In 2017 I took time to complete a Honors degree which is industry related. The degree was theory mixed in with a real world project for DELL/EMC. This degree filled business and product development gaps I had from being a self educated developer. It was presented by some of the top minds of the industry who had first hand experience in digital product design.

Entrepreneurship, Software Engineering (OOP and Structured), Database Design, Systems Development and Design, Programming, Computer Architecture, Network Architecture, Fundamentals of Information Technology

I have 20+ years experience in the information industry. Most of my development skills came from learning how to get things done, a curious mind and a strong will to learn. In early 2013 I started a path to formalising my skills and experience beyond what I had. I did this with online learning and migrated to face-to-face online courses which eventually lead to a degree in Digital Design.

The Agile Team Facilitation certification is an industry-recognized credential that demonstrates an understanding of group facilitation tools and techniques for effectively designing meetings and workshops that both engage the entire audience and drive towards agreed-upon outcomes.

Designed by key thought leaders who defined the discipline of agile coaching, the Agile Coaching certification verifies an understanding of the tools, skills, and techniques needed to coach agile teams.

Certified Scrum Professionals challenge their teams to improve the way Scrum and Agile principles are applied. They have demonstrated experience, documented training, and proven knowledge in Scrum.

A Scrum Master is the Scrum Team member tasked with fostering an effective and productive working environment and guiding others to understand Scrum values, principles and practices. Scrum Masters tend to be people-oriented, have a high level of emotional intelligence, and find joy in helping team members to grow.

The Product Owner defines the what--as in what the product will look like and what features it should contain. The Product Owner is expected to incorporate stakeholder feedback to create the highest value product increments each and every sprint. Product Owners maintain the product backlog and ensure that everyone knows the priorities.

This certification and training enables me to effectively design, run or improve an existing Kanban system. This allows the team to become faster and more responsive, with better risk management and governance.

Assist companies to build business agility and making SAFe work inside the organization. SAFe helps you improve quality, productivity, employee engagement, and time-to-market with an understanding of how to align your entire organization around the same clear objectives.

PMI membership signifies that you’re serious about your project management career and your professional development. It highlights this dedication to employers, colleagues and stakeholders, giving you an edge in the job market. It also provides you with access to valuable knowledge, networks and resources.

The Zend Certified PHP Engineer is an industry-wide standard that recognizes PHP expertise and is a measure of distinction.

A Course of study offered by W3Cx, an online learning initiative of World Wide Web Consortium.

The Node.js Master Class - No Frameworks, No NPM, No Dependencies

The Terraform Associate certification is for Cloud Engineers specializing in operations, IT, or development who know the concepts and skills associated with open source HashiCorp Terraform.

Build, test, deploy containers with the best mega-Course on Docker, Kubernetes, Compose, Swarm and Registry using DevOps.

Ethical Hacking is often referred to as the process of penetrating one’s own computer/s or computers to which one has official permission to do so as to determine if vulnerabilities exist and to undertake preventive, corrective, and protective countermeasures before an actual compromise to the system takes place.

This engaging Course is designed to help people achieve success. Drawing on decades of scientific research, you will learn what the most successful people do differently than others, why IQ is not the most significant predictor of success (and can sometimes backfire), and why many commonly held beliefs hold people back from achieving their goals.

This Course introduced me to the concept of conflict transformation and how it differs from conflict resolution, management, and prevention. I learned how conflict offers opportunities for constructive change, and explored different tools and methods for engaging conflict constructively.

I learned how to optimize working remotely in this set of online Courses as an individual or leading teams involving distributed team members. I discovered how to be productive and stay connected when working from home or other remote environments.

This covered the basic database features, how NoSQL works and how to use it with various application drivers.

This Course was a deep dive into the administrative aspects like hosting and security of MongoDB. It also extensively covered how to structure your data with NoSQL.

This covered the basic database features, how NoSQL works and how to use it with Java applications.

This covered the basic database features, how NoSQL works and how to use it with Python 2.x applications.

This was extensive trainging of the Lucene/SOLR service to make Big Data searchable attende in Oslo, Norway over a period of a week.

This was a short course I did to get the certificate. I had already been using MySQL or Relational databases since 2003 at this point.