Gustavo Quiroz

Current

• Chief of Development at Systems Support & Services
• Senior Consultant at Open Edge Technologies

Past

• Solutions Architect & Agile Project Leader at Systems Support & Services
• Technical Leader at Synopsis

Education

• Leading Retrospectives for Agile Projects: Who, When, How
• Certified ScrumMaster Course
• Lean Software Development Practitioners Course

• Universidad del Pacífico
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Gustavo Quiroz’s Summary

I have played the roles of Software Developer, IBM WebSphere Specialist, Technical Leader, Software Architect and Project Leader in a wide variety of business and enterprise applications, specially among the banking, insurance and telecommunications industries. I am particularly interested in software architecture and servant leadership for teams in the context of agile software development environments. My teaching experience includes various Agile & Scrum training courses, more than ten official IBM Learning Courses and Teaching Assistant possitions at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. I am a Certified Scrum Practitioner and hold various IBM WebSphere/Rational/DB2/Lotus certifications.

Gustavo Quiroz’s Specialties:

leading, coaching, mentoring and training development teams, enterprise java application architecture, scrum, xp, lean thinking, design patterns, refactoring, JSE, JEE, SOA, WebSphere

Gustavo Quiroz’s Experience

• Chief of Development

  Systems Support & Services

  (Privately Held; Program Development industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Establish & evolve career path for software developers, Maintain training & certification strategy. Coaching and mentoring in software development methodologies, practices and techniques throughout all software development teams. Responsible for the knowledge management strategy and for recruiting & retaining talented people.

• Senior Consultant

  Open Edge Technologies

  (Privately Held; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Training & Consulting in Agile Software Development Methods & Practices: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean Software Development, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Refactoring

• Solutions Architect & Agile Project Leader

  Systems Support & Services

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 3 months)

  Sizing, estimation and software projects architecture definition, research of new technologies, leading, mentoring and coaching for software development teams and team leads. Led the initiative for using agile methods and practices on software projects.

• Technical Leader

  Synopsis

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 6 months)

  Software Architect, JEE and IBM WebSphere Specialist, Software Developer, IBM Learning Courses Instructor

Gustavo Quiroz’s Education

• Leading Retrospectives for Agile Projects: Who, When, How

  with Diana Larsen 2009 — 2009

• Certified ScrumMaster Course

  Certified ScrumMaster , 2008 — 2008

• Lean Software Development Practitioners Course

  with Mary and Tom Poppendieck 2008 — 2008

• Universidad del Pacífico

  Business Process Redesign , 2008 — 2008

  with Folke Kafka

• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

  Graduate , Informatics Engineering , 1997 — 2004

  2002 ACM South America International Collegiate Programming Contest, Honorable Mention
  2002 ACM Local Programming Contest, 2nd place

  Activities and Societies:

  Asociacion De Alumnos De Ingenieria Informatica (AAII), Academic Affairs Commission & Vicepresident

Additional Information

Gustavo Quiroz’s Websites:

• My Company

Gustavo Quiroz’s Interests:

software development, software architecture, software engineering, agile software development, enterprise applications, application integration, patterns, java technologies, music, drumming

Gustavo Quiroz’s Groups:

Spring User Group Peru, Agile Peru

•    Agile Alliance
•    Peru Professional Network - #1 Peruvian Group
•    Scrum Alliance, Inc.
•    Scrum Practitioners
•    Agiles
•    PUCP Alumni
•    Software construction process
•    Agile Coaching
•    Certified ScrumMasters
•    Scrum Manager
•    Certified Scrum Practitioners
•    Negocios de Tecnologia en Peru
•    Pensamiento Lean en las empresas
•    Lima Valley
•    Contratos Agiles

Gustavo Quiroz’s Honors:

Certified Scrum Practitioner
Certified ScrumMaster
IBM Certified SOA Associate
IBM Certified Solution Developer – XML and Related Technologies
IBM Certified Solution Designer – WebSphere MQ V5.3
IBM Certified Solution Developer – WebSphere MQ V5.3
IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Portal V5.1
IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0
IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server V5.0
IBM Certified Associate Developer – Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0
IBM Certified Solution Developer – WebSphere Portal V5.1
IBM Certified Enterprise Developer – WebSphere Studio V5.0
IBM Certified Solution Developer – WebSphere Studio V5.0
IBM Certified Associate Developer – WebSphere Studio V5.0
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform V1.4
IBM Certified Application Developer – DB2 UDB V8.1
IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 UDB V8.1 & DB2 9 Fundamentals

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