Richard Lawrence

Current

Founder and Principal Consultant at Humanizing Work

Past

Solutions Manager - Agile Delivery at Avanade
Principal Solution Developer and Agile Solution Champion at Avanade
Conference Organizer at Front Range Code Camp

Director of Software Development at Pacific Dental Services
Technical Lead at SoftLead Technology Partners
Director of Technology at Lightwave Media

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Education

University of Denver
Biola University
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

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Richard Lawrence’s Summary

Experienced software developer, agile coach, and technical leader.

My passion is building wildly productive, humanizing software development teams. I love to create environments where developers wake up excited about going to work in the morning and see themselves delivering beyond their expectations and those of their customers. Agile methodologies like Extreme Programming and Scrum are key tools in my toolbox, although I like to draw from a variety of disciplines.

I am one of a handful of Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Coaches.

Selected Presentations:
"Three-way Cultural Change" at Agile 2006 Conference
"Continuous Integration in Under an Hour" at Front Range Code Camp
"XP and Junior Developers: 7 Mistakes (and how to avoid them)" at Agile 2007 Conference
"Agile for CS Students" at University of Colorado ACM Chapter Meeting
"Stealth Agile" at Agile Denver

Richard Lawrence’s Specialties:

Agile methodologies, build and test automation, developer productivity, software architecture, .NET, SQL Server

Richard Lawrence’s Experience

Founder and Principal Consultant

Humanizing Work

(Management Consulting industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

I help software organizations adopt processes in which high quality software, fast time to market, happy employees and customers, and solid ROI all reinforce one another. I build in continuous improvement practices so my clients get better and better over time in all these areas. To get there, I draw from agile processes like Scrum and XP, Lean Thinking, Theory of Constraints, psychology, anthropology, and more.
Solutions Manager - Agile Delivery

Avanade

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Principal Solution Developer and Agile Solution Champion

Avanade

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Responsible for project leadership, people management and mentoring, recruiting, and business development, as well as global thought leadership and evangelism around agile development at Avanade.
Conference Organizer

Front Range Code Camp

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — June 2006 (6 months)

Organized regional technology conference. Responsibilities included arranging speakers, marketing, web development, event logistics.
Director of Software Development

Pacific Dental Services

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

July 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Technical Lead

SoftLead Technology Partners

(Computer Software industry)

2002 — 2002 (less than a year)
Director of Technology

Lightwave Media

(Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

Richard Lawrence’s Education

University of Denver

Graduate Work (All but thesis) , International Studies , 2003 — 2005
Biola University

BA , Intercultural Studies , 1999 — 2002
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Civil Engineering 1997 — 1999

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Richard Lawrence’s Interests:

agile methodologies, coaching, international politics, international business, political philosophy, travel, music (guitar and mandolin), photography, tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, disc golf, wine, gourmet cooking