Background of Steve Kilner
For 20 years I ran the largest IBM Business Partner consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. We installed systems and software for nearly 200 customers.
Much of my work has been about envisioning, strategizing, planning, leading, course correcting, designing, developing software, migrating, integrating, QAing, training, deploying, communicating etc.
I have a deep understanding of software development, software maintenance, application architecture, application integration, business process analysis, application deployments and leading teams for all this work.
More than once I have been retained to turnaround failing projects to meet critical deadlines.
I bring highly focused, outside-of-the-box thinking to difficult problems.
Getting Things Done For Clients
PMI Mortgage Insurance – development of core insurance applications, EDI, turned around a large, failing application expansion project
Grocery Outlet – development of many new applications and functions for this rapidly growing grocery retailer taking them through their IPO
Apple Inc. – internationalization of core distribution and billing applications
State Bar of California – development of all applications for the largest state bar organization in the country
Calfed bank – turned around a failing project vital to the bank’s commercial lending certification
Esprit de Corp – development of an international wholesale distribution system for this global fashion firm
Databorough – designed and marketed modules for the leading IBM code analysis vendor in the world
Create a vision
Define a strategy
Build a team
Develop a plan
Communicate widely
Execute, execute, execute
Adjust, adjust, adjust
Create victories along the way
Done!
Plus dozens of other clients of all sizes across many industries
Inventing New Solutions
Vuzop – conceived, developed and marketed a Virtual Reality based business workflow visualization and management tool
Profile/Codelyzer – conceived, developed and marketed a series of tools for analyzing legacy applications; innovative uses of AI/ML and Process Mining for understanding legacy software
EDI Courier – conceived, developed and marketed an EDI product for Mortgage banks, partnering with most major players in the industry
PBSI Template Development System – conceived, developed and marketed a widely used set of tools for software development
Airpaz – conceived, developed and marketed a pre-iPhone phone app for cognitive behavioral therapy
Talking About It
Telecom Council of Silicon Valley – using VR for business operation insights and management
Software Process Improvement Network of Silicon Valley – unsolved problems of software maintenance
Fluxicon Process Mining Seminar – uses of Process Mining for understanding legacy applications
COMMON – IBM user conference – tools for analysis of complex legacy code