About Me
Bio
I
began my career as an Arabic linguist for the USAF. After a few
years, I got pulled into a Department of Defense project that
was developing computer-based language training for several different
groups, to include the NSA, CIA, military service academies, Special
Forces and diplomats. This ended up being a great assignment with
lots of exposure, and gave me the foundation I needed for a career
in software.
After
8 years in the USAF, I joined the civilian world. My first job
was as Lead Architect
/ Technical Manager for an automotive portal company (no longer
in business). From there, I became Lead Web Developer for Liaison
Technology, which is an enterprise content management company.
After a brief 2-year stint of running my own company, I became
Director Technology for Voting
Technologies International (an eVoting company) and AtomicPark.com
(an eCommerce company).
I'm now the Development Services Group Manager for Miller
Brewing Co. (the beer company), responsible for all software development and package
implementations. Prior to this role, I was their Lead .NET Architect helping to develop their next-generation
enterprise framework, and migrating their infrastructure to .NET.
One of the many perks, beyond dealing with some great technologies,
is 3 free cases of beer a month. Hard to beat that!
I spent most of my life overseas (military brat). I lived 10+
years in Germany, 3+ years in Greece, and 2 years in England.
Stateside I've lived in tons of places, ranging from Alabama to
California. My favorite was Austin, TX. I'm now in Milwaukee,
WI.
I love boxing, and my amateur (non-career) included training
with one of England's Senior National coaches, Jesus Chavez's
coach, the USAF Academy boxing team and a full-contact team in
Austin. I speak German and Arabic and having reading fluency of
French. The USAF sent me through 1 year of Chinese and Hebrew...of
which I remember practically nothing. So, you can email me in
German, French or Arabic. If you try Chinese or Hebrew, don't
expect a response. ;)
About Adapdev
I started this site as a side project in Nov 2004, primarily
to play with different technologies in .NET, sharpen my skillset
and develop some solid open-source projects.
Initially, I began developing an object-relational persistence
framework (Elementary). However,
I quickly realized that the testing capabilities that I needed
weren't provided out-of-the box in NUnit, which lead me to develop
Zanebug. Then, I started
creating Adapdev.NET to help centralize
a lot of the code, such as a SQL API, object caching, etc. Next,
I needed the ability to connect to databases and do the mapping,
which lead me to create Codus. So, three
years later, Elementary is still in its infancy,
but I've been able to learn alot and create some neat projects,
IMHO.
Always Looking for Feedback
I'm always looking for feedback:
Sincerely,
Sean McCormack