Mike Cox is a Vice President and Senior Consultant for Net Objectives. He was previously with Lockheed Martin Corporation where he held a series of increasingly responsible positions in operations and program management, performing diverse functional and programmatic roles that spanned disciplines from rocket propulsion, structural engineering, and software integration to leadership development, program performance, and lean/agile implementations and process improvement. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Mike was most recently Director of Corporate Program Performance, responsible for raising the performance level of the 7000+ Control Account Managers (CAM) across the Corporation. His accomplishments included the identification, training, process improvement, and career development of CAMs from all programs and functions across the Lockheed Martin enterprise.

Mike’s roles have included a staff assignment at the Corporate Headquarters Operating Excellence office as an engineering subject matter expert in lean process improvement specializing in lean/agile software development.

Cory Foy has experience in a wide variety of industries as a developer, technical leader, coach and change agent. As a former Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, Cory was part of a global “swat” team called out to solve the worst production and implementation .NET, Team Foundation Server and SharePoint problems faced by Microsoft’s largest customers. Cory is also a Certified Java Developer and organizer of several “Day of Ruby” events which has introduced hundreds of developers to the Ruby programming language and the Rails Web Development framework. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups around the globe, including the Software Craftsmanship North America conference, Agile 200x series of conferences, XP2010, MIX10, Microsoft's TechReady, and the SQE Agile Development Practices conferences.  He has also helped organize the Agile Tampa and Agile Florida user groups.