Dragos Dumitriu

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 28.8px; font-family: Lato, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dragos is the&nbsp;<strong>2016 </strong>and first recipient of the <strong>&quot;Lifetime Achievement Award&quot; from LeanKanban&nbsp;University</strong> for his contributions pioneering Kanban practices and for helping organizations&nbsp;deliver outstanding performance improvements. <span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">His work managing software engineering processes&nbsp;between 2004 and 2006 at Microsoft&nbsp;paved the road for what are known today as Kanban systems for knowledge workers. You can read all about it in chapter 4 of David Anderson&#39;s book Kanban, successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 28.8px; font-family: Lato, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dragos <span style="font: 16px/25.6px Lato, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">is a LeanKanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) and Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP). He is one of the most active Kanban experts in North America and helps companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 enterprises realize remarkable business results. <span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Throughout his career, he trained, coached or influenced thousands of people worldwide and received several awards for service delivery, innovation and leadership.&nbsp;Dragos recently joined Teradata Corporation, the global leader for data warehousing and analytic solutions.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 28.8px; font-family: Lato, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">His passion is to help organizations optimize workflows for high performance. He designs strategy and leads teams to implement solutions that simplify service delivery, improve morale, accelerate time to market and realize sustainable gains in profitability, performance, and shareholder value. Over the past 15 years, he has performed in almost every role critical to software development, IT Service Management, and IT operations. He has held leadership, consulting and training roles for Great Plains Software, Siebel, Microsoft, Avanade, Lean Kanban University, CC Pace Systems, Teradata, Accenture and Adobe.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 28.8px; font-family: Lato, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dragos is available worldwide for training, coaching, and for speaking engagements with a minimum lead time of 1 month. </span></span></p>