Brian Ritchie is a software architect with a track record of developing large scale enterprise systems and leading development teams through difficult scalability challenges. Brian has 20 years of experience in Software Development and is currently the Chief Architect at PaySpan, Inc. which provides innovative reimbursement solutions to healthcare payers and providers.Brian is active in the development community giving presentations to local user groups and code camps. He has also contributed to Mono (the open source version of .NET) and various other open source projects. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/brian_ritchie and read his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/britchie.