Bio

10 years at various levels of management including 4 years as top level technology executive. Programming professionally for 30 years. Successfully lead multiple software product development efforts from inception to public facing release. Notable aptitude for building development teams with a high degree of cohesion, trust and productivity. Passionate about continuous learning, mentoring, team building and software craftsmanship. Guided by belief that developing and retaining teams is the key to developing great software. Specialties: Java ✪ JavaScript ✪ Author ✪ Leader ✪ Open Source Contributor ✪ Captain/Player Approach ✪ Mentor & Coach ✪ GTD ✪ BDD ✪ Amazon AWS/EMR Infrastructure & API ✪ Node.js ✪ Mongo ✪ MVC & MVVM ✪ jQuery ✪ Hadoop ✪ Ruby ✪ Clojure ✪ Apache ✪ Nginx ✪ Linux Administration ✪ SQL