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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!

I worked with Martin for a couple of months and I have to say he was great to work with, and this for several reasons: - he has a great personality and he has a good sense of humour, which does help. - he has an excellent knowledge of TFS and of what good engineering pratices are/should be. I believe it is essential to have the right software development process, and Martin is the right person to ensure we do things the right way. - he has lots of passion for what he does, which is very motivational for others. On top of that, he had enough patience to explain to me inside out some bugs we encountered. I would highly recommend Martin for any position where he could spread his knowledge.

Martin helps me solve all my TFS related problems. From msbuild problems, TFS template questions until datawarehouse and reporting services issues. He is keen on helping and solving problems until the job is done!

I have been in IT hiring consultants on and off for 15 years. Martin is BY FAR the most knowledgeable consultant in breadth and depth I have ever had the privilege of working with. He was not only intelligent and skilled, his personality made him a joy to work with. If you need TFS or Scrum consulting, Martin is your man!!

I was fortunate to have Martin assigned to my project for the installation and configuration of a new TFS 2010 server. The implementation included integration wih our existing SBS 2003 Domain, a new Sharepoint 2010 server, SQL Server 2008 R2 and a Build server. Martin's knowledge in the area is exceedingly comprehensive resulting in a clean trouble free install.

Martin has a deep and comprehensive understanding of Team Foundation Server and its implementation. His knowledge of Scrum combined with understanding the business need, give formidable insights into what process improvements are required and how they might be made.

Martin's depth and breadth of knowledge and experience of the world of Agile/DevOps is incredible. He will switch between hands on development to advanced consulting or training on process, practices and tools to help you in your own DevOps journey. When the going gets tough in challenging situations he is super responsive and goes the extra mile to find solutions. He is passionate about what he does and is always trying to improve the way we work to build high value products and solutions. In particular his knowledge of all things TFS/VSTS is second to none. Down to earth and straight talking. Highly recommend!

Martin is an excellent trainer with incredible in-depth knowledge of TFS/ALM/SCRUM. It was an pleasure to spend 2 days with him learning advanced Team Foundation Server topics and I sincerely hope that I will have the opportunity to work with him again.

Martin did Scrum training for Backcountry through Scrum.org for three days and I must say it was very useful three days for us. The whole team of about 50+ people thoroughly enjoyed the training and got a lot out of it. In addition to great material and exercises Martin had a great style of delivery and won the respect of everyone including our engineers, which is a big deal. In addition to the in-class effort, Martin was also very forthcoming in helping folks outside class and still communicates with members of the team via e-mail. Great guy, very knowledgeable & great trainer. Highly recommend him and wish him the best.