Xennial Innovations Inc.

In my current accountability, I have been deeply immersed in the role of Community Manager for Xennial Innovations, a position that requires a unique blend of communication prowess and community-building finesse. 

My days are filled with dynamic tasks, from crafting engaging newsletters using ClickUp to keeping our growing community of developers well-informed and visually captivated, to managing the vibrant conversations within our Discord server.

One of my key responsibilities involves wielding the power of social media, particularly on platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn. 

I've honed the art of developing and executing strategic social media plans to enhance our brand visibility and foster meaningful connections with our audience.

In addition to my digital endeavors, I take pride in orchestrating community events that transcend the virtual realm. Whether it's a virtual gathering or an in-person meetup, I've been the driving force behind planning, coordinating, and executing events that bring our community together.

My role extends beyond the digital space—I've become a regular face at industry meetups, conferences, and events. Attending these gatherings has not only allowed me to represent our brand but has also provided invaluable opportunities to network with like-minded individuals, industry professionals, and potential partners.

This opportunity has been a journey of growth, creativity, and proactive engagement. 

I've fostered a sense of belonging within our community, ensuring that every interaction is not just informative but also enriching. It's been a thrilling experience contributing to the evolution and success of our community, and I look forward to many more months of building connections, organizing events, and shaping a thriving digital ecosystem.

Community Manager

TechTarget

I love writing about technical topics, and writing for TechTarget and TheServerSide has given me an opportunity to learn about a wide array of technical topics, while getting the opportunity to interview and work with experts and leaders in the field.

However, writing is only part of my passion. 

The other big thing that motivates me is working hard to get my message out to as wide an audience as possible. Which is why I take Search Engine Optimization so seriously.

I have over a dozen #1 ranked articles on Google on highly competitive keywords pertaining to Java, Agile, Scrum and Cloud Computing. 

In fact, my articles often rank multiple times on the landing page of Google for competitive keywords. I will often have 3 or 4 videos on the landing page of Google's video tab. That's SEO done right!

Technical Writer and SEO Expert

IngramSpark

When I went to pursue my Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications, I realized there was a real void in the market with respect to resources that guided the learner's path. This motivated me to write and publish the Scrum Master Certification Guide, a 325 hardcover book available on Amazon and bookstores everywhere.

I would love to be able to take full credit for the book, but I simply can't. It was a true team effort in which a community of experts came together to produce a product that I'm infinitely proud of.

Pulling together a network of experts from my social media accounts, meetup groups, industry connections and even friends and family, I built a team of people who were experts on a variety of topics including:

- Content writing
- Book publishing
- Marketing
- Email campaigns
- Image editing
- Scrum and Agile knowledge

The team helped with every aspect of the book, including technical oversight of the content. Editors and contributors corrected for nuance, edited for clarity and quite often fully rewrote chapters to show me a better way to express an idea or concept.

As I said, my name is on the cover of the book, which is most humbling, because it's the team who pulled the project together that deserves the credit, and I'm forever greatful for the team's effort.

To be honest, this book is perhaps the big reason I want to work in the field of team building and community management, because I've seen the power of a highly-motivated, self-managed team, and I've seen first hand how a group of talented developers create outcomes that are exponentially greater than the sum of their individual parts.

Author of the Best Selling Scrum Master Certification Guide

Linode

The people at Linode are the greatest people you could possibly work with!

As a Developer Advocate for Linode, I have assisted the social media team in content creation, product promotion and video publishing on YouTube.

I don't want to take undue credit for Linode's success, but after publishing my first video about Docker, which spoke about Python, nginx and Java, Linode's YouTube channel quickly gained 340,000 subscribers and surpassed the million follower milestone.

(Honestly, my content really had nothing to do with that, but given the timing, I'm happy to take credit for it *smile*)

Developer Advocate

Working to promote IBM's #TodaysArchitect initiative, I helped bring awareness to the community about how the the IBM Z System mainframes can be used to help accellerate work in the areas of intensive computing, including:

- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Science

The engagement included the creation of video content used to promote IBM mainframes, promotion across all of my social media channels, participation in media events, outreach and content planning.

Trend Micro

If you think Trend Micro is just about anti-virus software you'd be completely wrong.

Trend Micro has expanded far beyond its humble beginnings as an OS security platform into the industry's leading internet security platform. Sometimes people need to be reminded of this fact, which is why I was recruited as a Developer Advocate to help spread the message.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

To be clear, this is not a paid position like the others listed in the 'Experience' section of LinkedIn. However, being a community builder has taught me a great deal about how online communities are built and fostered, and that's a big part of my journey, so I feel it's fair to list it here. 

The AWS Community Builder program is a community-driven initiative by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to recognize and support individuals who are passionate about AWS and actively contribute to the AWS community. 

The typical roles and activities associated with an AWS Community Builder include:

- Community Advocacy
- Content Creation
- Knowledge Sharing
- Mentorship
- Feedback Loops
- Collaboration
- Evangelism
- Continuous Learning
- Community Events
- Visibility and Recognition

The AWS Community Builders program does not constitute employment with Amazon. It is instead a community of highly motivated individuals who want to spread positivity and enthusiasm about modern technologies and new approaches to DevOps based deployments.

Community Builder

Scrumtuous Inc

Founder

Lean? Agile? Goal-oriented?

That's me, and that's why I'm here spreading my love for effective product development with Scrum and other proven techniques that work within the Scrum framework.

And how am I spreading this love?

In a variety of ways, but the one I'm most proud of is my recently published Scrum Master Certification Guide. It's a real book, over 200 pages long and available in both hardcover and softcover on Amazon.

The feedback and reviews have been great so far, and it really warms my heart when I get messages from people telling me it helped them learn Scrum, get Agile and of course, gain a coveted PSM, PSPO or CSM designation.

I'm also very active on Twitter and YouTube.

I'm up above 250,000 followers on Twitter, and I think I've posted close to 100 videos about DevOps, cloud computing, Java programming, Python development and of course Agile and Scrum on my YouTube channel.

I've also been honored to work as a developer advocate with incredible and amazing companies including:

- Linode
- Xennial Innovations
- IBM and;
- Trend Micro

It's honestly quite humbling to be associated at all with such amazing leaders in the industry.

I'd love it if you both followed me on LinkedIn and connected.

I'm just at the start of my journey, and I'm excited to see where it all leads. 

Let's build something great together, and let's do it publicly!

I absolutely love talking about the challenges I face and the successes I've enjoyed with other like-minded and highly-motivated individuals. So let's share!

Darcy DeClute

Agile Cheats

My mission is to help agile practitioners reach their goals by providing them with the best agile tools and teaching them how to use them.

Wether it is better explainations on how to use existing tools, better guides on when to use them or the creation of new tools.

Creator

Viveris

I'm helping two teams work better together and I'm supporting a Scrum Master who is beginning their journey.  
Organising workshops, conflict resolution, improving communication, coaching, etc.

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

• Training and attainment of Agile Coach certification
• Creation and facilitation of agility workshops
• Development of visual resources for Agile coaches (Agile Cheats project)
• Involvement in the Agile Toulouse community and participation in Agile conferences
• Training to establish an independent business (6 months)

Independent Agile Consultant (Starting up activity)

Continental

I coached an Agile Release Train consisting of 2 teams and over 50 individuals.

• Organization and facilitation of SAFe events
• Guiding teams in establishing the release train's way of working
• Participation in continuous improvement practices
• Actively working to break down silos
• Involvement in the selection interviews for new Scrum Masters and Product Owners
• Training and coaching of Scrum Masters
• Facilitation of workshops and presentations on agility
• Providing support to other teams within the department
• Contribution to the internal agile community for awareness and training
• Participation in strategic projects focused on promoting agility and employee motivation

Release Train Engineer / Agile Coach

Joined a team of 15 people in order to bring the internal operation of the team back to stability, following a rough time due to rapid changes in its composition.

• Helped the team focus on team objectives and increasing ownership
• Strived to establish a safe environment, where people could be honest and were not afraid to take responsibility
• Increased awareness of team's mistakes and facilitated the team's self improvement
• Helped the team regain its former velocity and even surpass it
• Helped the team regain focus and control over its internal activities
• Organized leisure activities like games and coffee breaks to increase team cohesion

Scrum Master / Team Coach

Planned, coordinated, and facilitated the efforts for the insourcing and cloud migration of a fleet management solution with 25000 clients.

• Coordinated the efforts of domain leaders and smoothed out relations with the outside contractor
• Organized workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, coordinated efforts, followed through with the overall plan, and facilitated the transfer of operational activities
• Coordinated the first delivery in production
• Planned and facilitated the work of the architects and insured organizational activities throughout the migration to the Google Cloud Platform
• Planned workshops, ensured knowledge flow, organized key events, and coordinated overall efforts
• Ensured there was no interruption in the delivery of customer features during the transition period

Product Owner and Facilitator

Bricsys®

Participated in the development and debugging of a CAD software application.

During this time, I took it upon myself to improve the documentation through the creation of a developer onboarding guide.

Software Developer

Lusiogenic Project

In my quest to combine my passion for creating video games with my passion of teaching others, I created a video game prototype and the Lusiogenic project, an educational game development platform.

I created and produced game tutorials  and published them through free Youtube videos. I interacted with the community through live development sessions on Twitch and through game news on Twitter. I have answered questions, given advice and I used social media channels to spread my knowledge.

The main social media channel (Youtube) has received a total number of more than 730,000 views with a satisfaction rate of more than 90%.

The game prototype, which I have entirely created, is a 3D physics-based puzzle platformer.

Sully Group

I have participated in the development of a web reporting application for the national power line grid company.

We used Kanban and the Agile mindset to organize ourselves.

Full Stack Developer

Capgemini

I've worked on several projects for big clients like Orange, Sanofi and Schneider and performed various activities like design, development, support, delivery, estimations and others.

The most notable project, which lasted more than 2 years, was a software support and maintenance mission for Sanofi's distribution warehouses. My role was to insure critical technical support, improve and enrich the support knowledge-base and develop improvements. This mission was of high importance for the client because it supported the distribution of products to their clients.

Among the other projects in which I've participated were a web store application and a database migration project.

I've also developed some prototypes for certain product demos requested by our clients.

Consultant

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

The aim of this project was to demonstrate the capability of developing affordable platforms that could enable low cost scientific calculations to be done in labs acting as a boost for research all around the world.

I was in charge of the development, testing and demonstration of a Proof of Concept scientific computational platform.

The hardware implementation was based on game consoles which, at the time, were the most powerful affordable data computational devices available.

The PoC was completed and was demonstrated through the execution of a real time ultrasonic probing simulation algorithm.

Research And Development Engineer

Ondis Technologies

Participated to the development of a real time cross platform application for displaying scientific data.

I am an agile coach, enthusiast and practitioner.

My mission is to help teams and professionals reach their full potential by giving them necessary tools and helping them overcome challanges. 
I also train them in useful practices and help them devise their own practices. 

I'm on a quest to understand human nature in order to help people improve their interactions and behavior.

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The Battle

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