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Tom provides on-site training, coaching, and mentoring in Agile practices with emphasis on technical practices such as TDD, BDD, Specification by Example, FitNesse, Cucumber, Continuous Integration, and automation. Teams that transition to Agile development find they deliver more of what their customer wants, at a higher quality, and at a faster rate. This all translates to improved ROI. Tom is experienced helping cross-functional teams make the transition to agile/lean principles and practices. He is able to coach all team roles in addition to middle and senior leadership. An expert in course development and delivery. He is continually improving his own knowledge with on-going study of agile/lean topics such as Kanban. With over 20 years of experience in the software industry he spent most of career crafting software solutions for customers and clients. Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Certified Scrum Developer (CSD), Professional Scrum Master Lvl-1 (PSM1), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI ACP).

Specialties Agile/Lean/Scrum training and coaching. TDD, BDD, FitNesse, Cucumber. Agile testing. Organizational transformation. Unix, client/server, C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Javascript, make, ant, XML, XMLRPC, AJAX, JDBC, LDAP, JNDI, Oracle, ProC, Apache, web development, perlmod, ETL, javascript, DHTML, HTML, HTTP, data conversion, servlets, JSP, mason, korn shell, awk, sed, shell scripts, database, database design, system design, network programming, threads, thread executor, SEDA, JCE, JAAS, RDBMS