Jack Frosch founded the JUG more than 9 years ago to promote Java and educate developers on new and interesting Java APIs, tips, and techniques.
He is currently on a full-tine plus assignment with MasterCard working as a senior designer and developer. Through April 2010 he will continue to provide part time support to his last assignment with a university consortium as they prepare to launch their grant proposal development and management web application. He has also supported many well known clients like IBM (Genelco), Monsanto, SBC (AT&T), USPS, and Learjet, as well as many smaller and less well known clients.
Besides nearly 14 years of Java experience, he's recently been working with Groovy and Grails. He describes Groovy as "the language Java should have been from the beginning." About Grails, he says, "Once you've developed a web application in Grails, you realize just how much extra work you've been doing to accomplish the same things in Java web web frameworks."
Training and mentoring are a core aspect of Jack's belief in the responsibility of all senior developers to share what they've learned, saying, "For most of us, our legacy won't be in the applications we've helped develop. Our true legacy will be written in the minds we've helped develop."
He regularly presents on a variety of interesting Java topics targeted at beginner and intermediate Java developers. He also hosts group study classes and workshops at his Objistics training lab in Saint Peters. Recent topics have included a Beginning and Intermediate Grails class and an Introduction to Android Programming class. He launched his 6th annual Java Web Development class in January, this year focusing on the Spring Web stack.
When the economy turned sour in 2008-Q4, he launched a private, free 8 week mentoring class for some recently outsourced COBOL developers and a couple of Java newbies.
His hobbies and interests include astronomy and cosmology, politics, and occasional meet-ups at the pub.
Jack is on contract through June 2010. Need the help of senior developer, teacher and/or mentor? Contact Jack Frosch at jfrosch{at}objistics{dot}com.
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