Dr. Charles Suscheck specializes in agile software development methodologies, and project management.  He is one of 6 people in the world certified to teach the entire scrum.org curriculum. He has over 25 years of professional experience in information technology, beginning his career as a software developer.  Dr. Suscheck holds a Doctorate, Masters, and Bachelors in Computer Science. He holds multiple certifications including Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Safe Program Consultant (SPC), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).  An educator at heart, he has over 30 published articles, has taught over 1000 students software development and is a highly respected conference speaker. 

 

 

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Areas of Expertise

• requirements
• business analysis
• agile requirements and practices
• agile enterprise adoption
• scrum
• backlog grooming
• facilitated workshop
• analysis modeling

Representative Courses Taught

• Agile Requirements
• Professional Scrum Master
• Professional Scrum Foundations
• Agile Games

Years of Experience in the Field

30

Real World Experience

• Improving Enterprise Principal Consultant
• Clients such as GFS, Marine Corp, Fidelity, Bank of America, Allscripts, Verision, American Airlines, and many more.

Accomplishments

• Presented at Agile 2009, 2011, 2012, OOPSLA, Borcon, ECOOP, Ningxia University China, and numerous local conferences
• Member of coordinating board for Agile Coach Camp (an international conference for agile experts) in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Involved in COHAA, Agile Lunchbox, and Agile Cincinnati
• Founder Agile Influencers of Columbus 2012
• Reviewer for submissions to Mile High Agile 2011
• Facilities coordinator for Agile RTP from 2009 – 2010
• Web master for Agile Carolinas during 2008
• Member of Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance since 2008
• Member of Agile Leadership Network since 2010

Academic Background

• Edinboro University of Pennsylvania – BS in Computer Sci.
• Cleveland State University – MS in Computer Info Sys
• Colorado Technical University – Doctorate in Computer Sci.
• Colorado State University – full time professor of CIS
• Walden University – Adjunct computer language instructor
• CSM (certified scrum master)
• CSP (certified scrum practitioner)
• PSM I and II (professional scrum master)
• PST (professional scrum trainer)
• PSPO (professional scrum product owner)
• OMG – UML specialist
• Certified RUP specialist (IBM)
• Certified Use case with application specialist (IBM)

What are your interests outside of technology?

Banjo player, guitar player, cyclist, disc golfer