David Starr

David Starr

Greater Seattle Area
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I am a Principal Solutions Architect at Microsoft focusing on Azure and cloud…

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Experience

  • Microsoft Graphic

    Microsoft

    Redmond, WA

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    Worldwide

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    Seattle, WA

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    Burlington, Mass

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    Redmond, WA

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    Sammamish, WA

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    United States

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    Boise, Idaho, United States

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    Boise, Idaho Area

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    Bellevue, WA

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Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Agile Alliance Graphic

    Conference Technical Program Chair

    Agile Alliance

    - Present 8 years

    Science and Technology

    2016 Technical Program manager for all technical tracks.

  • Agile Alliance Graphic

    Technical Track Chair - Software Craftsmanship

    Agile Alliance

    - less than a year

    Environment

    Served as Track Chair for Agile Software Code Practices and Craftsmanship

  • Agile Alliance Graphic

    Technical Track Chair - DevOps

    Agile Alliance

    - Present 7 years

    Science and Technology

    Served as Track Chair for DevOps Track

Publications

  • 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.

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  • 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 authors
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Courses

  • 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

Honors & Awards

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • C#

    Full professional proficiency

  • JavaScript

    Professional working proficiency

  • Perl

    Professional working proficiency

  • Python

    Limited working proficiency

  • Java

    Professional working proficiency

  • Powershell

    Full professional proficiency

Organizations

  • ATD (Association for Talent Development)

    Member

    - Present

    This organization represents the standard for learning principles and curriculum development. I am an active with a particular interest in educating people on technical topics.

  • IEEE

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    - Present

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