D. Skott Shores
Scrum Master
Huntersville,NC
Summary
Mission-focused Scrum Master with experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Developer and Dev Ops engineer with more than 22 years of experience designing, developing, implementing and managing multifaceted projects.
Overview
2
2
Certifications
3
3
years of post-secondary education
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
TEK Systems Global Services
Charlotte, United States
05.2020 - Current
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Using change management experience, led team to more effective utilization of Agile practices.
- With proven leadership abilities, guided team to 30% improvement in burn down effectiveness in just 4 weeks.
- As Application Architect, built frameworks within Virtual Assistant platform to utilize enterprise best practices in general, and RPA in one specific case.
- As Dev Ops Engineer, developed roadmap, scripts, and training for use of Jenkins, GitHub, and Artifactory.
Dev Ops Engineer
Xceleration Inc.
Charlotte, NC
05.2019 - 03.2020
- Worked with software development and testing team members in well defined Agile framework to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Designed and built MS Build automation tools and applications to deploy next generation platform.
- As GitHub architecture manager, migrated legacy applications from TFS to GitHub
- Jenkins pipeline scripting
Full Stack Application Developer
Xceleration Inc
Charlotte, NC
05.2017 - 05.2019
- Participated with clients in discussion meetings.
- Provided code maintenance and system upgrades to maximize performance.
- Wrote code for database-driven applications in well defined Agile framework .
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to layout, design, and unfold new technology features.
- Utilized such technologies as ASP .NET , MVC, JavaScript and SQL Server 2012, Node JS and MySQL to develop new applications.
Senior II – Enterprise Microsoft Solutions
Cardinal Solutions Group
Charlotte, NC
01.2012 - 04.2017
- Used Agile processes in a variety of workplace definitions.
- Used C#, VB .NET, MVC, WCF, WPF, SQL Server, Entity Framework
- Met all HIPAA, URAC, PCI requirements
- Continually served as a mentor to as many as three junior developers at a time
Solutions Engineer
Standpoint Technologies
Huntersville, NC
03.2011 - 01.2012
- Served as subject matter expert on .NET for both clients and internal team members.
- Authored development progress reports informing internal personnel and external stakeholders of project milestones.
- Exhibited strong technical aptitude and application expertise resulting in optimized performance, continuous improvement recommendations and product innovation.
.NET Application Developer
Principle Solutions Group
Charlotte, NC
03.2010 - 03.2011
- Wrote code for database-driven applications.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to layout, design, and unfold new technology features.
- Collaborated with engineers, system analysts, and programmers regarding project capabilities and limitations to deliver optimal functionality.
.NET Applications Developer
Versiant
Charlotte, NC
10.2007 - 03.2010
- Developed logistics web application in ASP .NET2.0, VB .NET
- Use SQL Server 2005 as backend DB for security paradigms, and Oracle 9i and 10g for globally distributed data.
- Created extensive PL/SQL package libraries.
- Created library of custom reports in SSRS
Application Developer
AGDATA
Charlotte, NC
10.2005 - 10.2007
- Developed applications for processing large corporate payments per highly complex contract plans using VB .NET, C#, Win Forms, ASP, AJAX, SQL Server and Oracle.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Strayer University
Washington, DC 01.2003 - 06.2006
Skills
Effective communicator
Excellent interpersonal skills
Change management
Software, Database, and Dev Ops technologies
Experienced mentor and coach
Jira
Certification
Jenkins Dev Ops Engineer
Timeline
PMI-ACP
10-2021
Scrum Master
TEK Systems Global Services
05.2020 - Current
Jenkins Dev Ops Engineer
03-2020
Dev Ops Engineer
Xceleration Inc.
05.2019 - 03.2020
Full Stack Application Developer
Xceleration Inc
05.2017 - 05.2019
Senior II – Enterprise Microsoft Solutions
Cardinal Solutions Group
01.2012 - 04.2017
Solutions Engineer
Standpoint Technologies
03.2011 - 01.2012
.NET Application Developer
Principle Solutions Group
03.2010 - 03.2011
.NET Applications Developer
Versiant
10.2007 - 03.2010
Application Developer
AGDATA
10.2005 - 10.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Strayer University
01.2003 - 06.2006