About the Technical Reviewer

Carl P. Dea is a currently a senior software engineer working for BCT-LLC on projects with high performance computing (HPC) architectures. He has been developing software for over 15 years with many clients from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofit organizations. He has written software ranging from mission-critical applications to Web applications. Carl has been using Java since the very beginning and he also is a huge JavaFX enthusiast dating back when it used to be called F3. His passion for software development started when his middle-school science teacher showed him the TRS-80 computer. His current software development interests are: rich-client applications, Groovy, game programming, Arduino, mobile phones, and tablet computers. Carl's blog can be found at http://carlfx.wordpress.com, and he tweets at @carldea.