Patrick Smacchia is a Visual C# MVP involved in software development for over 15 years. After graduating in mathematics and computer science, he has worked on software in a variety of fields including stock exchange, airline ticket reservation system as well as a satellite base station at Alcatel. He's currently a software consultant and trainer on .NET technologies as well as the lead developer of the tool NDepend which provides numerous metrics and caveats on any compiled .NET application. He is the author of Practical .NET2 and C#2, a .NET book conceived from real world experience with 647 compilable code listings.