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About Us
A New Approach
Aligned Technology was founded with the sole
intention of providing our clients with the value added
services needed to design, implement, and maintain process
and quality initiatives that would help companies in
meeting their strategic goals and objectives.
When it comes to process and quality, we take a holistic
approach to the problem working with firms to truly
define their needs and then to set meaningful, measurable
and achievable goals.
AT focuses on pragmatic software process and quality
improvements. We do not offer cookie cutter-one-size-fits-all
approaches that do nothing but ensure that you will
severely impact overall productivity as you struggle
to make your existing processes work within a rigid
framework.
Our mission is to collaborate with our clients to understand
what value added processes their organization needs,
and to make sure those processes have a positive impact
on the business. We apply established process and quality
improvement models and approaches in a non-dogmatic,
sensible way that fits the culture and needs of each
organization. Other areas of expertise include organizational
change management, vision and scope definition, requirements
engineering, risk management, quality assurance, quality
control, project management, metrics, and process assessment.
Instructors
Bernard Clark began his IT career in 1980 as a mainframe programmer in the UK, specializing in PL/I, CICS and ADABAS/NATURAL. 1983
to 1995 he worked in diverse financial and health consulting assignments for Fortune 500 companies in New York, San Francisco and Hawaii. In 1996 he became involved in
the nascent Rational Unified Process, becoming proficient in Use Cases and UML and what he terms 'knowledge modeling'. In 2004 he re-launched the Bay Area Rational User
Group and founded The Unified Process Group. 2004-2007: RUP mentor and trainer until UPG was acquired by Ivar Jacobson Consulting in 2007. Influenced by Ivar Jacobson's
interest in the social engineering aspects of Agile, Bernard decided to learn more about Scrum and other Agile techniques. He served as a founder-member on the board of
the BAYAPLN for a year before taking a long sabbatical in the latter of half of 2008. He received his Scrum Master certification from Jeff Sutherland and Bas Vodde and,
having participated on and coached Agile teams, is now a certified scrum professional. Bernie continues to mentor and coach on pragmatic software development best
practices.
For fun, Bernard enjoys writing poetry, short stories, and is children's book author. He is working on his first novel and squeezes in artist, photography and golf in
his spare time. He is also the co-inventor of a patented Centralized Diagnostic Logging Service - Pat No: US 6,591,228 BI
Hiroaki Ajari’s extensive experience
has enabled him to successfully guide many customers
through the implementation of an automated testing environment.
As a Senior Consultant at Aligned Technology he has
been an advisor, mentor, and trainer for software testing
groups at clients such as NetApp, Wells Fargo - Internet Services, Bank of America,
State Board of Equalization, and Delta Dental. Prior to his tenure
at Aligned Technology, he held positions as Project
Manager and Sr. Project Analyst for Bank of America
Investments Services and also as a Stock and Index Options
Market Maker for O&A Associates.
Mr. Ajari was one of the first SQA Certified Testers
and is also a Rational Certified Instructor on the SQA
product line.
Garth Andrews
I have been working in Software Development Process and Quality for the last 15 years across a wide variety of companies and
industry verticals. It has taken me many years and quite a few failures to finally realize that I am not in IT, I am in the people industry. I have a passion for helping
organizations change their way of thinking and doing things in order to realize a more efficient process for developing software. It has little to do with technology and
more to do with understanding the human condition.
Mr. Rush brings over 20 years of IT industry experience, with strong emphasis in the discipline of requirements management. He
has led efforts with several fortune clients in organizational transformation toward adoption of requirements management best practices resulting in measurable gains in
quality and time-to-market. His expertise includes pragmatic approaches to achieving success with requirements engineering based on use case-driven methods, UML, and
formal SDLC processes (Unified and Agile). Mr. Rush also brings a wealth of experience in formal integration of requirements management tool and process infrastructure
with other critical software engineering disciplines, enabling tight audit trails and traceability through design, code and test. Mr. Rush has a UML Professional
certification from the OMG as well as Scrum Master certification from the ScrumAlliance.
Geri Schneider Winters trains and consults
in UML, Unified Process, OOAD, Use Cases, Design Patterns,
and Project Management. Past experience includes 6 years
at Rational Software Corporation supporting, training,
and mentoring customers in OOAD, Use Cases, Project
Management, Rose, SoDA (Frame), Apex (Ada, C++), and
various military related systems. Prior to Rational,
Geri worked as a Senior Scientific Programmer Analyst
for Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation and as an
undergraduate instructor for Southern Illinois University
and Northern Arizona University.
In addition to her employment at Aligned Technology,
she is on the faculty at University of California Santa
Cruz, Extension in the Software Engineering and Management
program, and the coordinator of the OOAD certificate
program for the Corporate Training division of UCSC
Extension. She is the primary author of Applying
Use Cases: A Practical Guide, Addison-Wesley Longman,
September 1998.
Ms. Winters is a Rational Certified Instructor for
Object Oriented Analysis and Design and the Rose tool.
She is IBM/Rational certified in Object Oriented Project
Management, Use Cases, Object Oriented Analysis, Software
Architecture and Design, and Design Patterns.
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