Johns Hopkins University, Valedictorian Graduate Work at Princeton University and Oxford University
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Patrick Russell has worked with software for over thirty years, and has been a programmer, successful entrepreneur and business owner, system architect, project manager, and practice manager. Currently, he develops original software applications, and helps companies to design and build network- and web-based systems for automating business processes. He also consults as a tech advisor.
He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1973 as valedictorian, and did graduate work at Princeton and Oxford. However, he got his street credentials developing software for manufacturing control equipment, where he refined his programs in factories and on shop floors. By the end of the 1980s he transitioned into business software and shrink wrapped product development. Over the years he has proven his ability to solve very difficult, sometimes seemingly impossible problems in software.
In 1993 he co-founded Cambridge Software Group, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company had many consulting clients that are household names, covering a range of industries, including manufacturing, banking and financial, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, data processing, entertainment, business services, electronic media, and retail sales. The company also developed its own line of well respected software products. In late 1997 Cambridge Software Group was acquired by Renaissance Worldwide, a large international consulting company, where Mr. Russell served as Director of Technology.
Mr. Russell currently resides in Southern California, where he does software consulting, and recently founded Russell Kennedy Partners with Brian Kennedy. He is a passionate tech advisor, and likes to work with small and large companies. He also enjoys writing and giving presentations. He is the President of the San Diego Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants, and is author of The Tech Advisor: A Guide to Better Software Selection and Implementation Decisions for Business Managers, and is currently writing his next book, Holographic Process, about the principles of process improvement and workflow.