About

I am a software engineer, software development / technical agile coach, and trainer at Industrial Logic. I am a founding member of and organizer for PhillyXP. I’m a blogger, and speaker with 22+ years of experience building and delivering high-quality software and helping others do it. I have specific expertise in:

• Leading and coaching software teams
• Coaching Software Engineering leaders
• Helping organizations structure their teams around value delivery
• Mentoring developers
• Improving development processes and practices for cross-functional development teams
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Microtesting / Unit Testing
• Agile / Extreme Programming (XP) practices
• Pair & Mob Programming
• Legacy code rescue
• Agile training creation and delivery

My passion is helping software organizations and their teams create better outcomes for their customers, improve the quality of their code, and help make work a joyful experience. A listing of my talks can be found here.

I graduated from Drexel University with a degree in Computer Science. You can learn more about me here.

Code

Here are a few projects I have worked on in my free time:

iTunes Library Parser

A C# implementation utilizing LINQ-to-XML to parse an iTunes library file (PropertyList format). The nuget package can be found here on nuget.org.

Improved iTunes Parser

A ruby iTunes library parser using Nokogiri.

Listening To

A .NET Web API app (using my Lastfm.NET library) with an AngularJS / Bootstrap front end. It displays the last 25 songs I’ve listened to as well as my top 25 artists.

Lastfm.NET

A .NET client for the Last.fm REST API.

If you’d like to see some other things I’m working on you can view my github account.