Brent Cook is a professional in their field. Colleagues describe them as "I consider my opportunity to work with Brent a true blessing. He was the Product Manager for a product with a long standing loyal following. That loyal following was well deserved because Brent's relationship with users was stellar. He brings a rare combination of excellent communication skills and raw technical expertise. The respect he commanded from long term users was absolute. His communication skills howver extended beyond customers. He also held equal respect among the development professionals internally tasked with delivering the code necessary to meet and grow product success. This was essential given the ever evolving, and increasingly complex needs of our customers. Calm, cool, and aticulate, he could evaluate the desires of users and deliver on quality solutions that insured customer satifaction for all. That said, he did ithis with a constant awareness of the balance between development bandwidth and the critical needs of those using the product. Brent is a true professional whose ability to listen to customer wants and needs (wheter real of percieved), and then translate them into product advancements that serve the entire user base was amazing. The above is of course important in a great Product Manager, but Brent brings another very big plus. He is genuinely good human being. I can safely say that anyone who hires Brent is not only getting a rare combination of mastered skills, but also a great person determined to do the right thing for all he serves. I wholeheartedly recommend him to any organization looking to improve on a product and bolster a loyal following of real world users." and "As a long time web services / discovery librarian, I have worked closely with representatives from many library industry vendors. I've known Brent for 7 years, first as a customer asking so_many_questions about a discovery product and then as a member of a global user community committee collaborating with Brent to make the product better for all customers. Brent is one of the best product managers I have ever worked with: insightful, intuitive, responsive, and effective. I can't imagine a product or process he could not make better or a team that wouldn't do their best working for him."