Presentations

Building Bridges: Ethnography for Project Risk Analysis and Quality Assurance (tutorial)
Ethnographic Praxis in Industry conference
On-line - October 2021
Diversity Doublethink: Policy Myths and Performance Rituals
Global Business Anthropology Summit
New York, NY - June 2019
Profiting from Wind Shifts: Wall Street Bankers, Sailors, and the Digitization of Finance (narrated presentation)
American Anthropological Association conference
San Jose, CA - November 2018
“We Didn’t See That Coming!”: Ethnography for Risk Management
American Anthropological Association conference
Business Anthropology Matters session
Washington, DC - December 2017
Discovering Cultural Blind Spots: Ethnography for Risk Analysis and Quality Assurance
Society for Applied Anthropology conference
Santa Fe, NM - April 2017
The Measurement Is The Message: Social Structure, Technology, and Ideology in the Creation of Management Theory
American Anthropological Association conference
Denver, CO - November 2015
Transformative Projects: Liminality and Boundary Crossings for Organizational Change
American Anthropological Association conference
Chicago, IL - November 2013
Fundamentals of Project Management Workshop
American Anthropological Association conference
San Francisco, CA - November 2012
Badges, Branding and Business Growth: The ROI of an Ethnographic Praxis Professional Certification
Ethnographic Praxis in Industry conference
Savannah, GA - October 2012
Every Project Tells Story: Strategies for Managing the Narrative to Create Happier Endings
Project Management Institute seminar
Moscow, Russia - July 2012
Web 2.0 and Information Security: Challenges for Corporate Ethnography
American Anthropological Association conference
Montreal, PQ - November 2011
Ethnography Writ Large: In the Service of System Design
Society for Applied Anthropology Conference podcast (26:00-36:00)
Seattle, WA - March/April 2011
Introduction to "Silence and Silos: The Problem of Fractured Thought in Finance" - Keynote by Gillian Tett, Financial Times
American Anthropological Association conference
New Orleans, LA - November 2010
Ethnography Under the Corporate Radar: Aliases for Business Careers
American Anthropological Association conference
New Orleans, LA - November 2010
Teaching Quality Assurance in the Computer Science Curriculum
City University of New York Institute for Software Design and Development
New York, NY - November 2006
The Accidental Project Manager: Roles and Responsibilities for the Newly-Promoted
Software Development Best Practices Conference
Boston - September 2005
A Power To Be Reckoned With: Project Management for Software Testers
European Congress on Software Testing, Analysis and Review
Cologne - December 2004
Human Boundary Conditions: Cultural Issues in Software Testing
European Congress on Software Testing, Analysis and Review
Cologne - December 2004
The Accidental Project Manager: QA to the Rescue
European Congress on Software Testing, Analysis and Review
Amsterdam - December 2003
The Accidental Project Manager: QA to the Rescue
American Society for Quality
Dallas, Texas - October 2003
The Accidental Project Manager: QA Road Maps and Training Wheels
Software Process Improvement Network
New York, NY - September 2003
Whose Rules? Project Management Across Cultures
New York University School of Continuing and Professional Education
New York, NY - April 2003
"What's That Supposed to Do?" -- The Archeology of Legacy Systems
Software Quality Engineering STAR East conference
Orlando, Florida - May 2002
Rating IT Quality: Software Project Management and Business Risk
Speaker’s Corner, Moody’s Investors Service
New York, NY - February 2002