Rodger Koopman has a diverse background and a career that spans over 35 years in technology across multiple domains, including defense, satellite and terrestrial data communication, energy, fintech, aggregates, healthcare and insurance. He's co-author of two software patents. Rodger is a retired Air Force officer. While in the Air Force, among other things, he served on an AWACS air combat crew for three years, served on a deception team and later was assigned to a counter-terrorism unit at the joint DoD level. After the Air Force Rodger was an early employee in two successful startups where he built new, high-performing engineering teams from the ground up. He was a key participant in two mergers & acquisitions. As a VP and director he led multiple successful agile transformations of engineering and product organizations at several Fortune 500 companies. Rodger has interviewed thousands of candidates and hired hundreds; he's proud of an above-average employee retention rate. He also architected, implemented and helped sell several commercial enterprise software solutions. Rodger has been a Senior Enterprise Agile Coach starting in 2017. He's worked across entire companies, from the C-suite down to teams. As he sees it, a successful transformation requires an organization to completely align both horizontally as well as vertically. That is, business, back office, and technology partner and align, and from the C-suite down to the teams there's complete transparency to ensure everyone can make their unique contribution towards a successful, scaled agile transformation. Rodger has a master's degree in Computer Information Systems from Boston University, and a second master's in Public Administration from the U. of Oklahoma. He taught Computer Science for three years as adjunct faculty at the U. of Maryland. His wife is a former Army Lieutenant Colonel and veterinarian (she's a vet and a vet). Rodger has two awesome children. He's also a instrument-rated private pilot and a former Raleigh city councilor.