Fred Lathrop

Fred Lathrop

Senior Software Engineer

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  • About me

    Core BIOS Program Manager (Product Owner) at HP

  • Education

    • Barry University

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      Bachelor's degree Computer Science
    • Rochester Institute of Technology

      1979 - 1982
      Associate of Science - AS Computer Science
  • Experience

    • IBM

      Mar 1983 - Apr 1995
      Senior Software Engineer

      Software architect, designer, and developer roles in OS/2 device driver and power management subsystems. Worked in several industry standards organizations creating and developing early PC software, firmware, and hardware architecture foundations.

    • HP

      Apr 1995 - Mar 2012
      Product Owner | Senior Software Architect

      Product Owner | Software Architect for value-add PC software development teams. Focus was primarily on enterprise manageability solutions for PC power management and notebook computer battery life but also included working in industry standards organizations.

    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

      Mar 2012 - May 2018
      Product Owner | Scrum Master | Enterprise Architect

      Product Owner | Scrum Master | Enterprise Architect roles over a custom Global Supply Chain Private Cloud with intelligent edge factory operations. This project consists of (3) federated regional clouds spanning (20+) production sites, (9) Scrum teams in SAFe environment. Provided servant leadership for Scrum teams with responsibilities for SaaS/PaaS Development, Build & Release activities, and DevOps Release Deployments with CICD automation.

    • HP

      Apr 2019 - now
      Product Owner | Core Team Leader

      Product Owner | Core Team Leader for (5) Scrum teams responsible for Commercial PC BIOS / Embedded Firmware Security solutions. Steadily evolving our FW PMO and processes with continuous improvements and Agile / Lean best practices.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • PMI-ACP

      Program Management Institute
      Aug 2018
    • Certified Scrum Master

      Scrum Alliance
      Jul 2016
    • Certified SAFe 6 Agilest

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Jul 2023
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    • Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO)

      Scrum Alliance
      Jan 2022
    • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

      Scrum Alliance
      Jan 2020
    • Lean Kaizen Green Belt

      Hewlett Packard Enterprise
      May 2018
    • Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (ACSPO)

      Scrum Alliance
      Apr 2021
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Fred Lathrop
      Principal Engineering Program Manager (Advanced Program Management Career Path) HP Inc. Oct 2021
    • Awarded to Fred Lathrop
      Master Engineer (Advanced Technical Career Path) HP Inc 2003
    • Awarded to Fred Lathrop
      Senior Member Technical Staff (Advanced Technical Career Path) Compaq Computer Corporation 1997