Justin York - Simdesk

“Del's leadership was instrumental in bringing agile methodologies to our development team. While transitioning to scrum, I often consulted with Del about how to handle things in the scrum framework. Once our team was fully running on scrum, I felt that we were at least twice as productive as we had been in the past.”

Matt Willson - Pervasive Software

“As Delmar's manager for over a year, I was very impressed with the simplicity of his designs, the quality of his software, and the tenacity he brought to problem solving, especially customer issues. Delmar provided strong leadership for the developers who worked under his tutelage.”

Steve Mook - Pervasive Software and Simdesk

"Del is experienced,enthusiastic and tenacious - an excellent team lead with expertise in UI design and development and Scrum project management. He is willing to learn new technologies, challenge assumptions, take risks, and be accountable for results. His skill and leadership would benefit any team that seeks to improve its ability to deliver value to customers and to the business."

My Agile Experience

What was really exciting was to see the Scrum methodology adopted company wide at Simdesk. Because of the success of our team I was able to train and mentor other team leads, managers and corporate executives to use Scrum. This lead to increased productivity and better communication among the teams, support, product managers and upper management. Goals are well defined and consistently meet.

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Worked on the project to upgrade our current web offerings to use Ajax. We moved from a classic PHP page display architecture to an interactive AJAX architecture. We used multiple frameworks such as ExtJS, Dojo, YUI and Prototype.

Lead the Scrum team and contributed to the team in the development of Simdesk Organizer. Because of the team’s success in meeting goals while using Scrum, agile development methodologies were adopted company wide.  The Organizer product was built on the Mozilla Thunderbird/Sundbird code base. Personal expertise was developed in CSS, JavaScript, XBL, HTML, XML, XPCOM, DOM and RDF. I worked on modifying the core Thunderbird code, wrote the Organizer PIM caching system in C/C++ using embedded SQLite. Designed and programmed the extended user interface for Organizer with XUL, JavaScript, XPCOM and CSS.