Peter Walen Email & Phone Number

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Work with teams to transition to an Agile approach beyond empty ceremonies, deliver value to business customers and help them support the organization's customers. Additionally, develop and grow quality practices in software development beyond simple unit tests, and apply practices in an Agile environment using the Scrum framework.

Napa, Ca, Us

Working as a contractor with a very diverse and interesting group of people focused on making software to allow their company to better serve their customers. While engaged in testing a major software customization and implementation, Review and Evaluate full strategic test considerations and improvements: Regression Test development and management; Smoke Test evaluation and improvement; Performance Testing definition and measures; End-to-End Testing evaluation, structure and planning. Contracted through TEKSystems.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

In a significant ERP (SAP) implementation project in a mixed waterfall and SAFe (SCRUM) environment, plan and direct testing work, focusing on cross-team communication and accurately reporting state of the project;Structure work with teams in SAFe using SCRUM practices sand Agile principles;Plan, guide and direct testing work, focusing on cross-team communication and accurately reporting state of the project, Influence work effort without direct or positional authority.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Worked as a ScrumMaster/Agile Coach guiding a talented group of engineers at Ford Motor Company and helping them migrate to an Agile (SCRUM) model in automotive engineering.Developed team specific Agile/Scrum training emphasizing the Agile Principles, how the Ceremonies relate to the Principles, and how these relate to the team's day to day job.Coached engineers, product owners and managers on working successfully in an Agile Engineering Environment.Facilitate, guide and shape Agile ceremonies including standups, retrospectives and PI planning.Lead transition from a traditional engineering environment to an Agile Engineering environment.

Embedded Quality Engineer with Messaging API team, worked to improve quality techniques, coach engineers on effective software testing practices, coach team in Agile concepts involving Scrum; deep dive testing.Guided team and novice scrum master in practical Agile concepts and methods to ensure a smooth transition into Scrum:Mentored novice ScrumMaster in responsibilities, including running Scrum ceremonies;Coached engineers on working successfully in Scrum.Worked to improve quality support techniques by applying Whole Team quality as an embedded quality engineer with API dev team.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Developed and grew test practices, coaching testers, developers and managers on what good testing can, and does, look like. Improved testing for production release and pre-release work to reduce risk once the software was in production. Working with a talented and dedicated group of quality and software professionals to advance practices from being adoptive to truly innovative.

Assessed test practices of client companies, introducing context driven testing concepts and exploratory testing approaches. Demonstrated alternative approaches to improve test techniques while working side-by-side with testers. Coached testers in Scrum practices and working in an Agile environment and guided test teams to make as smooth and practical an Agile transformation as possible.

Coral Gables, Florida, Us

Software Testing & Process Improvement.(ACI Worldwide acquired ISD Corporation March, 2011,)Accomplishments: • Drove efforts at testing and software delivery continuity after the acquisition; • Supported team members in using Exploratory Testing approaches in controlled environments;• Won ACI Employee Engagement Award;

Software Testing, Test Process Improvement work. Administration of HP (Mercury) Quality Center.Accomplishments: • Instituted changes to test practices for measurable gains in time spent testing and reduction of defects found at customer sites; • Introduced Exploratory Testing approaches in concert with scripted practices;• Investigated and introduced techniques benefitting organization’s development process;• Testing in Linux and Windows environments with Oracle, MS SQL and DB2 DBMS;

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Software Testing work with growing company, with a focus on improved test practices targeted to increase customer satisfaction.

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Initiated the first formal Software QA organization and practices for the company, including document reviews and inspections, test lab creation, test case creation and inspection, exploratory testing and process improvement techniques. Directed release readiness evaluations for major projects and oversaw implementation when needed.When needed, used the QA experience to work as Project Manager and Business Analyst in support of the PMO.

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Software development work on mainframes (COBOL) and unix systems, working as a senior software developer.

East Lansing, Mi, Us

Software design and development work (COBOL) for student records system at a large university.

Allendale, Mi, Us