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Contact Information - Contact Monty Here - View Monty's Blog My Smalltalk Biography I was introduced to Smalltalk while working at American Greetings in Cleveland, OH. At American Greetings, I worked on a pilot project where we wrote the company's first two internal systems in Smalltalk. We wrote our own object to relational mapping framework as well as developing our own GUI framework. While in Cleveland, I was trained by The Object People and Knowledge Systems (KSC) in Smalltalk, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, IBM's VisualAge for Smalltalk, Best Practice Patterns, and Design Patterns. One of the authors of Smalltalk with Style, taught me about Envy and the wide array of browsers that ship with IBM's Visual Age For Smalltalk. After leaving Cleveland, I worked in Charlotte, NC at First Union Bank as a consultant with a large team of developers from a big consulting company on a conversion project. There, we converted a system written in Digitalk Smalltalk to Visual Age. In Charlotte, I participate in the conversion of several hundreds of GUIs to Visual Age Smalltalk. I left Charlotte and moved to Kansas City to work as a consultant at DST Sytems on a large financial application. My responsibilities, included, mentoring new consultants on current system standards, training and mentoring new Smalltalk developers and business analysts and developing several components of a huge financial system in VisualAge Smalltalk. Still in Kansas City, I switched projects and began working on as a consultant at ERC, one of the biggest reinsurance companies in the world. Here, I assisted in trouble-shooting and bug fixing one application, built a small application using my GoodStart framework, and delivered a web application using VisualAge Smalltalk's WebConnect. I switched projects in Kansas City again to work as a consultant at Sprint on a massive telecom project. I supported the existing customers while delivering bug fixes and enhancements in VisualWorks Smalltalk. After Kansas City, I moved to New Hampshire and worked as a consultant (and later became an employee) in Massachusetts for a small startup company named Quallaby (later Micromuse and later IBM). I helped develop the first few releases of a huge network monitoring and performance management application in VisualWorks Smalltalk. I did some major CORBA work and socket programming. I wrote an FTP client in Smalltalk and a UDP logger like Unix's Syslog. I also worked on the core of the stream processing system. After Massachusetts and New Hampshire, I moved back to Cleveland to work at Progressive Insurance doing VisualAge Smalltalk and specifically working on garbage collection problems and maintenance fixes to an web insurance system written in VisualAge WebConnect. A few years later, I was lucky enough to be rehired by that small startup company (now owned IBM) to work from home on the same VisualWorks Smalltalk network monitoring and performance management application. During my career, I have written IDE enhancements to nearly every Smalltalk dialect. I used Smalltalk to build several websites and successful products. I have mentored and taught people Smalltalk using most dialects. I know several programing languages, but Smalltalk is by far my favorite. Special Thanks I would like to take this opportunity to thank the following people that I have had the pleasure of working with: Joseph, Chris, Phil, Joan, Colleen, Snehal, Brad, Jason, Jeff, Kirk, Steve, Mike, Dave, Chris, Jim, Brian, Andrzej, George, Tim, Dan, Angie, Steve, Stephanie, Jackie, Keri, Kirk, Kent, Kevin, Rick, Doug, John, Jon, Eric, Anand, Sangeeta, David, Dave, Rob, Rob W, Mike K., Mark S, Blaine, Hemchand, Alex, Stephane, Stephen

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