David Schumacher

About David Schumacher

Technical Program Manager, New Business Manager, Enterprise Architect and Research Chief Engineer. Goals To develop new and innovative solutions to customer challenges.Specialties: Research proposal evaluation, Open Innovation specialist, Corporate Knowledge Management, and Corporate application of Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologiesI have worked in the Engineering R&D domain as an individual contributor, functional manager, Product Lead, Market Segment Chief Engineer and Market Segment Business Analyst standing up 3 distinct lines of business. Working cooperatively with university researchers, research institutes, as well as internal teams developed a technical strategy to integrate diverse data, analyze the diverse data, and visually present the analysis to senior leadership as well as first line staff in the areas of Military Intelligence, Law Enforcement & Homeland Security, and also Systems BiologyA recent 5 year period as an Market Segment R&D Business Analyst were focused on Systems Biology in which technologies and best practices were transferred from various domains into Bioinformatics (Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Management) and Health IT addressing Analytics & Big Data, CIO Solutions, DNA Identification, and Health Data Management (Electronic Health Records (EHR/EMR), Clinical Decision Support, Health Information Exchanges, Case Management, Claims Processing, Pre-Clinical Research, and Disease Prevention). My role was to coordinate all of these projects to include staffing, cost, schedule, and resource management while developing a corporate strategy with senior staff which guided these efforts.Without my focus on flexibility, curiosity, lifelong learning and process improvement these would not have been possible.

Experience

1. Enterprise Scrum Master and Agile Coach

   Arcfield

   Nov 2022 — Present · Valley Forge, PA, US

   Servant leader and coach for a customers Enterprise Systems Engineering Solution Train, facilitating and guiding the work of multiple ARTs and Suppliers in the Value Stream. Merging SAFe(TM), Agile Systems Engineering, MBSE and Digital Engineering. Leveraging multiple Jira Projects and Confluence instantiations.

Education

• Boston University

  BS, Computer Engineering

  1981 — 1985

• Villanova University

  Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering

• Villanova University

  MS, Computer Engineering

  1987 — 1993