Agile Software Development

I am a certified ScrumMaster and I apply the agile practices such as to embrace changes, to collaborate with customer, to design simple solutions and to continuously verify software quality using feedback loops. Since 2010, I collaborate with the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools group to help clarify the field of agile specifications.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

I master the source code management, continuous integration, work items and reporting tools from Microsoft Visual Studio ALM platform (formerly known as Team System). I am a a certified Team Foundation Server specialist since 2007. In addition, from 2005 to 2009, I was a member of the Team System Customer Advisory Board, a group of 25 experts selected by Microsoft to help define futures versions of Team System.

Software modeling

My expertise related to modeling is mainly about object-oriented design :

• Capability to design using UML notation (Unified Modeling Language)
• Deep experience with design patterns (GoF, MVC, PoEAA)
• Ability to design layered architectures
• Capability to design using specification with examples
• Strong competency with code generators

Since it is difficult to design software without data persistency, my expertise also includes competencies with data modeling:

• Relational database modeling and normalization with respect to 3rd normal form.
• Multidimensional database modeling using star schema.
• XML schema modeling.
• XML content manipulation (event-based with SAX or tree-based with DOM)

Having been involved in software development for enterprise, my expertise also includes business modeling:

• Capability to describe the structure (business objects) and the behavior of the organization (business scenarios).
• Master analysis techniques to express functional performance specification .
• Ability to communicate a common vision between software specialists, business analysts, customers and final users.

Software programming

I have over twenty years of experience doing object-oriented programming:

• Competency with VB.NET and C# language for Microsoft .NET platform.
• Expertise with distributed architectures (Web services, MQ Series and WCF).
• Deep experience of Web architectures (REST, Silverlight, AJAX, JSON, ASP.NET) and portal (Sharepoint).
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD .NET).