Prior to stepping out on his own as a consultant to companies including
Litton/PRC, Northrop Grumman, The Harris Corp., The Discovery Channel,
Satellite Services of America, The US Patent and Trademark Office, SAIC,
DARPA, The Office of the Secretary of Defense, The
Interoperability Clearinghouse, and the Objective Technology Group, Skip
worked at the MITRE Corporation as chief software architect and development lead for
secure, web-based distributed collaboration systems. He also ran MITRE's National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
Interoperable Technology Reification with Objects (NITRO) project and the Data Integration and Synergistic
Collateral Usage Study (DISCUS) project.
As webmaster and coordinator for the AntiPatterns Group (www.antipatterns.com),
Skip interfaces constantly with fellow AntiPatterns discoverers, and is
working on two new books.
Skip is a sought-after speaker, recently giving Keynote Addresses at
the 3rd Annual European Conference on Javaô
and Object Orientation in Denmark and the Visual
Basic Insiders' Technical Summit (VBITS99) in Orlando. He has a
diverse background in many information systems areas, including computer
security, artificial intelligence, and distributed object computing.
Skip co-author of AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures
and Projects in Crisis, AntiPatterns and Patterns in Configuration
Management, and AntiPatterns in Project Management, all
published by J. S. Wiley, and has written for technical journals including
Dr. Dobbs.
Skip holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the
U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and resides in
Manassas, Virginia with lovely his wife, Kim, and two children. Skip is
also assistant scoutmaster of .Troop
1195.
