Doug Wright leads Lightship, overseeing its management team and providing strategic direction to the organization. Under his guidance, Lightship has developed deep expertise in the financial services, insurance and manufacturing industries, leading to successful projects with such industry giants as IBM, Flowserve, Guardian and USAA. Leading the software industry in Object Technology and Technical Architecture since 1992, Doug co-founded Lightship with Jon Kern in 1996 and the company has consistently been on the forefront of technology ever since.

Doug is an Application Integration expert and the author of several papers on Web services and numerous development processes. As Managing Director, he works closely with clients to determine their business needs, planning the technology strategies to achieve their corporate goals. He holds a Master's degree in Engineering Science from Pennsylvania State University and is the winner of the elite Herman R. Salmon Technical Publications Award. Doug has served as a technical advisor on several large enterprise application review boards.

Outspoken agile software engineering evangelist, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, speaker, and author; Jon's experience is wide-ranging across varied problem domains and technology platforms. From jet engine R&D (he's an aerospace engineer, after all) to real-time flight simulator design and development, from TogetherSoft's and OptimalJ's commercial desktop modeling tools, to architecting and leading a team to build IBM's Manufacturing Execution System software -- Jon has seen and done a lot in his 20+ years. He has led numerous teams, including teams in Russia, his own consulting firm, and has consulted/mentored hundreds others.

Jon is an expert at distributed team development, and prides himself on getting projects into production. Recent projects have included an advanced Semantic-Web-based electronic patient health care record, an insurance agent quotation web app, and a Doctor alert system for the Emergency Department at a major hospital.

Peter Coad recruited Jon in Sep. '99, to help launch TogetherSoft, so Jon took a "sabbatical" from Lightship. Jon was a driving force behind the success of the company and its products prior to its 2003 sale to Borland. He enjoyed the 2 years he spent commuting to St. Petersburg, Russia, to lead the development teams. Though never actually "leaving" Lightship, Jon has since rejoined his original core team at Lightship.

Jon's work on lightweight development methodologies (which began as a form of self-defense against waterfall-esque DoD standards) led him to be invited to the Agile Manifesto gathering. He also co-authored "Java Design" with his longtime mentor, Peter Coad, and worked on a few other books. Jon's a nut when it comes to modeling effectively (focused on the business), building and architecting consistently, and doing it in an agile manner to deliver results. If a team ignores these best practices, it invites the peril of building up Technical Debt, as he likes to refer to it.

BS Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University. OMG-Certified UML Professional (Sep 2003)

Walt has 25 years of experience in strategy, technology and operations. As Lightship's Director of Operations, Walt manages the success of a client projects, bringing them to completion on time and within budget. An expert in full life-cycle development on a variety of platforms and technologies, Walt has garnered a wide range of knowledge in the fields of software development, project management and systems architecture. He provides Lightship's Fortune 1000 clients with innovative, highly successful approaches to utilizing the latest technological tools and design techniques to enhance their business practices.

An expert in real-time software engineering since 1979, Walt's experience in software development covers applications ranging from virtual reality graphics to electrical power management systems. His particular expertise centers on application integration and infrastructure issues surrounding the successful development of Internet delivery channels.

Currently, Walt is evaluating and integrating Web services technology to meet client technical ROI goals as well as enabling their expansion into new channels of revenue. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Kings College in New York.

Michael Herskovitz is a member of the board and a corporate officer with over 30 years of experience in aerospace, defense, semiconductors, and global manufacturing. His expertise is applying Lean Six Sigma principles to the analysis and optimization of business processes, with special emphasis on the order-to-Ship workflow. Michael is particularly effective in helping complex and global organizations consolidate and align conflicting cross-functional business requirements into concise procedures, workflows, and enterprise information system specifications for CRM, ERP and PDM. Michael brings to Lightship clients significant experience in large-scale project planning and management, as well as the ability to coach an organization through complex projects pertaining to new product development, start-up of off shore operations, and implementation of enterprise information system solutions. Michael has a B.S Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania state University; a M.S in Engineering Management from Drexel University; significant credits towards an Executive Maters in Technology Management from the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School of Business; and Lean Six Sigma certification from Villanova University.