Joan Redwing

IT Director with expertise in Software Quality, IT Infrastructure Management, Project Management, and SOX/IT Governance.  10+ years of experience with Software Quality Assurance and IT Risk Management; including hands-on expertise in Security, Performance Testing and Test/Build Automation.  Particularly interested in leading IT Development, Release Management and/or Software Governance Process Improvements using SCRUM, and other Iterative or Agile models. Consulting background.  Experienced in Six Sigma/Lean, RUP, SCRUM and XP.

Specialties 

IT Infrastructure Management - ITIL, Change Control, Versioning, Release Management 
IT Security 
Offshoring Expertise
Project Management - dashboards, benefits tracking
Performance/Volume Testing - n-tier web, client server, mainframe
Software Quality Assurance & Testing (waterfall and Iterative)
Test/Build Automation
Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Six Sigma
IT Governance and Monitoring - Kintana/ITG, Topaz, eproject
IT Audit - including SOX and COBIT
Financial Services - trust, mortgage, fleet, insurance, Hogan, ERP systems
Healthcare - eligibility, claims

RUP, SCRUM, Lean Software Development, and XP

Recent Comments by Joan

On Should a ScrumMaster Give Performance Appraisals?
Completely agree with the author that Scrum Masters should NOT give performance reviews!! Instead the entire team can give feedback with respect to teamwork and team results. For example, at my prior organization we were all rated by our team mem...