Agile and Product experience creatorCreated an agile refresher based on activities and exercises to set the organization on agile values and principles (inspired by the Scrum Foundations program at the Scrum Alliance)Created a refining for customer outcomes experience based upon improving refinement activities for teams to focus on outcomes and understand how to iteratively deliver on a minimum viable product based upon learning and feedbackCreated a value stream mapping experience based upon improving flow and identifying wasteCreated an open space experience to improve on site gathering and turbo charge collaboration among associatesCreated a world café experience to improve on problem solving through cross functional collaborationWorking on a product centric refresher experience to increase understanding of product centric principles and to advocate that product centric ideas build upon an understanding of agile values and principles.

Coaching ScrumMasters, Product Owners, and Teams to embrace agile concepts to achieve high performance.Created and Facilitated two Open Space activities to increase engagement at all levels of our organization.

ScrumMaster of a Foundation team creating Kafka and Redhat SSO solutions for HealthPartnersScrum evangelist for continuous improvement, empowered teams, and minimum viable bureaucracyTechnical evangelist for continuous deployment and automationJava 11, hibernate, REST, Kafka, Strimzi (Kafka on Kubernetes), OpenShift

Consultant for Solution Design Group at a major health care companySoftware Lead and Scrummaster of 6 person (developer and QA) team of consultant and full-time staffSpringBoot, Java 8, Spring Security, Hibernate (using Oracle), Junit using Mockito, JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence

Scrum and Java Web Consultant for Solution Design Group at an information security companyConsulting on current team Scrum practices and suggesting process and software development improvements.Serving as Scrummaster of Java web development groupServing as Scrum consultant to other development teams, including consulting on best practices in software deliveryServed as Chief ScrumMaster in Scrum of Scrums environment, including setting up the multiple team environmentServed as a Product Owner for a 4 month sub-projectJava 7, Hibernate (SQL Server), Spring, Spring Security, Angular, Activemq

Consultant for Solution Design group at a major law services provider

Consultant for Solution Design Group at a major health care companySoftware Lead and Scrummaster of 6 person (developer and QA) team of consultant and full-time staffIntroducing Scrum to aid in iterative re-write of PC based application into an enterprise Java Web applicationDatabase design (Oracle), Hibernate, Struts 2.0, Junit using Mockito

ScrumMaster of 6 person Scrum feature team (developers and QA staff)Designing and developing new features for a multiple tier call center web application with Java/JavaScript against an Oracle database using a Spring Framework loaded IBM Websphere application serverServed as release lead for several production releases (responsible for hitting schedules, ensuring up-time of QA environment, and timely resolution of defects)

ScrumMaster of 8 person off-shore Scrum feature team (developers and QA staff)Designing and developing new features for a multiple tier mission control web environment with Java/JavaScript against a SQL Server database using a Spring Framework loaded Resin application serverDesigning and developing new features for mobile application (cell phone) software using Java with J2ME as well as C# using the compact .NET frameworkAwarded the Gearworks 2007 “Code of Honor” Award

Re-designed via object oriented technologies a multiple tier web environment with Java, JavaScript, HTML, and open source tools to support intelligence gathering activities for counter-narcotics operationsLead engineer in charge of relational database design using Oracle 10g, along with object oriented database access layer written in Java 1.4 using SQLLead engineer in charge of setting up software utilities for software version control (Subversion), software building (Ant), automated unit testing (JUnit), database administration (Oracle 10g), and application server administration (JBoss)Assisted in customer interfacing to develop requirements and prioritize tasking

Managed a department of 1 hardware and 3 software engineers including hiring of staff, manpower planning, and collaborating with parent company in Denmark to coordinate development tasksManaged a $10M systems design and integration project (proprietary)Served as the primary technical liaison with customer to address technical issues and ensure successful completion of project deliverablesAssisted in securing project funds to achieve corporate revenue goalsManaged 4 system implementations and deliveries totaling ~ $2 million. Project management responsibilities included on-site test data collection, equipment procurement, software development, hardware/software integration, delivery, installation, and customer support. Project teams consist of 2 to 4 individualsPrimary technical liaison with end-user customer and team membersDesigned and coded C++ software to decode telecommunications data; wrote decoders and made GUI modifications to existing infrastructure

Performed on multiple development teams to design, code, and module test softwareCoded object oriented C++ software for an active sonar acoustic processing system using open source CORBA methodologyCoded Java for a large-scale military personnel and equipment deployment system; Java coding included an SQL interface to Oracle database using J2EE enterprise beansEvaluated software and hardware integration and factory acceptance testing to include training to Japanese end-usersServed as lead software developer to support integration tests and operational sea tests involving US Navy assets and partner contractors