformation. She started her journey with Agile in the early 2000’s, embraced agility as a way of being while she held roles in Product Management, go to market Strategy, to pre-IPO turn around leader. Agile was the common thread in these adventures. Deema transitioned to a transformation consulting journey, where she led some of the largest transformations to business agility and lean agile portfolios in the Financial Services and Insurance space. Deema is passionate about organizing agile communities for good, she co-founded the Women in Agile organization non profit.
Doug Boling
Doug has over thirty years of experience in the software and knowledge work industry providing products and services in the nuclear power, airline, manufacturing, and financial industries. He loves to focus on the application of Lean Engineering principles and Kanban practices to enhance a business’ development and delivery processes. Doug’s experience includes both traditional and lean/agile project management, process management, leadership, software development, and application design and development. Doug is a Certified Scrum Master supplemented with 10 years of experience utilizing the Kanban method. He is a certified partner of Kanbanize, Inc. providing SaaS to the lean project and product development industries.
Eric Willeke
I partner with leaders navigating their transformation journeys as they adopt new approaches and mindsets to optimize their technology investments. My extensive experience leading complex lean-agile adoption efforts in America's largest companies spanning the technology, media, enterprise software, insurance & financial services, telecom, and healthcare industries supports these companies as they build their capability to sustainably and successfully deliver on the needs of their businesses. I am driven by helping leaders unleash better results with their people through applying new mindsets, organizational models, and practices, enabling their organizations to flourish.
My transformation philosophy is centered around the recognition that the most effective change is that driven and led by the people involved. I maintain a triple-focus across developing people, accelerating value streams, and removing cross-cutting barriers, which is designed to create the context for that self-driven change to be maximally effective and sustainable while effectively scaling across thousands of practitioners.
Applying these approaches across many companies has resulted in consistent success improving their ability to drive customer-centric value, quickly achieve effective decisions, and form effective technology organizations delivering better business outcomes aligned to the enterprise strategies.
My transformation philosophy is centered around the recognition that the most effective change is that driven and led by the people involved. I maintain a triple-focus across developing people, accelerating value streams, and removing cross-cutting barriers, which is designed to create the context for that self-driven change to be maximally effective and sustainable while effectively scaling across thousands of practitioners.
Applying these approaches across many companies has resulted in consistent success improving their ability to drive customer-centric value, quickly achieve effective decisions, and form effective technology organizations delivering better business outcomes aligned to the enterprise strategies.
Gitte Klitgaard
Gitte Klitgaard is an agile coach, hugger, friend, and much more. She lives and love agile. She took the oath of non-allegiance. Why fight over methods when we can use the energy to help people?
Gitte wants to change the world by helping people. Her preferred tools are listening, intuition, and caring. And: the retrospective. Inspecting and adapting is essential.
She has a great interest in how people function, psychological safety, courage and vulnerability,, how the brain works, what motivates us, how we can feel better about our selves, how to be perfect in all our imperfections.
She is a geek and passionate about a lot :)
Gitte wants to change the world by helping people. Her preferred tools are listening, intuition, and caring. And: the retrospective. Inspecting and adapting is essential.
She has a great interest in how people function, psychological safety, courage and vulnerability,, how the brain works, what motivates us, how we can feel better about our selves, how to be perfect in all our imperfections.
She is a geek and passionate about a lot :)
Heidi Helfand
Heidi coaches and influences fast-growing companies using practical, people-focused techniques. Her approach is based on experience at highly successful startups. The first was ExpertCity, Inc. (acquired by CitrixOnline) where she was on the development teams that invented GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar. Heidi helped the company scale from 15 employees to 800. Then she was Principal Agile Coach at AppFolio, Inc. makers of workflow software for property management and law verticals. There, she built a coaching group that supported dynamic, cross-functional teams as the company scaled from 10 people to 650. She is currently at Procore Technologies – a leading provider of cloud-based applications for construction. At Procore, Heidi is in R&D leadership, coaching and consulting on software development and reteaming best practices as this company scales globally
Joey Spooner
Joey Spooner is an Accredited Kanban Trainer and Kanban Coaching Professional at TriTech Enterprise Systems, Inc. In a 20 year career spanning the communications, insurance, higher education, non-profit, and government sectors, Joey has been a software developer, IT director, strategic analyst, and technical expert. He blogs at www.spoonstein.com and tweets as @spoonstein. Joey holds a Bachelors in Business Administration.
John Coleman
An active PST, LSFT who practices most of the time. A specialist on growing agility sustainably and 21st-century-executive-leadership.
Jose Casal
Jose Casal is a business agility consultant & trainer with extensive experience. He is dedicated to helping organisations and individuals embrace modern management methodologies including Kanban, Scrum & Collaboration Frameworks. Strongly motivated towards continuous learning and research, he is able to help organisations achieve better Agility. His goal is to create thriving and engaged organisations.
Jose is an international speaker and organises the London Lean Kanban Days (LLKD) conference.
Jose's experience covers the full breadth of Agile approaches. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Enterprise Kanban Coach (EKC) & Training-from-the-BACK-of-the-Room Instructor. He co-founded Actineo (http://www.actineo.xyz)
Jose is an international speaker and organises the London Lean Kanban Days (LLKD) conference.
Jose's experience covers the full breadth of Agile approaches. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Enterprise Kanban Coach (EKC) & Training-from-the-BACK-of-the-Room Instructor. He co-founded Actineo (http://www.actineo.xyz)
Jose in an international speaker and organises the London Lean Kanban Days (LLKD) conference.
Jose experience covers the full breadth of Agile approaches. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Enterprise Kanban Coach (EKC) & Training-from-the-BACK-of-the-Room Instructor. He co-founded Actineo (http://www.actineo.xyz)
JP Bayley
Jean-Paul is a Partner with Actineo Consulting LLP. He is a business agility coach and trainer who is passionate about helping teams do their best work. He does this through training courses, workshops, and coaching. He has a strong technical background having worked for many years as a software engineer.
JP is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Flight Levels Guide (FLG) and a Certified Trainer for Training from the BACK of the Room!. In 2017, with José Casal, and Andy De Vale, he co-created a self-coaching tool for teams called "The Kanban Guide". He has delivered talks at conferences in USA, UK, Ireland, and Germany.
He is a co-organiser of the Lean Agile London (LALDN) conference.
JP is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Flight Levels Guide (FLG) and a Certified Trainer for Training from the BACK of the Room!. In 2017, with José Casal, and Andy De Vale, he co-created a self-coaching tool for teams called "The Kanban Guide". He has delivered talks at conferences in USA, UK, Ireland, and Germany.
He is a co-organiser of the Lean Agile London (LALDN) conference.
Julia Wester
Julia Wester is a co-founder of 55 Degrees AB, an outcome-focused consulting company and Atlassian Solution Partner in southern Sweden. Julia leads the consulting practice, leveraging her 18 years of experience working in and managing high-performing teams at companies such as Turner Broadcasting, F5 Networks, and LeanKit. She is passionate about teaching others how to tame the chaos of everyday work by embracing transparency, continuous improvement, and a lagom mindset. She also loves talking about how management doesn't have to be a dirty word and coaching managers of all experience levels. Julia blogs at everydaykanban.com and tweets at @everydaykanban. You can also watch her Lean Software Development course on LinkedIn Learning or Lynda.com. Find out more about her company, 55 Degrees, at https://55degrees.se.
Julie Wyman
Julie Wyman is an Agile Coach with Excella Consulting. She is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) and IC-Agile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) with over eight years of experience in areas including Agile software delivery, traditional project management, and client training. Julie has coached multiple globally distributed teams to deliver, while leveraging Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile frameworks, to drive continuous improvement. She has coached development and business teams in commercial, federal, and non-profit environments, at places such as Thomson Reuters, Caterpillar, Appian, and DHS. Julie enjoys finding new ways to make trainings, workshops, and retrospectives more engaging, through the use of interactive games and activities
Karl Scotland
Karl is the Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager for EMEA, helping businesses become Learning Organisations. Over the last 20 years he has been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco, SDL, Legal & General and Allegis. During this time, he has been a pioneer of using Kanban Systems and Strategy Deployment for product development, a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being active in the community and a regular conference speaker. As a result he was awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference.
Lyssa Adkins
Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She loves it when groups "sing."
Her current client focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multi-department impediments is her definition of happy.
Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG WomeninAgile programs.
For years, Lyssa has been a passionate player in the Agile Coaching profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and currently serves as President Emerita as well as co-leads ACI's competence-based coaching curriculum. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication.
Her current client focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multi-department impediments is her definition of happy.
Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG WomeninAgile programs.
For years, Lyssa has been a passionate player in the Agile Coaching profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and currently serves as President Emerita as well as co-leads ACI's competence-based coaching curriculum. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication.
Mark Kilby
With over two decades of experience in agile principles and practices, Mark Kilby has cultivated more distributed and dispersed teams than collocated teams. He has consulted with organizations across many industries and coached teams, leaders, and organizations internally.
Mark shares this experience in his latest book with Johanna Rothman - From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. You can learn more at https://www.markkilby.com/sdatbook/
Mark also co-founded a number of professional learning organizations such as Agile Orlando, Agile Florida, Virtual Team Talk, and the Agile Alliance Community Group Support Initiative among others. His easy-going style helps teams learn to collaborate and discover their path to success and sustainability. Read his most recent ideas and articles on www.markkilby.com
Mark shares this experience in his latest book with Johanna Rothman - From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. You can learn more at https://www.markkilby.com/sdatbook/
Mark also co-founded a number of professional learning organizations such as Agile Orlando, Agile Florida, Virtual Team Talk, and the Agile Alliance Community Group Support Initiative among others. His easy-going style helps teams learn to collaborate and discover their path to success and sustainability. Read his most recent ideas and articles on www.markkilby.com
Mark Shead
Mark Shead is the president of Xeric Corporation where he helps organizations increase their return on investment in software development. He has worked extensively as a coach with the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve Banks implementing Agile development and deployment practices. He specializes in helping teams use DevOps to build development/deployment pipelines in organizations with legacy change management policies and turning six-month deployments cycles into something measured in hours.
Marty Bradley
Marty is a Senior Vice President and Principal Consultant for LeadingAgile. He has over 30 years of management and technical experience in Agile, as well as traditional development methodologies, and has over 20 years of experience in coaching and leading teams as they transition to both Agile software development methodologies and Agile practices. Marty joined LeadingAgile in August of 2015 and brought with him extensive experience in Agile principles and in building and leading successful teams across major system platforms focusing on teamwork and collaboration with business leaders and key stakeholders to drive innovation and business excellence.
Marty was once the Chief Architect and Director at a large Database Marketing company, where he ran a $60M division and introduced Large Scale Scrum to the organization in an effort to combat fast-changing market demands. This particular Transformation integrated the flow of work between mainframe product technologies and the next generation of service-oriented product technologies leveraging existing products to generate new revenue.
Additionally, as the Account Manager and Principal Consultant for a small consulting firm, Marty also led a 2000-person Transformation in a large government agency. This Transformation was structured with a combination of 20 internal and external coaches across four data centers.
Marty was once the Chief Architect and Director at a large Database Marketing company, where he ran a $60M division and introduced Large Scale Scrum to the organization in an effort to combat fast-changing market demands. This particular Transformation integrated the flow of work between mainframe product technologies and the next generation of service-oriented product technologies leveraging existing products to generate new revenue.
Additionally, as the Account Manager and Principal Consultant for a small consulting firm, Marty also led a 2000-person Transformation in a large government agency. This Transformation was structured with a combination of 20 internal and external coaches across four data centers.
Marty has been delighting customers since his days as a startup founder in 1997, back when he was using XP to build working, tested software for a multi-tier, multi-platform data integration and data quality product for closed-loop marketing/CRM databases. No matter the role, one thing is clear; Marty is an expert in seeing a clear path to success when others are convinced that the path is overgrown and are determined to fail.
Matthew Philip
As a capability cultivator, organizational fitness coach and workplace activist, Matthew helps organizations and teams continuously become fit for their purpose. He is especially passionate about building learning organizations and creating humanizing and engaging work environments.
Patricia Ayuso
Not the usual geek programmer for sure! I like to code, the data analysis, do yoga, help animals in need, and I love my family and my husband.
I am a Venezuelan/Spaniard woman that moved to South Florida to assist Optime Consulting Inc. in their development of online products, as well as successfully lead my very own savvy and engaged team.
I am a Venezuelan/Spaniard woman that moved to South Florida to assist Optime Consulting Inc. in their development of online products, as well as successfully lead my very own savvy and engaged team.
Paul Gower
As a software developer since 2001, Paul has worked on a variety of projects and in many roles ranging from software developer to project lead. An innovative problem solver, he uses in-depth analysis, deep consultation, and the latest software development practices to serve his clients by helping them improve the predictability of their projects. Since 2016, Paul has become obsessed with learning how to help knowledge work teams work better by using agile principles and a Kanban mindset. Although he spends some of his time developing software for a select few clients, the rest of his time is spent training and coaching teams on how they can work better. Paul is an Accredited Kanban Trainer and constantly learning new ways to improve his client's projects.
Stephanie Allen
Stephanie Allen is currently the Vice President of Digital Product Management at Pearson Online & Blended Learning, a provider of virtual K-12 schools and programs. She has built her career designing online learning experiences that include language preservation programs for Native American tribes with Rosetta Stone; a Masterclass series for the Washington Post; and several fully online degree programs for universities in the U.S. and abroad. Stephanie holds a master's degree in Instructional Technology and currently resides in south Florida. In her spare time, she enjoys scuba diving and traveling.
Steve Cover
Steve Cover is an accomplished senior technology executive with an extensive record of success in software and technology companies. He has directed technology efforts in companies of all sizes from early stage to Fortune 50. Steve was a Finalist for the 2013 Georgia CIO of the Year and a Nominee for the 2015 Georgia CIO of the Year.
Steve is currently the Senior Director of Engineering overseeing the Pay Product Group at Ultimate Software. In this role, he helps lead the definition and execution of the strategy for the Payroll, Time, and Rewards domains while partnering with the other two product groups to improve the overall system of delivery.
Susan Matyas-Breedlove
I am a growth minded leader that has a passion around agile and leading agile minded teams. I have had the opportunity to act as a scrum master, team lead, product owner and business analyst over the past decade. Most recently I have been managing a BA/SM team and a small development team. In this role I have really been able to use my in the field agile experience to be a servant leader to these teams who both are thriving. I am excited to share what I have learned with you.
Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty is a Software Architect at Procore Technologies, where he’s tirelessly championing Test Driven Development, responsible tech debt management, and sustainable agile practices. He has been building software professionally since 1996, working across a variety of domains and industries. He runs the Santa Barbara JavaScript Meetup and speaks at events and conferences. When he's not geeking out over tech, Tim is an avid SCUBA diver and underwater photographer whose work has appeared in museum collections and the New Yorker Magazine. Twitter: @TimCDoherty
Trent Hone
Trent Hone is a Managing Consultant with Excella and an award-winning naval historian. He works with organizations to improve their art of practice, increase effectiveness, and accelerate learning. He has helped dozens of government and commercial teams around the world in Asia, Oceania, Europe, and North America. Trent regularly writes and speaks about organizational learning, Agile methods, and naval history. His latest book, Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898-1945, was published in June 2018 and earned him the Naval Institutes Author of the Year Award. He has also been awarded the U.S. Naval War College's Edward S. Miller Prize and the Naval History and Heritage Commands Ernest M. Eller Prize. He has presented at the Annual Agile Conference, Lean Agile US, Lean Agile Scotland, the Society of Military History's Annual Meeting, the McMullen Naval History Symposium, and other conferences. He's passionate about the Lean Agile US community and loves being part of it.
Valarie Regas
Valarie Regas is a youngling developer, a Georgia Tech coding bootcamp graduate, and a veteran mommy. She holds a BA in Psychology and currently works as a Jr. DevOps Engineer. After years being a stay-at-home mom, she decided to change her life by entering Tech, and has learned a lot along the way. She enjoys mixed martial arts fighting, table-top role playing games, public speaking, creating tiny humans, and political activism.
Veronica Stewart
Veronica Stewart is an agile coach and trainer who helps organizations through agile transformations. She believes transformation starts with the people. Change never stops, it just gets easier the more you practice it. Everyone has potential, its learning how to unlock that potential through better understanding your strengths and how you can contribute to make an impact. Once the individual understands themselves; then they have the insight to create impactful teams and organizations that drive change.
Yasmary Diaz
Mother (of one amazing toddler!), Stutterer, Problem Solver, Techie, Traveler, Beer Snob, Gamer, Crafty, Dreamer
Yasmary (aka Yaz) made the executive decision to become a programmer at the age of 9 when she deleted Windows 3.1 via DOS (and then deleted UnDelete). She has been working in the IT industry for over 12 years, of which she has worn many hats ranging from Software Engineer, Software Test Engineer, Tech Lead, Architect, Tech Consultant, and People Manager. She is currently leading teams at Ultimate Software focused on nurturing a healthy Tech Community (both internal and external) via culture and tooling. In addition to the day job, Yasmary co-leads Ultimate Software's Women in Tech South Florida group, runs workshops as an #IamRemarkable facilitator, and is a founding member of the #EquityatWork Social Room. She is passionate about nurturing Tech Communities as well as helping women, underrepresented groups, and students in Tech.
P.S. Yaz has tried over 1,400+ unique beers (= Beer Snob) and brews her own beer!