Since 1992, Tom Reinsel has maintained a leadership position as a strategist and visionary in the information technology industry. Beginning in the summer of 2007, Tom worked for Sewickley Oak Capital, advising early stage start-up companies with financing, strategy, and temporary executive management. It was here that Tom was introduced to Scrum, a powerful framework for managing iterative-incremental software projects.  He is the Chief Executive Officer of RippleRock, a powerful company of other certified trainers and coaches specializing in Application LifeCycle Management.

From July 1997 through May 2007, Tom founded, organically grew, and sold a $30MM technology consulting firm (Pepperweed) that achieved the number one position with Hewlett-Packard as a software VAR in North America by hitting record sales, number of certified consultants and successful service deliveries. The company earned multiple awards and recognition for their model of professional services, culture, and virtual office systems including ranking number 229 on the INC 500 in 2003.

From January 1992 through July 1997, Tom worked for Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. During that time, he held various analyst roles and team leader positions focusing on process alignment and IT infrastructure management decisions.

Tom has an undergraduate degree in Information Science and a Masters degree in Data Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh.  In 2004, he completed an Executive MBA at Carnegie Mellon.

During college, Tom also started the first Novell reseller in the City of Pittsburgh and wired together PC's on ethernet as early as 1984.  

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