Christopher Judd is the CTO and a partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, an open source evangelist, the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) and Columbus iPhone Developer User Group leader, and the co-author of Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”. He has spent 18 years architecting and developing software for Fortune 500 companies in various industries, including insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation. His current focus is on consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, Java EE, Groovy, Grails, Cloud Computing and mobile platforms like iPhone, Android and Java ME. Specialties: Java, Java EE, Java ME, Groovy, Grails, Mobile, Eclipse, WebSphere, JBoss, WebLogic, Tomcat, mentoring, training, iPhone, iOS, Objective-C, Android, Amazon Web Services, Hadoop, SAML, Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash, Solr, Azure

Chief Technical Officer (CTO)/Partner @ From March 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Columbus, Ohio AreaConsultant @ From March 2011 to Present (4 years 8 months) Columbus, Ohio AreaPresident/Consultant/Author @ From January 2001 to March 2013 (12 years 3 months) Consultant @ From March 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 10 months) Mobile Development Consultant @ From December 2009 to June 2011 (1 year 7 months) Consultant @ From August 2004 to March 2011 (6 years 8 months) Consultant @ From 2004 to 2011 (7 years) Consultant @ From June 2003 to September 2004 (1 year 4 months) Senior Consultant @ From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) Consultant @ From February 2003 to May 2003 (4 months) Consultant @ From November 2002 to February 2003 (4 months) Consultant & Trainer @ From July 2000 to January 2002 (1 year 7 months) Software Engineer @ From March 1999 to July 2000 (1 year 5 months) Emerging Technologies Consultant @ From 1997 to 1998 (1 year)

BS @ Ashland University From 1992 to 1996 Christopher Judd is skilled in: Java, J2EE, Mobile Web, Objective-C, iOS, Android, J2ME, J2SE, Architecture, Test Driven Development, Cloud Computing, Tomcat, Websphere, Weblogic, Java Enterprise Edition, TDD, Grails, Groovy, Agile Methodologies, Mobile Internet, JavaSE, Eclipse, iOS development, Subversion, SOA, Web Applications, Spring, Design Patterns, JUnit, Maven, Web Services, J2EE Application..., Hudson, jQuery, XML, DB2, Application Architecture, Object Oriented Design, JavaScript, REST, Microsoft SQL Server, Struts, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Continuous Integration, JBoss Application Server, Mobile Applications, Open Source, Hibernate, JSP