About
Steve Teleki has 20 years of wide-ranging experience in the software industry. He is Program Director of Software Engineering, Industry SOA Accelerators, IBM Software Group at IBM. He is passionate about creating high-quality software on time and on budget. He focuses on understanding and improving both individual and team software development performance. He believes that every developer can increase his or her software development performance way beyond what commonly assumed possible.
Steve served in a variety of roles, including: Vice President for Software Engineering, Software Quality Director, Software Process Director, Development Team Leader, Senior Software Engineer, User Interface Designer, Usability Specialist, Software Developer. As developer, he wrote software that shipped in over 40 million copies worldwide.
His understanding of both people and technology makes him uniquely capable of building outstanding software organizations. He is a leader who is also a coach and mentor to development and testing teams. Under his mentorship software engineers have improved their performance in areas of software project planning, personal software process measurement, software design, and implementation.
Outside work he served as Chair (2002-2004) and Program Chair (2005-2007) of the IEEE Computer Society, Austin Chapter. He lives with his wife and three daughters just outside of Austin, Texas.