Meeting for September
Time: Thursday, September 15th from 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: Okoboji Grill in Johnston (large meeting room)
Speaker: Mark Davidson, Pillar Technology
Topic: From Developer to Tech Lead
About Mark: Mark Davidson is Pillar’s Great Lakes Regional Director. He and his teams have successfully delivered high quality products using Scrum, Kanban, and XP. Mark joined Pillar as a Delivery Lead in January 2010 and was promoted to the Director position in January 2011 with the goal of growing Pillar’s offerings in the region. Prior to joining Pillar he was a Director of Finance and Sr. Development Manager at Hollywood Video. Mark has ten years of experience at major consulting firms including holding a Director position at CBSI. Additionally he has ten years of experience in commercial software development including designing Oracle’s initial process manufacturing suite, managing the integration of Platinum’s financial suite and at Hyperion managing construction of financial applications. Mr. Davidson has focused his career on finding the most effective ways to deliver value to the businesses he is working with. He has been a developer, business analyst, project manager and leader during his thirty year career. To give back to the community, Mark has focused his attention on mentoring people. He has also given thousands of hours feeding the homeless. For fun, Mark and his wife of thirty years, Yolette, have remodeled fifteen homes.