Professional Roles

Following is a list of professional roles I have successfully fulfilled throughout my career.  The timeframe for some of these roles overlap (i.e. I concurrently fulfilled the roles of Leader and Trainer).

Leader (10+ years)

Provided individual leadership to hundreds of software professionals and team leadership to over a dozen software/firmware development teams. Led the delivery of system, service, and application software through the development of technical solutions, the adoption of software processes, and commitment to quality, schedule, and scope. Leadership experience includes coaching for the Intel® Software Academy and sharing expertise through conference presentations, coaching, training, and blogs as a member of the Intel® Agile Coaching Network.

Manager (3+ years)

Managed 60+ software professionals as a 1st and 2nd level manager, while achieving short and long-term strategic planning, risk management, staffing, training, mentoring, career development, performance evaluations, and delivery on commitments with annual budgets of $1.2M and $5.8M.

Engineer (3+ years)

Designed, built, and delivered high quality software using engineering principles to ensure compliance to predefined quality models, including characteristics of extensibility, resiliency, scalability, and security.

Developer (10+ years)

Implemented and tested application, service, and database software to fulfill enterprise, business, and regulatory requirements.

Scrum Master (10+ years)

Coaching software development teams in living the values and principles of Agile to satisfy customers’ needs, along with technical practices to ensure that the products will easily support changes so they can continue to meet those customers’ needs throughout their lifetime. This is accomplished through continuous development of an Agile and DevOps mindset, while focusing the team on technical excellence.

Trainer (8+ years)

Developing and leading training programs to uplift individual and team capabilities in various technical disciplines, including software engineering, eXtreme Programming (XP), Agile, and DevOps.  These courses are listed on the Teaching tab.