Serena Software Appoints New Executives.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Serena Software, Inc., the Change Governance[TM] leader, today announced the addition of two software industry veterans to its executive team. Former IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Reuters executive Michael Steinharter joins Serena as senior vice president of worldwide field operations with responsibility for sales, services, and customer support. John Scumniotales, the first ScrumMaster and co-creator of the Scrum agile development See agile software development. methodology, has been appointed vice president of product management. Michael Steinharter brings more than 25 years of global experience in the technology and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industries. He most recently held the position of president at Reuters Americas, where he built the company's professional sales and services organization in North and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Prior to Reuters, Steinharter spent 22 years at IBM in a number of technical, sales, services, and general management roles in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. These roles included vice president of IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. as well as vice president of Financial Services, which is IBM's largest sector. As a proponent and practitioner of customer-centric agile product development approaches, John Scumniotales has spent nearly 20 years at the forefront of the software and technology marketplace. At Serena, Scumniotales is responsible for product strategy and delivery for Serena's Change Governance products. He directly manages Serena's global product management team as well as research and development for Serena's Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) products. Scumniotales joined Serena via its acquisition of Pacific Edge Software, where he was vice president of products. Prior to Pacific Edge, Scumniotales held a variety of senior technology management roles at Rational Software (since acquired by IBM). About Serena Software, Inc. Serena Software, the Change Governance[TM] leader, provides software and services to more than 15,000 organizations around the world -- including 96 of the Fortune 100 and 90 of the Global 100. Recognized by IDC as the largest software provider focused exclusively on change, Serena offers a new approach to change -- Change Governance -- that enables businesses to efficiently, consistently, and successfully control change across the enterprise. Serena helps companies capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. change to achieve transformative business results. Serena has more than 800 employees worldwide and is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.serena.com. Serena is a registered trademark and Change Governance is a trademark of Serena Software, Inc. All other products or company names are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright [c] 2007 SERENA Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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