Linda Rising

Linda Rising worked for more than five years at AG Communication Systems, where she was a proponent of patterns and their application in the workplace. She is the editor of Design Patterns in Communications Software (Cambridge Press; ISBN: 0521790409), The Pattern Almanac 2000 (Addison-Wesley), and The Patterns Handbook: Techniques, Strategies, and Applications (SIGS Books/Cambridge Press; ISBN: 0521648181). She is now an independent consultant. She has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University.