Two IT veterans, James Weaver and Kaitlin Devine, have joined the Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project as product management advisers. Their focus will be on process implementation, agile project management and software delivery.
"Weaver has 20 years of leadership experience specializing in software development and strategy, business intelligence, project management, operational streamlining, business development, and implementation," says a news release from CWDS. "His IT work specializes in product strategy, agile software development, DevOps, and information architecture. Weaver’s most recent assignment was with one of the healthcare industry's first SaaS providers, revamping software development processes and building out its DevOps organization. Before that, he oversaw development of multiple reporting and analytics solutions with onshore and offshore teams, for a software company specializing in healthcare safety and operational efficiency. During his tenure with this company, Mr. Weaver led its first agile teams during a companywide adoption of the methodology."
Devine, who also has years of IT leadership experience, had been with the General Services Administration’s digital consultancy, 18F, where she served as a Python engineer and expert on contracting data until she became the first 18F Director of Engineering. "Serving on 18F’s senior management team, Devine created infrastructure for all the major functions of the software engineering team, including recruitment and hiring, code standards and best practices, intra-team mentoring and education," the CWDS release says. "After spearheading the 18F engineering team, she went on detail to Treasury as a product owner for the implementation of the first federal open-data law, the DATA act. As product owner of two major software products (an internal agency reporting website and the external, public-facing website and API), Devine directed the software product and technical strategy end-to-end."
