James G Olson
Retired
- Role
- Software Development Manager at Surescripts
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James G Olson
What do I bring to your organization?Experience – I am an experienced Scrum/Agile practitioner at both the team and executive level. Since 2004 I have been actively using Scrum and to a lesser extent XP, Kanban and Lean. I also have an extensive background in management.Adaptability – I have product development experience in a number of industries: marketing services, retail, financial, agriculture, human resource management, money transfer, manufacturing, sales, mortgage, healthcare eligibility and prescription routing.Leadership – I have helped organizations implement agile and lean; optimizing processes, technology and business into comprehensive market based solutions.Mentoring – I know how to train and lead cross-functional onsite and international teams.Maturity - I have managed large complex application development projects.Knowledge - Expert in Lean/Agile development methodologies.Specialties: XP, Scrum, Agile, Lean and Six SigmaRead my Scrum and management narrative below.
Experience
Software Development Manager
Jan 2014 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US
Manage five team of software engineers.Technologies: Java.Net, Hadoop, Cloudera, Cassandra, Kafka
Education
Bemidj State University
BS Environmental Studies, Computer Science, Computer Science
1975 — 1982
Bemidji State University
BS, Environmental Studies, Computer Science
1975 — 1981
Skills
- Six Sigma
- Web Development
- Agile Methodologies
- Sdlc
- Agile Project Management
- Software Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Scrum
- Requirements Analysis
- Vendor Management
- Pmp
- Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Visio
- Waterfall
- Continuous Improvement
- Contract Recruitment
- Organizational Agility
- Strategic Agility
- Business Process Improvement
- Leadership
- Testing
- Xp
- Retrospectives
- Project Portfolio Management
- Agile Testing
- Agile Methodolgy
- Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
- Agile Application Development
- Agile Modeling
- Agile Web Development
- Certified Scrum Master Csm
- Lean Thinking
- Lean Transformation
- Lean Software Development
- Jira
- Atlassian Jira
- Quality Assurance
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Oracle
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