John Boal CSM, TDD

John Boal CSM, TDD

Developement Lead at Velocity Partners

Greater Seattle Area

Current
  • Test-Driven Developement Lead at Velocity Partners
Past
Education
  • California State University-Fullerton
  • California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
  • Webb School
Connections
222 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

John Boal CSM, TDD’s Summary

Test-Driven Developer
Agile Development Proponent, Certified Scrum Master
Development Lead
Senior Software Development Engineer

John Boal CSM, TDD’s Specialties:

C#, Web Services, SQL Databases, XP/Scrum, ASP.NET web sites, DHTML, javascript, AJAX


John Boal CSM, TDD’s Experience

  • Test-Driven Developement Lead

    Velocity Partners

    (Computer Software industry)

    February 2008Present (10 months)

    Development lead for small embedded team in a young internet software development client. Am helping guide the client in their quest to apply agile software development and project management techniques to a once-waterfall shop. The product is a web 2.0 website for project management, sold as software as a service. Raising the bar on TDD, quality control, security, and quality assurance for the entire organization.

    Read my technical blogs at http://TestDrivenDeveloper.com and http://BitsNWidgets.com and my personal blog ag http://JBoal.com

  • Development Lead, CSM

    SolutionsIQ

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

    May 2007February 2008 (10 months)

    Development lead for several agile teams (using Scrum and XP). Paired programming, TDD, CI, collective code ownership, and quality by design are some of the tenents I used to guide my team. Gained the respect and admiration of all of my team members, peers, mentors, and management due to my efforts to raise the quality bar, and keep the customer's best interests first and foremost at all times.

  • SDE, CSM

    Microsoft

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

    March 2003May 2007 (4 years 3 months)

    Software Development Engineer

  • Contract SDE

    Microsoft

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

    January 2001March 2003 (2 years 3 months)

  • SDE

    Immersant

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 1999January 2001 (1 year 10 months)

    SDE, software architect

  • Owner

    Boal Consulting

    (Computer Software industry)

    19962000 (4 years)

  • Developer

    Premera Blue Cross

    (Computer Software industry)

    19961998 (2 years)

  • Software Engineer

    Rockwell

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

    April 1991August 1996 (5 years 5 months)


John Boal CSM, TDD’s Education

  • California State University-Fullerton

    Certificate, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, 19931994

    Activities and Societies:
    Certificate award in OOA & OOD
  • California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

    BS, Computer Science, 19831991

  • Webb School


Additional Information

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John Boal CSM, TDD’s Interests:

movies, camping, fishing, testing software until it says Uncle

John Boal CSM, TDD’s Groups:

Treasurer - Redmond Citizen Corps Council, Redmond Amateur Radio Emergency Services, Agile 2006

  •    Agile Alliance
  •    C# Professionals Group
  •    Agilistas
  •    Scrum Practitioners
  •    Microsoft Alumni (& Employees) + Microsoft Association
  •    Amateur Radio Emergency Communicator
  •    Agile Coaching
  •    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
  •    Agile Testing
  •    Agile .net Practitioners
  •    Amateur Radio Enthusiast
  •    eXtreme Programming (XP)
  •    Test Driven Developers
  •    Extreme Programming XP Seattle Area
  •    Agile Seattle

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