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Levent Gurses is a Washington, DC-based technologist and strategy consultant. Through his company Red Black Tree Levent helps clients develop bette... Read More
Levent Gurses is a Washington, DC-based technologist and strategy consultant. Through his company Red Black Tree Levent helps clients develop better software through Agile engineering practices, SCRUM and Lean development. His primary expertise is in transitioning companies to Agile by establishing engineering infrastructure, mentoring and coaching for Rapid Product Development (RPD). Red Black Tree is a technical consulting and strategic development firm specializing in Agile development, SOA and Project Management and providing key project resources such as Agile mentors, project managers, architects and developers.
Customers
- FINRA (Maryland, MD)
- Sprint (Overland Park, KS)
- Yellow Roadway Transportation (Kansas City, KS)
- Freddie Mac (McLean, VA)
- Symantec (Alexandria, VA and Calgary, BC - Canada)
- CollegeBoard (Reston, VA)
- National Cancer Institute (Rockville, MD)
Publications
- Contributed appendix section to Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk, The Addison-Wesley Signature Series, June 2007
- Increasing Business Value by Adopting Agile Methods, Agile Journal, May 2007
- Transitioning to Agile in Onshore-Offshore Distributed Teams, Agile Journal, Feb. 2007
- 10 Mistakes in Transitioning to Agile, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Dec. 2006
- Proxy Settings in Eclipse, Eclipse Zone, Nov. 2006
- A Culture of Inclusion, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Sep. 2006
- Improving Code Quality with PMD and Eclipse, JavaLobby, Mar. 2006
- Remote Debugging with Eclipse, EclipseZone, Dec. 2005
Presentations & Conferences
Webinars
Open-Source Projects
- SourceForge:JAMIS (Jacoozi Application Management and Integration Server), Project Founder and Admin, Since Mar, 2005
- SourceForge:XmlConfig (Custom Ant task for XML file manipulations), Project Founder and Admin, Since Mar, 2005
- SourceForge:DbConfig (Custom Ant task for database operations such as JDCB connection validation and SQL queries), Project Founder and Admin, Since Mar, 2005
- MamboForge:MamboCSM (Content Management System written in PHP), Tester and commiter, Since Jun, 2005
- SugarForge:SugarCRM (SugarCRM is a Customer Relationship Management System written in PHP), Tester, Since Jan, 2005
Certifications
- SCRUM Alliance - Recertified ScrumMaster - ‘07 2009
- SCRUM Alliance - Certified Product Owner - Since ‘06 2009
- SCRUM Alliance - Certified ScrumMaster - Since ‘02 2007
- Sun Certified Enterprise Architect - Since ‘12 2002
- IBM Certified Enterprise Developer - WebSphere Studio
- Sun Certified Web Component Developer - Since ‘1 2002
- Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2
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