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Barry Hawkins

Barry Hawkins, CodeMash 2012 Keynote, photo courtesy of Kevin Deenanauth

Prior to his career in software, Barry spent 10 years designing, selling, and delivering turn-key industrial packaging and marking systems into manufacturing plants throughout the southeastern United States. He was responsible for the implementation, maintenance, and support of every system he sold, which was a formative experience that continues to influence his approach to consulting and coaching.

Barry Hawkins has played various roles in his 17 years in the software industry, including lone developer, team lead, director, and Agile coach and mentor. Barry is one of the few native Atlantans, currently specializing in coaching and mentoring for Agile software development in addition to doing contract software development. Over the years, he has developed on multiple platforms, focusing primarily on Microsoft technologies and then Java from 2003 onward. He views technology as a set of tools, and embraces the use of dynamic as well as statically-typed languages, procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming, each having their own strengths in a given problem domain. He writes on these topics at http://barryhawkins.com/blog.

Barry coaches teams to apply Agile process and technical practices in a wide variety of settings. Need to get a fledgling Agile adoption off the ground from scratch? Well on your way with Agile but still wrestling with a few of the finer points? Let’s talk.