Career Highlights
Career Summary
As an enabler and educator: Joe is an Authorized Training Partner with VMEdu, a Scrum Certified Trainer with SCRUMstudy™, and a contributor to the Great IT Professional Webinar Series sponsored by Computer Aid, Inc. Joe has over 80 published books, papers, conference presentations and keynotes—including contributions to the books: The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement (2012), IT Measurement, Certified Function Point Specialist Exam Guide, and The Economics of Software Quality. He has taught over 100 college courses, 75 of those at the graduate level. Joe has facilitated ~200 teams in the areas of software specification, team building, and organizational planning using lean six sigma, business process reengineering, and JAD. He was a certified instructor for the Introduction to the CMMI for most of the past decade.
Life long learning: Joe holds eight agile-related certifications: SA, SCT™, SSMC™, SSPOC™, SMC™, SDC™, SPOC™, and SAMC™. He is also a Certified Software Quality Analyst and a Certified Software Measurement Specialist. Joe was a CMMI Institute certified Instructor for the Introduction to the CMMI®, a Certified Function Point Counting Specialist, and a Lockheed Martin certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He completed his Master’s degree in MIS at the University of Arizona in 1980.
Selected Key Roles: Joe Schofield is a Past President of the International Function Point Users Group. He retired from Sandia National Laboratories as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff after a 31-year career. For over a decade he served as the “Chief Process Officer” of an organization of 400 software engineers which was awarded a SW-CMM® Level 3. He continued in that role to CMMI® Level 4 until his departure.
Community & Family: Joe was a licensed girl’s mid-school basketball coach in the state of NM for 21 seasons--the last five undefeated, over a span of 50 games. He served seven years volunteering in his church's children's choir; eventually called to oversee 150 children and 20 staff. Was appointed to serve on the state of New Mexico's Professional Standards Commission. By "others" he is known as a husband, father, and grandfather.
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