Mark Ford
Program Manager at Bitwise I.O
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Ford is a PMI-certified program manager with a decade of experience delivering complex, high-visibility IT programs across financial services, hospitality, and open-source initiatives from Minneapolis. He specializes in modern delivery approaches—Agile Scrum, Lean and iterative development—and has led multi-vendor, multi-million dollar efforts including a $9M enterprise cybersecurity program and cross-organizational open-source projects. Comfortable at the intersection of business and technology, he runs program offices, builds governance and tooling, and trains client teams to adopt scalable project practices. Known for clear stakeholder communication from executives to distributed teams, he also brings hands-on experience converting legacy platforms and managing large offshore/onshore contractor pools. An unlikely detail: his academic background is a BA in History, reflecting an analytical, narrative-driven approach to complex program planning.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, BA, History at University of Minnesota Duluth
Github Skills (8)
hyperledger9
ledger9
distributed-ledger8
dlt7
hyperledger-sawtooth6
hyperledger-fabric5
blockchain4
grid3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mfford/sawtooth-core
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
lakesawtoothdistributed-ledgerledgersawtooth-lake
hyperledger-archives/sawtooth-docs
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 commits in 3 months
lakesawtoothlinkpublishedsawtooth-lake
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