John Dorak

John Dorak

Certified Scrum Professional with over 10 years experience applying Scrum and other Agile frameworks.

Currently working with various startups and consulting work. I had worked at IBM as a Senior Software Engineer where I was part of an Agile Mentors group that rolled out Scrum to development teams as a member of the Agile Mentors group. This team was responsible for education and monitoring the progress of Scrum implementation. Led training sessions on Agile, Scrum Framework, and detailed look at Story development.

I am also a certified Project Management Professional with the Project Management Institute. I also hold the Agile Certified Practitioner certification.

With this background I have experience in both the traditional project management techniques and Agile philosophies. This is a great help in getting Agile techniques introduced to large development organizations which have been using the traditional project management approaches.

As part of the role of Scrum and Project Management I also lead a team that maintains source control, build and test environments. Automation, of course, being the key to these.

I have a diverse background in software development from real time embedded systems to being part of development of large multiple database systems.

I have also worked at a variety of companies from large companies with multiple product ranges to small startups with a focus on a specific area.