About Me
First things first. Why “Kousen IT”? My last name is pronounced like the relative (cousin), so my wife pronounces my company name like it was a member of the Addams Family.
My name is Ken Kousen, and I am the owner of Kousen IT, Inc., an S-Corporation that does software training and consulting. I’ve been teaching training courses and doing consulting and mentoring in the Java and XML worlds for about six years now, ranging from OO Concepts to Enterprise JavaBeans to Web Services.
I’m currently learning about a couple of open source projects in Java (Hibernate, Spring, Tapestry), while digging into Ajax and JavaScript, and making a big push into Ruby on Rails.
For those who don’t feel like visiting my company site, I am a Sun Certified Java Programmer, a Sun Certified Web Component Developer, a Sun Certified Business Component Developer, and an IBM Certified Enterprise Developer for WebSphere. I also was part of the inaugural class of Altova Certified XML Spy Engineers.
On the academic front, I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. I teach roughly one course a semester at Rensselaer at Hartford.
Finally, the subtitle “I teach the stuff — I didn’t say I could do it,” is pretty close to the same quote by Robin Williams from Good Will Hunting.
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Curious, why would a PHD in Aerospace Engineering want to shift careers to become an Internet Software Expert, Teacher … from what I hear, Aerospace Engineering is the place to be.
curious
April 15, 2007 at 5:23 pm
That’s certainly a reasonable question and worth a decent response. Rather than answer in a comment, though, I think I’ll add a new post about this.
Thanks again for your comment!
kousenit
April 16, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Hi, ken, Nice to know about your carrer shift. I am exactly opposite to your situation..
have to take a step.
sasi
January 23, 2008 at 11:07 am
Hi Kounsen, its really good site to have some kind of knowledge on things which many developers don’t even care of. Really your qualifications and interests are damn good. Hope you would produce many more things which one can’t expect. The spring related answers are really good. Hope you can deliver more. See you.
Kalyan Tilak
January 25, 2008 at 8:22 am
bibomedia
March 4, 2008 at 3:11 am
Hi Ken,
I want to thank you for keeping up a very interesting site. I’m a recruiter so I try to stay on top of technologies as best I can. Your Groovy and Grails writings are keeping me up to speed. Just wanted to say thanks! Also, I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t ask… Do you know any SOA Architects with documented Groovy and Grails experience who would want to work a 6 month contract etirely from home? Thanks!
Adam
Adam V
May 14, 2008 at 7:46 pm