
Consulting, Leadership, Guidance - Lean Software Production, Agile Development
Austin, Texas Area

Consulting, Leadership, Guidance - Lean Software Production, Agile Development
Austin, Texas Area
I am a software product designer, developer, and agile coach living in Austin, TX.
I speak at software industry conferences and teach agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US and Canada.
I'm the founder of the AgileATX community of agile software practitioners in Austin.
I'm the organizer of the ALT.NET Open Space and Kaizen conferences in Austin, and I served as the content chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, as well as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee.
I am a recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award.
.NET; Ruby; Rails; Software product design, analysis, requirements, implementation, testing, team organization, and lifecycle; Web; Data access and databases; Data Modeling; Domain Modeling; User Experience and Customer Experience review; Agile Planning and Development; Lean Software Production; Test-Driven Development; Continuous Integration; Behavior-Driven Development; Windows; Mac.
(Computer Software industry)
January 1990 — Present (18 years 7 months)
Software development, production, design, architecture, and teamwork and methodology guidance for organizations including VersionOne, McLane Advanced Technologies, Microsoft, Baker-Hughes, Zep Manufacturing, Chevron Canada, Environmental Resource Management, Harte-Hanks, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Juvenile Protection Commission, Dovetail Software, Pluck, Triangle Technology.
Founder and Officer, Austin Agile (AgileATX) Group, Founder and Officer, San Antonio Windows Developer Association, Founder and Officer, Austin .NET User Group; Founder and Officer, Austin Software Architecture User Group; Committee Chair, INETA Speakers Bureau
MVP for C#, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Certified Scrum Master