TechLife Community Builder - Chris Judd

Bio:

Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions (http://www.juddsolutions.com), an international speaker, an open source evangelist, the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) 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 12 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 and mobile platforms like iPhone, Android and Java ME.

Judd Solutions provides software development, training, mentoring and strategies for large, medium and small companies using innovative approaches with a focus on Java and mobile technologies.

What are you passionate about?

I am most passionate about mobile technologies such as the iPhone, Android, J2ME and Black Berry.

Song most played on my ipod:

Most played song is "Stand In the Rain" by Superchick and next is a local artist named BJ Allmon with "It Is You".

Grew up in:

I grew up in Hudson Ohio.

Volunteer time and organize events related to:

I volunteer and run COJUG and CIDUG.