Dave Muirhead

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Dave Muirhead

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Dave Muirhead is a veteran software craftsman and business technologist, and is an owner and Principal Consultant of Blue River Systems Group, LLC (BRSG), a Denver, CO-based lean software development and technology strategy consulting firm.

BRSG is expert in helping clients align technology possibilities with business objectives, equipping software development organizations for maximum productivity, and delivering great enterprise class software. The firm serves clients in the areas of software product conceptualization and incubation, business development, agile product management, and project bootstrapping and enablement. Its consultants regularly architect, design and build high-quality enterprise-class Web 2.0 business systems on the Java EE platform with rich, interactive user interfaces, leveraging Adobe Flex/AIR (RIAs), BPM, SOA, geo-visualization and related technologies.

Since 1991 Mr. Muirhead has enjoyed broad, multi-role experience and leadership in the full-lifecycle development of object-oriented, distributed, enterprise applications, web services and on-demand software-as-a-service systems in numerous business domains, including mortgage and commercial banking, enterprise software, telecommunications, healthcare, hospitality, sales force automation, railroad and shipping container depot.

He previously served as V.P. of Development and Product Architect at award winning Rally Software Development Company and has held key roles in several venture-funded technology startups. Mr. Muirhead continues to lead and mentor teams in the application of agile practices and lean thinking to business software development, enjoys working with clients to find practical ways to increase development productivity and build better software, and works every day to improve the craft of software development.

Mr. Muirhead lives in Golden, CO. His interests include mountain biking, fly fishing, skiing and learning to play bluegrass mandolin.