Rich Helton is the Principal Software Engineer at the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) in their IT office. He works on several projects, such as Unemployment Insurance's WyCAN (Wyoming-Colorado-Arizona-North Dakota) and CDLE's Internet Self-Service (ISS). He has spent time as a technical manager, as an information security officer, and an enterprise services manager for the state. Rich has an experience of more than 2 decades in building large-scale enterprise systems, working as the principal architect for a customer list that includes ADP, Jeppesen, J.B. Hunt, Schneider Logistics, US West, DCN, and many more. He has implemented Java and C# projects since these languages were in beta, and he has built many projects in frameworks to include Spring, ORMs, NoSQL, and multiple ESB frameworks since their beginning.

He has several patents in the field of mobile video from when he was the VP of Technology of Digital Camera Networks. He holds many certifications in security and software development and a Master's degree in software. He has taught many software and application security classes as a consultant in both the public and private sectors. He posts some of his classes on http://www.slideshare.net/rhelton_1. Rich has built many monitoring systems, network tools, and mobile tools for decades as an independent consultant to include C# system tools and Java Android applications.