John Boal CSM, TDD

Current

Test-Driven Developement Lead at Velocity Partners

Past

Development Lead, CSM at SolutionsIQ
SDE, CSM at Microsoft
Contract SDE at Microsoft

SDE at Immersant
Owner at Boal Consulting
Developer at Premera Blue Cross
Software Engineer at Rockwell

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Education

California State University-Fullerton
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Webb School

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Industry

Computer Software

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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 2008 — Present (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 2007 — February 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 2003 — May 2007 (4 years 3 months)

Software Development Engineer
Contract SDE

Microsoft

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

January 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 3 months)
SDE

Immersant

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

April 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 10 months)

SDE, software architect
Owner

Boal Consulting

(Computer Software industry)

1996 — 2000 (4 years)
Developer

Premera Blue Cross

(Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Software Engineer

Rockwell

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

April 1991 — August 1996 (5 years 5 months)

John Boal CSM, TDD’s Education

California State University-Fullerton

Certificate, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, 1993 — 1994

Activities and Societies:

Certificate award in OOA & OOD
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

BS, Computer Science, 1983 — 1991
Webb School