During the early summer months, John studied under Shingo prize winner, Dr. Richard L. Jenson. The course focus was to expose students to a wide variety of information technology useful in determining company strategies. Topics included integrated databases, process modeling, business intelligence, knowledge management, data mining, and online analytical processing (OLAP).

Starting in the end of July, John was enrolled in a week long training course designed to teach professionals how to implement the Agile development methodology, Scrum, within their organizations. The course was taught by Kenny Rubin, president of Innolution, Inc. and practioner of the Scrum Alliance. The course first focused on the individual contributor [...]