Principal Architect and founder of Strongback Consulting. I'm an IBM Rational and Systems Middleware Champion. I specialize in making DevOps work for my customers, improving their time to market, automating deployment and testing, and optimizing infrastructures.I advocate Agile application lifecycle methodologies and tools, and am a mentor/trainer of such.

I am also a woodworking geek. When time allows, I like to drop the technology and pick up a finely tuned hand tool. I find that no matter how well software is designed, it will never outlast a well designed piece of furniture.