Mark Levison

Past

Agile Software Development Coach at Cognos an IBM Company
Sr/Advisory Software Developer at Cognos an IBM Company
Sr Software Developer at Databeacon

Backpacker at the world
Sr Software Developer at Hummingbird
Sr Software Developer at Andyne Computing Ltd

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Education

Queen's University

Recommended

8 people have recommended Mark

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Mark Levison’s Summary

Agile Coach, Consultant, Editor @ InfoQ with over 20 years industry experience.

At Databeacon, Cognos and IBM I introduced Agile practices and provided Agile training
• Introduced Scrum to Cognos over three years ago
• Introduced Agile Engineering Practices to Databeacon (Unit Testing, Continuous Integration, Refactoring)
• Coached four teams at Cognos (Agile Practices, Audited Meetings, Asked Questions of Leadership).
• Ran tutorials on Unit Testing and Test Driven Development at both Databeacon and Cognos
• Coached Test Driven Development with a number of Developers at Cognos.
• Initiated Process improvement at Databeacon including Code Inspections, Self Organizing Teams, Milestones and Weekly Status Reporting.
• Wrote and Presented “Scrum in a Nutshell” an hour long presentation that outlines Scrum.

I am...

• Expert in Scrum, Lean and Agile Engineering Practices.
• Experienced conference speaker at agile conferences and user groups.
• Technical experience includes shipping many applications in C/C++/Java and .NET

Recent interests include the application of Agile outside development - including Operations, Support, Sales and Marketing.

CSM - Certified ScrumMaster since October 2006
CSP - Certified ScrumPractioner since Septmember 2007

Mark Levison’s Specialties:

Agile, Scrum, Lean, XP, Extreme Programming, Test Driven Development, TDD, Unit Testing, Coaching, Project Management, Getting Things Done, Java, Eclipse, Swing, C#, WinForms, .NET

Mark Levison’s Experience

Agile Software Development Coach

Cognos an IBM Company

(Public Company; COGN; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)
Sr/Advisory Software Developer

Cognos an IBM Company

(Public Company; COGN; Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — May 2008 (2 years 8 months)
Sr Software Developer

Databeacon

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 7 months)
Backpacker

the world

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Photography industry)

August 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 2 months)

I spent a year wandering the world
Sr Software Developer

Hummingbird

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; HUMC; Computer Software industry)

October 1997 — August 1999 (1 year 11 months)
Sr Software Developer

Andyne Computing Ltd

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ADYNF; Computer Software industry)

April 1990 — October 1997 (7 years 7 months)