Training Courses

This list includes all industry training courses I have taken through work or for personal career development.

• Certified Scrum: Taught by Ken Schwaber, this course prepares participants to implement the Scrum empirical project managment process within their organization. This agile approach is becoming quite popular in Calgary with firms like Quadrus, Thoughtworks, Clearstream, Transcanada, and Bell adopting it. (August, 2004)
• Testing for Developers with Junit: A two-day course taught by Gerard Meszaros from Clearstream Consulting. Covered basics and advanced techniques for unit testing with the XUnit frameworks through short lectures and many practical exercises. (March, 2004)
• RHCE Rapid Track Course: Gained experience to install and configure Red Hat Linux; understand limitations of hardware; configure basic networking and file systems; configure the X Window System; configure basic security, set up common network (IP) services, carry out basic diagnostics and troubleshooting, and perform essential Red Hat Linux system administration. (July, 2003)
• Using and Managing MySQL: An in-depth week in April, 2002 covering everything needed to make full use of MySQL strengths as well as an extensive discussion of MySQL database administration.
• Intermediate XML from Fifth Era: A three day course covering many uses of XML for platform independent data.