| Professional Certifications |
| Scrum Alliance |
| Certified Scrum Master (March 2009) |
| Certified in managing projects by applying the principles of the Scrum framework.
Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Scrum roles and responsibilities, agile requirements analysis, agile development process, estimating and prioritizing product backlogs, sprint planning, execution, review, and retrospectives, technical debt and other pitfalls, release planning based on empirical measurement, Scrum in multiple-team organizations, and how Scrum fits with Lean, RUP, XP, and other frameworks.
Topics covered in class include agile methods, common mistakes, mixing roles, structuring teams, investigating team behaviors, and offshore models. |
IBM Certified Administrator |
| Unified Change Management (December 2008) |
| Certified in the principles and techniques necessary to provide
Software Configuration Management (SCM) solutions in accordance with the
Unified Change Management (UCM) model.
Demonstrated the technical knowledge and skills required to integrate artifact and
activity management, ensure that each stage of the development process is controllable
and reproducible, ensure the integrity of all software elements, define the roles and
phases associated with a typical UCM development process, establish concurrent
development strategies, provide defect and change-tracking solutions, and improve
collaboration between cross-functional team members by providing common data access.
Established proficiencies in creating UCM projects, snapshot views, and dynamic views,
setting up developer workspaces, configuring development and integration streams,
providing client access to remote repositories, resolving hijacked files, delivering
artifacts and activities to default and alternate target streams,
implementing advanced deliver scenarios, and rebasing development streams to
recommended baselines. |
IBM Certified Specialist |
| Rational Unified Process (May 2007) |
| Certified in designing, building, and implementing iterative software processes utilizing the principles, techniques, and best practices of the Rational Unified Process. |
| DB2 Universal Database (January 2000) |
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IBM Certified Solution Designer |
| Rational Software Architect (January 2008) |
| Certified in designing and developing well-architected applications and services in a RUP-driven software development process that leverage model-driven development with UML along with extensibility features which include the use of patterns, profiles and transformations. Demonstrated expert knowledge and ability to identify common best practices for architecting solutions and components, analyze existing use-case, analysis, design, and deployment models, create design models from analysis models, incorporate existing code and reusable assets in the development of new applications, model subsystems, subsystem interfaces, and dependencies, create UML diagrams, and apply reusable assets in the development process including built-in patterns, new pattern assets, use patterns, and model transformations. |
| Rational Unified Process (April 2007) |
| Certified in designing, building, and implementing iterative software processes utilizing the principles, techniques, and best practices of the Rational Unified Process. |
IBM Certified Solution Technologist |
| e-Business (January 2001) |
| Certified in developing and implementing complex e-business solutions. Demonstrated the technical skills required to develop and implement e-business applications, along with the ability to understand and articulate the issues, strategies, methodologies, and technical requirements of e-business projects. |
IBM Certified Solutions Expert |
| Business Intelligence (November 2000) |
| Certified in performing the advanced skills required to design, develop, and support Business Intelligence applications. Demonstrated expert knowledge and ability to define and implement the modeling, construction, and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts, define, organize, and maintain meta data, utilize OLAP servers to construct data cubes for dynamic, multi-dimensional analysis, and utilize data mining tools to extract information and present multi-component data mining frameworks. |
| DB2 Universal Database Application Development (February 2000) |
| Certified in relational database application development. Demonstrated expert knowledge and ability to define, manipulate, and maintain complex relational database objects, apply advanced SQL concepts, optimize concurrency, and utilize numerous Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). |
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert |
| DB2 for Clusters (March 2001) |
| Certified in designing, building, implementing, and supporting partitioned database systems. Demonstrated expert knowledge and ability to define and administer partitioned databases, nodegroups, table spaces, and tables, implement data management including data loading, rebalancing, redistribution, backup and recovery, and implement performance tuning utilizing Explain facilities and monitoring tools to optimize join strategies, OLAP features, and database resources. |
| DB2 Data Replication (January 2001) |
| Certified in applying advanced techniques required for complex data replication in DB2 and multi-vendor database environments. Demonstrated expert knowledge and ability to define connectivity requirements, define and administer data replication components including replication sources, subscriptions, staging tables, replicas, and control tables/servers, configure, implement and administer data replication products including DPropR, DPropNR, DataJoiner, DB2 Capture, and DB2 Apply, and implement and support update-anywhere and mobile replications. |
Microsoft Certified Professional |
| .Net Framework (July 2002) |
| Certified in developing and implementing Windows-based applications utilizing the Microsoft .NET Framework. Demonstrated technical proficiency and expertise in creating user services, creating and managing components and .NET assemblies, consuming and manipulating data, testing and debugging, and configuring, securing, deploying, maintaining, and supporting Windows-based applications. |
Six Sigma |
| Green Belt (June 2004) |
| Certified in applying tools and techniques to enable breakthrough process and quality improvements utilizing the Six Sigma methodology.
Techniques included application of the DMAIC project methodology, along with statistical methods, to identify and remove the causes of defects (errors) and to minimize variability in manufacturing and business processes.
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