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I am a passionate critical thinker with a background in leadership, coaching, testing, quality and agile engineering practices (small-a agile, not Big-A Agile - more on that in a video here). I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, USA, where I still live today with my wife and three children. by day, I coach and mentor software delivery teams on health engineering practices that help us shift our risk mitigation deeply into the left side of the timeline, before hands-on-keyboard coding even occurs - what risks do we observe and own as a team. This involves using certain models, practices, heuristics and oracles to identify certain risks earlier in the design and architectural process. Many team members have never been exposed to a lot of these tools and models that I speak of, but when they harness them in their day to day Scrum, Kanban or other process (since they are contextually beneficial and framework agnostic), they find they become free from the self-imposed constraints of..