Troy Whelan is a Systems Development Manager at Virginia Employment Commission. He possess expertise in sdlc, risk management, integration, agile methodologies, vendor management and 34 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Troy is well suited for the Tech lead role. He is very analytical and both a contributor and active listener to discussions. He helps the team come to good technical decisions. Troy communicates technical information in an easy to understand way using analogies, humor and logic. Troy is able to influence team members and vendors to get the work done in a quality way. Troy has a nice way about him of explaining a need and getting performers to buy in to what needs to be done. He is analytic, credible and respectful in his communication which helps to get others to cooperate. He uses humor, logic and respect with persistence to achieve his goals. Troy operates well in an agile environment. He tends to take the lead role amongst the team members during Planning. He is very active in contributing to retrospectives and in defining norms in order to improve the team. His status updates are comprehensive and useful. Troy wants to make sure the project is doing the right thing. He is very quality oriented and wants to make sure the project has a good audit trail. He is very cooperative in terms of meeting deadlines and following requests. He tries to identify gaps on the project and fill in. He is less concerned about whether it is his role as he is that the work gets done and gets done right. He is good at following up on individuals to try to keep them on track. Troy is not territorial and is a true team player. He looks out for others on the team and helps them out. Where needed, he has even volunteered to work the weekends to fill in a gap. He is a hard worker willing to rise to the demands at hand. He is a very strong performer." and "I have worked with Troy for many years and found him to be a very dedicated and knowledgeable person. He is very easy to work with and open to ideas for different solutions. AS Troy was raised to management positions I saw him to be a fair individual."