Prior to Mike, he worked as a software consultant to FTSE 500 companies for over 10 years, specialising in enterprise Java technologies and agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling. He has worked all over the UK, leading teams and designing/building systems for logistics, insurance, telecoms and gaming companies.

He is passionate about building software in the right way and an advocate of using Cloud Computing to help deliver the next generation of software applications.

He is a regular blogger and has been awarded, for his sins, with Most Valued Blogger (MVB) status at DZone.

A keen guitar player, he has recently re-discovered the ability of the Ibanez Tube Screamer to transform a heavy-duty blues line mid-solo.

He is committed to delivering value for businesses, and great experiences for users.  Working with people at all levels, he can quickly design and engineer workable solutions that deliver business benefit.  Jim has the ability to work across all delivery disciplines, from the user interface design to the back-end/partner integration, ensuring they all work together to support the user experience.

Being a 1^st Dan martial artist provides a great way for Jim to unwind, keep fit, and maintain "Pyung Ahn".

Conroy has worked with Java enterprise technologies over the past 15 years, bringing expert software engineering capability to clients such as FirstDirect, William Hill, Allianz, Vodafone and Geopost.

He understands the issues and challenges facing business and the need to align strategic selection of technology to meet these. Early research into software design resulted in a number of publications credited to his name on the international stage.

He has over 20 years of IT experience working across a wide variety of industry sectors and  delivering projects for a wide range of clients.

Richard also specialises in assisting companies in becoming more agile (iterative and incremental development and deployment, business focussed approach, responsive to change, cooperative and collaborative project environment).
 
With his in-depth knowledge and experience of the different flavours of agile, together with his competence in more traditional methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2), he is uniquely positioned to provide the answers for corporate and individual project needs in terms of process change and improvement through agile implementation / transformation.    

Although regularly working all over the UK Richard is never happier than when back in Yorkshire watching the mighty whites (Leeds Utd) storm back to the Premiership.
 

Chris has a passion for delivery, but not just hitting a deadline, but delivering business benefit through IT. He has been involved in a number of projects that have transformed businesses, and has gained most satisfaction from building a team and process that can achieve outstanding results.

Chris is also one of the founders of Mike, establishing the product and delivering the initial releases. Chris is very proud to be part of a product at the cutting edge of Agile tools.

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Prior to working on Mike Ben has been a consultant for a variety of organisations ranging from the Financial Sector to Telecoms. During these gigs Ben has developed web applications, build systems, and ALM platforms meaning he is comfortable from design to deployment and beyond.

Before working at Answer Ben created innovative SaaS applications for some of the largest local authorities in the UK.

When not at work Ben likes to engage in a wide range of physically challenging activities, not least being the father of 4 young boys.

Recent projects have seen Linton working on scalable, high volume service orientated enterprise systems.

Whenever the time allows, he can be found pursuing his penchant for organic farming on his allotment.

His keen work ethic, commitment to quality and dedication to the clients needs means that he relishes the new and difficult challenges our clients are often facing and strives to make IT work for the organisation. Nigel's ability to work within any IT team from Architecture to Operations means that he his able to bring a considered and experienced view to any engagement.

When not working Nigel enjoys the few miles ride from his home in Sheffield to the beautiful peak district and the range of walking and fine Thornbridge ales that it offers.

Before becoming a professional developer he worked in customer services and was a hobbyist programmer from school.
Ged likes to focus on delivering quality and value to the end user.  Nothing gives him more satisfaction at work than seeing well designed, well maintained software making a difference in the real world.  He believes that there is massive untapped potential in brownfield software development that could be realised through continuous improvement and knowledge management.

Ged's family and studies with Open University take up most of his time at home, but he does occasionally find time to see live music and even visit the odd music festival.  He also has a keen interest in Software Archaeology, which involves learning from open source code bases and reading old books on software development.  He finds that a historical perspective is a great help when evaluating the latest ideas.