Bernard Clark began IT career in 1980 as a mainframe programmer in the UK, specializing in PL/I, CICS and ADABAS/NATURAL. 1983 to 1995 he worked in diverse financial and health consulting assignments for Fortune 500 companies in New York, San Francisco and Hawaii. In 1996 he became involved in the nascent Rational Unified Process, becoming proficient in Use Cases and UML and what he terms 'knowledge modeling'. In 2004 he re-launched the Bay Area Rational User Group and founded The Unified Process Group. 2004-2007: RUP mentor and trainer until UPG was acquired by Ivar Jacobson Consulting in 2007. Influenced by Ivar Jacobson's interest in the social engineering aspects of Agile, Bernard decided to learn more about Scrum and other Agile techniques. He served on the board of the BAYAPLN for a year before taking a long sabbatical in the latter of half of 2008.  Early 2009 he received his Scrum Master certification from Jeff Sutherland and Bas Vodde. Now coaches scrum teams on a contract basis and continues to mentor on pragmatic software development best practices. Bernard is also a poet, children's book author (David Oodle's Doodle), artist, photographer and keen (but not necessarily good) golfer. He is also the co-inventor of a patented Centralized Diagnostic Logging Service.

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