Phil Hale
Senior Scrum Master at Avista
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Hale is a Senior Scrum Master and seasoned technology executive with over 15 years leading cross-functional teams in high-speed electronics, embedded software, and enterprise application delivery. He has evolved project practices from Waterfall to pragmatic Hybrid-Agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban), coaching multiple teams at a regional utility and previously shepherding R&D products into full production. Phil pairs an MBA and a Computer Science degree with hands-on design experience—authoring embedded ARM firmware and selecting chipsets for new electronic products—giving him rare fluency across product, engineering, and operations. His background founding and running an AV hardware company and negotiating OEM contracts means he brings entrepreneurial rigor to vendor management and supply-chain risk mitigation. Based in Spokane, he excels at translating complex technical constraints into customer-focused, manufacturable solutions while continuously improving team delivery.
15 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Management, MBA Business Management at Eastern Washington UniversityPayette High School
Github Skills (163)
in-progress9
delayed-job9
html9
ruby9
mvc9
rake9
facebook9
ruby-wrapper9
rails9
sneakers9
activerecord8
ruby-on-rails8
evaluator8
state-machine8
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opencounter/accela-rest-ruby
Feb 2015 - Nov 2023
Contributions:17 PRs, 67 pushes, 14 branches in 8 years 10 months
opencounter/issues-to-airtable
Jul 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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