Authors of Head First iPhone and iPad Development

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Tracey Pilone is co-founder (along with Dan Pilone) and operations director at Element 84, a high value outsourcing and consulting company specializing in highly scalable web and mobile software development. In addition to handling the business development work for the company, she works with Element 84’s agile development teams to manage and deliver projects to customers.

Prior to starting Element 84, she spent several years working in and around the Washington, D.C., area for two of Engineering News Record’s top 20 contractors as a construction manager in commercial construction. This is her fourth Head First book, including the two earlier editions of this book and Head First Algebra.

She has a civil engineering degree from Virginia Tech and a Master’s of Education from the University of Virginia, and holds a professional engineer’s license in Virginia. You can follow Tracey on Twitter: @traceypilone.

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Dan Pilone is the founder and Managing Partner of Element 84. He has designed and implemented systems for NASA, Hughes, ARINC, UPS, and the Naval Research Laboratory. He currently serves as technical lead for projects with NASA as well as all of Element 84’s projects. He speaks frequently in the community most recently at ESIP, AGU, and the DC Ruby Users Group.

He has taught project management, software design, and software engineering at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Dan has been an instructor for the D.C. iPhone Bootcamp and has written several books on software development, including Head First Software Development, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell, and UML 2.0 Pocket Reference. You can follow Dan on Twitter: @danpilone.

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