Bruce is a consultant with 15 years of IT experience. He worked for 13 years at IBM, in roles ranging from a database systems programmer to Java proof-of-concept team lead where he served on the certification board for the IT profession. He left IBM to build a solutions development team at a high-powered TL Ventures startup, and left that post to build his own consulting business. He has eight patents ranging from database design to development environment user interfaces, and is the author of three books, including the best selling "Bitter Java" and the just released 'Bitter EJB".