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Java Champion, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, and a Grails Rock Star. Author of the Pragmatic Library book “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”.

Multiple winner of the JavaOne Rockstar award. Academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.