Jon Jagger - Software Enthusiast-Developer-Programmer-Mentor-Coach

Jon Jagger - Software Coach, Consultant, Enthusiast

If you're software developers I can help you improve your technical, personal, and team effectiveness.
If you're a software manager I can help you make your development process more effective.
If I don't think I can help you I won't take the work.
If I take the work and you're not completely satisfied I won't invoice you.

Highlights

CyberDojo Live Server
CyberDojo on GitHub
Online course C Foundation - Part 1
Online course C Foundation - Part 2
Online course C# Programming
Online slides A quick and dirty introduction to UML
Writing Less code, more Software blog
Writing A C++ type that doesn't like being ignored
Writing A Programmers Overview of C#
Writing Even More Java Exceptions
Writing diary/wiki
Book Annotated C#
Book Microsoft Press: Visual C# Step by Step
Hyperlinked C# 1.0 specification

Selected Experience

2010

more work for Schlumberger in Tokyo, Japan, 18th-22nd October
running a CyberDojo at Agile Cambridge conference, UK, 14th-15th October
running A Day of Deliberate Practice workshop (partly using CyberDojo) with Kevlin Henney at the JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark, October 4th-8th
teaching SkillsMatter's 3 day Agile Development course in London, September 22nd-24th
in-the-brain-of-me session 60 Minutes of Deliberate Practice for SkillsMatter in London, September 22nd
running a CyberDojo with Olve Maudal at JavaZone conference in Oslo, Norway, September 8th
ran a CyberDojo at the NDC conference in Oslo, Norway, June 16th-18th
ran two CyberDojos at the XP conference in Trondheim, Norway, June 2nd-3rd
ran a CyberDojo at Oslo Coding Dojo, May 18th
graduated Jerry Weinberg's Problem Solving Leadership course in Albuquerque, May 2nd-6th
attended Craig Larman's 2 day Scrum Master course hosted by Tandberg in Oslo, April 26th-27th
spoke, and ran three CyberDojos at the Accu conference in Oxford, April 14th-17th
attended Jeff Sutherland's Scrum course in Oxford, April 12th-13th
taught Learning Tree's 4 day .NET Best Practices and Design Patterns course in London, March 16th-19th
taught SkillsMatter's 3 day Agile C# Testing course in London, March 3rd-5th
more work for Schlumberger in Beijing
more work for Tandberg in Oslo
started the CyberDojo project on Github
attended a Tom Gilb course in London

2009

Shadow Data Type article published in the ACCU Overload magazine.
two submissions accepted for O'Reilly's 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book
attended Gerald Weinberg's Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference (AYE) in Phoenix.
Tandberg asked me back to do some more training and consultancy at their Bangalore office.
Desert Island Books article published in the ACCU CVu magazine.
invented The Average Time To Green Game
extended consultancy and training (C, TDD, UML, Lean and Agile) for Tandberg at their Bangalore office.
attended the ACCU conference
UML and Object Orientation training course for Schlumberger in Beijing.

2008

more UML training courses for Ordnance Survey in Southampton, UK.
training course for Royal Bank of Scotland in London, UK, organised through Thoughtworks.
several consultancy and training (C, C++, UML, Pair Programming) trips for Tandberg mostly at their Oslo office.

2007

co-authored the Morgan Kaufmann book Annotated C# Standard
attended the ACCU conference
UML training courses for Ordnance Survey in Southampton, UK.
consultancy for Reuters in Hong Kong.

2006

attended the March 2006 ECMA TC39 C#/CLI meetings in Geneva
Java Training for Renault Formula 1 in UK.
C++ Training for Renault Formula 1 in UK.

2005

speaker at the BCS Software Practice Advancement meeting in London in January. more info.
one of my articles has won Overload article of the year!
speaker at the ACCU conference

2004

speaker at the BCS Software Practice Advancement meeting in Newcastle in December talk synopsis.
attended (as convenor) the September ECMA TC39 C#/CLI meetings hosted by Microsoft in Seattle.
attended (as convenor) the June ECMA TC39 C#/CLI meetings hosted by Microsoft in Seattle.
Java Training for The European Space Agency in Barcelona.
speaker at the ACCU Spring Conference in April
attended the March ECMA TC39 C#/CLI meetings hosted by Monash University in Melbourne.
attended the Jan ECMA TC39 C#/CLI meetings hosted by Plum Hall in Kona, Hawaii.

2003

hosted the October ECMA TC39 C#/CLI meeting in Somerset, UK.
attended (as convenor) the ECMA TC39 C#/CLI meetings hosted by Microsoft in Seattle, USA.
attended the March ECMA TC39 C#/CLI meeting hosted by Intel in San Jose, USA. Appointed convenor of the C# Task Group.
speaker at the ACCU Spring Conference, Oxford

2002

attended the first ISO/IEC TC39 CLI/C# ballot resolution meeting in Hawai'i as the PUKE! (Principal UK Expert).
speaker at the DotNet Developers Masterclass Group at Microsofts UK campus at Reading. feedback
co-authored the Microsoft Press book Visual C#.NET Step by Step

2001

converted the ECMA C# Language specification into XML using PERL and then converted the XML into hyperlinked HTML using XSLT/CSS. Read feedback.
designed and implemented a subset of STL targetted at embedded C++ for a client.
wrote and delivered a 90 minute presentation entitled Some Cool Stuff in C# to the NOOPS branch of the BCS (British Computer Society).
wrote my own 5 day instructor led course on C# Programming. Read feedback
speaker at ACCU Spring conference.

2000

co-authored (with John Sharp) the Microsoft Press book: Visual C# Step by Step
delivered the first train-the-trainer of the Introduction to C# course (2124) at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Seattle. Read feedback
delivered first Beta teach of the Introduction to C# course (2124) at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Seattle.
worked on behalf of Content Master writing their Introduction to C# training course which is now an official Microsoft course (2124).
delivered C# presentations on UK MsDev tour

Client Feedback

Conference Speaking

2010: JAOO
2010: JavaZone
2010: NDC
2010: XP
2010: ACCU
2005: ACCU
2005: SPA
2004: SPA
2004: ACCU
2003: ACCU
2001: BCS NOOPS
2001: ACCU
2000: JaCC/EXE
2000: European DevWeek/C++ World
1999: JaCC/EXE

Article Writing

Shadow Data Types Overload, December 2009
Single Exit Overload, October 2003
Software As Read Overload, October 2003
How To Write a Loop Overload, June 2003
The Nature and Aesthetics of Design An extended book review. Overload, April 2003.
C#: struct/class Differences February 2003
A C++ type that doesn't like being ignored Overload, February 2003
Exception Handling in C# Overload, October 2002
Even More Java Exceptions Overload, August 2002
A Programmers Overview of C# Overload, June 2002, ObjectiveView 7, March 2003
Mostly Comments CVu, May 2000
More Ruminations on cow_ptr<type> Overload, August 1999
Compile Time Assertions in C Revisited CVu, July 1999
Review of cow_ptr<type> Overload, June 1999
copy_on_write_ptr<type> Overload, April 1999
Compile Time Assertions in C CVu, March 1999
Write to Learn Overload, February 1999
Abstraction, syntax, intent CVu, January 1999
counted_ptr<type> Revisited Overload, December 1998
counted_ptr<type> Overload, April 1998
pointer<type> Overload, February 1998
{ yourself } Rock and Unroll CVu, January 1998
{ yourself } Macro Hunter CVu, November 1997
{ yourself } Silent Changes CVu, July 1997
{ yourself } #define Just Say NO CVu, May 1997
{ yourself } #include CVu, March 1997
{ yourself } Quine CVu, January 1997
{ yourself } switch CVu, November 1996
{ yourself } Addition is Associative CVu, September 1996
auto_ptr || !auto_ptr Overload, January 1997
An Alternative Debug Function Macro C/C++ Users Journal, October 1995

Past Jobs

1997-2000. QA Training, Cirencester
Course manager, product consultant, senior lecturer:

Object-Oriented Design for Java
Object-Oriented Design for C++
Java for C/C++ Programmers
Java for non-C Programmers
Advanced C++ Development Techniques
C++ for C Programmers
C++ for non-C Programmers
C++ Primer
Object-Orientation Analysis and Design using the UML
Object-Oriented Software Development
Object-Oriented Primer for Software Developers
Advanced C
C Programming
C Primer

1994 -1997. News Digital Systems, Southampton
Programmer: digital TV, soft real-time, multi-threaded Solaris. C++,SQL
1991 -1994. Sheffield Hallam University
Computer advisor: PC/UNIX LAN/WAN administration Computer lecturer: C, Pascal, C++, Design: M.Sc. and H.N.D.
1989 -1991. British Aerospace, Bristol
Programmer: database clustering research. Prolog, C

Professional Memberships

ACCU #94012i
Association of Computing Machinery #4672473
British Computer Society #M0835080
Engineering Council C.Eng. #483215

Formal Education

University College Cardiff - Computer Science, B.Sc. Hons. 1^st
Richard Huish Colledge, Taunton
Castle School, Taunton
Parkfield Primary School, Taunton

Additional Professional Activities

ECMA TC39 C# convenor (ex).
C# UK panel member (lapsed).
C++ UK panel member (lapsed).
C UK panel member (lapsed).
ACCU secretary 1996 -1999.

Personal Information

Location: Taunton, Somerset, UK
Born: 23rd November 1966, Nkana, Zambia (British National)
Married: to the beautiful Natalie
Father: Ellie, Penny and Patrick (also beautiful but I could be biased)
Hobby: With three kids I don't get much spare time, but what I've got I mostly spend river fishing (my childhood passion).

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