Scott Ambler
Scott W. Ambler is a Senior Consulting Partner with Scott Ambler + Associates.
Previously, he was a Senior Consultant with Ontario-based Ambysoft Inc., a software services consulting firm that specializes in software process mentoring and improvement. He is founder and thought leader of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. He helps organizations adopt and tailor these processes to meet their exact needs as well as provides training and mentoring in these techniques.
Scott is the (co-)author of several books, including Agile Modeling (John Wiley & Sons), Agile Database Techniques (John Wiley & Sons), The Object Primer 3rd Edition (Cambridge University Press), The Enterprise Unified Process (Prentice Hall), and The Elements of UML 2.0 Style (Cambridge University Press). Scott is also a contributing editor with Software Development magazine and the editor of Agiledata.
Scott has spoken at a wide variety of international conferences including Software Development, UML World, Object Expo, Java Expo, and Application Development. Scott graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Information Science.
In his spare time Scott studies the Goju Ryu and Kobudo styles of karate.