Why DCG?
Management Team
Our senior managers bring years of industry experience enabling DCG to deliver sustainable customer value through our four consulting Practices: Software Process Improvement, IT Performance Improvement, Software Measurement and Software Sizing.
The senior management team draws on the unrivaled experience of the Advisory Board to ensure that we are always at the forefront of industry practices and design and deliver services that exceed our customers’ expectations.
Michael D. Harris the President (and Owner) of the David Consulting Group leads our team and he is supported by two Directors of Services who head our Consulting Practices and the Director of Solution Development. In these roles they are responsible for client management and service design and delivery. Additionally the Directors manage implementation, customization, and support for all DCG’s projects.
Michael D. Harris, President and Owner
m.harris@davidconsultinggroup.com
Mr. Harris brings nearly 25 years of broad management experience in the computing field including periods in R&D, development, production, business and academia. The past ten years have been spent in the financial services technology area.
Before purchasing DCG, Mr. Harris was a key executive at Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE: FIS). At FIS Mr. Harris led Channels Development and Operations Services within the Leveraged Products Development Group. In these roles he was responsible for rationalizing a disparate range of software assets into a coherent set of front-end solutions for global tier 1 banks, as well as building the teams that provided Group-wide centralized control and management services. These services included software configuration management, project management, tools and environments management, documentation, testing and quality assurance.
Prior to FIS, Mr. Harris was President of the Banking Solutions Division at Sanchez Computer Associates (NASDAQ: SCAI). At Sanchez he led the first introduction of application version management and achieved significant quality and delivery improvements culminating in the achievement of CMM® Level 3 in only 15 months.
Mr Harris was a Senior Vice President and Head of the Global Chip Card Group at MasterCard International. In this role, he maintained MasterCard’s leadership position in chip technology was at the forefront of driving through industry standards as a founding director, of EMVCo. (the global standards body for chip card standards in the payments industry).
Mr. Harris earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton, England, and a Master of Science degree in computer-aided engineering from Coventry University, England. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK) and a Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA).
Mr. Harris, along with David Herron and Stasia Iwanicki, are authors of THE BUSINESS VALUE OF IT: Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance, and Measuring Results published by CRC Press.
Sheila Dennis, Vice President, Director of Services
s.dennis@davidconsultinggroup.com
Sheila Dennis leads our Software Sizing Consulting Practice.
Ms. Dennis joined DCG in 2004 and has 34 years experience in IT organizational support activities including metrics, process improvement, project management and estimation, staff supervision, function point modeling and auditing, information assurance and testing.
Before joining DCG, Ms. Dennis was a software quality analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC). While at the Gartner Group (NYSE: IT) she was a benchmarking consultant, before which she spent over 15 years as an IT specialist in the Department of Defense.
Ms. Dennis is a sought after authority on software sizing and measurement and has spoken at many industry conferences. She is a member of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) and is a Certified Function Point Specialist (CFPS). She is a member of the IFPUG Management Reporting Committee and previously served on the Communications Committee. Ms. Dennis is a Past President of the Rocky Mountain Function Point Users Group and is a contributing author/member of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Editorial Board.
Ms. Dennis earned her BA in Mathematics at Columbia University, New York.
Tom Cagley , Vice President, Director of Services
t.cagley@davidconsultinggroup.com
Tom Cagley leads our Software Process Improvement and IT Performance Improvement and Software Measurement Consulting Practices.
Mr. Cagley has over 20 years experience in the software industry in which he has been a consultant since 1997. He was previously Metrics Practice Manager at Software Productivity Research. Earlier, he held technical and managerial positions in different industries as a leader in software methods and metrics, quality assurance and systems analysis. Mr. Cagley is a frequent speaker at metrics, quality and project management conferences. His areas of expertise encompass management experience in methods and metrics, quality integration, quality assurance and the application of the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) to achieve process improvements.
Mr. Cagley is a member of the International Function Point Users Group and is a Certified Function Point Specialist. Mr. Cagley is currently on the IFPUG Board of Directors as the Vice President. He previously served as the Chair of the IFPUG Conference Committee and Director of Conferences and Education.
Mr. Cagley earned his BS from Louisiana State University and has done extensive postgraduate work at Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University and Kent State University
Tony Timbol, Director of Marketing
t.timbol@davidconsultinggroup.com
Mr. Timbol joined DCG in 2002 and brings over 24 years experience in the software and IT industries. He is responsible for ensuring that our customers have the fullest information available to make decisions about how they can best benefit from the value provided by DCG.
Prior to joining DCG, he was Vice President, E-business Solutions at Technology Point International in Jacksonville, Florida, where he led the Management Consulting and Application Development lines of business. Previously, while at Computer Associates (NYSE: CA), Mr. Timbol was a Director in the Project Management Office and managed a portfolio of consulting projects. He served concurrently as the Director of Solutions Development for CA Professional Services in the Southeast, supporting national and overseas teams of systems architects and support engineers.
His early career saw increasingly senior positions at Computer Management Services and Electronic Data Systems (NYSE: EDS). He began his career as an Aerospace Engineer with Rockwell International in 1979 and was a member of the first Space Shuttle Launch team that culminated in the inaugural flight of STS-1, Columbia in April, 1981.
Mr. Timbol earned his B.S. in Space Science and Physics at Florida Institute of Technology. He is a member of the International Function Point Users Group and Project Management Institute.