Our team is comprised of veteran consultants in the Software Engineering space. We are currently active in pushing the frontier in sovereign AI-Native Software Engineering, leveraging our extensive contextualized experience. In addition to being well-known industry coaches and practitioners, we are thought leaders and innovators for the Enterprise AI Transformations starting to emerge. Our Advisor AI Platform is realizing the industries' first and only sovereign AI solution that inverts the agentic control-plane. Built on our patented expert system, we are pioneering the use of declarative AI and ontology in conjunction with the generative capabilities of LLM's in a sovereign and agnostic manner. Together we are revolutionizing the approaches and methods used for AI-Native Digital Delivery. Together we are bridging governance and metrics capability for this paradigm shift. Together we are measuring the improvement in outcomes from these new capabilities. Together we are transforming the software supply-chain.
Mark Kennaley
President & CTO
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Mark Kennaley is the President and Chief Technology Officer of Software Development Experts. As a senior consultant, he provides services to some of the largest Fortune 50 companies focused on improving the Enterprise IT Value-Stream. With over 30 years experience in the Information Technology industry, Mark has served clients as a trusted advisor within various domains including Defense, Financial Services, Insurance, Government, Utilities and Telecommunications. Notable career highlights include the re-engineering of the Japanese Banking System and the re-engineering of the Personnel and Payroll systems for the United States Department of Defense. He is the author of the Dr. Dobbs Jolt Award winning book SDLC 3.0: Beyond a Tacit Understanding of Agile. He is also the author of the groundbreaking book Value Stream: Generally Acceptable Practice for Enterprise Software Development and product architect and inventor of the Advisor AI Platform.
Mark holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and leverages his profession and its rigor to deepen industry norms and challenge popular views.
Carson Holmes
COO, VP Service Delivery
Carson Holmes is a management consultant, methodologist, software engineer, and educator. He is the VP of Service Delivery and the Community Leader at Software Development Experts. Mr. Holmes started programming over 30 years ago and for the last 20 years has helped numerous Fortune 500 IT enterprises across a variety of industries achieve their strategic goals. He is a specialist in IT governance and process improvement and leverages pragmatic practices and tools that benefit the enterprise IT value stream.
Mr. Holmes is a natural leader skilled at building great teams and delivering solutions that maximize business value. As a management consultant, he is an agent for change and often works with senior level executives to fine tune their organization for efficiency and effectiveness. Mr. Holmes is a proponent of process enactment and workflow automation and leads a new virtual user group focused on Jazz and CLM. He regularly presents at user groups and software conferences, and holds a degree in computer science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.