Ben Scott
About
Ben Scott is a veteran of the Virginia Army National Guard who served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq as an infantryman. He distinguished himself by earning several medals including a Purple Heart, a Commendation medal and a Combat Infantryman's Badge.
He then earned a B. S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech and started a career as a software developer. After being introduced to Scrum on a client project, he became an avid agilist and spearheaded his company's transition from Waterfall to Scrum. Once the transition was complete he worked as a Scrum Master and managed several software projects to successful completion. He is now working as a consultant at Ippon Technologies as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach where he contributes to an open souce project, teaches agile methods, and is currently a technical agile coach at Capital One with a focus on teaching developers XP practices.
Ben has also authored a couple blog posts:
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Stabilizing your velocity
http://www.ipponusa.com/stabilizing-velocity/ -
Git: Recovering a lost stash
http://www.ipponusa.com/git-recovering-stash/
Experience and services
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Career history
- 09/11/2017 - present - Ippon Technologies (Technical Agile Coach)
- 03/23/2015 - present - Ippon Technologies (Agile Consultant)
- 03/28/2016 - 05/31/2017 - Ippon Technologies (Technical Agile Coach)
- 11/12/2015 - 02/26/2016 - Ippon Technologies (Scrum Master)
- 03/01/2014 - 03/18/2015 - IP Fabrics (Scrum Master)
- 09/09/2013 - 03/01/2014 - IP Fabrics (Senior developer)