Ian Roughley
BIO
Ian Roughley is a speaker, trainer, author, and consultant based in Boston, MA, where he runs From Down & Around, Inc., a consultancy specializing in architecture, development, and process improvement services. For more than 10 years, he has been helping clients ranging in size from Fortune 10 companies to start-ups.
Focused on a pragmatic and results-based approach, he is a proponent for open source, as well as process and quality improvements through agile development techniques.
Ian is a correspondent for InfoQ.com community web site; contributor to the "No Fluff Just Stuff 2006 Anthology", and author of "Starting Struts2" and "Practical Apache Struts2 Web 2.0 Projects." He is also a committer on the XWork and WebWork projects; member of the Apache Struts PMC; and speaks at conferences in the United States and abroad.
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