Summary
Jon Kern is an Agile consultant and co-author of the Agile Manifesto who helps organizations convert strategy into high-quality, business-focused software through pragmatic process, architecture, and mentoring. With a 14+ year consulting career built on earlier technical leadership from aerospace R&D to co-founding product and services firms, he specializes in paying down organizational and technical debt while building teams that sustain quality-by-design. Jon has led product and engineering organizations, shipped UML/modeling tools and enterprise products, and routinely leaves teams more skilled in object-oriented design and agile practices than he found them. He also volunteers in community leadership roles—school board and auto club—and contributes to life-saving pre-incident planning software for first responders, reflecting his knack for applying engineering rigor to practical, mission-driven problems.
14 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BS Aeronautical Engineering, BS Aeronautical Engineering at The Ohio State University