Dean Wampler, ObjectMentor

Dean Wampler, Ph.D., is a Consultant at Object Mentor, Inc., where he helps clients improve their code using Agile methods like Test-Driven Development, Refactoring, and the best combinations of languages and modularity paradigms (so called "polyglot programming"), like Object-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented, and Functional Programming.

Dean is the founder of the advocacy sites http://polyglotprogramming.com and http://aspectprogramming.com. He created the open-source projects "Aquarium", an AOP library for Ruby (http://aquarium.rubyforge.org) and "Contract4J", a Design by Contract library for Java ( http://contract4j.org). He has also contributed to "FitNesse", an acceptance-testing tool for many languages (http://fitnesse.org).

Dean speaks frequently at industry and academic conferences on polyglot programming, AOP, Ruby, and other topics.