Harold Shinsato
About
I've been a software developer since high school in 1978, received a BS in Computer Science in 1984, and have had the good fortune to work with cutting edge technology, first at Xerox with the first personal computing systems, then at Inxight where Xerox PARC linguistics and visualization patents were being commercialized, and lastly at SAP BusinessObjects. I've been actively promoting agile software development practices since 2001. My Scrum training started 3 years ago from Luke Hohman, Steve McConnell's Construx class on Enterprise Agile, and the Agile Learning Labs CSM class.
Scrum provides significant benefits to software development through much greater opportunities for self-organization. I'm also trained as an Open Space Technology facilitator, which provides ample opportunities for self-organization, and I have facilitated several Open Space conferences, including MissoulaBarCamp.org, which I founded in 2008.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2014-02-01 - present - Montana Agile Culture House, Inc. (Executive Director)
- 1984-08-13 - 1996-12-31 - Xerox (Senior Programmer)
- 1997-01-01 - 2007-06-30 - Inxight Software, Inc. (Senior Programmer)
- 2007-07-01 - 2007-12-31 - Business Objects (Senior Programmer)
- 2008-01-01 - 2014-06-12 - SAP (Senior Programmer)