Brian Robinson

Current

Director of Services at Alfresco

Past

ScrumMaster and Senior Technologist at Ringside Networks
ScrumMaster and Senior Consultant at Accenture
Senior Consultant at Gestalt, LLC

President at Robinson Technology Group (Sole Proprietorship)
Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard
Software Engineer at Bluestone Software

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Education

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden
The College of New Jersey

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Industry

Computer Software

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Brian Robinson’s Summary

ScrumMaster with extensive agile process design, modeling, planning, training, and execution experience. Also a technology leader with deep technical expertise in social networking technologies and enterprise middle-ware written in Java, PHP, .NET, and related technologies.

Brian Robinson’s Specialties:

Agile process implementation, facilitation, and training, social web technologies including Facebook API and social payment, continuous integration, test driven development, service oriented architecture, asynchronous systems, web services, Java, PHP, .NET. CMMI v1.1 and 1.2.

Brian Robinson’s Experience

Director of Services

Alfresco

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

Pre-Sales: Assist and educate customers and partners as to the details and best practices of implementing Alfresco. Serve as liaison with customers, partners, engineering and product management to communicate requirements and feature requests.

Post-Sales: Serve as a billable resource to partners and/or customers during the early stages of implementation to serve the customer's best interest during the critical planning stages and ensure that the implementation plan makes sense, and uses Alfresco as it was designed to be used with minimal risk to any future upgrades or conflicts with Alfresco's roadmap.

Work with partners and perhaps the open source community in developing new extensions, features, samples, etc. that can be contributed back to the Alfresco Open Source project.
ScrumMaster and Senior Technologist

Ringside Networks

(Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — August 2008 (6 months)

Worked with team to identify, prioritize, and deliver functionality for Ringside Social Application Server. Responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, integration, and testing of the Ringside social payment service, commenting system, and various social tags. Delivered documentation and training, recorded and published demonstration screencasts, and published commentary on various aspects of the burgeoning social web.

Served as ScrumMaster for the team, facilitating bi-weekly beta release planning, daily stand up meetings, and various process related activities.
ScrumMaster and Senior Consultant

Accenture

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — March 2008 (3 months)

ScrumMaster for Process Improvement Team, facilitating daily stand up meetings, planning for bi-weekly sprints, and monthly sprint reviews and retrospectives.

Responsible for the software process improvement lifecycle, including process definition, pilot, training, deployment, and change management, specifically regarding architecture, design, and coding processes.
Senior Consultant

Gestalt, LLC

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 10 months)

•Defined processes that satisfy the requirements of CMMI in consultation with subject matter experts by facilitating workshops
•Defined and implemented organizational process deployment strategies
•Defined, developed, piloted, trained, and deployed process documentation for organizational training, decision making and evaluation, peer review, and testing
•Architected, designed, implemented, and tested solutions for the DoD, including XML compression solutions, a publish and subscribe system, and a service discovery service in the context of our Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution.
•Mentored and coached a team of engineers in test driven development, object oriented design, design patterns, and java programming
•Introduced automated unit and integration testing tools and practices into the development process and led the way to implementation and adoption
President
Robinson Technology Group (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years)

Provide top quality technology solutions, training, and services to clients in the marketing industry.
Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 11 months)

•Worked collaboratively with teammates utilizing XP practices
•Implemented relationship service as per Web Service Management Framework(WSMF) specification (prior to it being submitted to the WSDM working group at the W3C)
•Designed and implemented relationship discovery strategy framework and implementations for WSMF
•Designed and implemented distributed automated acceptance and unit test suites for four different product releases including Total-e-Server, HP Application Server, and HP Web Services Management Engine(WSME)
•Designed and implemented internationalized logging and exception framework for WSME and WSMF
•Designed and implemented web application enabling provisioning and subscription to web services
•Implemented JMX based administration service for a clustered application server environment
•Implemented an encryption service for HPAS using JCE (Java Cryptography Extensions)
•Implemented and maintained HPAS 8.0, most commonly but not limited to the JSP/Servlet engine
Software Engineer

Bluestone Software

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 2 months)

• Designed, implemented, and maintained technical web site (http://developer.bluestone.com) with MVC architecture using JSP and Taglib technology
• Developed, packaged, tested, maintained, and delivered JSP custom tag library for Total-e-Server
• Alternate speaker at JavaOne Developer Conference 2001 – “Writing Advanced Taglibs”
• Developed several tutorials delivered as part of the first evaluation version of Total-e-Server

Brian Robinson’s Education

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden

MBA , Management, Marketing , 2005 — 2011 (expected)

Currently taking courses toward an MBA with a dual specialization in management and marketing.

Activities and Societies:

Founding member of MBA Student Advisory Council
The College of New Jersey

BS , Computer Science , September 1996 — May 2000

Activities and Societies:

Computer Science Honor Society, Volleyball Club