Why DCG?
Management Team
Our senior managers bring years of industry experience enabling DCG to deliver sustainable customer value through our consulting Practices: Software Performance Solutions and Software Performance Management. The senior management team draws on the unrivaled experience to ensure that we are always at the forefront of industry practices and design and deliver services that exceed our customers’ expectations.
Mike Harris
Tom Cagley
David Herron
Alan Cameron
Tony Timbol
Pat Eglin
Michael D. Harris the President (and Owner) of the David Consulting Group leads our team and he is supported by two Vice Presidents of Services who head our Software Performance Solutions and Software Performance Management units. In these roles they are responsible for client management and service design and delivery. Additionally they manage implementation, customization, and support for all DCG’s projects.
Michael D. Harris, President and Owner
m.harris@davidconsultinggroup.com
Mr. Harris brings 30 years of broad management experience in the IT field including periods in R&D, development, production, business and academia.
Before becoming President, CEO and majority owner of DCG at the start of 2006, 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. Prior to FIS, Mr. Harris was President of the Banking Solutions Division at Sanchez Computer Associates (NASDAQ: SCAI). Under his leadership, the software development team at Sanchez achieved significant quality and delivery improvements culminating in the achievement of CMM® Level 3 in only 15 months and the establishment of an offshore development team in India. While at Sanchez, Mike was a DCG client! Yes, “He liked it so much, he bought the company.”
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 and was at the forefront of driving through industry standards for credit cards with chips 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). He was certified as an IT-CMF Associate in 2011.
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.
Read Mike Harris HotSeat Profile in SmartCEO Magazine...
Tom Cagley , Vice President,
Consulting
t.cagley@davidconsultinggroup.com
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 a wide variety of 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 has served on the IFPUG Board of Directors as the President. He previously served as the Vice President, 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. Tom also is holds an IT-CMF Professional Certificate.
Mr Cagley co-authored Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques with Murali K. Chemuturi.
Outside of his work at DCG, Tom is an independent thinker, author and podcaster – visit his excellent Software Process and Measurement Cast (SPAMCast) website at http://www.spamcast.libsyn.com/.
David
Herron, Vice President, Software Performance Management
d.herron@davidconsultinggroup.com
Mr. Herron's industry background includes experience in commercial software development, government projects and corporate information systems.
Mr. Herron is a frequently published author of articles and books on
software sizing, estimation and measurement. His publications include,
"Functional Ratio Estimating," a Software Productivity Research White
Paper;"Accurate Estimation," Software Development Magazine, July 1996, with
David Garmus; "A Measure of Success," siliconindia, July 1998; Measuring the
Software Process: A Practical Guide To Functional Measurement, Prentice
Hall, 1996 with David Garmus; “Using Functional Metrics to Effectively
Govern Outsourced Applications,”
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
multi-million dollar 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
(NASDAQ: CMSI) and Electronic Data Systems (now HP). 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.
Ms. Eglin is an experienced Consultant and
Certified CMMI instructor with The David Consulting Group. She has
extensive expertise in the areas of Software Process Improvement,
Quality Assurance, corporate process training, financial systems and
quality compliance protocols. Her experience includes CMMI Level 3
implementation, process design and development, CMMI and Agile
related training course development and instruction. She has
leadership and management experience with successful CMMI Level 3
Engineering Process Group activities. Ms. Eglin’s specialties include
Measurements/Metrics, Process Improvement and Sizing/Estimation. Prior to DCG Ms. Eglin has held positions with
Fidelity Information Services, Sanchez Computer Associates as
Manager of Engineering Process, Senior Audit Compliance Specialist,
and Training Program Manager. Ms. Eglin holds a BS degree in Business
Administration, is a
Certified CMMI Instructor from the Software Engineering Institute
and is a Six Sigma Green Belt (Villanova University). She has spoken
at the QUEST Conference and local Software Process Improvement
Network organizations and is a member of the National Association of
Professional Women.
Alan
Cameron, David Consulting Group, LTD (DCG Europe)
a.cameron@davidconsultinggroup.com
Alan Cameron has more than 20 years experience working in IT. He started
on the client side within the UK Inland Revenue and has had many roles
ending as the Metrics Estimating and Process Lead for HP Applications
Services in EMEA. In this role his team supported many hundreds of projects
in a wide variety of industries.
Before it was taken over by HP Mr. Cameron held a similar role in EDS where
he built a team of CFPS counters and expert estimators all across EMEA.
As part of his work Alan has helped to build major bids based on
linking success to delivered value.
To achieve this he has driven the development and implementation of
measurement programs in mature
and immature process organizations.
Early in his EDS career he was instrumental in the development of a
measurement based performance system covering 28 different work areas in
the contract with a major government department.
The work types covered by this regime ranged from printed output
(over 100 million pages printed and posted to the public annually) via
forms processing, PC support and software development and maintenance. The techniques employed allowed for better IT planning, strategy
and budgeting based on predictive productivity, and the processes
developed were applied throughout the multi million dollar contract over
six years.
Subsequent to that role Alan was part of the IT strategy organization
helping the client to re-engineer its business.
During this project he mentored senior client executives enabling
them to re-examine the refocus their business in line with the latest
technology, thereby maximizing the value of their IT spend.
Before joining EDS Alan was the requirements manager for significant parts
of the UK Self Assessment program, where he concentrated on Management
Information and Compliance areas of the business.
This program followed on from a specialist project during which the
entire core business of the Inland Revenue was analyzed using OO
techniques to drive out core common logical processes and identify
specialist areas which would require separate systems.
The resulting logical business model was a core component for over
ten years of business and IT development.
Mr. Cameron holds a BSC degree and PhD in Physiology
from Queen’s University Belfast. He is a very keen photographer, and
enjoys nothing more than being in the high mountains with his camera.
Tony Timbol,
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
t.timbol@davidconsultinggroup.com
Mr. Timbol brings over 30 years experience in supporting corporate software
development organizations and software product developers in both
commercial and Government settings. Mr. Timbol helps clients define their
IT frustrations and challenges and explore how DCG expertise and
experience may support value-driven client change initiatives. Prior to
DCG, he has held management, senior management and technical positions
with Electronic Data Systems, Rockwell International, Computer Associates,
Computer Management Sciences and Technology Point International.
Pat Eglin,
p.eglin@davidconsultinggroup.com