Melinda Solomon

<p>&nbsp;</p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: alegreya; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Melinda is the president and co-founder of </em><a href="http://www.middlegrass.com/&quot; style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: rgb(101, 174, 129); text-decoration: none; transition-delay: 0s, 0s; transition-duration: 0.1s, 0.1s; transition-property: color, border-color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.42, 0, 0.58, 1), cubic-bezier(0.42, 0, 0.58, 1); word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Middlegrass Consulting</em></a><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">.&nbsp; </em>She is a training professional who has created educational programs catering to diverse international audiences in a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, biotech, and government.&nbsp; She has worked with organizational transformations to implement lean principles and agile methodologies in highly regulated environments.&nbsp; She has designed and delivered training in more than 30 countries in&nbsp; support of dozens of federal agencies.&nbsp;</p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: alegreya; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">She has led the USCIS Agile Training Program for 5 years and has taught Agile classes to over 4000 students.&nbsp; She specializes in communicating about responsible Agile transformation.&nbsp; She holds a Master’s Degree in International Education from University of Massachusetts, and is a CSM, PMP, Accredited Kanban Trainer, and was a Fulbright Fellow for the US State Department.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: alegreya; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.middlegrass.com/</p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: alegreya; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.agileontheweekend.com/</p><p style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: alegreya; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>