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I am a Principal Solutions Architect at Microsoft focusing on Azure and cloud…
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The Rise of App Stores for Commercial Software
The Rise of App Stores for Commercial Software
By David Starr
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Stop drowning and start swimming in your data
Stop drowning and start swimming in your data
By David Starr
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O'Reilly publishing occasionally (I think annually) puts on a charity sale of items where you pay what you want to pay for a bundle of books in…
O'Reilly publishing occasionally (I think annually) puts on a charity sale of items where you pay what you want to pay for a bundle of books in…
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I was glad not to talk about chatbots for a while. Surrogate models with physics-informed networks, deep operator networks and Kolmogorov-Arnold…
I was glad not to talk about chatbots for a while. Surrogate models with physics-informed networks, deep operator networks and Kolmogorov-Arnold…
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Experience
Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Conference Technical Program Chair
Agile Alliance
- Present 8 years
Science and Technology
2016 Technical Program manager for all technical tracks.
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Technical Track Chair - Software Craftsmanship
Agile Alliance
- less than a year
Environment
Served as Track Chair for Agile Software Code Practices and Craftsmanship
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Technical Track Chair - DevOps
Agile Alliance
- Present 7 years
Science and Technology
Served as Track Chair for DevOps Track
Publications
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Cloud Marketplaces and AI
Azure DevOps podcast
Topics of Discussion:
[6:09] Agile methodologies, Scrum, and software development leadership.
[6:38] Working with Agile Alliance and Scrum.org.
[7:50] What David learned working for several years at GoDaddy.
[9:49] Using Azure Marketplace to sell software and services, with examples of successful partners and their experiences.
[15:20] Who has full admin rights on MongoDB?
[17:49] Pricing models for AI models in Azure Marketplace.
[21:56] AI cost estimation and model…Topics of Discussion:
[6:09] Agile methodologies, Scrum, and software development leadership.
[6:38] Working with Agile Alliance and Scrum.org.
[7:50] What David learned working for several years at GoDaddy.
[9:49] Using Azure Marketplace to sell software and services, with examples of successful partners and their experiences.
[15:20] Who has full admin rights on MongoDB?
[17:49] Pricing models for AI models in Azure Marketplace.
[21:56] AI cost estimation and model selection.
[29:40] Azure Cloud Marketplace and AI advancements, with insights on how to get started with product development.Other authorsSee publication -
Exploring SaaS Offers in the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace: Essential Elements and Best Practices
Microsoft
Exploring the technical fundamentals of SaaS offers in the Microsoft commercial marketplace, along with best practices.
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Effective Sprint Retrospectives
Microsoft MSDN
Explore core qualities and practices used to ensure Retrospectives are a team's most powerful improvement tool. Going beyond techniques, this article offers ways to maintain and improve the practice and results of Retrospectives.
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Distributed Scrum
Microsoft MSDN
Distributed teams often struggle with consistent, timely, and effective communication. Understand how Scrum offers a container in which different types of distributed teams can improve and succeed.
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The Lean of Scrum
Microsoft MSDN
Inspect the inherent Lean qualities of the Scrum framework along with various ways to help Scrum Teams improve using Lean Thinking.
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Done and Undone
Microsoft MSDN
Delivering a done Increment is critical to being successful with agile software development. Using real-world and theoretical examples, the authors demonstrate the difference between perception of "done" and the reality of "done," and how that affects the success of a project. Using these examples, the authors go on to demonstrate tools and strategies that can help teams start with a definition of done that makes sense for them, and methods to help teams communicate dependencies, status, and…
Delivering a done Increment is critical to being successful with agile software development. Using real-world and theoretical examples, the authors demonstrate the difference between perception of "done" and the reality of "done," and how that affects the success of a project. Using these examples, the authors go on to demonstrate tools and strategies that can help teams start with a definition of done that makes sense for them, and methods to help teams communicate dependencies, status, and the meaning of "done."
Other authorsSee publication
Courses
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Coaching Agile Teams
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Crucial Conversations
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Supervisor Excellence
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Training from the Back of the Room
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Projects
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Agile Alliance DevOps Track Chair
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Recruited and organized speakers for the DevOps track. Reviewed and selected proposals as well as helping submitters better their submissions.
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Agile Alliance Technical Program Chair
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Assembling the best track chairs and technical program possible for the world's biggest conference on agile software development. Tracks include: UX, Development and Craftsmandship, Testing and QA, and DevOps.
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Agile Alliance Track Chair: Development Practices and Craftsmanship
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Helped solicit submissions and then design the track for the conference. Gave feedback to all submissions and successfully created a Software Craftsmanship track for the biggest agile conference in the world.
Honors & Awards
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Microsoft MVP in ALM
Microsoft
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs are exceptional community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world deep technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft.
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Microsoft MVP in ALM
Microsoft
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs are exceptional community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world deep technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft.
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Microsoft MVP in ALM
Microsoft
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs are exceptional community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world deep technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft.
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Microsoft MVP in ALM
Microsoft
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs are exceptional community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world deep technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft.
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Microsoft MVP in ALM
Microsoft
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs are exceptional community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world deep technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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C#
Full professional proficiency
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JavaScript
Professional working proficiency
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Perl
Professional working proficiency
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Python
Limited working proficiency
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Java
Professional working proficiency
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Powershell
Full professional proficiency
Organizations
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ATD (Association for Talent Development)
Member
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IEEE
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