## About

I am currently a software engineer at [Scoir](https://scoir.com) with deep expertise in software development, coaching, and training. 
In addition to my engineering role, I have spent much of my career helping developers and development teams improve how they build and deliver high-quality software.
I am also a founding member and organizer of [PhillyXP](https://www.meetup.com/phillyxp), a [blogger](/blog), 
and [speaker](/talks/) with 25+ years of industry experience. My work focuses on both hands-on software engineering and enabling others
through training, mentorship, coaching, and technical leadership. I have specific experieince in: 

* Leading and coaching software teams and leaders
* Helping organizations structure their teams around value delivery
* Mentoring developers
* Improving development processes and practices for cross-functional development teams
* Extreme Programming (XP) practices
* Clean Architecture 
* Test-Driven Development (TDD)
* Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
* Microtesting / Unit Testing
* Collaborative Development Practices (Pair & Mob Programming)
* Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment 
* Legacy code rescue 
* Software organization and team training creation and delivery 
* Conducting Software Organization assessments


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](/talks/).

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I graduated from [Drexel University](http://www.drexel.edu) with a degree in Computer Science. You can learn [more about me here](/more-about-me.html).