2019 BA Bootcamp Speakers

Keynote Speaker, Founder, CEO 
Topic: Keynote Speaker

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Bob Prentiss is a keynote speaker, author, mentor, coach and Business Analysis thought leader.  Bob is passionate about helping you think, learn & work differently so you can become the best version of yourself.  Bob is the CEO and founder of Bob the BA and The Uncommon League; organizations providing training, consulting and mentoring services.  Bob helps organizations transform their requirements practices utilizing modern techniques, an agile mindset and street-smart approaches to get the work done faster.  Bob is CBAP® certified with 30 years of experience in corporate America; with a background in managing BA centers of excellence, assessing and managing BA maturity, quality, and competency.  Bob has presented numerous keynote, workshops, seminars, conferences, and training sessions across North America.  Bob is a founding member and past President of the IIBA® MSP Chapter.
 

Topic: Current BA Employment Trends in the Marketplace

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Ari Waller, Chief Recruiting Officer at Thompson Technologies ( @ariwaller ). Ari started his career at Thompson Technologies as a Technical Recruiter, and has personally placed over a thousand information technology professionals in both the national and local Atlanta IT market. In 2012, Ari was named Vice President of Recruiting & Sourcing for Thompson Technologies, and is currently responsible for providing management, recruiting leadership and sourcing strategy for Thompson Technologies’ national and Atlanta clients. Despite the fancy CRO title, Ari is passionate about the daily activities of technical recruiting, and takes a “hands on approach” in the day-to-day staffing operations with his team.

Senior Manager, Senior Business Architect

Topic: Business Architechture Fundamentals

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Database Engineer at Pull-A-Part

Topic: How to Win Dev and Influence QA

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Elizabeth is a Database Administrator with experience administering and maintaining SQL Server databases with high online transaction processing and distributed architecture. She communicates database architecture and relationship to applications to provide feedback regarding the impact of proposed software solutions including providing alternatives. She also creates stored procedures and triggers, SSIS packages, job automation, and SSRS reports and subscriptions. 

Topic: "When Will You Be Done?" Talking to Leaders and Others About This in Agile

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Ryland Leyton, CBAP, PMP, CSM, is a business analyst, author, speaker, educator, Agile coach, and technology translator. He has worked in the technology sector since 1998, starting off with database and web programming, gradually moving through project management and finding his passion in the BA field.

Ryland is passionate about strong analysis practice and prefers Agile environments where possible. He has built both Agile and waterfall SDLC processes for development teams, customizing each one to the challenges facing that particular client group.

He is an active member of the Atlanta Chapter of the IIBA, speaks at local and national conferences, and serves as Lead Business Analyst and Agile Coach at Aptos.com, fostering education and professional development of BA’s.

Ryland is part of the core team that wrote the Second Edition of the Agile Extension to the BABOK.

Ryland’s book, “The Agile Business Analyst: Moving from Waterfall To Agile” has received excellent critical and personal reviews.

Topic: What You Can Expect From UX

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Mark's redesign of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's ecommerce site took it from #17 to #1 in the U.S., and #1 in usability according to Adapistration,com's rankings.

He has led or co-led designs of large (250+ page) web apps including Delta Air Lines' Call Center system and Kinderstreet School Management.

As a specialist in usability-informed design, Mark synthesize user research, current standards, business and user needs and usability techniques to create effective, enjoyable, products and experiences. He specializes in making complex tasks simple and intuitive.
• Wide experience in information architecture, usability evaluation, and UX design
• Adept at communicating with diverse audiences, from developers to executives
• Skilled in various roles, as a UX lead, team member, or sole practitioner.
• Fluent in CSS, HTML and Section 508; programming and project management skills, Agile, UCD, and other methodologies.

Topic: Execute Blind Spots, Agile, and the Evolution of Business Analysis

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Jonathan is a solution definition and delivery specialist with 18+ years of experience partnering with stakeholders to reach their goals through people, process, products, and technology. He has advised clients from line-of-business management to C-level executives across several industry verticals.

Jonathan enjoys writing and speaking locally and nationally on business analysis, agile solution delivery, communication techniques, professional development, and team leadership. His current professional passion is applying principles of business and process analysis to help clients deliver complex projects and scale their delivery capabilities.

Jonathan is active in the Atlanta-area business analysis community, recently serving as vice president of professional development for the IIBA Greater Atlanta Chapter, which was recognized internationally with the 2018 chapter award for professional development.

Agile & Business Analysis Consultant, Senior Enterprise IT Business Analyst at Delta Dental Insurance Company

Topic: Don't Follow The Wishlist, Follow The Patterns

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Tony Arriagada is an Enterprise IT Business Analyst, for a Business Process Management Center of Excellence team in Delta Dental Insurance Company. He is responsible for providing complex analytical data gathering and research, interpretation, reporting, and policy/procedure development at the enterprise and divisional levels. Accountable for the development and on-going maintenance of divisional/enterprise financial, costing, and productivity models.

During Tony’s 15+ years career in the IT industry, he has worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation, on multiple contracts providing IT Solutions for the governments most challenging problems. Most notable, Crisis Management Team on the CMS contract that assisted in the root cause analysis that restored Marketplace after the Business and Customers were Impacted.

Tony holds a Bachelors in Management Information Systems, from Charisma University. Certified in Business Analysis, Scrum Product Owner, and ScrumMaster.

Topic: Owning Your Growth and Potential

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Karen is an authentic leader passionate about connecting people to and through the organization through relevant talent development, organizational development, performance management and engagement initiatives.

Karen's specialties include: Strategy, employee relations, executive and management coaching, corporate communications, talent and leadership development, training, performance management, employee engagement, employee on-boarding and HR transformation. 

Topic: BA Low Code Secrets

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Stacey is a highly experienced IT professional with a proven track record managing complex IT projects and providing solutions to challenging problems. With both an MBA and a Masters in Computer science, excellent at communicating effectively to both business and technical personnel. Practiced at solving critical business problems with the correct combination of technology and process improvements. Strong team building skills with the ability to inspire and lead diverse groups of people. I have more than 10 years with full life cycle development in both application and web development focusing primarily in Microsoft environments.

Stacey's specialties include: Bridging the gap between technology and business operations.

Methodologies/Certifications: ITIL v.3 Foundations Certified, Agile, Waterfall 

Topic: BA Low Code Secrets

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OutSystems provides a compelling, innovative low-code cloud platform solution to our customers -- garnering leadership slots in Gartners Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application PaaS and Forrester Wave. Our platform propels the reduction of traditional development timelines, emphasizing speed of business innovation and execution of company strategy.

We are completely focused on the customer from project start through the ongoing relationship. Working closely with our customers, I have the opportunity to help them in their autonomy journey, organizational transformation and deliver success from ideation to impact.

I've led great people in digital transformation efforts but also traditional product delivery — technical consulting and delivery teams, and core engineering teams. Teams working around the globe. My approach is to unleash creative people to enthusiastically solve problems using a "bumping against the guardrails"​ model -- and it has always served the team, the customers and myself very well.