Principal
tags:
business development
• professional networking
• agile methods adoption
• microsoft access 2003 and 200...
• proposals and contracts
• business analysis
• statistical analysis
• software management consulting
How would you describe your time at uFunctional?
I didn't fit any of HR slots (programmer, business analysis, project manager, development manager) so I struck out on my own.
I've really enjoyed it. As an outsider, I get to help software-intensive companies in ways an insider never could. I am able to interact as a peer with both technical and non-technical people at every level in the organization.
I've served as a short-term CIO, a program manager, data architect, Access developer, and business analyst (all for the same client!), and a statistician.
I've assessed software business cases and advised start-ups. I've helped 200-person IT shops do their first Scrum project and come to grips with cross-functional teams.
I've also had to build a professional network, learn to use social networking tools (LinkedIn and Twitter), build and run my own Wordpress-based website and blog.
I've also counseled others on their career direction and helped them find employment.
Then there's contracting, invoicing, insurance, and other aspects of running a small business.... 
Software Engineer
tags:
html
• metrics-based estimation (fun...
• uml
• business analysis
• use cases
• software project scoping and ...
• c
• java (j2ee)
• writing contracts
How would you describe your time at Berbee Information Networks...?
An adventure through the dot-com boom and crash, re-inventing ourselves several times along the way. I helped reduce our project failure rate to around 1 in 10.
I began as an C and HTML programmer, moved to Java, then PHP and MySQL, and ended my time as our sales engineer. I led the estimation and quoting of nearly all projects and wrote nearly all of our proposals. I led the switch from waterfall, a document-heavy requirements process and sales-driven estimation to an agile process, faciltated requirements workshops, and metrics-based estimation....
