With nearly two decades of experience working in the IT industry in various roles as Enterprise technology consultant, Java Architect, project leader, Engineer, Designer and Developer, Mr. Knutson has gained a wide variety of experience in disciplines including JavaEE, Web Services, Mobile Computing and Enterprise Integration Solutions. Over the course of his career, Mr. Knutson has enjoyed long lasting partnerships with many of the most recognizable names in the Health Care, Financial, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Utilities, Product Distribution, Industrial and Electronics industries employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies including the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, SCRUM, and Extreme Programming (XP). Mr. Knutson has also undertaken speaking engagements, training seminars, white paper and book publishing engagements world-wide. As an active Blogger and tweeter, Mr. Knutson has also been inducted in the prestigious DZone.com Most Valuable Blogger (MVB) group and can be followed at http://www.dzone.com/page/mvbs and twitter at http://twitter.com/mickknutson. Able to quickly and effectively adapt to any phase of an existing project from Business Modeling to Production Support, Mr. Knutson’s wide array of technical expertise in OOA / OOD / OOP, Java, J2EE, Internet, Oracle, Enterprise Integration and Message Oriented Middleware allow him to seamlessly integrate into your Information Systems project at any phase and provide immediate productivity. Mr. Knutson is exceptional at team building and motivating either at a peer-to-peer level, or in a leadership role with excellent communications skills and the ability to adapt to all environments and cultures with ease. Mick is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 18 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile