Agile coach, scrum master and developer with broad technical experience working in software engineering since 1998. Experience in both large corporations, governmental agencies, start-ups, and consulting.
Have worked with all aspects of Software Development (SDLC), Web Applications Development: Design, Development, Quality Assurance, User Acceptance, Implementation, Enhancement and Maintenance.
I’ve worked with highly visible public web enterprise solutions for real estate, purchasing and product delivery, educational programs, news reporting, and e-commerce. I’ve also worked within medical and financial sectors.
Throughout my experience I developed and implemented many custom in-house intranet applications. I am a catalyst, frequently launching knowledge sharing, knowledge management and various communities of practice.
Specialties
Agile and Lean
leadership, coaching, agile discovery, product mindset, agile mindset, kanban, flow framework, iterative development, iteration management, sprint management, process refinement, sprint planning, backlog grooming, business analysis, retrospectives, process improvement.
Processes and business areas
Lean six sigma black belt, purchasing, collections, e-commerce, project management, health care, education, product development and management, shipping and receiving.
Public Speaking Engagements
- WITCON 2024 (getWITit): Slack Me or Cut the Slack: Effective Teaming Across Generations
- CodeMash 2024: Hybrid Agility: Working Conditions for Team Success
- WITCon 2023 (GetWITit): Turning Off Autopilot: Using Liminal Thinking to Spark Change, co-speaking with Vandana Rajagopal
- Path to Agility 2018: Immunity to Change, co-speaking with Bonnie
- CodeMash 2016:
- CodeMash: Retrospectives for Everyone
- KidsMash: It’s Alive! Fermenting Foods, co-speaking with daughter
Special emphasis
Servant leadership, communications (written and verbal), technical writing, proposals, documentation, training materials. Mentoring, leading individual and group training.
Skills
Tech
.Net (C#, ASP, Ajax, VB), MVC, PHP, jQuery, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, XML, CSS3, HTML5, Telerik Data Access, Entity Framework, LinqToSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, IIS, Apache, Text to Speech, Change Management, Source Control, Content Management (Drupal, WordPress).
Software
TFS (2010, 2012, 2013), Git, Telerik Test Studio, Macromedia/Adobe Products including: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop. Office, Visio.
Certifications
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant, ICP-ACC Agile Coaching, Disciplined Agile Coach, SAFe 4.0 Agilist (expired).