Gian Wemyss
People CMM Team Lead

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Key responsibilities

Gian Wemyss is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff with the Software Engineering Process Management (SEPM) Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI)/Carnegie Mellon University. SEPM helps organizations and individuals to improve their software engineering management practices. Gians work at the SEI includes assisting organizations in successfully addressing their critical human capital issues through the use of the SEIs People Capability Maturity Model (People CMM). Gian is also involved in the identification, development, promotion, and application of practices that result in rapid, affordable, and sustained transition of innovative software engineering management technologies developed at the SEI. This includes work on the development of interpretive guidance for users of CMMI, and the development of a disciplined transition planning method for technology transition and change management practices. Gian has over 15 years experience in organizing, designing and facilitating courses and workshops to help organizations develop transition plans for new and innovative technologies. Gian is an authorized Lead Assessor for the People CMM and an authorized instructor for the following SEI courses:

Consulting Skills Workshop

Team Start-up Workshop

Improvement Planning Workshop

Managing Technological Change

Executive Managing Technological Change

Introduction to the People Capability Maturity Model

Teams

People CMM Team International Process Research Consortium 

Education

• Master of Public Management (Information Technology and Human Resources), H. John Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University
• Master of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
• Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California