Drew Darin

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About Drew Darin

Professional Hunter/ Requirements gathering professional dedicated to adding value! Valuable experience and a firm understanding of the SDLC. Practical skills-GOOGLE Skills -Agenda/ Recap writing -Facilitation/ Ice Breakers/ Parking Lots -Quality Assurance -Planning/Standup/ pre-Refinement/ Refinement (Story Pointing)-Requirements gathering Philosophical execution-SCRUM -KANBAN -Waterfall App Dev Tool belt-SQL -Splunk -JIRA -Dynatrace -SNOW -Snagit - Excel (data management/ consolidation + pivot tables)-FULL STACK Story Writing -Power BI analys -Application Architecture (High Level Understanding)-Micro-Service Architecture (High Level Understanding)-REST & SOAP API Integration -Vertical & Horizontal slicing -Manual QA (Writing and documenting test results in TFS)- TFS -JIRA -BitBucket -AZURE & Google Cloud-Quantiphi -OBO (OAuth)-ADR/ADE/OCR/ML Adding value is challenging, exciting & rewarding. Most importantly, adding value is progression. I have 5 reasons for my “WHY” as a professional listed below: • Learning is foundational. I am of the opinion that a desire to learn should be automatic. It should be effortless and enjoyable. • Consistency is crucial. Conducting yourself with consistency not only helps build credibility, but when applied correctly, reinforces loyalty and commitment to the organization & its people. I think of consistency as an attempt at achieving equilibrium in all aspects of life. • The combination of discipline & diligence are core competencies. These concepts are fundamental for becoming a subject matter expert. The actions of acquiring and sharing knowledge takes time and effort. Continuous improvement is always worth the effort. • Accountability is one of the best “check & balance” features we posses as professionals. This characteristic helps you grow in your career and demonstrates humility. Humility is a highly valued component to building credibility & trust with in the team environment. • Relationship building is deeply fulfilling. We should do our best help each other. In order to really help each other, we should genuinely understand and respect one another. You not only become assets to the organization and its objectives, you become assets to each other and the team. Relationship building and genuine care about the people you work with helps the team continuously improve. An organization is only as great as its people! SEMPER PROGREDIENS