Summary
Mark Levison is a Principal Consultant, Trainer and Executive Agile Coach based in Ottawa with over two decades of hands-on software and Agile leadership experience. He introduced Scrum and Agile engineering practices at organizations including Cognos, Databeacon and IBM, and has coached teams in TDD, CI, refactoring and self-organizing practices since the early 2000s. A Certified Scrum Trainer and frequent conference speaker and editor at InfoQ, he blends deep technical credibility—shipping C/C++/Java/.NET applications—with pragmatic change leadership. Mark has a track record of translating engineering practices into broader business functions such as Operations, Support and Sales, and is known for concise, practical trainings like his long-running “Scrum in a Nutshell.” He also brings a curious global perspective (a year backpacking the world) and a formal computing science background from Queen’s University.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BScH, Computing Science, BScH, Computing Science at Queen's University
c, c++, java, c#/.net