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Name: Kirk Knoernschild Phone: (xxx) xxx xxxx
Email: xxxxxxxx@gmail.com Address: xxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx, xxx xxxxxxx, xx xxxxx

Highlights and Skills

Recent Experience

2008 to Present

Research Director (2008 to 2013) promoted to Research Vice President (2013 to Present) serving as Chief of Research (2017 to 2021) promoted to Managing Vice President (2021 to present) - Gartner

Management: Help establish career development plans, team goals, mentor team members, balance workload, and build high performing team.

Business Growth: Drive business growth and improve customer retention through increased engagement. Emphasize committment to quality by leading several internal efforts to improve research product.

Research Governance: Steward the portfolio of research, manage positional differences and execute special projects. An active member aligning research towards growth and retention. Ensure harmony in Gartner viewpoints across internal divisions.

Team Leadership: Provide thought leadership and project management to high profile teams and projects. Sponsor content-related special projects and large-scale research initiatives.

Research and Advisory: Provide guidance to clients on technology strategy and implementation to align business and technology to drive digital transformation. Includes software development process improvement (i.e. agile, DevOps), enterprise application platforms, application architecture, and mobile application development strategies.

Conference Chair: Establish conference theme, vision, and tracks for annual Catalyst conference.

2007 to 2008

Chief Technology Officer - TeamSoft

Strategic Planning: Align technology vision with organizational priorities to help realize business objectives.

Business Development: Increase client engagement through meeting with prospects.

Software Engineering Leadership: Establish product architectural vision and build client reference architectures. Lead software devopment teams, guide framework adoption, and establish technology best practices. Participate in standards and governance initiatives to ensure proper and consistent use of technology.

2006 to 2007

Chief Technology Strategist - QWANtify

Management: Lead career development and technical growth of team members. Motivate individuals to explore innovative use of technology. Spearhead adoption of agile practices.

Business Development: Responsible for interviewing and hiring qualified team members. Accountable for promoting QWANtify's technology vision to team members and customers.

Software Architecture: Responsible for technology research for infrastructure and framework adoption. Ensure software implementation that aligns with business objectives. Design major system interfaces and components, placing an emphasis on modularity and deployment of components and services.

Software Process Improvement: Responsible for leading team use of agile development methodologies. Emphasis on software delivery, continuous feedback, and business stakeholder involvement throughout the lifecycle. Charged with defining developer techniques and practices, including test driven development, refactoring, and continuous integration (CI) strategy.

Early Career Highlights

1999 to 2006

Senior Consultant / Instructor - TeamSoft

Software Architecture: Instrumental in establishing technical project vision for internal and external software systems. Designed large-scale distributed architecture with emphasis on realtime and near realtime communication. Establish architectural guidelines and standards.

Software Process Improvement: Establish core lifecycle activities including requirements gathering with use cases, user interface prototyping, and design practices. Procure SDLC infrastructure, including profiling, performance tuning, code analysis, continuous integration, version control, modeling, and automated testing.

Team Leadership: Served as technical lead on many Java EE application development efforts ranging in size from as few as five developers up to teams of 100+ developers.

Software Development: Responsible for a variety of coding activities including functional requirements and framework development.

Instruction: Delivered quality training to a variety of clients. Achieved Sun Instructor Certification.

1998 to 1999

Senior Instructor - Greenbrier & Russell

Instruction: Responsible for delivering quality training to clients nationwide. Courses taught include OOAD using UML and Java. Achieved Rational Instructor Certification.

Courseware Development: Developed courseware related to OOAD, RUP, and Java

1993 to 1998

Technical Leader, Software Development - PIC Wisconsin

Development Team Leadership: Lead the design of enterprise claims and policy systems. Responsible for assembling and leading a team of five developers. Formed a design patterns study group, and applied a variety of design patterns during development of successful projects.

Lifecycle Methodologist: Helped establish practices utilizing use cases and object modeling using OMT and UML. Spearheaded adoption of Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology, and responsible for the continual improvement of the team development effort. Drove adoption of PVCS version control software and defined practices for use.

Business Development: Helped drive the sale of an enterprise claims system to two different professional liability carriers. Resulted in over 500K of unanticipated revenue.

Software Development: Responsible for developing and maintaining applications written in PowerBuilder. Drove adoption of enterprise frameworks.

Delivery: Responsible for designing deployment infrastructure and monitoring production applications.

1998 to 2001

Adjunct Faculty Instructor - Lakeland College

Instruction: Taught five semesters of a variety of courses including Visual Basic, Introduction to Programming, and Intermediate Algebra.

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