Jabe Bloom
Adjunct Associate Professor
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJabe Bloom is a design-minded technology leader and educator with over 20 years of experience bridging creative ideation and operational excellence as a founder, CTO, and principal consultant. He advises and trains organizations on Lean, Flow, complexity-aware management, and design thinking, blending hands-on software architecture experience with systems-level leadership at companies like Red Hat and The Library Corporation. As an academic—PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon and current lecturer and adjunct associate professor—he teaches and speaks internationally on topics from Abductive Thinking to Management as Design. Jabe’s practice emphasizes cultivating reflective social practices and resilient organizational dynamics, and he’s known for translating provocative, “gonzo” philosophical questions into practical methods teams can use. Based in Pittsburgh, he balances consulting, teaching, and storytelling—often testing ideas informally with students, clients, and his co-founded PraxisFlow.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Photography Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Photography Philosophy at Bard CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Berwick AcademyKaizen CampDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Design, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Design at Carnegie Mellon University
EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
praxis-flow/website
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 PRs, 75 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
Designing-Organizations/Designing-Organizations.github.io
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:24 pushes in 6 months
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