Ted Neward

Principal

I am, in a nutshell, a big geek, who takes great pride and joy in making other geeks into bigger and better (and hopefully more highly rewarded) geeks. Recently, I have stepped into the management role, looking for ways to leverage my skills as a "force multiplier" across the entire team, so as to better the team (and the organization) as a whole.I have spent the last fifteen years diving into the technology industry, starting from my first forays into C++ with the help of Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language", into Windows (both 16- and 32-bit), then Java, .NET, and now pretty much anything that seems interesting, including languages (both programming and domain-specific), virtual machines (most notably the JVM and CLR, but also the various Smalltalk VMs like Strongtalk or Squeak, and Parrot), large-scale enterprise systems, and agile development practices. I have worked on projects that were intended for public-facing customer bases in the millions, and on projects that ran headlessly on server machines in the basement.In the past, I consulted to a variety of companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Sun, as well as companies with fewer than 50 total employees that nobody has ever heard of. I teach a variety of technical topics: .NET through Pluralsight and LinkedInLearning, iOS through UW, and other topics through a variety of other sources. I wrote columns and articles for technical magazines for years (including monthly columns for MSDN Magazine and CODE Magazine), as well as my own blog. I spend my time researching new technologies and applying them to customers' problems.

Talks About
#architecture #java

Preferred Locations
#Northamerica