John Buntz

John Buntz
Summary Scrum Master Team Lead *Java Web development experience* JSP, JSF, Spring, TDD, Agile Oracle, SQL Server

Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Scrum Master Team Lead, 2005 - present, San Antonio, Texas

Scrum Master - One of two Scrum Masters for an Agile team of 50+ Developers, QA Analysts, and Business Analysts building the next generation web based travel expense portal for federal employees. Host Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, and Team Retrospectives. Assist the Product Owner in maintaing the backlog, planning and scheduling the next release.

Team Lead - Manage 12 full time Java developers, and 9 contract developers. Perform hiring, performance evaluations, recognition, rewards, annual salary budgeting, and training plans. Host developer and Architectural Board meetings. Create fun activies for team building.

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OnBoard Software (BAE Systems), Java Developer, 2002 - 2005, New Braunfels, Texas

Developed Java Web application to view recorded Air Force C5 Aircraft Health Reporting data. JAVA Servlet, JSP, Application. Developed Windows C++ modules for inflight recording of aircraft health statistics.

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CQI Solutions, Java Developer, 1999 - 2002, New Braunfels, Texas

Designed and developed a Web-based Scheduling Package marketed to the hospital industry. This intranet based package features Browser based HTML clients and a servlet based Java application running on a J2EE server using MS SQL Server databases. System included 100+ HTML pages. Designed and prototyped the Operating Room Nursing Notes Web application.

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Cactus Consulting, Independent Consultant, 1996 - 1999, San Antonio and New Braunfels, Texas

Developed the Automated Claims Entry System (ACES) for San Antonio subsidiary of Anthem Health Insurance. Developed using VB 6.

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Anthem Blue Cross, Team Lead / Developer, 1984-1996, Cincinnati, Ohio

Led a small team of VB programmers to spread Automated Transaction Management (ATM) technology throughout Anthem’s health insurance claims processing systems. Architected and programmed the ATM Claims Processing System written in Visual Basic and used MS SQL Server and IBM mainframe host. Performed vendor selection, contract negotiation and system development for a multi-million dollar claims entry outsourcing project.

In retrospect this was my first experience with a truly agile team, only we didn’t know what to call it at the time.