| Allan
Scherr - Pioneering innovator in computer software industry, IBM
Fellow, former senior executive at EMC Corp., writer/lecturer/consultant on leadership,
project management, productivity, and turning breakdowns into breakthroughs. |
| • | Founder
of ALS Consulting, Inc. |
| • | Former
IBM executive and IBM Fellow |
| • | A
member of the design team that created the Mission Control technology. Was the
principal designer of the Mission Control software and is listed as an inventor
on the associated patent application. |
| • | Sponsored
and mentored 10 software engineering projects in the late '80's at IBM that increased
team productivity by a factor of 2.6 and saved $58 million in compared to original
(chronically low) project cost estimates. |
| • | Named
an IBM Fellow in 1984 for his technical contributions to the field of software,
specifically operating systems and networking. The title of IBM Fellow is the
company's most preeminent technical distinction and is granted in recognition
of outstanding and sustained technical achievements and leadership in engineering,
programming, services, science and technology. Only 218 individuals have earned
this designation in the company's history. |
| • | B.S.,
M.S, and Ph.D. awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fields
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His Ph.D. dissertation was published
by The MIT Press and was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award by the ACM (the
world's largest educational and scientific computing society) for "his pioneering
study in quantitative computer performance analysis." |
| • | Part
of the team (of four) that created and led a 40 hour leadership course at the
Simon School of Business (U. of Rochester, NY) from 2005-2008. |
| • | Member
of the Barbados Group, the group of 16 scholars, consultants, and practitioners
that created the source material for The Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron
and Dave Logan (also members of the group). |
| • | As
Senior VP, Software Engineering at EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, MA), his engineering
organization successfully delivered over 25 product releases on-time and within
budget for over 12 consecutive quarters. |
| • | Led
the creation of the foundation release for IBM's primary mainframe operating system. |
| • | Recent
clients: ITX Corp (a software company in Rochester, NY) and Social Sciences Research
Network (SSRN.com) |
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