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Martin is extremely knowledgeable and experienced in helping teams become more agile and adopt DevOps practices especially around the Microsoft Azure platform and VSTS / TFS. But he is not limited to that stack with plenty of experience with competing and complimentary technologies. He explains things clearly and gets rid of any 'smoke and mirrors' to show how any team can make small improvements to improve how they work. He is one of the leading MVP's globally for DevOps and someone myself and my colleagues in the Azure product group trust to give us honest and insightful feedback.

Thanks to Martin's guidance and support we successfully upgraded to TFS 2010 from an unstable TFS 2005 database, moved our dev team to Visual Studio 2010 and implemented the finest product build process ever known! I would recommend Martin to anyone, in fact I would insist they use him as he's the best ALM consultant I've worked with.

Martin cuts to the chase with whatever you throw at him. Having worked with him extensively over the last 3 years, I can strongly recommend Martin whether your needs are broadly across the Software Application Lifecycle Development spectrum (including scrum training) or deeply into the most complex enterprise wide Team Foundation Server / Visual Studio Team Services migrations. This is a fast moving field in which Martin typically provides rapid responses and solutions, or facilitates them through his worldwide network. More than happy to talk with anyone needing further encouragement to engage in his services!

Martin was a joy to work with. He really knows Team Foundation Server (TFS) inside out, got our TFS migrated to 2010, get build server off the ground properly, and set in place many of the processes as well as the process templates that we'll continue to use in SSW. Ever full of wit, self motivated, hardworking and shares his learnings with the world. I wish all the best with Martin's future, and thanks for being a great colleague.

I had the pleasure to work with Martin at SSW. He was an extremely capable professional who picked up new technology with ease and joined project teams quickly and with passion. The depth of his knowledge and his work ethic made him a "go to" person in our organisation soon after he started. Martin showed particular knowledge and interest in ALM and contributed significantly to the improvement of ALM rules and procedures while at SSW. He made those practices available not only internally, but also made them available to the IT community in his blog, where they were widely read and positively received. Martin also advanced the SSW engineering practices through his involvement with the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and his work within SSW during our introduction of Scrum as our primary development planning and tracking methodology. Martin's skills and passion showed in this area too as our solution at SSW for tracking the Sprint and Product backlogs is based on TFS. He also completed the Scrum Developer Trainer course and became accredited with Microsoft and Scrum.org, flying out to Sydney from his home in Scotland to complete the intensive 5 day course. I would recommend Martin to any employer who has the good fortune to be in the position to offer Martin a role in their organisation.