Agile Coach, SOA Architect, Trainer & Mentor
Greater Omaha Area
- Current
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- Agile Coach at OPPD
- Agile Coach at Northern Natural Gas (NNG)
- Agile Coach & Trainer at Mutual of Omaha
- Agile Coach & Trainer at Valmont Industries
- V.P. Training & Development - Agile Coach at ASC Information Technology
- Past
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- Web Architect at Omnium Worldwide Inc
- Sr Software Engineer at Priority Technologies Inc
- J2EE Instructor -Part-Time at Nebraska Business Development Center
- Web Developer at GiftCertificates.com
- Oracle/Software Developer at OPPD
- Education
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- University Of Nebraska at Omaha
- Kirkwood Community College
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
Sally Elatta’s Summary
Ms. Elatta has an extensive background in software development, consulting, mentoring, course development and training. She is experienced in Architecting, Developing and Mentoring clients on SOA, Agile/Scrum, Java and .Net technologies.
As a trainer, she has helped companies upgrade the skill set of their employees by designing custom programs tailored to each company and each individual student and includes an individual assessment, self study resources, courses and a final project. Sally has received extremely high ratings and excellent feedback on the results of this type of training program. She has delivered many Java, .Net, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile courses to various companies. Her passion for seeing her students succeed contributes greatly to her success as a trainer.
As a consultant and coach, she has helped many organizations transition to using new technologies by coaching them through the process. Sally has done well mentoring various technical team members at any level (beginner to Sr engineers) and has also helped coach business analysts, project managers and senior executives on adopting these new technologies to their projects and culture.
As a speaker she is involved in presenting various seminars for conferences, user groups, public seminars held at ASCIT's site and many custom seminars for various clients.
She has worked with medium, large and fortune 500 clients and helped them take advantage of the power of Agile development and Service Oriented Architecture and worked with issues such as governance, service identification, agile acceptance in a waterfall culture and many others.
Sally Elatta’s Specialties:
SCRUM Master certification. SCRUM Certified Practitioner, Agile Development and Coaching, Java and .Net Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation, Java and .Net training & mentoring, Websphere Certified Specialist, RAD Certification, Sun Java Certified Programmer, ASP.net Microsoft Certification.
Sally Elatta’s Experience
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Agile Coach
OPPD
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry)
January 2008 — Present (7 months)
Helped coach the first pilot agile team to apply agile and scrum practices to their project which involved a large backlog of ongoing bugs and enhancements. Worked with a great ScrumMaster who is very passionate about Agile and he has a great team too. The collaboration of the product owner and collaboration within the team is key to the success of this group.
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Agile Coach
Northern Natural Gas (NNG)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
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Agile Coach & Trainer
Mutual of Omaha
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
July 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)
- Introduced Agile and Scrum to the organization and provided a popular 2 day Agile course to a large number of individuals. Currently responsible for coaching ScrumMasters on several pilot projects. Also provided a 1 day intensive Agile training for executive level management. Working with the Agile Transition board to help with enterprise agile adoption.
- Developed a popular Java Journey intensive training program to upgrade the skills of large groups of employees with mainframe and legacy background to learning Java technologies. Program included personalized assessments, self study roadmaps, JSP, Struts, Architecture Patterns and Best Practices and an final end to end 3 week project. Advanced versions of the program are being developed. -
Agile Coach & Trainer
Valmont Industries
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Machinery industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
- Trained the Irrigation team on .Net technologies using our Employee Skills Upgrade program which included personalized assessments, self study resources, classroom courses and a final project. Courses taught were ASP.net 2.0, .Net Architecture Patterns and Best Practices.
- Worked with the Irrigation team as an Agile Coach for their V20 project and helped with building the initial backlog of stories, story estimates, dependency and priority in addition to meeting with the team monthly to perform a planning session for each iteration.
- Recently introduced more formal Scrum techniques to the team who's manager is now a certified ScrumMaster and will continue to work with the 3 other ScrumMasters on implementing these techniques.
- Responsible for managing the implementation of an Agile Onshore project development effort at the ASCIT Development Center that will include coordination with an offshore team in India. -
V.P. Training & Development - Agile Coach
ASC Information Technology
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)
Consult and coach various clients on specific projects or general process improvement as needed. This may include providing Agile or SOA coaching, architecture guidance or review, mentoring developers on new technologies and so on.
Responsible for putting together public training seminars on Agile, SOA and other topics. Frequent guest speaker at conferences and various organizations.
Established the Training & Development Center for ASCIT. The center provides advanced training, coaching and in-house development services for clients.
Responsible for delivering Agile, SOA, .Net and J2EE training courses in addition to developing custom courseware on specialized topics.
Responsible for providing a specialized one on one skill assessment service for employees to gauge their current level. Deliver a customized learning roadmap based on assessment findings.
Founder of the Omaha Agile Development user group. http://www.omahaagiledevelopment.org -
Web Architect
Omnium Worldwide Inc
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Responsible for overseeing company web projects which include development using J2EE and .Net technologies. Developed methodologies and processes for web project development and management which are based on the RUP process. Responsible for gathering requirements via use cases, analysis, architecture & development of projects requested within the time and budget constraints.
Responsible for training and mentoring developers on J2EE technologies using WebSphere Studio Development Client (WSDC) as the IDE and WAS for iSeries as the server. Developed 1 week courses that included: J2EE overview, JSPs, Servlets, WSAD intro and advanced, Advanced Java, iSeries Development with WDSC, Web Services. Responsible for aiding with the design of an integration system that can interface with the web and integrate with the various software and legacy systems using web services, BizTalk and .Net technologies. -
Sr Software Engineer
Priority Technologies Inc
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 1 month)
Involved in the analysis, design, and development of J2EE applications for clients. Responsibilities have included requirements gathering, Use Case elaboration, designing UML sequence and class diagrams, developing JSP pages using struts framework, developing Servlets (struts actions), developing EJBs for the business and data tier, connecting to legacy systems or rational databases, supporting the Meteor project which is based on Web Services. Developed the business and data tier logic using Stateless beans and Entity beans. The architecture incorporates many of the proven J2EE patterns. Additional duties involved training and mentoring client developers on J2EE technologies and methodologies throughout the project. Also, delivered onsite and open enrollment hands-on training for clients such as FDR, First National, UP, Mutual of Omaha, Borders and many others . An active member in the industry by presenting seminars at organization such as the WebSphere User Group in Omaha.
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J2EE Instructor -Part-Time
Nebraska Business Development Center
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Ms. Elatta co-developed the a J2EE endorsement program for NBDC including all course materials for the JSP, Servlet and JMS classes.
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Web Developer
GiftCertificates.com
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1999 — July 2001 (1 year 10 months)
Primary responsibility was supporting and developing the B2C e-commerce order process for the GiftCertificates.com website including the shopping cart, my account, checkout and online catalog features using primarily java servlets. Also developed and maintained some Cold Fusion pages for the previous website using custom tags, server side includes, and WDDX connecting to java servlets.
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Oracle/Software Developer
OPPD
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Developed procedures , functions, Reports and Forms to support the Surge Guard system using PL/SQL, Oracle Forms (Developer2000), Reports, and Query Builder. Provided database analysis and design using Designer 2000 and Rational Rose for creation of DFD, ERD, process flow, and use case diagrams. Additionally, provided system implementation, testing, and User Guide development. Responsibilities included data conversion from mainframe flat file system to a relational database (Oracle) system for the Surge Guard system in addition to aiding in the creation of JSP & Cold Fusion websites for various small projects that were posted to the intranet.
Sally Elatta’s Education
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University Of Nebraska at Omaha
BS, MIS, July 1998 — December 1999
Dean List student, 3.78 GPA
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Kirkwood Community College
AS, Computer Science, July 1995 — June 1998
Dean List Student, GPA 3.6
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Additional Information
Sally Elatta’s Interests:
Love traveling and seeing new places, enjoy music & culture. Active realestate investor. Enjoy reading technical books and keeping up with new technologies and trends.
