Roger Brown

Roger Brown

Agile Coach at Ciber, Inc.

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
  • Principal Member, Technical Staff (Agile Coach) at Systems and Software Consortium
  • Senior Software Engineeer at TeleAtlas, Inc.
  • Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Education
  • Dartmouth College
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
Connections
153 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Roger Brown’s Summary

My current career track is to improve my skills and add to my experience as an agile coach.

Roger Brown’s Specialties:

Agile coaching, Certified Scrum Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, Trainer in Agile Software Development and Test Driven Development, Software Engineer


Roger Brown’s Experience

  • Agile Coach

    Ciber, Inc.

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CBR; Management Consulting industry)

    July 2008Present (1 year 1 month)

    I am an agile coach at Ciber, Inc. working on all manner of agile projects and adoption programs in many diverse locations. I have been writing software for decades, working in agile environments for the past 4 years. I have been a player/coach in two prior environments, big old Microsoft and little old TeleAtlas.

    I recently helped with the Certified Scrum Coach program effort.

    My favorite agile coaching activity is training people in Test Driven Development and automated acceptance testing.

    My personal website is www.agilation.com.

    My blog is www.agilecoachjournal.com.

  • Principal Member, Technical Staff (Agile Coach)

    Systems and Software Consortium

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2006July 2008 (2 years 1 month)

    I was involved with agile adoption at two large corporations, one in banking and one in gaming. I also helped design an agile process for a non-software group at another gaming company.

    I also developed and delivered agile training seminars for consortium members in the government contracting domain.

  • Senior Software Engineeer

    TeleAtlas, Inc.

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

    July 2005July 2006 (1 year 1 month)

    Engineer on two agile teams and part time agile coach.

  • Software Engineering Lead

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2003July 2005 (2 years 7 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Vicinity Corporation

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; VCNT; Internet industry)

    June 2001December 2002 (1 year 7 months)

    Java web apps and technology transfer.

  • Senior Software Engineeer

    Dartmouth College

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

    June 1987January 1995 (7 years 8 months)

    Academic Computing.
    Macintosh developer.
    InterNews newreader
    Dartmouth XMCD's


Roger Brown’s Education

  • Dartmouth College

    19741977

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    BA , Environmental Studies , 19681974


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Roger Brown’s Interests:

Agile software development, Test Driven Development, Agile coaching, Guitar

Roger Brown’s Honors:

1992 MacUser Shareware of the Year, Second Place, for InterNews, a Mac usenet newsreader. First place was a little program called NCSA Mosaic. Ever heard of it?


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