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Detroit, Mi, Us

Greater Detroit Area

Coached teams and leaders in Agile practices, with an emphasis on technical practices• Created a structured roadmap for Agile Engineering growth based on Arlo Belshee’s Agile Engineering Fluency Stages, guiding teams just entering the Core Modern Engineering stage to near fluency in the Adaptive Engineering stage. Saw huge gains in software quality, delivery predictability and employee retention. 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗯𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀.• Guided team in adopting a tight cadence of targeted retrospectives to enable Continuous Improvement. This process led them to 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, which they had been resisting for a year.• Launched a wildly successful “Agile Tech Champs” program, guiding and mentoring a group of motivated developers in the development and advocacy of agile technical practices on their teams. “Champs” helped 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲 growth programs for their teams, allowed me to 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 coaching to more teams, and assured 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 of Agile Engineering growth after I rolled off. • Reorganized dependencies in a team’s AngularJS code base, increasing unit test performance by 10X and enabling the substitution of mock API responses with a single switch.• Developed a 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 with an Executive Director of QA for a Healthcare client. Helped him to shape his vision for the future of his organization and to take the initial steps toward the realization of that vision.• Conducted Story-Writing Workshops and facilitated Backlog Refinement sessions to help teams define valuable, right-sized User Stories with deterministic Acceptance Criteria, enabling the verifiable delivery of business value each sprint.• Mentored Scrum Masters in configuring Jira board in ways that 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗸𝘀.

Greater Detroit Area

Served as an embedded developer on an automotive client’s team developing a mobile app.• Joined team nine months into its agile journey with most team members struggling with TDD.• Partnered with Tech Coach to guide team in its maturation into a 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.• Delivered a virtually defect-free app on schedule, despite gloomy forecasts.

Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

A senior developer on high-powered, self-organizing teams on both greenfield and legacy projects. Both teams delivered products on-time and on-budget to the satisfaction of product owners and customers.

Led a team of 5-6 developers supporting and adding features to a legacy code base using an Agile (modified eXtreme Programming) methodology. When I joined the team, our "Agile" identification was limited to some cards on the wall and a misused series of cadence meetings. Through one-on-one pairing and evangelism, I successfully introduced pair programming, test-driven development, continuous integration and story-based iterative planning.

Member of an Agile development team composed mostly of developers from Pillar Technologies, a leading Agile consulting company. Our team developed Career Transitions, a revolutionary product in the library market. As a long-time Gale employee, I was able to contribute my knowledge of Gale business sensitivities and of Gale systems that the new product would interact with. I used this position to learn the Test-Driven Development craft from Pillar's finest, preparing myself for an Agile Tech Lead role.

Oversaw development of authentication/authorization subsystem by onshore-offshore team. Established architectural direction, reviewed code, worked closely with business owners and 3rd-party service (API) provider. Made our service compatible with the Internet2 Shibboleth federated authentication framework.

Lead end-to-end architect of on-line delivery system for reference products. Component lead for authentication and authorization subsystem.

Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

Lead developer for on-line Java servlet-based reference products. Introduced several software engineering best practices and incremental/iterative processes. Designed and maintained framework to be leveraged by all on-line products.

Lead developer for CD reference products written in C++. Designed framework to be leveraged by all CD products and structured process for communicating product specifications. 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗖𝗗 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝟲 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀.

Taught course in Object-Orienting Programming with C++.

Developed technical information systems for Ford Motor Company. Designed system for uploading, comparing and editing images for on-line technical manuals.

Component lead for program understanding (reverse engineering) tool. Lead developer for financial planning system.