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An agile podcast, delivered by agile practitioners, focused on helping agile teams. Bob Galen and Josh Anderson use their decades of agile coaching experience to improve our listeners' need for agility and scale. The Meta-Cast's mission is to provide support, teaching, coaching, and advice to our thousands of monthly listeners so they can make their tomorrow better than today.Our 260+ episodes center around such items as Agile/Scrum, team building, management techniques, and various other items that affect anyone involved in software development. We also deliver multiple annual conference speaking engagements powered by our podcast content.

Established operational norms across the entire company. Developed the company’s first budget and forecasts. Created additional revenue streams, including launching a new product to market.

Established a world-class product function and transformed Storable into a product-driven organization. These foundational changes enabled our journey into 🦄unicorn🦄 status.

Responsible for all technology initiatives across the company, including product management, software engineering, IT operations, and production infrastructure. Our team revived a product that deteriorated to a point where sales and on-boarding were halted. Through process improvement , an architectural reset, and new development initiatives, we enabled sales to resume at a record pace.* Increased product performance by 90% with improved architecture and a new cloud infrastructure. * Reduced bugs(in both frequency and priority)by 63% through implementation of automated testing & CI/CD. * Reduced COGS by 25% through optimized cloud infrastructure in both AWS and Google Cloud platforms.* Reduced time/effort required to on-board a customer by 95%. * Reduced operational expenses by 22%.

Led a global engineering organization of over 100 engineers across 5 sites developing dozens of products serving millions of users. Supported the company's expansion through multiple acquisitions from technical due diligence to employee, team, and product integration.

Led the development of a platform, process, and team, all from scratch. In our first year, we grew from 1 engineer to over 30 engineers, shipped 5 products on a new platform, and implemented agile across 4 teams.

REAL's singular mission is to transform the Triangle region into the world's premier startup ecosystem. With a group of dedicated advisors across the full spectrum of your needs, REAL fuels your growth. We provide you with free space, coaching, and infrastructure for 90 days. We don't ask for a percentage of your company before we prove our worth. We add value instantly, no strings attached.

My primary focus is to provide thought-leadership in development of strategic direction and product innovation. Other areas of responsibility include process engineering, release engineering, test engineering, software engineering, and systems engineering (AKA DevOps).

Lead engineering organization in design, development, deployment, and maintenance of hundreds of market leading mobile applications. These applications service millions of users across the US and deliver billions of views annually. Areas of responsibility include process engineering, release engineering, test engineering, software engineering, and systems engineering (AKA DevOps). Provide thought-leadership in development of strategic roadmap and product innovation.

Lead multiple international engineering teams, composed of over 50 software engineers, in development of Teradata's market leading Inbound, Outbound, and Social CRM applications. Served as Teradata's primary Agile evangelist.

Managing multiple international engineering teams in continuous development of Teradata’s CRM and EMM applications.Serving as a key leader in the adoption of Agile/Scrum throughout Teradata. • Providing coaching for all teams with targeted instruction for key roles within the Scrum.• Leading teams in development and implementation of standardized Scrum procedures.

One of Inc. magazine’s top 5000 fastest growing private U.S. companies. Family Heritage is an industry leading supplemental insurance company providing protection, service and security to American families.• Primary job responsibilities include leading and managing all software development required for internal software applications, estimating budgets, and driving technological innovation across the corporation.• Established numerous sets of policies, procedures, and standards encompassing the following areas: coding standards, bug/enhancement tracking and prioritization, source code control, developer training, unit testing and hiring practices. • Built application development team from the ground up. The team currently consists of six developers with two additional positions in the process of being filled.

GameBanc Corporation is a multi-service Internet marketing company that assists its clients in developing programs designed to generate sales revenue, establish and maintain customer and partner relationships, and create marketing programs that will create and reinforce product awareness.• Responsible for all facets of web development & maintenance across all company owned web sites, which included Lottery.com, Cards.com, Gameland.com, Skillgames.com, & Dollarbill.com, with a combined registered user base of over 750,000 (as of my departure in March 2002).• Other responsibilities included estimating budgets, assigning work, monitoring project tasks and reporting project status.• Interfaced with clients to determine the project’s scope, milestones/deadlines, and requirements. Clients included Disney Internet Group, MSNBC, and Yahoo.

• Responsible for design, implementation, testing, and support of new and existing applications. • Created a company-wide standard implementing full life cycle development for all software projects. • Duties included analysis, requirements/design documentation, database design, GUI design, scope change/control, and support/maintenance.

Charlson Broadcast Technologies has long been a leader in the horse racing industry. Charlson pioneered the now common look of racing by developing software products that allowed the display of odds and other betting information on the television screens during live racing. Charlson continues to be a leader in live and simulcast television production.• Responsible for design, implementation, testing, and support of new and existing applications. • Authored company-wide coding standards. • Helped to establish full software development lifecycle (SDLC) using Booch OOA/D/P methodology. • Duties included analysis, requirements/design documentation, database design, GUI design, scope change/control, and support/maintenance.