About

I am a software engineer, software development / hands-on agile coach, community organizer for PhillyXP, blogger, and speaker with 18+ years of experience creating and delivering high quality software. I have specific expertise in:

• Leading and coaching software teams
• Mentoring developers
• Improving development processes and practices for cross-functional development teams
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Microtesting
• Agile / eXtreme Programming (XP) practices
• Pair & Mob Programming
• Legacy code rehabilitation

I am a lifelong student always trying to improve. I believe code quality is not subjective nor a matter of preference. I enjoy mentoring and coaching developers specifically about code quality, microtesting, and Test-Driven Development. I am passionate about XP, Modern Agile, Lean Software Development, and DevOps. A listing of my talks can be found here.

I graduated from Drexel University with a degree in Computer Science. I currently work for eMoney Advisor in Radnor, PA. 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.