Other Skills

Agile

I have experience with the following processes:

  • Pair programming
  • Continuous integration
  • Sprint based development using Scrum
  • Kanban Board Management
  • Test driven development
  • Collecting and writing user stories
  • Custom reporting in Atlassian Tools (JIRA / Confluence / Bitbucket)

Project Management / Software Management

I have used the following tools for project management, quality assurance, bug tracking, client communication, and time management.

  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Atlassian Bitbucket (hosted and self-hosted)
  • Github
  • Redmine
  • BaseCamp
  • Toggl
  • Trello
  • FogBugz
  • Bugzilla

Public Speaking

Public speaking, especially educating a group on a topic is a lot of fun to me. Here is a list of places I’ve spoken or ran sessions

  • KazooCon 2013 (Most recent to oldest)
    • From Zero to Pull Request in 30 Days, You can haz Kazoo!
  • Society for the Technological Advancement of Reporting 2009 - SEO / SEM
    • Presented talk to lawyers / court reporters association about best practices for SEO / SEM.
  • Dojo Developer Day 2007
    • Presented a Rich Internet Application built with Dojo 0.9.