One part architect. Two parts developer. One part trainer. These
were the ingredients chosen to create the ultimate ego. But when the
professor accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction -
Chemical X - a Java Guru was born!
From his beginnings as a developer at IBM slinging air-traffic
control system configuration management software, Scott has always
loved software development. His twisted love of LL(1) parsing led
him to working with
Tom McCabe on parsers for reverse-engineering tools and with
Frank DeRemer and
Tom Penello on C++ compiler development (as well as a brief
stint on the ANSI C++ committee -- don't blame him... he voted "no,
with comments"!). While working toward his Master's Degree at The Johns
Hopkins University, Scott realized that something was missing:
teaching.
Along came MageLang Institute (now
jGuru.com -- please visit and give his stock options hope).
Scott was dubbed "Software Guru" (ok, so he picked his own title),
teaching Java around the world, including Sydney, London, Stuttgart,
and Peoria. Excitement abounds at home and abroad!
Soon, Scott became known as a VisualAge for Java guru. (IBM's VP
of marketing for VisualAge often joked that Scott was their best
marketing weapon...) From teaching VisualAge and maintaining a tips
and tricks web site, to writing
Effective VisualAge for Java, Scott helped everyone
understand the power of a great IDE. He even converted some who
thought IDE meant "I Don't have Emacs". Little did he know that six
months after his book was published, IBM would abandon VisualAge for
Java in favor of Eclipse. Excellent move by IBM, but book sales
flatlined. Game over, dude.
After nearly five years of Java training, Scott soon knew every
question that anyone could possibly ask related to Java, and had
seen students make every possible mistake that could be made while
working a lab exercise. Weary of the travel required for training,
Scott rejoined the development workforce.
Forgetting his vow to never again work on a government contract,
Scott joined FGM, Incorporated, a
government contractor in Virginia. He now works with an elite
architecture team, working out new ways to install light bulbs
without making the entire chain of lights black out. As time
permits, the team is working on discovery and mediation mechanisms
for the new Department of Defense Network-Centric architecture.
In the evenings, Scott joins forces with his superfriends at
The Johns Hopkins University to
help students learn Design Patterns, Java, and XML while working
toward their Master's Degree.
Email Scott: scott@javadude.com
Visit Scott's home page at
http://javadude.com
