I am a professional software engineer with more than 20 years of freelance and full-time experience. I hold a B.S.Ed in Secondary Mathematics Education from Temple University and an M.S. in Software Engineering from Drexel University. My skillset lies primarily in designing and developing business information systems, both on the desktop and on the web.

I am a co-author of Entity Framework 6 Recipes.

Languages, frameworks, and platforms I use frequently are:

• C#
• WPF
• Silverlight
• Entity Framework
• T-SQL
• ASP.NET
• ASP.NET MVC
• WCF
• PHP
• MySQL
• Javascript

Languages, frameworks, and platforms I use less frequently are:

• Java
• Objective-C
• WinForms
• Node
• jQuery
• CSS

I dabble in (read: have VERY LIMITED experience with) the following:

• Ruby
• Python

I currently hold the following certifications:

• MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Data Access
• MCTS: SQL Server 2008, Database Developer