Contributors 213
network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Com-
puting, P2P, and semantic web–based systems. He has a BS in computer
science from the College of William and Mary and currently lives in Bev-
erly Hills, California. He is a senior platform engineer for Riot Games in
Culver City, California, working on League of Legends. He focuses on web
architecture, resource-oriented computing, the semantic web, scalable sys-
tems, and security consulting.venkat Subramaniam (Broomfield, Colorado, U.S.)
Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and men-
tored thousands of software developers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.
He helps his clients succeed with agile development and various software
technologies.
Venkat is a frequently invited speaker at various international software
conferences. He authored .NET Gotchas (O’Reilly), and coauthored the
2007 Jolt Productivity Award–winning book Practices of an Agile Developer
(Pragmatic Bookshelf ). His most recent book is Programming Groovy (also
Pragmatic).
You can reach him at [email protected].Miyoko Takeya, PMP (Tokyo, japan)
Miyoko Takeya is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI),
the Project Management Association Japan (PMAJ), and the Japan Soft-
ware Engineering and Management Society (SEMS).
For more than 30 years, she has worked in the information technology
industry in Japan, starting with Hitachi Co. Ltd. as an operating system
programmer, moving to Digital Equipment Co., and then to NCR Japan.
While she was at Digital and NCR, Miyoko spent most of her time on proj-
ect business and drove several programs for business quality and perfor-
mance. She also established a PMO (project management office), through
which she was able to implement a project management system, a proj-
ect accounting system, a project pricing system, an activity reporting and
tracking system, and many other systems used successfully for business
quality and performance improvement.
Miyoko has enjoyed her work in the IT industry project business area a
great deal. Currently, she runs her own consulting business for project
management.