Agile Transition Specialist, Project Manager and Quality Lead
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Consultant at Tacit Knowledge
- Senior Consultant at Macy's
- Past
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- Senior Consultant at Kodak Gallery
- Agile Quality Lead at Santa Clara County / MW2
- Quality Lead for HP SOA Manager at MW2 at HP
- Project Manager - Agile Coach / Test Automation Specialist at MW2 Consulting/HP
- Quality Engineer at Business Signatures
- Project manager at Cisco
- Test Automation Specialist at Bank of America
- Validation and Verification at LogicHouse
- Automation Specialist (Contract) at Adobe
- Senior Member of Technical Staff at COVAD
- Lead QA Engineer at Pensare
- QA Automation Specialist at PeopleSoft
- Lead QA Engineer at Apple Computer
- QA Engineer Mac OS Test Team (Contractor ) at Apple Computer
- Education
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- Scrum Alliance
- University of California, Santa Barbara
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Dennis Britton’s Summary
Successful, value producing software development is about continually listening to what the customer wants, knowing what the team can do, setting clear and realistic expectations, and ensuring true collaboration. I'm committed to facilitating sustainable teamwork and technology that delivers commanding customer value of the highest quality.
Dennis Britton’s Specialties:
Certified ScrumMaster Practitioner, agile meeting and retrospective facilitation, lean flow analysis, quality engineering leadership , test automation design, agile project management, problem analysis, agile story writing and instruction, requirements gathering, test analysis and design, training and user manual design, specification writing, designing feature matrices, code reviewing, and designing use cases.
Dennis Britton’s Experience
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Senior Consultant
Tacit Knowledge
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
Agile coaching, quality engineering leadership, test automation design, testing for online retail clients and their eCommerce applications.
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Senior Consultant
Macy's
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; M; Retail industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
Consulting with this client for Tacit Knowledge
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Senior Consultant
Kodak Gallery
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; EK; Internet industry)
August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)
Consulting with this client for Tacit Knowledge. Provided quality engineering services for an eCommerce product catalog with an ATG core.
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Agile Quality Lead
Santa Clara County / MW2
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2006 — June 2007 (7 months)
* Responsible for agile quality and introducing agile practices on a project automating the tax collection system for Santa Clara county.
* Implemented Fitnesse automated acceptance testing, facilitated release and iteration planning meetings as well as retrospectives. -
Quality Lead for HP SOA Manager
MW2 at HP
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — December 2006 (2 months)
Consulting Quality lead for HP SOA Manager. Full quality responsibilities including planning, requirements gathering , testing and test automation.
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Project Manager - Agile Coach / Test Automation Specialist
MW2 Consulting/HP
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPW; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 1 month)
* Trained and assisted 50 person team, both local (Palo Alto) and offshore (India), in the transition to agile development practices for the HP Home and Home Office website (HPShopping.com).
* Facilitated release planning, daily Scrum meetings and release and iteration retrospectives.
* Created Ruby/Watir test suites allowing stable redesign of web e-commerce application. -
Quality Engineer
Business Signatures
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — September 2005 (1 year)
Quality engineer at a mature startup with complex enterprise java web traffic real-time analyzer and monitoring tool.
Responsibilities involving cross-platform load and functional test design and development. -
Project manager
Cisco
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2004 — September 2004 (3 months)
Project manager for quality group developing Oracle intranet applications.
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Test Automation Specialist
Bank of America
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
April 2004 — July 2004 (4 months)
Test automation specialist
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Validation and Verification
LogicHouse
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 6 months)
* Official code reviewer for formal J2EE Java and SQL code reviews resulting in improved readability of several hundred thousand lines of code.
* Maintained and reported detailed code review metrics leading to more focused developer training.
* Scripted automated test suites using WinRunner and SQL. -
Automation Specialist (Contract)
Adobe
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2001 — June 2002 (8 months)
Adobe Acrobat QE Solutions
* Test tools and QA workflow specialist, responsible for improving cross-platform workflow and web reporting for the Adobe Acrobat tools group.
* Integrated a Perforce version control system with a Vantive CRM bug database.
* Performed cross-platform testing and test porting between Mac OS9, OS X and Microsoft Windows. -
Senior Member of Technical Staff
COVAD
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 2000 — July 2001 (1 year)
* Led the Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) web application testing effort.
* Facilitated collaborative 3rd party, ISP, and call center quality effort that contributed to the successful implementation of Covad’s Web self-service product resulting in reduction of call center costs by 75%.
* Created a bug-catching automated test suite which enabled a fast pace of development even with advanced features such as call center chat and call dispositioning. -
Lead QA Engineer
Pensare
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1999 — August 2000 (10 months)
Role: quality leadership, load testing and code reviewing for an online MBA multimedia platform
* Comprehensive test planning
* Trained QA staff
* Provided valuable and timely feedback on The Sun IPlanet server and J2EE architecture performance to developers.
* Improved bug, build and task tracking workflow automation with Outlook/Exchange/VBA programming. -
QA Automation Specialist
PeopleSoft
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 10 months)
Role: Test lead and test programmer
* Trained and mentored 15 QA personnel on test automation.
* Created an 800 testcase automated test suite in Segue Silk for multiple PC and Mac clients resulting in 65% code coverage.
*Created SQL test scripts to verify database functionality.
* Worked with global Fortune 500 clients and level three technical support to resolve difficult software issues using test automation. -
Lead QA Engineer
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; APPL; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1994 — February 1996 (1 year 3 months)
Role: Test lead for Apple Printer Utility.
* Responsible for performance, compatibility, and functional testing of Apple printer driver software.
* Created Segue SilkTest automation suite for testing Apple Printer Utilities. -
QA Engineer Mac OS Test Team (Contractor )
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; APPL; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1993 — December 1994 (1 year 4 months)
Role: Test automation Specialist
* Prepared test plan for “Finder System Update 7.5.3”.
* Created performance and functional test automation for “Finder 7.5.3”.
* Created first test automation suite for Apple Guide online help using Applescript.
Dennis Britton’s Education
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Scrum Alliance
CSM-P , Scrum Agile Project Management , 2004 — 2004
The practitioner designation requires at least a year of experience practicing Scrum, writing of an essay describing lessons learned and evidence of contributing to the agile community.
- Activities and Societies:
- Certified ScrumMaster Practitioner. Original CSM 2 day training March 2004 in Santa Cruz, CA by Ken Schwaber
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Mechanical Engineering, Video Journalism, Programming 1978 — 1981
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