Bio

Walter Bodwell is the director of engineering for Service Impact and Event Management at BMC. This includes BMC Event Manager, Service Impact Manager, PATROL Event Manager and the recently acquired ProactiveNet. Prior to that, he directed engineering of the infrastructure for BMC Performance Manager (formerly known as PATROL). This included the BMC Portal and the UI, SDK and base collection infrastructure for BMC Performance Manager.

Walter’s first experience with Agile techniques was as the Vice President of Software of Development for Evity in the late 90’s (acquired by BMC in April 2000). Walter’s teams at BMC have been doing Agile development since January 2005. Their approach in using Agile development while merging PATROL Express and PATROL Classic technology to form BMC Performance Manager earned them the Application Development Trends 2006 Innovator Award.

Walter has a wife (Tara) and two kids (Brynn and Erika) and lives in Austin, Texas. He enjoys running, lifting weights and doing kung fu. On fall weekends, you’ll find him watching the Texas Longhorns.

Writings and Published Works

Blog on TalkBMC: Agile Engineering

Guest Blogger on Anne Gentle’s blog: Incremental Development

Patents

6,954,783 System and method of mediating a web page

6,951,021 System and method for server-side communication support in a distributed computing environment

6,901,438 System selects a best-fit form or URL in an originating web page as a target URL for replaying a predefined path through the internet