Bob Yacobellis
Instructor Of Computer Science at Global Software Excellence
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBob Yacobellis is a veteran software quality and process leader with over four decades of experience driving data-driven improvement, Six Sigma, and culture change across global engineering organizations. He led Motorola’s transformation to world-class software performance—helping build distributed centers of excellence and guiding the company to SEI CMMI Level 5—before moving into academia as an instructor of computer science at Loyola University Chicago. A strategist and practitioner, he has repeatedly translated metrics and process frameworks into measurable reductions in defects, cycle time, and cost while creating training and tools like SDFSS curricula and inspection support systems. Equally comfortable advising executives or teaching students, he blends hands-on operational leadership with deep academic credentials (PhD and MS in Information Science, MBA, BS in Math from Carnegie Mellon). Less obvious: Bob has repeatedly acted as a bridge between industry and research, collaborating with leading software engineering figures to seed large-scale organizational change. He is actively consulting and founding partner at Global Software Excellence, seeking new opportunities to apply rigorous, evidence-based improvement to software organizations.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Executive MBA, MBA, Executive MBA at The University of Chicago - Booth School of BusinessMS & PhD, Information Science, MS & PhD, Information Science at University of ChicagoBS, Mathmatics, English & Physics minors, BS, Mathmatics, English & Physics minors at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (6)
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
version-control6
android-studio6
mercurial6
git-checkout6
scala6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LoyolaChicagoCode/uidemo-android-java
Feb 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 2 months
LoyolaChicagoCode/stopwatch-android-java
Feb 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:3 PRs, 44 pushes, 2 comments in 7 years 5 months
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