Scott Schnier

Scott Schnier is currently an agile coach at CGI working with other passionate people to bring agile testing and development practices to large government agencies such as FannieMae, United States Customs and Immigration Service, US Postal Service, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has held positions of software engineer, director of development, mentor, architect, director of quality assurance, project manager, program manager, agile coach, product manager, support specialist, scrum master, test lead, proxy product owner and he is still learning. Scott’s varied work experience has found him in small startups, Fortune 500 firms, and as a government contractor. A founding member of the Cincinnati chapter of ALN, Scott is currently active in the Washington DC chapter. Scott takes special pleasure in and has a passion for helping people work better together. Information technology leader with a record of building high performing teams and successful products. Development Director/Program Manager with deep technical experience in a variety of Open Source and commercial technologies. Special skills include new project start up, agile transformation, mentoring agile testing, OOA&D, software architecture, collaborative systems and Continuous Integration. TRAINING, CERTIFICATIONS, PUBLICATIONS SA, Certified Scaled Agile Framework Agilest, Scaled Agile Academy 2012 PMP, Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute 2006 CSM, Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance 2010 CMMI PPQA and Assessor training, Software Engineering Institute 2004 Six Sigma Green belt, Quest Diagnostics 2005 Speaker at multiple industry conferences.(PMI, SPIN, ALN, SQA) Most recently: ALN DC February 2015 Agile Development East Orlando Fl, November 2012