About the Founder

Mr. Simpson is an expert in software development processes with 15 years experience developing, leading, and managing projects in the finance, defense and bioinformatics. Mr. Simpson has specialized in blending agile development processes with statistical process control methods to maximize productivity and quality of software development activities.

As the Vice President of Business Development at Synaptic Science LLC, Mr. Simpson is leading the transformation of a start-up company’s sole product into a broader set of bioinformatics products in support of drug discovery.

As a Senior Manger at SI International (now Serco N.A.), Mr. Simpson led the Process Action Team to establish software development processes in DoD projects and to set them on a trajectory to CMMI attainment.  He also served the DoD IPv6 Transition Office as the expert for IPv6 software application transition.

As a consultant to Freddie Mac, Mr. Simpson served as the software process subject matter expert on Freddie Mac’s redevelopment of its primary mortgage business system. He established statistical analysis of software development activities and outcomes to profile and optimize the work of a dozen development teams including over 100 developers. He also served as an agile software process expert on a stabilization and recovery team to assists struggling projects, including work discussed as a case study in the book Managing Agile Projects by S. Augustine.

As a consultant to Celera Genomics, Mr. Simpson was the co-lead developing the first-of-its-kind Genome Browser for scientific annotation of newly discovered genes following the first full reading of the human DNA sequence. A photo of this software appears in the July 3, 2000 issue of Time Magazine “The Race is Over”. Mr. Simpson is a cited contributor to the publication of “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science magazine, February 16, 2001 as well as "The Genome Sequence Drosophila melanogaster" March 24, 2000. Mr. Simpson published "CVS Version Control and Branch Management" in Dr. Dobbs Jounal, October 2000.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Simpson was a software engineer at Teknowledge and Ratheon developing experimental expert and artificial intelligence systems for the DoD.

Mr. Simpson has a MBA from The George Washington University, and MS in Software Engineering from George Mason University and a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.  He additionally has certifications in project management (PMP), as well as certifications in Java architecture, development and programming.