LeanDog

Jon Stahl

Chief Executive Officer

Jon co-founded LeanDog after 18 years of experience providing IT leadership in both Fortune 500 and start up organizations. His passion is eliminating waste, optimizing the performance of IT teams and helping organizations become lean and agile. Jon provides extensive hands on experience in organizational transformations to Agile and Lean practices. He is an active leader in the Agile and Entrepreneurial community. He openly shares his learnings at conferences and meet-ups. More >>

Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan

Chief Technical Officer

Jeff Morgan has spent 23 years in the corporate IT, holding various roles including Senior Developer, Manager of Application and Enterprise Architect, Director of Technology and most recently Chief Technology Officer.  More >>

Jim Gorjup

Chief Operating Officer

Jim Gorjup has spent 20+ years in the Information Technology field at Fortune 500 and start-up companies. His prior roles include application developer, architect, manager and senior manager. His expertise is in the Insurance industry, specifically Property and Casualty Insurance, having spent over 20 years of his career. Most recently he has focused his attention with Executive Information Technology Recruiting and Consulting. More >>

Michael "Doc" Norton

Craftsman

Michael Norton (doc) is an Agile Coach and a partner with LeanDog living in Wadsworth, OH. Michael's experience covers a wide range of development topics. Michael declares expertise in no single language or methodology and is immediately suspicious of anyone who declares such expertise. A frequent speaker, Michael is passionate about helping others become better developers, working with teams to improve delivery, and Software Craftsmanship. More >>

Gregg Bobinski

Director of Business Development

Gregg Bobinski has spent over 30 years in business development to corporate IT companies, holding various roles including Director of Business Development at LeanDog Software Studio, Business Development Manager at ThoughtWorks Inc, Business Development Executive at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, Sales Training Manager at Cap Gemini and Sales Executive at Systemation. More >>

Nick Barendt

Nick is a software developer and would-be entrepreneur. He has developed extensively in the embedded space, for robotics, machine vision, manufacturing, and data acquisition. More >>

Ben Woznicki

BenWoz loves working with clients to realize their dreams by solving problems in the real world with software. Woz has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups and feels passionately that we can make our customer's world a better place through great product design & craftsmanship. More >>

Dan Parks

Dan has been a professional web application developer since 1999. The bulk of his experience is in web development but he’s very comfortable with any type of programming. For the majority of his career, he’s worked at 3 major insurance companies and was instrumental in the creation and maintenance of a claims system at one of those companies. Dan is most comfortable on an Agile team and is currently coaching developers as they transition to Agile. More >>

Deb Stahl

Deb is a multi-facted member of the team. Jumping in wherever needed to help get things done, she can be found helping with the books, making calls, working on marketing materials, or corralling the dogs. More >>

Diane Weaver

Diane is an avid agilist with strengths in Java and C#. In her 10 year career she has built software for the clean energy, manufacturing, retail, marketing, and healthcare industries.  More >>

Eric Hankinson

Eric has been a professional software developer since 1999. He has primarily worked on web applications but also has experience in building desktop software for both Windows & Mac OS X. More >>

Glenn Johnson

Glenn Johnson is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Developer, and Consultant specializing in .NET technologies. Glenn has authored and coauthored several ASP.NET and ADO.NET books. More >>

Jodi Hautala

Jodi Hautala-Carlson while still relatively new to the graphics and software industry has come a long way from her graduation skills. Graduating in 2008 from Mercyhurst College with a Bachelor degree in Graphic Design she then went on to earn a associates degree in Web Design. More >>

Joe Fiorini

Joe is a Web Developer with a focus on agile methods & technologies.  More >>

Joel Helbling

A fanatic about business intelligence, data integration and information integrity, Joel has over 15 years experience in using, supporting and developing enterprise data systems, and the hardware and software systems upon which they are built. With deep roots in North East Ohio, Joel has worn many hats: project manager, software architect, team leader, process analyst, data architecture aficionado, troubleshooter, trainer, technical writer, public speaker, startup entrepreneur and last but most fundamentally, Dad. More >>

John Miller

An experienced agile developer with a diverse background, John is able to work in multiple languages. His current languages of choice are C# and Ruby. John makes a great addition to the LeanDog team. He's active in the local Ruby community and regularly attends Cleveland Ruby Brigade meetings. More >>

Joseph Leddy

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Randy Eppinger

Randy Eppinger has been developing software for 17 years. Most of that time has been spent doing consulting for various industries including publishing, finance, education and manufacturing. More >>

Samantha Bolan

Samantha has been in the financial world for six years, with a focused attention on smaller companies and start-ups. After completing her Finance degree from Ohio University she traveled the country as an auditor. Since then she has been an accountant and assistant controller in a variety of fields including IT, restaurants, professional sports and online retailing.  More >>

Stephan Schwab

Stephan is an International Software Technology Consultant living in Panama by choice who has broad and long-term experience of more than 20 years with a great number of technologies. More >>

Susan Gibson

Susan is an experienced client account executive with outstanding abilities in fostering client relationships, managing large IT programs and projects, coaching IT organizations in agile adoption, restructuring Program Management Offices (PMO) to be more lean, assembling and enabling high performing teams, and delivering lean business solutions with agility. More >>

Matt Barcomb

I'm passionate about the *entire* field of software development as well as making it a better place to work, play, and do business. More >>

Tim Conner

Tim has been in IT since 1995 and developing web applications since 2004. His primary strength is Java/JEE. More >>

Michael Lutton

Michael Lutton has been working as a software developer since graduating from DePauw University (Greencastle, Indiana) in 1997. More >>

Huey Petersen

Huey loves the software. He currently works in .NET but the relationship is not exclusive with experimentation in Ruby, Scala, and Haskell. More >>

Sarah "sadukie" Dutkiewicz

Sarah "sadukie" Dutkiewicz is a seasoned technology professional and has been working in a variety of technologies for over 8 years. Sarah's solid and well-rounded background includes roles in technical support, desktop support, database administrator, system administrator, and professional developer. Sarah's true passion comes from developing and writing code. More >>

Melissa Lewis

Apprentice

Melissa is a developer-in-training who enjoys learning and contributing to make the world a better place. More >>

Bill Holmes

Bill solves problems. His weapon of choice is C#. More >>

Angela Harms

I'm an explorer and an unschooler, and I'm madly in love with Agile. More >>

Adrian Wible

Adrian has been involved with software development for over 25 years. He spent his formative years as a kernel operating systems developer at IBM and then took on leadership and managerial roles at Dell. He returned to the technical ranks in 2005 when he joined ThoughtWorks as an agile software developer. He then migrated towards agile project/program management and coaching roles with ThoughtWorks, LeanDog, and Lab49. He has led teams ranging in size from 6 to 60 at over a dozen organizations in his roles as a consultant and director of software development. More >>

Levi Wilson

Levi has been developing software for 9 years, and loves nothing more than writing clean, maintainable and testable code. He is passionate about learning and sharing his experiences about both agile methodologies and software craftsmanship. More >>

Mike Crute

Mike Crute or simply "Crute" is a software craftsman currently working for LeanDog who loves programming languages and is passionate about agile software development practices. More >>

Zee Spencer

Zee is a maker of things that matter and a teacher of those who want to learn. He loves helping people along their path to craftsmanship, no matter where they are on that particular journey.  More >>

David Shah

I’m a Software Engineer that’s gone from Devil Dog to Lean Dog.

Denise Leeson

I have been a software developer since 1990 and worked in the Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Retail Industries across multiple platforms and languages. Over that span, I have developed web and client/server solutions using languages VB, VBA, C++, C# with the following technologies ASP, ASP .NET, AJAX, javascript, Jquery, VBA, VBS. Also along the way I dabbled in SSRS reporting, OCR recognition and edits, and serial communications. More >>

Gary Johnson

I'm a software developer of seven years who is passionate about user experience, user interface, and designer-developer workflow.  More >>

Michael Lemley

After spending five years locked in a dark and gloomy cave at corprate America, I found the opportunity of a lifetime exploring agile software development here at LeanDog. More >>

Jason Felice

Oh, something wasn't right when I wrote my first little game at age eight. I was going to figure this computer thing out quick and move along as usual.  More >>

Trevor Carlson

Trevor Carlson is a recent graduate of Cleveland State University completing a degree in Human Resource and Labor Relations. Before starting at LeanDog he was a intern at a start up company in the Cleveland area. At LeanDog Trevor spends his day as the people person, recruiting new employees and placing them, when not working with people you can find him working on learning and development, developing new strategies for classes or organizing and implementing classes that are offered.  More >>

Adam Goucher

Adam has been testing professionally for over 10 years; both with manual exploratory techniques and with the assistance of automation tools. As a member of the Context Driven school of testing, Adam will use which ever tools and/or techniques the testing mission requires. More >>

Chet Hendrickson

Chet Hendrickson specializes in assisting software organizations become more effective through the use of agile software techniques. More >>

Doug Craver

Douglas Craver is President of LaunchTribe, his 7th startup and holding company for several projects including StartupAgile, a collaboration with Jon Stahl and Jack Ricchuito. More >>

Jeff Patton

Jeff makes use of over 15 years experience with a wide variety of products from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records to help organizations improve the way they work. Where many development processes focus on delivery speed and efficiency, Jeff balances those concerns with the need for building products that deliver exceptional value and marketplace success. More >>

Ron Jeffries

Ron Jeffries began working with Agile Software Development in 1996 and has been helping others with it since 1998. Ron is one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, the document that helps provide the conceptual underpinning for Agile methods such as Scrum and Extreme Programming. He was also the onsite coach on the very first XP project, starting in 1996. More >>

Otis "LeanDog"

Chief Dog

Otis has been the LeanDog Software Studio mascot since the company was formed. He brings an interesting skill set to the team. His snoring during work hours, not only improves moral, it helps filter the air in the office. More >>

Sounder

Sounder came from Portland Oregon and has traveled all over the country with Sam. She now resides in Cleveland, which is great because she loves cold weather and especially snow! More >>

Pippin

Pre-Apprentice

Pippin is a Beagle-Terrier mix. He's young, happy, and isn't fully aware which items are appropriate for chewing and which are not. More >>

Michelangelo

Michelangelo, know as Mike to most of us, is a full bread Yorkie. He is 9 years old but has the agility and appetite of a young puppy. More >>

Buddy

When he is not protecting the house or sleeping he is enjoying one of his two favorite past-times: Playing tug-o-war with a rope and watching the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet. More >>

Koda

Koda is a true apprentice learning from his older brother Buddy. This is such tiering work that you will often find him sleeping on his bed in the corner of the family room.  More >>

Iggy

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Lacy

Lacy Lou is the younger of the two Holmes puppies; she lives in Euclid, Ohio. More >>

Frasier

Frasier is the oldest of the Holmes puppies; he lives in Euclid, Ohio and loves the snow. More >>