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Timothy Porter is an Army veteran of 10 years. He achieved the rank of Sergeant First Class within 7 years. After being involved in a bomb explosion, Porter was medically retired and began pursuing his passion: technology. In 2009, after teaching himself how to develop mobile apps, Appddiction Studio was formed. In 2011, Appddiction Studio was nationally recognized by the USA Network Channel. Porter was one of their USA Character Unite Award winners for developing an award-winning anti-bullying App for schools. Appddiction Studio has developed well over 200 commercial mobile apps and has become a leader in Enterprise transformations focusing on Agile and the SAFe Framework.

Porter has multiple degrees in Management Information Systems and holds an MBA. He is an SPC and RTE and has performed roles for Appddiction Studio as Scaled program Consultant, Enterprise Coach & Trainer, Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer to Scrum Master. Appddiction Studio has been performing for programs supporting Gunter AFB as a Prime Contractor in: Agile Coaching, EODIMS JST & EODIMS Backlog Burndown and now as a subcontractor on ACES FoS.

Porter has taught over 50 public/private SAFe classes and has submitted his packet for consideration to become SPCT Gold Partner. He is certified at all levels of SAFe Framework and teaches Leading SAFe, SAFe Scrum Master, Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Portfolio Management, Product Owner/Product Management, SAFe DevOps, SAFe Architect in addition to Agile courses like ICAgile Agile Fundamentals, ICAgile Agile Team Facilitation, ICAgile Agile Programming & ICAgile DevOps Foundations.

Anthony Ortega is an instructor for Appddiction Studio with over 15 years of experience architecting, automating, designing, and implementing enterprise applications across multiple industries for large organizations, small companies, non-profits, and government organizations. Ortega has trained and developed over 300 software developers in his career, many of whom he continues to mentor.Ortega’s ability to help developers look at software development with ownership and pride speaks to his passion for his craft. Ortega has a B.S. in Computer Science with minor in Mathematics from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Ortega is a certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant and ICAgile Authorized Instructor. He is certified at all levels of SAFe Framework and can teach Leading SAFe, SAFe Scrum Master, Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Portfolio Management, Product Owner/Product Management, SAFe DevOps, SAFe Architect in addition to Agile courses like ICAgile Agile Fundamentals, ICAgile Agile Team Facilitation, ICAgile Agile Programming and ICAgile DevOps Foundations.

Erik Hansen is an agile native and experienced software engineer lead with 5 years experience designing and developing robust, user-focused solutions that drive breakthrough efficiency, value addition and bottom line results. This includes 4 years experience leading software development teams, managing multimillion-dollar, mission critical projects for the DoD.

He is skilled in software development lifecycle phases including system administration, expertise in translating business needs into technical solutions, extreme communication and cross team growth, application development, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise release management.

Hansen graduated from Rice University with a B.S. in Bioengineering. He then attended the San Antonio based Web Development bootcamp Codeup. He is a certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant and ICAgile Authorized Instructor. He is certified at all levels of SAFe Framework and can teach Leading SAFe, SAFe Scrum Master, Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Portfolio Management, Product Owner/Product Management, SAFe DevOps, SAFe Architect in addition to Agile courses like ICAgile Agile Fundamentals, ICAgile Agile Team Facilitation, ICAgile Agile Programming & ICAgile DevOps Foundations.