Chris is currently an Application Development Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services Canada, and who was at one time a political aide to several members of the Provincial Parliament of Ontario. He’s been developing applications for many years, however, and made the transition to IT over eight years ago. After working on several miserable waterfall projects, he discovered eXtremeProgramming and began a life-long love affair with agile/lean/iterative practices and all manner of best practices ever since, and earned his CSM designation in 2006. Grounded in Microsoft technologies but not dogmatically, Chris is a member of the ALT.NET community - always on the lookout for new ways to not only improve his own skills, but also techniques to deliver more real value back to customers and clients. See his blog at: http://blog.chapmanconsulting.ca