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Robert Fischer: Developer, Trainer, Technical Writer

Robert_FischerRobert Fischer is an expert in Grails persistance, Java concurrency, and Agile coaching who consults on projects throughout the United States. He regularly contributes to the technical community by developing open source software, presenting new technologies to businesses and user groups, and writing for technical publications.

Beyond his technical accomplishments, Robert Fischer is a proven leader with a strong background in technical leadership and pragmatic development. His extensive background includes a variety of technologies including Perl, OCaml, Java, and Groovy and includes a variety of contexts including enterprise and entrepreneurial projects. His success in these contexts is due to his core business values — transparency, communication, and forward momentum. As a consultant, he is available for contracts in order to set the tone for new projects, to fill in an interim role while new leadership is sought, or to realign the tone of existing projects.

Robert's approach to technical leadership focuses on pragmatic communication: identifying the underlying needs of business and development, finding ways to make those needs understandable to the other side, and building consensus. Once those modes of communication are established, Robert looks into the surrounding business context and identifies how to build that communication into the development process of the team. These are abstract ways of speaking, but the innately contextual and interpersonal approach to technical leadership makes it hard to be more specific.