John Brant has over eight years Smalltalk experience with two in VisualAge Smalltalk. He is the co-author (with Don Roberts) of the freely available Refactoring Browser and Smalllint tools. He has also worked on the HotDraw structured drawing framework for VisualWorks. During the past year John has worked with Synchrony Systems on their Smalltalk Migration Tool (SMT) integrating the Refactoring Browser’s parsing and rewriting technology into the SMT tool. Part of this work has also included being involved in several migration projects using the tool to migrate from Visual Smalltalk Enterprise (VSE) to VisualAge Smalltalk. He has also worked at various companies including those from banking, telecommunications, automotive, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries. John has also given presentations to the European Smalltalk User Group’s summer school, Smalltalk Solutions, ECOOP, and OOPSLA conferences.

John has done Smalltalk work on a consulting basis for Sprint, Strategic Data Systems, Abbott Labs, Washington Water & Power, First Union Bank, American Express Financial Advisors, Deluxe Corp., and North American Lighting.

John has a B.S. and an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.