Charlie Poole, Poole Consulting
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Charlie Poole is an independent developer, consultant and trainer and based in the Northwest. He is an experienced XP coach and an author of several open source development tools including the NUnit test framework for .NET.
Charlie is actively involved in a number of agile conferences and is one of the organizers of Agile Open Northwest, to be held in Seattle this spring. His technical background ranges from mainframes to modern systems. He is currently working on a mix of client projects using C#, C++ and (yes) COBOL.