Chief Operating OfficerCatherine Collins is a software engineer by training and a systems engineering consultant by choice. As the BTI Chief Operating Officer and CMMI Business Point of Contact, she believes that building things is fun, but helping others to build things better is even more fun! Catherine has been providing engineering and consulting services to the Intelligence Community since 1998. In her current role, she provides systems and business consulting to projects, programs, and organizations for a Federal agency to improve product quality and improve process efficiency and effectiveness. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from Virginia Tech. Ms. Collins is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), DevOps Institute Certified Agile Process Owner (CAPO) instructor, a DevOps-Institute Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) instructor, and a INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP). She is certified at the Intermediate professional level for CMMI.
BTI succeeds in its mission when an organization is measurably better in a way that makes a real difference, is able to sustain the change for the better, knows that it is better, and is satisfied with the result.
Business Transformation Institute, Inc. (BTI) joined in partnership with Raytheon SAS to help us bring together many diverse business units and to stabilize and improve our performance. Throughout the years we have worked together and achieved CMMI Maturity Level 5 while bringing together geographically and process diverse units. This has allowed us to have a much higher fluidity in our staff and contract execution locations without suffering performance degradation. Also, BTI has led the way in choreographing novel appraisal methodologies that have significantly reduced the cost of maintaining CMMI certification and ensuring that the programs do not suffer “set-back” during the gap between certification renewals.
CNI was going to graduate from the federal government’s 8(a) program. We had to be prepared to compete. Part of this is having good processes. BTI helped us to do it.
I was fortunate to work with the BTI team on deploying the CMMI Level 2 practice at Western Union. There were a number of obstacles in garnering top-down changes and support everyone that the team was able to work through and make it successful.
Implementing CMMI practices and procedures in an unstructured environment is surely difficult, but the BTI team was able to see the big picture and also make sure that the details were correctly addressed and implemented.
I highly recommend the BTI team!
