Alistair McKinnell

Current

• Specialist at Courtyard Group

Past

• Software Architect at Intelliware
• Software Architect at JD Edwards / Peoplesoft / Oracle
• Software Architect at Digital Renaissance / ExtendMedia

• Programmer / Software Architect at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Computer Software

Alistair McKinnell’s Summary

Software Architect with 10 years of experience leading teams to successful delivery of complex business applications.

According to project circumstance and need other project roles performed include: Project Manager, Requirements Analyst, Integration Architect, Test Architect, and XP Coach.

Technical Leader with the proven ability to innovate by researching and introducing both techniques and technologies into an organization. Able to build highly motivated and successful software development teams by fostering continuous learning.

Speaker at SD Best Practices, Agile 2008, and XP/Agile Toronto.

Alistair McKinnell’s Specialties:

Application Architecture, Test Architecture, Data Integration Architecture, Mentoring, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Development Methodologies, and XP Coaching.

Alistair McKinnell’s Experience

• Specialist

  Courtyard Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  My current focus is delivering the next release of the Patient Registry and transitioning the Patient Registry team to an Agile software development process.

• Software Architect

  Intelliware

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 10 months)

  My current focus is on helping teams develop XP skills while delivering software. For our last release the team put Domain-Driven Design and Test-Driven Development into practice while delivering a high value enhancement to our most complex application. Both Domain-Driven Design and Test-Driven Development benefited from increased skill in these XP practices: pair programming, refactoring, and evolutionary design.

• Software Architect

  JD Edwards / Peoplesoft / Oracle

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2001 — February 2006 (5 years )

  • Led teams that shipped 6 production releases on time and on budget for 4 different Advanced Supply Chain Planning enterprise applications.
  • Changed the department’s existing software development methodology by introducing and establishing extreme programming practices.
  • Designed and implemented a J2EE web application framework and a streaming XML parsing framework; both were adopted across the department’s application suite.
  • Researched FitNesse and architected customer testing frameworks that used FitNesse .
  • Initiated and led a study group within the department to foster the growth of co-workers programming and design skills and to serve as a mentor to others.

• Software Architect

  Digital Renaissance / ExtendMedia

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1999 — December 2000 (2 years )

• Programmer / Software Architect

  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  March 1989 — December 1998 (9 years 10 months)

Additional Information

Alistair McKinnell’s Interests:

Getting Things Done, Semi-Popular Music, Writing Code, Extreme Programming, Software Patterns, Software Architecture, Software Craftsmanship, Playing GO

Alistair McKinnell’s Groups:

IEEE, XP/Agile Toronto