Rick Sammons is a Application Developer / Partner at Red-Gware, LLC. Colleagues describe him as "Rick is an outstanding engineer. He has the combination of experience, expertise in his trade, and soft skills. He thinks through problems, is thorough, and delivers in a timely manner, and with quality. In addition, Rick is one of those guys that brings all of the intangibles to his team and the organization overall. He is willing to do what it takes to make the overall team successful. We had some gaps that Rick was more than willing to fill. Rick is also fun-loving. He brings a lot of personality to a team and he helps create an enjoyable atmosphere. When you work as hard as we do, its nice to have someone that can lift the spirits. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Rick and he would be among the first individuals I would call if building out a team.", "Rick is easily one of the best programmers I have had the pleasure of working with. He is diligent and detail-oriented, and is plainly just an excellent developer. As well, he brings a sense of practicality in line with his senior-level skills - as well as a sense of humor - to every project. I very much look forward to working with him again and would hire him in a heartbeat.", and "Rick came in and grappled with technical frustrations and a team who was learning a brandy new framework and methodology. Rather than argue his point as some newcomers would, Rick scheduled lunch-and-learn classes and mentored his peers in a 1:1 basis until they were up to speed. He also chose tasks wisely and allowed peers and directs to come up with their technical goals, and assigned tasks according to what employees would be interested in doing rather than simply repeating tasks. He made sure people were cross-trained in both .NET, SQL, and JavaScript, and moved folks around so that no one team member was isolated for long. Rick's a great technical leader, has a great attitude, and I'd encourage any small or mid-sized company looking to take on a big technical challenge or refactoring to consider Rick a valuable asset."