Our Team

    North Carolina State University

BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering, 1988 – 1993

    Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

Scrum Alliance, 2013 - Present

    Project Management Professional

Project Management Institute, 2004 - Present

David Sawyer, Managing Director

Technical Systems Architect

Dave Sawyer has more than 20 years of experience in information technology program and project design initiation and leadership, governance and management, and delivery for systems development and deployments including technical and functional areas.

Since launching Sawyer Consulting in 2005, Dave has established a successful practice providing high-quality services in the areas of business consulting, IT strategy, systems architecture, and systems implementation across both public and private organizations.

His clients acknowledge him as a leader in crisis resolution, problem solving and debugging of complex architecture and infrastructure IT systems. He has led many high-profile COTS and custom software implementation projects where he was responsible for integrating technology support, including logical and physical layers, with the business architecture.

Dave has an extensive depth and breadth of technical skills - C++/C, Java (J2EE), UNIX, Apache, Tomcat, middleware, real-time applications, systems engineering/architecture, and content management systems (CMS). Dave has full lifecycle experience implementing Stellent Content Server / Oracle UCM on Unix and Windows platforms. Additionally, he is an experienced manager of production systems including operations, administration, monitoring, and support.

Before starting his own consulting firm, he was the Director of Financial Systems for the U.S. Department of Labor, and then the Deputy CIO for the Small Business Administration. While at SBA, Mr. Sawyer managed an organization of over 65 IT staff and an operating budget over $15M annually, as well as oversaw development of new systems and management of 70+ production systems. Before his government positions, he worked for Accenture where he consulted to Fortune 500 clients such as AT&T, Xerox, and Cisco Systems.

Dave holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State.