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About
Mac Patrick:

 

 

 

 

 

Mac Patrick, Chief Consultant and President of Process Advantage Technology, Inc. and Chairman and Managing Director of Process Improvement Asia (Shanghai) Ltd. has been in independent practice since 1990. A graduate of Saint Mary's College of California, his major field of study is management and software engineering. He works with customers to unlock the power of their processes through consulting, benchmarking, assessment, modeling, simulation and training. Prior to founding Process Advantage Technology he was Benchmarking Manager for in the telecommunications industry. His twenty years of telecommunications industry experience included managing technical staff in software programming services, quality assurance and software process support, as well as leading corporate participation in the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) process assessment program, contributing to development work on SEI's Capability Maturity Model. He has developed and provided software and support to the national non-profit volunteer community. He helped organize several interest forums supporting quality and process improvement, including the Bay Area Quality Assurance Association, the Telecommunications Industry Benchmarking Consortium, the Bay Area SPIN, and the International Benchmarking Clearinghouse.

As consultant, facilitator, coach, teacher, and problem solver, Mac has supported successful improvement change efforts with people in twelve countries on three continents over the last fifteen years. His practical experience in management and in all aspects of technical development ground his contributions in real-world technical issues.

He is an SEI Certified SCAMPI Lead Appraiser for CMMI V 1.2, is an SEI Certified High Maturity Lead Appraiser (L4,L5 appraisals) and is authorized to use SCAMPI for P-CMM appraisals. He is a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute and observes candidate SCAMPI Lead Appraisers as part of the SCAMPI Quality Program. Publications at the SEI: Transition Packages for Expediting Technology Adoption: The Prototype Requirements Management Transition Package and Proceedings of the Introducing Requirements Management into Organizations Workshop: Requirements Management Transition Packages (November 11-13, 1996).


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