SolutionsIQ Instructors

Bryan Stallings
Director and Principal Consultant, Professional Services, Certified Scrum Trainer
SolutionsIQ

Bryan Stallings leads the efforts of the Professional Services Consulting team to maximize the benefits that agile methods present to SolutionsIQ’s software development and agile consulting clients. He is an experienced leader of Agile adoption initiatives, both as a consultant and as an internal change advocate. Prior to joining SolutionsIQ, Bryan defined and led the enterprise agile adoption programs at two previous companies. A Certified Scrum Trainer, Bryan regularly leads Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner training courses.

Bryan is known for his skill at facilitating collaboration with senior leaders and within empowered project teams—across organizations, geographies, and cultures—to foster productive relationships and achieve critical business results. In addition to 15 years of international and domestic experience in information technology, financial services and manufacturing, Bryan has an MBA in International Business from the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. He holds a Six Sigma certification and is also fluent in Spanish.

Dhaval Panchal
Agile Consulting Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Scrum Coach
SolutionsIQ

Dhaval has consulted with organizations ranging from mid-sized product companies to the Fortune 100, including 30 Scrum Project teams during enterprise-level rollouts. With a background including software development, business & functional analysis, lean office implementations, organizational change, system architecture, business intelligence and Agile project management, Dhaval has successfully leveraged his skills to deliver dozens of Certified ScrumMaster and Product Owner training courses.

With a BS in Engineering from Mumbai University, India, Dhaval is one of our three bi-lingual instructors. Working internationally and within the US, he’s effectively coached people-centric, high-performances teams while writing about software development and coaching on his blog at: http://dhavalpanchal.com.

Vibhu Srinivasan
Agile Consulting Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Scrum Practitioner
SolutionsIQ

Vibhu is an expert technologist with over 14 years of experience in Agile practices. As an Agile coach and Certified Scrum Practitioner, he works with customers organizations of all sizes to enhance Agility and Scrum Project Management. An expert in team development and scaling agile, Vibhu most recently established and led a team of sixty developers, mentoring and coaching throughout the entire engagement.

As a senior technologist, he has performed as a Chief Architect, Business Analyst, Technical Lead and Developer across multiple industries. His extensive technical background covers Virtualization in the cloud, Semantic web, Online gaming .NET stack, J2EE stack, Web 2.0, Enterprise Application Integration and various Software Development Methodologies. He’s also dabbled in the rails stack and loves test driven development.

Vibhu has a Strategic Management MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business as well as an Electronics Engineering degree from Karnataka University, India. Learn more about Vibhu at http://vibhu.info/about and http://agilefaq.net.

Valerie Morris
Agile Consultant, Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Practitioner
SolutionsIQ

Valerie is an experienced agile team member, coach, trainer, and consultant. Her passion is helping teams and companies transform to an agile mindset as they deliver business commitments. She has worked for over 20 years with teams delivering software in companies ranging from small to global enterprises. Her background includes using lean methods in delivering supply chain, wireless communications, financial services, identity management and business intelligence products.  

“Feeling the energy” as a team forms and begins to deliver together is Valerie’s inspiration. Her agile journey includes rich experiences with project, program, and senior management level transformations and is energized and successful in her role as ScrumMaster and Agile coach. She currently blogs on agile topics and speaks at community events.

Michael Tardiff
Senior Consultant, Agile Coach
SolutionsIQ

Michael has been working with teams to deliver software and services for over two decades, in large enterprises and small startups on both coasts and in Europe. He has a background in operating systems development, enterprise portals, web-based B2B e-commerce, data communications networks, web presence and telecommunications products.

“Hearing development happen” as teams collaborate, pair-program and resolve issues is one of Michael’s joys, and with expertise in product, program and project management at a director level, he has delighted and been successful in no position more than ScrumMaster and Agile coach. He currently blogs on agile topics, and helps coordinate the monthly Agile user group, Beyond Agile.

Monica Yap
Agile Consulting Coach, Certified ScrumMaster
SolutionsIQ

Monica is an Agile coach and ScrumMaster, focused on mentoring, building and leading successful Agile teams for outsourced projects.  With over 18 years of development and 8 years of leading agile teams experience, she helps customer produce quality products through continuous refactoring, unit testing, pair programming, small releases, and an evolving architecture.

Monica has worked with distributed Agile teams over the past 4 years in the US, UK and Singapore.  While doing so, she and her teams have demonstrated tremendous successes; 90% of all iterations are delivered on time, typically exceeding customer expectations.

A regular presenter at national thought leadership conferences - including Agile2005, Agile2006, Agile2007, and Agile2008 – Monica also leads volunteer technical and process groups including Agile Open Northwest, Seattle Agile user group, Seattle Java user group, and Beyond Agile.

William Rowden
Software Development Coach, Scrum Process Coach, Certified ScrumMaster
SolutionsIQ

William Rowden is a ScrumMaster, Agile coach, and trainer, with expertise in enterprise Agile adoption. He has assisted clients in the U.S., Mexico, and China with learning the technical and engineering practices vital to Agile software development. A skilled communicator and collaborator, he has worked with up to 100 managers, testers, and developers in transition at one time. In addition to teaching technical practices, William co- trains Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner courses.

William brings 7 years of experience to his executive coaching — as co-founder/CTO of an Agile software company, Gray Hill Solutions, he developed traffic.511.org, an Advance Traffic Management System, and a transit route analyzer. His love of languages enhances his development coaching — he can write in over 20 computer languages (most recently Perl, C# 3.5, and Java) and two natural languages (English and Spanish), and is currently studying Mandarin.

Jayaprakash Puttaswamy
Agile Consulting Coach, Certified ScrumMaster
SolutionsIQ

Jayaprakash (JP) is a software engineering professional with a wide range of experience in enterprise software development and Agile consulting, coaching, and training. With over 9 years of experience in Agile practices, JP has spent most of his time implementing Agile at team levels and across organizations, and has coached over 20 Scrum teams. He has used various implementation techniques, including Extreme Programming, iterative development, RUP, Scrum, and Lean.

JP's key strengths include an in-depth understanding of Agile methodology and principles, hands-on experience in practicing and implementing Scrum, and a strategic mindset with an eye towards using situation-based leadership styles. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University - Karnataka, with domain experience in e-commerce, automotive, talent management, higher education, and telecommunications.

Brent Barton
Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer
Agile Advantage, Inc.

As a former CTO at SolutionsIQ, Brent brings nearly two decades of software delivery expertise as a consultant and mentor to any Scrum engagement he takes part in. With a focus on delivering greater value to customers through supporting them in Agile adoption, Brent is recognized as an international leader in Agile consulting. Having successfully implemented Agile in multiple organizations, Brent tries to bring a pragmatic nature to Scrum. “I shine best”, says Brent, “when I’m making ordered chaos out of just plain chaos.” Brent doesn’t believe Scrum is about solving chaos, but about controlling it just enough to get the job done; too much control defeats the natural entropy that allows for creativity in a constructed environment.

Certified as a Certified Scrum Trainer in 2005, Brent has trained and mentored more than 1000 people in effective Agile practices. Brent is one of the originators of "AgileEVM" (the mathematically proven bridge between traditional practices - Earned Value Management - and agile practices), presented at the Agile 2006 conference and published in IEEE. Brent is a graduate from San Jose State University with a degree in Mathematics, focus on Computer Science.

Chris Sterling
Certified Scrum Trainer
Agile Advantage, Inc.

Chris has more than 15 years of experience working with clients as an Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, and Technology Consultant. A previous member of SolutionsIQ’s Agile Consulting team, he has excelled as an enterprise architect, development manager, developer, and project manager. Chris’ extensive technology, process, and consulting background allows him to work with a diverse set of clients and teams, bringing real-world experience and deep passion for software development into his engagements. In so doing, he enables others to grasp important points and always take away something of value.

Chris has created and continues contributing to multiple open source projects, and has been a speaker at many conferences and group meetings including Agile 2007-2009, SDWest, Scrum Gatherings, PNSQC 2009 and others. He has been a coordinator of multiple Puget Sound area groups including International Association of Software Architects (IASA), Seattle Scrum, and most recently Beyond Agile. Chris is currently teaching the “Advanced Topics in Agile Software Development” class at the University of Washington Agile Developer Certificate extension program and writing a book with publisher Addison-Wesley on software architecture.