Fred Yeomans

Fred has almost 25 years of experience in technology projects, in roles ranging from the deeply technical to program management of major military projects to executive technical leadership of a successful product software company, and everything in between. Fred spent several years working with satellite technologies, starting with remote sensing and image analysis, and moving on to satellite operations, working as a mission analyst helping to fly Canada’s telecommunication satellites. From there, Fred moved on to software development, first developing communications solutions over satellite (bandwidth management, video conferencing, network operations), and then moving on to military projects. Fred was involved in various roles in a major 10-year, multi-billion dollar project for the Canadian Department of National Defence. On this project, Fred worked at various times as a Test Engineer, Segment Engineer, and Segment Product Manager. In addition, Fred was heavily involved in software engineering process improvement activities.

Following his work on military projects, Fred moved on to work with two start-up firms. The first developed voice over IP conferencing solutions in the late 1990’s, long before VoIP became “mainstream”. Following that, Fred joined New Brunswick start-up Whitehill Technologies, first as project manager, and then as Vice President of Development and Technology. As a member of the executive management team, Fred helped grow Whitehill into the fifth largest private software company in Canada, and ultimately leading to Whitehill’s successful acquisition. Over a period of 9 years, Fred provided hands on leadership of the development enterprise-class solutions for document automation, workflow, and business process integration (BPI) solutions currently in use at more than 700 law firms in more than 40 countries, and at many of the largest insurance carriers in the world. Development of these server technologies involved the architecture and implementation complex distributed systems in both Java and .NET technologies, using a hybrid of traditional and agile methodologies (what Fred refers to as “just enough process”).

After leaving Whitehill, Fred joined T4G as a Principal Consultant focused on Portal Technologies. Fred’s primary goal in this area is to help organizations understand why they want to implement portal solutions, focussing on the business problems being addressed, and the business value being achieved.

Over the years, Fred has developed software in many programming languages (somewhere above 20), most software engineering methodologies (from ad hoc, to structured, to object oriented, and many others), as well various software development processes (from military standard to RUP to Agile). This broad range of experience allows Fred to avoid being attached to specific technologies and approaches, and to use the right tools for the right jobs.