I am a software engineer, software development / technical agile consultant, community organizer and founder of PhillyXP, blogger, and speaker with 19+ years of experience in the industry. I have specific expertise in:
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. You can learn more about me here.
There is a pervasive problem in the software industry stemming from a misunderstanding of automated testing. Companies are investing increasing amounts of money and time into automated testing strategies and test suites, but are not seeing an increase in quality or value delivery to customers. Thankfully automated testing is now being seen as a necessary complement to manual, exploratory testing. However, many organizations don’t understand the costs and benefits of the various types of automated tests available to them.
Here are a few projects I have worked on in my free time:
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.
A ruby iTunes library parser using Nokogiri.
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.
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.
Drop me a line if I can help your development organization, help you with your product, or you just want to talk about music!