Gerard is an independent consultant specializing in coaching agile teams. His background is in building telecommunication systems (making phones ring better!) and distributed objects. He is the author of the Jolt Productivity Award winning book xUnit Test Patterns - Refactoring Test Code published in the Martin Fowler signature series by Addison Wesley. Among the patterns he has had published in the PatternLanguagesOfProgramDesign series are:
	* HalfObjectPlusProtocol
	* CapacityPatterns
	* PatternsForWritingPatterns

All are available on his web site at http://www.gerardmeszaros.com/.

He is currently working on patterns related to architecture and organization.  Some of the patterns which can (soon) be found here on Wiki include:
	* ArchitecturePerDomain
	* AtLeastOneImplementation
	* EncapsulateMostImplementations
		* OptimizeBehindInterface
		* OptimizeOutInterfaces
 
Gerard is available to coach agile teams, teach better xUnit-based test automation or pattern writing and can be reached at mailto:c2 at gerardm dot com or by phone at 403-210-2967 (home office).

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