Barry Patmore had a distinguished 34-year career at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) where he helped improve business processes and implement large scale IT systems for companies including Microsoft, US West, Capital Group, Visa, Disney, Mazda, and JPL. His responsibilities included managing partner of the Pacific Northwest and Southern California offices and global managing partner of the business process competency. He was one of the lead developers of Method/1, the firmās systems development methodology, and he collaborated with Michael Hammer to develop the methodology utilized by the firm for business process re-engineering. Patmore has since served as a venture partner with Brentwood Venture Capital specializing in business-to-business enterprises and software companies. He also was the interim CIO at Childrenās Hospital Los Angeles, during which he directed the outsourcing of IT. He continues to advise the hospital.