Jason Martinez

Jason's 25+ years of People, Product, Project, Process, design, development and execution experience has helped companies like BMO Harris Bank, Allstate, State Farm, Deloitte, and NorthWestern Mutual deliver 100's of successful projects, great products, lean agile processes, frameworks, and strategic transformations which came with a lot lumps of learning, nuggets of knowledge, and scars of slips, falls, and swears.

Jason started in back office software development systems in the late 80's at the 3rd. largest Bank in Chicago - Harris Bank (Now BMO Harris). Most of that time was spent as a Project Implementation Manager where he set up bank customers; Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange full suite of electronic payment systems from their place of business. This experience gave him the deep understanding that delivering good quality code, efficient processes, and excellent customer service was key to success, our main goal then was really understanding our customers goals & users needs.  

In the early 2000's Jason worked in almost every role of systems at the 1st. and 2nd largest insurance companies in the United States (Allstate and State Farm). His pursuit to ease the pain of traditional project management shortcomings and waterfall product management opportunities as it related to digital products moved him closer to the business, requirements, and Lean/Agile space where he was the fist pioneer of Agile at both firms.  These experiences helped him continue to hone in on the value of building products from the outside in coupled with adopting a new digital product development framework, one in which where everyone on the product team had the same accountability to win, were two of the biggest game changers out there and it was at this time that he was TRULY AGILE WOKE.  To celebrate he decided that it was time that he and the Big Red Kool Aid guy go out for drinks and go all in on this Agile thing..   Ohh Yeah

In the latter 2000's while working at the largest professional services company in the world (Deloitte) he continued his journey as an enterprise Agile framework and tool coach/trainer for over 1800 practitioners world wide.  He continued being one of the first "Agile Pioneers" in scaling while continuing to go through the wall of organizational change with a smile on his face and arrows in his back.  

As we approach the 2020's Jason continues to evangelize the inclusion of Agile development, strong product design thinking and user experience in every engagement he is a part of.  Personally, Jason is dedicated to the values of constant and never - ending improvement.. Thank You Tony