Craeg Strong is the CTO of Ariel Partners, a small digital services company based in Times Square.  He has 25 years of experience in information technology, starting at Project Athena during his undergraduate studies at MIT. Mr. Strong has successfully instituted Agile and DevOps practices on large and complex commercial and government software projects, helping them to obtain new capabilities and realize significant cost efficiencies.  He works with senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies to help them codify their strategies, align organizational efforts, and achieve transformational goals. Mr. Strong led a successful transformation of a major FBI Criminal justice program from a traditional waterfall lifecycle and manual intensive processes to lighter weight agile processes and full DevOps automation. He provides coaching and training for teams, leaders, and organizations to help them adopt and mature Agile/Kanban practices.