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I have 15 years of highly
technical experience as a successful software developer, leader, architect,
and consultant. In my current position, I am responsible for advising and
leading entire project teams through organizational transitions to an agile
style of development. I currently travel the world teaching, mentoring,
programming, and consulting on all things agile. |
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Experience |
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Nov 2002 to
Present |
Agile Solutions Group,
Principal Consultant. Principal consultant for St. Louis based firm specializing
in helping companies and project teams transition to agile methodologies, including
Extreme Programming. Responsibilities include coaching business community to leverage agile
practices in their project management and mentoring development staff in learning agile
programming practices and object oriented programming.
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March, 1999 to
Nov, 2002 |
Object Mentor,
Inc, Senior Consultant. One of five very senior consultants who travel
the world, teaching our clients about agile development. Typically the
first company representative on site with client. Responsible for teaching
language, OO, and agile development courses, mentoring developers, and
helping entire organizations transition to agile development. While not
at a client site, work independently to create new classes, learn new
technology, write, and participate in community forums. Recent highlights
include:
MAJOR INSURANCE COMPANY - Involved with transitioning this organization
to Extreme Programming. Assignment began with a 4-day Extreme Programming
Immersion course, and continued with on-site coaching and mentoring
in Extreme Programming practices, team building, agile testing.
EMBEDDED SYSTEM CONSULTING - Client developing embedded consumer device.
Taught client manager incremental planning techniques to solve problem
of chronically late deliveries with uncertain quality and content. Also
coached and mentored all programmers on team in object-oriented programming
techniques, test driven development, and C++.
SHRINK-WRAPPED SECURITY APPLICATION - Responsible for transitioning three
different client teams to Extreme Programming methodology. Worked with
project management, quality assurance, and programmers to teach appropriate
agile development skills to each group. Helped project management plan
project incrementally. Worked closely with all developers to teach them
pair programming, test driven development, and refactoring. All code was
written in Java in a web-based environment.
E-COMMERCE XP TRANSITION - Worked with business coach to transition
team from traditional phased development methodology to XP. Involved working
with all levels from CEO to developers to assist in transition. Organized
release and iteration planning meetings, trained on-site coaches and developers
in XP practices, participated in pair-programming, advised on all technical
issues.
WEB-BASED PROVISIONING SYSTEM - Responsible for leading successful implementation
of 3-tier Java web project for cell-phone provider. Involved sole responsibility
for architecture definition, OO and language training and mentoring, assigning
tasks to developers, pair-programming and coaching developers, and interface
to management.
COURSES TAUGHT - Principles of Object Oriented Development with UML,
Advanced Object Oriented Design, Test Driven Development, Refactoring,
Extreme Programming Immersion, C++, Java. |
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Oct., 1997 to
March, 1999
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Insight Technology
Group, Inc., Senior Consultant. Led several different teams on C++
projects. Responsibilities included being lead consultant on site, OO consultant
for major defense contractor, and architect in charge of data transformation
effort for major reinsurance firm. |
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| 1995 to 1997 |
BABware Consulting
Services, Inc., Owner. Consultant to Xerox to assist in development
of control software for new line of digital copiers. Software was developed
in C++ using strong object oriented practices, including adherence to Booch
Methodology. Duties included high level analysis, design, implementation,
and testing of several major subsystems, OO mentoring and advising, and
dependency analysis. |
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| 1994 to 1995 |
Centennial and Associates,
Inc., Senior Systems Analyst. Responsible for initial systems engineering
of Network Security subsystem in NASA-JSC Consolidated Control Center. Responsible
for requirements definition, risk analysis, and design used to protect network
integrity during Space Shuttle missions. Delivered presentation of results
to NASA department heads. |
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| 1991 to 1994 |
Western Geophysical,
Design Engineer. Responsible for networking, communication, and process
initiation software on two different products. Work done in C++ using strong
OO design skills. |
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| 1990 to 1991 |
Oxford and Associates,
Inc., Software Engineer. Responsible for networking control software
used to control workstation connectivity at NASA-JSC Control Center. |
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| 1987 to 1990 |
Systems Application
Engineering, Inc., Systems Analyst. Responsible for designing relational
database layout and applications software for automation of oil and gas
production fields in C/Unix/Unify environment. |
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| Community
Involvement |
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| 2003 |
Program Committee,
Agile Development Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June.
Tutorial Chair, XP/Agile Universe Conference, New Orleans, LA, August.
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| 2002 |
A Gentle Introduction
to Extreme Programming, ITEC Conference, St. Louis, May.
Developing
Wireless Applications Using Extreme Programming, Embedded Systems Conference,
Chicago, June.
Tutorial Chair, XP/Agile Universe Conference, Chicago, IL, August.
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| 2001 |
Program Committee, XP/Agile Universe
Conference, Cary, NC, August.
Founder and Leader, XPSTL, Extreme Programming in St. Louis User Group.
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| 1997 to 1999 |
Product Review Editor,
C++ Report Magazine. |
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| Skills |
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| Languages: |
Java, JSP, XML, HTML,
C++, Unix Shell (sh, bash), Ruby, Python, C#. |
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| Methodologies: |
Extreme Programming, Agile
Development, Iterative and Incremental Development, Test Driven Development,
Object Oriented Development. |
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| Education |
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| 1983 to 1987 |
Rice University, Houston,
TX, BSEE. |
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