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Skip Mc Cormick is a fun guy. He is also an IT author and consultant to companies including Litton/PRC, Northrop Grumman, Harris Corp., The Discovery Channel, Satellite Services of America, The US Patent and Trademark Office, SAIC, DARPA, The Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Interoperability Clearinghouse (www.ichnet.org 
), the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), and the Objective Technology Group.
Skip has accumulated a diverse background in many information systems areas, including computer security, artificial intelligence, super-data-computing, ultra-large scale data mining, distributed object computing, and technical project management with the MITRE Corporation as chief software architect and development lead for secure, web-based distributed collaboration and the NIMA Interoperable Technology Reification with Objects (NITRO) project for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency [now the National Geospatial Agency (NGA)], and MITRE�s Data Integration and Synergistic Collateral Usage Study (DISCUS) project.
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As webmaster and coordinator for the Anti Patterns Group (www.antipatterns.com ), Skip interfaces constantly with fellow Patterns and Anti Patterns discoverers, and is always working on a new book (and frequently Lurking the Wiki Web).
Skip is a sought-after speaker, recently speaking at JAOO, the Premier European Conference on Java� and Object Orientation in Denmark and the Visual Basic Insiders' Technical Summit (VBITS) in Orlando. Skip is a co-author of the Anti Patterns series published by J. S. Wiley, including Anti Patterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures and Projects in Crisis (Anti Patterns Book); Anti Patterns and Patterns in Configuration Management; and Anti Patterns in Project Management, and has written for technical journals including Dr Dobbs Journal.
Skip holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and resides in Manassas, Virginia , with lovely his wife, Kim, and two children.
He can be reached my email: mailto:skip@antipatterns.com
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