Joe Novosel is the Chapter's President, a business consultant, and Adjunct Professor in the Business Psychology department at Palo Alto University. Joe holds a Masters in Education, a bachelor's in Broadcast Communications, and has over thirty years experience in business, communications, and a full range of HR services, with emphasis in the area of L&D.
Joe has held Director positions in training at both The Good Guys and CompUSA (companies with sales ranging from $1B to $5B). He has partnered with such companies as Sony, Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi, Bose, and many others to deliver training (online and on the ground) across seven time zones.
Joe is Certified Scrum Master, an expert sales and product technology trainer, holds certificates in leadership, change management, curriculum development, strategic innovation, and even Lucasfilms THX technologies (making him a Jedi Knight of A/V electronics). Joe is a training, communications, and HR services consultant, served as Interim Public Information Officer at The Good Guys, served on a management committee for a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, and through savvy project management and an innate ability in partnership development has saved his companies millions of dollars by streamlining and reinventing processes, while simultaneously improving programs and results.
Ravi Sodhi is VP of Strategy and Secretary for the chapter. He holds an MBA, has twenty years experience in Business Process Improvement and Innovation, is Certified Scrum Master, a Collaboration Architect, a Business Analyst, a Change Agent, and also an Adjunct Professor in High Tech + Biotech Entrepreneurship at International Technical University (ITU).
Ravi has led Program Management at PG&E, AT&T, Hewlett Packard Consulting, Nexus IS, and SBC. He organized AgileCamp (held at PayPal's headquarters), and supports the Agile community in Silicon Valley and in the Tri-Valley. Ravi has implemented strategic change initiatives and organizational transformation programs in business, entrepreneurial and community based organizations.
Ravi's specific knowledge encompasses telecommunications, IT, program management as well as health care, innovation and the digital economy. He has trained cross functional senior management on new work processes and project management on deploying platforms based on ITIL, ITSM, SEI CMM, Lean Six Sigma, TQM, SDLC and quality improvement tools and techniques.
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