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Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nl

My LeSS case study details my efforts in guiding the enablement of hundreds of millions in savings, and de-risking over a billion in annual revenue by creating more effective cross-functional, cross-component teams.

• Authored an extensive LeSS case study. Thanks to the supportive guidance of Viktor Grgic, Craig Larman, Bas Vodde, and many others I am now the 4th CLT in the nation, and the 24th in the world.• Authored Forging Change, focused on real-world aspects of implementing large scale transformations.• Design and delivery of organizational transformations.• Design and delivery of custom agile training for multiple clients.• Guidance of multiple LeSS, and LeSS-like adoptions.• Stanford University guest lecturer on agile management.• Spanish immersion study completed in my efforts towards fluency.• Obtained Scaled Agile SPC4.5 certification to help better communicate with clients.• WY incorporation: 11/7/2017; W2 employment: 2/11/2018

Costa Mesa, California, Us

• Delivered multi-day participant driven Scrum training in groups of ten to thirty for close to two hundred people. I co-trained the third day with my sponsor whenever possible. At other times, I would speak on my sponsor's behalf.• Guided a large number of multi-day chartering events to stand up approximately two dozen teams. Most teams required a LeSS scaling strategy to coordinate work across several related teams in multiple geographies.• Provided minor technical coaching as required and as capacity allowed. In time, several dedicated technical coaches were engaged to further assist in this effort. The technical coaches were typically deployed more narrowly to small groups of teams, leaving me more time to focus on broader organizational challenges.• Designed a complete restructuring of the engineering hiring pipeline. This included authoring an extensive white-paper and conducting one-on-one interviews to identify the initial pilot group of interviewers. I also designed the training and launch activities for the pilot group.• Guided management to correct a variety of severely dysfunctional team dynamics. At times this involved facilitating extended team working sessions to help teams safely flush conflicts to the surface and deal with them.• Routinely consulted with various managers and individual contributors throughout the organization on any aspect of theory or practice requested.• Facilitated occasional Kanban training when appropriate to a team's needs.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Piloting Scrum and other agile practices in my capacity as the lead external agile consultant.• Executive coaching and training in organizational change management during a period of very dynamic structural changes.• Development of participant driven multi-day training for agile fundamentals, Scrum, Kanban, and technical practices.• Development of hands-on one-day training for large scale refinement across multiple Scrum teams; including Rally usage.• Scrum and agile process coaching, leveraging Kanban techniques and practices to help manage challenges of custom computing hardware development.• Technical coaching predominately focused on unit testing and continuous integration. This includes unit testing within UEFI BIOS code, which I am told is a first within the BIOS industry.• Crafting and deployment of an agile assessment framework to improve senior leadership visibility into ground level realities.• Interviewing and selection of competent Bangalore process and technical coaches.

San Mateo, California, Us

Agile coaching, training, instructional design, and organizational transformation for all levels including executive and team level coaching with both a process and technical focus. Wide exposure to multiple clients per month.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Lead agile transformation from VP to individual contributor level within assigned program of around 130 people.• Implemented pull based agile adoption model within assigned program.• Assisted peers in coaching other programs as needed.• Stood up a dozen Scrum teams within assigned program.• Trained product owners in user story and product backlog creation.• Delivered a half-dozen Scrum training classes.• Performed monthly agile assessments for assigned program.• Delivered technical coaching on test driven development and continuous delivery.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

• Delivered a presentation entitled “Scaled Agile Release Process” at "Agile Indy 2013" in Indianapolis and more recently at "Keep Austin Agile 2014". The presentation focuses on a set of behaviors, processes, and architectural design patterns that can be used to coordinate the efforts of multiple teams without the need for hardening sprints.• Coached newly formed Scrum teams at a variety of clients in their efforts to adopt Scrum.• Quickly identified what had been seen as a change management crisis as a team communication crisis frustrated by poor tooling and poor process paradigms at a large firmware client. To attack the root cause, I led the technical and cultural changes necessary to encourage developers to continuously integrate into a single code line. This involved: extensive coaching; formal and in-formal presentations to achieve the necessary buy-in; deploying a continuous integration server; making it possible for distributed team members to commit to the same code line within the legacy source control system; migration to a command line build system; and development of automated high-level smoke tests.• Facilitated the establishment of a client's DevOps SCRUM team. This involved project chartering to acquire funding, shuttle diplomacy across regions, process coaching and hands-on technical coaching. Fully adopted cultural change included: Test Driven Development; Automated Provisioning; Continuous Integration; Continuous Delivery; and Effective Retrospectives.• Developed and delivered a Kanban training workshop.• Developed and delivered several presentations on the cultural and technical aspects of acceptance test driven development.• Obtained PSE (originally PSM-II) (97% grade), PSM-I and PSD (95% grade) certifications from Scrum.org.• Obtained Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) certification from Scrum Alliance.

Midvale, Ut, Us

While at Overstock I took on the following roles:• Senior Software Engineer on two separate teams (6mo Contract): First team was website focused, the second team had more of an architectural focus.• Development Manager for the International Team• Development Manager for the Auctions Team• Development Manager for the SEOII TeamThese roles have involved the following responsibilities:• hiring• code/design reviews• strategic architecture• people management: performance reviews, objective setting, coaching, etc.• project management: requirements gathering, iteration planning/tracking, and release management. (ScrumMaster certified via Agile Alliance training by Alistair Cockburn)• coding in Java, Scala and C++Direct employment: 8/24/2009

• Member of a five person team responsible for the development and support of enhancements to a natural gas trading system built using multi-threaded C# .Net, WinForms, Composite Application Block (CAB), Spring.NET, RhinoMock, NUnit, Clearcase, NHibernate, and Citrix. • Changes typically included both client and server side components, frequently implementing framework enhancements as appropriate. Efforts often involved working across organizational boundaries to isolate and resolve various technical problems. Also researched C# build tools (NAnt, MSBuild, NMaven and NPanday) and wrote Ant, Nant and Perl scripts to support source server indexing.

New York, Ny, Us

• Helped to architect, implement and deploy two separate multi-threaded core Java high throughput low latency clustered greenfield equities trade order routing systems running on a mix of Unix and Windows OS platforms.• Formed and lead a team responsible for the support, maintenance and evolution of a Java based equities trade analytics platform deployed to a clustered Unix web server infrastructure. The application included a struts based J2EE web interface, a Web 2.0 javascript based rich internet application, as well as a Swing thick client component.• Designed, developed and deployed a multi-threaded core C#.Net based client API to the second trading system.• Responsibilities included on site knowledge transfer from a team in the UK, architectural guidance, hands-on development, working with other trading system teams to facilitate integration, recruitment, conducting technical interviews, and mentoring.

Taylor, Tx, Us

• Wrote software to manage the Texas electric grid.• Improved the maturity of the group’s software development infrastructure and process. Improvements included automated testing at unit and system levels, some movement towards iterative development, limited continuous integration, code coverage metrics and a more cohesive open-source technology stack.• The technology stack put in place includes Apache, Tomcat, Ant, JUnit, and CVS as well as Eclipse, CruiseControl, Struts, Axis, Cactus, dbUnit, JMS, and other open-source libraries and tools.• Built an XML-RPC SOAP service using Axis and assisted the data warehouse team in consuming it using Oracle’s embedded JVM.

• Developed both a Symbian C++ smart-phone application and a J2EE server application.• CVS was selected for source control, JUnit for comprehensive test coverage of the server components, Ant for external builds, PostgreSQL for persistence, Jakarta Axis for SOAP consumption, and Eclipse as an IDE.• Used SWIG with custom typemaps to generate JNI wrappers to any necessary vendor libraries only available in C++. The Ant build system integrated SWIG related makefile execution with the automated build test cycle.• The Symbian C++ code was developed on Nokia’s Series 60 emulator for the Nokia 3650 camera phone.• Used Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 as an IDE for the Symbian C++ code

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• As a senior member of Household’s Java team, helped rewrite Household Automotive Finance’s entire customer management system. The system developed provides a J2EE based presentation layer running on WebSphere Application Server and communicates via IBM MQSeries messaging to legacy software running on an IBM mainframe. The development environment included IBM VisualAge for Java for code development and Rational Rose for design.• Before joining the Java team, worked as a Senior Information Analyst within Household’s analytics department. Duties included data acquisition, cleansing, and loading to and from a variety of relational databases including Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2 as well as analyzing the data acquired. The automation was typically written in Perl and SQL running on Linux and Solaris. • Led the team in moving to CVS for source control.

San Diego, California, Us

• Served as a member of the venture capital A series funded start-up’s software engineering team designing and implementing software in Java, Perl and C++. The principal product of DivXNetworks was a cryptographically secure digital video content delivery platform incorporating DivXNetworks’ MPEG4 video codec.• The J2EE web infrastructure team was organized around the Extreme Programming process. All code was unit tested with the JUnit and CUnit frameworks.• Toolsets and technologies used throughout the life of the project include TogetherJ, Visual Café, JBuilder, MS Visual Studio, WebLogic, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Swing and XML. There was extensive use of both UNIX/Linux and Windows based operating systems. The server side language of choice was usually Java and C/C++ for the client.• There was also a large cluster of Linux servers running Apache with object oriented Perl code.

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• Lead the venture capital funded start-up’s technical evaluation, selection, and integration of a library automation system. With this system in place, Questia could uniquely identify a book in great detail and work with external data vendors of electronic book catalogues. The greatly improved data quality helped to avoid the potential loss of millions of dollars per month.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Served as a team member of Houston Chronicle's online development and administration group.• Installed and implemented various technical components of web based services (mod_perl, databases, CGI, LWP, Solaris, encryption, XML, MIME email, OOP).• Configured and maintained Apache web servers and associated infrastructure including web traffic analysis infrastructure.• Designed and implemented a cryptographically secure communication system with company affiliates.• Designed and coded an object-oriented perl based storm tracking software package. Some components of this software were released under an open source license and placed on CPAN.

• Wrote tools to increase the efficiency of the small independent start-up’s massively parallel seismic processing group.• Created UNIX Korn shell and AWK scripts resulting in a 10% increase in service division throughput. Utilized object oriented Perl and the Tk GUI library for development of special projects. Gained further experience with TCP/IP, DNS, general system administration, LaTeX, massively parallel computing, numerical methods, graphical object oriented programming, SQL, HTML, CGI, Emacs, VI, DISLIN plotting library, and various UNIX shells and configurations.

College Station, Tx, Us

• Assisted university professors with physics-related research and wrote a multitude of numerical algorithms in FORTRAN to compute solutions to various differential equations. Typical algorithms implemented included simple matrix manipulations, 4th and 5th order Runga-Kutta method, fast fourier transform (FFT), cubic and quadratic spline interpolation, various finite element approaches utilizing relaxation techniques, and shooting method attacks of eigenvalue problems.