Alan Richards is Program and Project Management Professional with 25 years of management and leadership (Technical IT Project Management) experience in roles of progressive responsibility with well known companies such as; Allied Signal, Apple Computer, 3Com, Netigy, Yahoo!, AT&T and TIBCO Software. He brings a unique multi-disciplined background with expertise in IT functional management, project management, infrastructure, software methodologies, PPM, governance, management consulting and process management.

• Leadership: Alan's expertise extends beyond the traditional liaison role that exists between the client and technical delivery teams. He thrives on driving solutions to ambiguous situations and problems.
• Communication: Alan is skilled at vertical and horizontal communications across disciplines, organizations and management layers.
• Problem Solving and Ownership: Alan enjoys the challenges of strategic, tactical, macro and micro problems to deliver solutions based on the product value proposition.
• Customers/Clients and Partners: Alan Enjoys the challenge of separting needs from wants; able to distill requirements from customer requests.
• Credentials: Alan is a certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), (Y!)Scrum Master and ITIL V3.