Scrum Alliance - Profile: Jack Frosch

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Jack Frosch Software Development I'm a Certified ScrumMaster and have been employing different aspects of agile software development for years. ... Read More

Jack Frosch

Software Development

I'm a Certified ScrumMaster and have been employing different aspects of agile software development for years. I've been a long-time practitioner, mentor, trainer, and evangelist for Test Driven Development and automated testing in general.

I've been doing Java development since its first formal release, doing some Swing development early on, but mostly web app and server-side development. In the last few years, I've also been doing development with Groovy, Grails, and Android.

I've been training and mentoring current and aspiring Java developers since 2000. In 1999, I founded the Gateway JUG, one of two St. Louis Java User Groups, and was its president for most of its existence. I was also the acting president of the Gateway Groovy Users Group.

Before that, I was doing PowerBuilder development and was an active member in the local PowerBuilder User Group. I also have experience with C/C++, FORTRAN, and other legacy languages.

Business

I've run my own business since 2000. Doing so has provided me many opportunities for learning and applying business and management skills outside my core technical competencies.

Military

I was in the US Air Force from 1983 - 1990 as a pilot and later a program manager. I entered the Air Force after serving as a US Navy enlisted NCO. While in service to my country, I've held high level US and NATO security clearances.

Specialties: Architecture: Design and implementation of enterprise application architectures based on Java platform

Coding: Groovy, Grails, Android, JavaServer Faces (JSF), Struts, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring WebFlow, Hibernate, JPA, JSP, JSTL, object-oriented programming, test driven development (TDD), JUnit, SQL, Eclipse, IDEA.

Training and Mentoring: I've trained developers in Agile Java development using Test Driven Development (TDD), Java web APIs, JSF , Groovy, Grails, and Android.