Roger Turnau
Principal Owner at Gathering Ability Coaching
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRoger Turnau is a Lean/Agile expert and Principal Owner with 15 years of experience helping organizations collapse silos and accelerate value delivery through DevOps, test-first practices, and value-stream thinking. He has led measurable transformations at large insurers, manufacturers, and utilities—driving productivity gains of 40% and quality improvements that eliminated escaped defects while enabling teams to deliver significantly more scope. A warm, inclusive servant leader and coach, he combines hands-on technical fluency (Guidewire, Java, cloud/REST integrations) with business acumen to align engineering practices to clear, quantifiable outcomes. Roger has run Agile dojos, taught BDD and TDD, and led Cost-of-Delay and OKR workshops that revealed hidden sources of waste and unlocked faster time-to-value. Now based in Tallahassee, he is applying his experience to AI-enabled supply chain visibility, blending strategic coaching with practical product and implementation work. His unusual mix of creative writing training and deep technical experience gives him a knack for translating complex technical change into compelling narratives that get organizations moving.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Creative Writing, MFA, Creative Writing at Florida State UniversityBachelor's degree, Russian Language and Literature, Bachelor's degree, Russian Language and Literature at Amherst CollegeStony Brook School
russian -но мне больше практика нужна, English
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Github contributions (5)
rtperson/Haskell-Pong
Jan 2011 - May 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 3 years 5 months
rtperson/cucumberdemo
Jan 2019 - Feb 2024
Quick, barebones BDD demo with Java, Maven, and Cucumber
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
test-automationmavencucumber-jvmtestingbdd
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