Dan Good, Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Virginia

Arlington Virginia

Project Manager• 18 years of experience assembling, leading and managing technical teams in the successful development, implementation and deployment of on-time and on-budget software and technical solutions• Hands-on experience with full software development life cycle (SDLC) including project initiation, business analysis, requirements gathering, database design, project planning, risk management, gap analysis, developing appropriate performance metrics, cross-functional team leadership, directing QA and testing efforts, reporting project status to project owners and other stakeholders including senior IT management, and publishing project retrospectives and lessons learned• Extensive track record of effectively communicating technical issues to non-technical product owners and clients as well as business needs and requirements to the technical teamScrum Master• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Scrum of Scrums and Project Retrospective Meetings• Empowered teams to self organize and laid the groundwork for cross team cooperation• Worked closely with product owners to gather and finalize business requirements, turning those requirements into technical requirements and working with the team to break those requirements down in to WBS• Maintained and tracked Sprint backlog items assuring that requirements were fully developed and vetted with the product owner • Facilitated the removal of all blockers which required working closely with various support teams including DBAs, Web Masters and Network Staff to assure that the needs of the team were being met, allowing the team to make meaningful progress• Created and maintained Sprint Burndown Charts and conducted weekly status meetings with product owners, stakeholders and senior members of the IT management team• Communicated risk to IT management and product owners in a timely manner so that risk mitigation plans could be acted upon without impacting the team’s progress

Fairfax Virginia

Upon returning to the US from Lativa and Estonia I was an Adjunct Professor in the Political Science Department at George Mason University teaching courses in Comparative Politics, International Relations and Introduction to Political Science.

Tallinn Estonia And Riga Latvia

As a member of the Civic Education Project I taught courses in Political Science and Government as an Adjunct Professor at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia and at the University of Riga in Latvia. During that time I also gave a number of guest speaker lectures including "Isaiah Berlin's Positive Versus Negative Freedom" and "Max Weber's Ethic of Conviction versus Ethic of Responsibility"

Villanova Pa

While working on my Ph.D at Temple University in Philadelphia I taught political science courses at Villanova University as well as at Temple University

Abd, Political Philosophy

Completed all course work and comprehensive PhD exams but elected not to defend the dissertation having decided not to pursue a teaching.

Master'S Degree, Political Philosophy

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government