Mick Knutson, with nearly two decades of experience working in the IT industry in various roles as Enterprise technology consultant, Java Architect, project leader, Engineer, Designer and Developer, has gained a wide variety of experience in disciplines including Java EE, Web Services, Mobile Computing, and Enterprise Integration Solutions.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Knutson has enjoyed long-lasting partnerships with many of the most recognizable names in the Health Care, Financial, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Utilities, Product Distribution, Industrial, and Electronics industries employing industry-standard full software lifecycle methodologies, including the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, SCRUM, and Extreme Programming (XP).

Mr. Knutson has led training courses and book publishing engagements, authored technical white papers, and presented at seminars worldwide. As an active blogger and Tweeter, Mr. Knutson has also been inducted in the prestigious DZone.com "Most Valuable Blogger" (MVB) group, and can be followed at http://baselogic.com, http://dzone.com/users/mickknutson and http://twitter.com/mickknutson.

Mr. Knutson is exceptional at team building and motivating both at a peer-to-peer level and in a leadership role. He demonstrates excellent communications skills and the ability to adapt to all environments and cultures with ease.

Mr. Knutson is President of BASE Logic, Inc., a software consulting firm focusing on Java-related technologies and development practices, and training for enterprise development.

Mr. Knutson has been a strategic member of Comcast, for Wayne Ramprashad, helping to design and deploy the next generation IVR to align the One Customer Experience and deflect millions in quarterly operational costs. This opportunity helped foster many real world challenges and solutions used indirectly in many of the recipes included in this book.