Eric Palmer

Accomplished, hands on executive & entrepreneur equally proficient in IT & business leadership. Proven ability to deliver results in a variety of environments ranging from start-ups to large, highly matrix-ed corporations.

• Volunteer Experience

  • Project and Robot Design Judge at State Championship, Regional Tournament Judge and Coordinator

    VADCFLL First Robotics

    • Science and Technology
    April 2006 – present (7 years 2 months)

    I coached an FLL team in 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011. I have been a tournament Judge for Projects and or Robot Design since 2007. I have helped coordinate the Deep Run High School regional tournament since 2010. I continue to judge, coordinate tournaments and mentor other coaches.
    
    Volunteer at FIRST Robotics World Championship in St. Louis.
    
    FIRST Robotics is K12 STEM!

• Volunteer Interests

  • Causes I care about:

    • Arts and Culture
    • Economic Empowerment
    • Education
    • Science and Technology

  • Organizations I support:

    • FIRST Robotics

1. Scrum
2. Certified Scrum Master CSM
3. Agile
4. Lifestyle Coaching
5. Goal Development
6. PHP
7. Oracle
8. Youth Mentoring
9. Mentoring
10. Groovy
11. Java
12. Certified Scrum Practitioner (expired)
13. FRC Robot Inspector
14. Google Analytics
15. Google Adwords
16. Apache httpd
17. Software Engineering
18. Software Development
19. Web Analytics
20. XML
21. XQuery
22. Team Leadership
23. Cross-functional Team Leadership
24. FLL Robotic Judge
25. Web Development
26. Semantic Web
27. Project R
28. RStudio
29. eXist-db
30. RDBMS
31. Zend Server
32. Law of Attraction
33. Medatation
34. FLL Judge
35. Java Spring
36. Higher Education
37. Amazon Cloud
38. Middleware
39. Agile Methodologies
40. Apache

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Interests:

21st Century Skills for K12 and College Students, Critical and Creative Thinking, Career Counseling, Life Coaching, Inspiration, Walking, Meditation, Reading, Photography, Web Technology, USFirst Robotics Competition, Community Service

Groups and Associations:

EDUCAUSE APLN - Agile Project Leadership Network (past) APLN Richmond Chapter Membership Chair (2007) OWASP - Open Web Application Security Project CIPP (2006-2008) - Certified Information Privacy Professional, International Association of Privacy Professionals CSM - Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance CSP - Certified Scrum Practitioner, Scrum Alliance (expired) Deep Run High School FIRST Robotics Team Mentor (team 1086) - Programming, Website, Build FIRST Robotics Coach, Mentor, Inspector, Field Controller & Judge (FLL, FTC & FRC) - 2006 - 2011 FIRST Robotics Lead Robot Inspector, VA/DC VCU Regional Tournament, 2010, 2011 FIRST Robotics Fund Raiser, Glen Allen High School FTC Team, 2010 Deep Run High School Parents Advisory Council (2007-2008) Deep Run High School PTSA Board Member (Scholarships) (2008-2009)

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  Agile Coaching
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  Ansible.cc
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  CAPITAL ONE CONNECTIONS
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  Capital One Alumni Network
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  Connected in Far West End - Richmond VA
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  FIRST
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  Global OWASP Foundation
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  Holistic Life Coaching and the Law of Attraction
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  Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
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  Innovative Learning & Education Innovators
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  Law of Attraction Deliberate Creators
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  Number Theory
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  Rachel's Challenge Group
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  Richmond, VA - Java Users Group
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  Robotics Education (for age groups 6- College levels)
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  TEI Annotator
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  Washington DC Area XML Users Group
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  Web 2.0 Strategies

Honors and Awards:

2013, 2011 FIRST Robotics FRC Chairman's Award 1086 Blue Cheese

2011 VADC Championship Tournament FLL FIRST ROBOTICS Research Innovation Award

2010 State Tournament VADC FLL FIRST ROBOTICS Judges Award for Robot Engineering and Teamwork

2010, 2011 Regional VADC FLL FIRST ROBOTICS High Score at Tournament

2010 Regional VADC FLL FIRST ROBOTICS Champion of the Tournament

2006 Regional VAFLL Best Robot Design

2006 2nd Best Regional VAFLL Robot Performance

2006 Regional VAFLL Coaches Award

2006 Capital One Process Excellence Honorable Mention Award - Security Breech Task Force

2006 Capital One Process Excellence Silver Process Excellence Award - Adverse Action Process

2006 Capital One Circle of Excellence Award - Adverse Action

2003 Capital One Circle of Excellence Award - Customer Identification Program

2004 Capital One Circle of Excellence Nomination - FACTA

1997 Netscape Extranet Hero award for Innovative Medical Internet application design

Various Other Awards