Mailing Address/Contact Information:

Prof. Matt Ganis
Marks Hall
861 Bedford Road
Pleasantville NY 10570

email: mganis@pace.edu
blog: http://mganis.blogspot.com
Office Hours: Please schedule

"Cheeseburger in paradise
Makin’ the best of
every virtue and vice
Worth every damn bit of sacrifice
To get a cheeseburger in paradise"

Jimmy Buffett - Cheesburger in Paradise

News: Speaking at NYC APLN meeting 5/20 "Scrum Panel" International Academic Alliance 250 West 40th Street (7th and 8th Avenues) 10th Floor New York, NY 10018 See: http://www.aplnnyc.org/

Most recent Presentation:

March 13, 2008:

Mixing Agile and Waterfall: Keeping the Peace

at the Westchester Project Management Institute's
Monthly meeting.

Recent Publications/Awards

US patent: 7,216,149 issued May 8,2007

• "Keeping the Peace: Mixing Agile and Waterfall Methods" (Ganis and Hawkins), Cutter IT Journal, May 2007.
  
  
• Pace University's 2007 Pforzheimer Center for Faculty Development's Innovation in Teaching Award
• Pace University's Seidenberg's school of CSIS Service award (Doctoral)
  
  
  
• "Fostering Innovation from the Ground Up" (Ganis and Hall), Cutter IT Journal, March 2007.
  
  
• Westchester Amateur Astronomers Monthy Sky Almanac and Constellation Corner (May, June, July, August)
  
  
• An IPv6-to-IPv4 web Proxy (SysAdmin)

Upcoming speaking engagments/presentations:

APLN November Meeting in NYC - November 13th, 2007

Toward a whole(er) team (available as pdf/ppt)

NYLA Conference - Buffalo, NY - Oct. 20, 2007
Creating Effective teams

Dr. Dobbs SL 2.0 - September 20th, 2007 keynote

Share San Diego- Introduction to Agile/XP

August 12-17, 2007
San Diego, CA

Slides are here

IBM TLE - "Teaching Elephants to Sing as well as Dance - Agile methods within IBM"

Anaheim, California

Share 2007 - Introduction to Agile/XP

February 13-14, 2007
Tampa, Florida

Slides are here

IBM Technical Leadership Exchange (TLE)

Agile Development methods: Teaching the elephant to sing as well as dance.

April 15-18, 2007

Anaheim, CA

IBM Academy Conference on Agile Methods

May 16 - 19, 2007

Almaden, CA

(previous presentations)

Recent Certifications:

Brainbench Certified:

• CGI Scripting
  
• Apache Admin
• Web Server Admin
  
• TCP/IP Admin
  

Certified Scrum Master - January 5th, 2007