Scrum Alliance - Profile: Joseph B. Lawson

Professional Summary Project Management Experience · Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with two years experience with scrum and agile. ... Read More

Professional Summary

Project Management Experience

· Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with two years experience with scrum and agile.

· Development lead role for .net development initiatives

· Experience Project initiation and planning creating Software development Plans and Project management Plans.

· Creating project schedules, WBS and ensuring adherence to milestones

· Capturing requirements and working with Business Analyst resources to gather the requirements

· Selected and managed contract resources according to applicable HR policies of organization.

· Controlled and managed a project budget to meet project objectives.

· Use of Microsoft Project and Office to track and communicate project information.

· Project management best practices

· Software development life cycles and process knowledge

Agile/Scrum Experience

As Scrum Master I was responsible for ensuring that Scrum values, practices and rules are enacted and enforced.

· Running daily standup meetings.

· Facilitating and running sprint planning and review meetings.

· Facilitating sprint retrospective meetings.

· Managing the product, impediment and sprint backlogs.

· Authoring User stories, Burn charts and artifacts

· Coaching Team to accomplish sprint goals

· Experience implementing SCRUM.in the enterprise

· Experience with Test driven development and training others in its use.

Development Experience

Eight+ years of strong development experience programming features and enhancements to new and existing .NET applications.

Proficient in object-oriented design and programming techniques and creating applications using technologies such as: C#, .NET 2.0/3.5,VB.NET, WCF Service Oriented architecture, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Reporting Services.

Service-oriented applications development with .net 3.5 WCF to implement webs services and distributed architecture.

Experience designing object oriented applications using inheritance, polymorphism, and generics.

Requirements gathering experience conducting interviews, workshops, and creating requirements documents and artifacts.

Experience developing Thick client applications using win forms and the smart client design.

Release management experience including packaging applications with Microsoft Click-once and Setup tools.

· Familiar with ORM tools and practices – LLBLGEN, Code smith Net Tiers, And Entity Spaces

Report Development with SQL server Reporting services Experienced SQL Developer within depth understanding of T-SQL stored procedures, triggers, functions and strong database design skills.