About Us

From Down & Around, Inc., based in the greater Boston MA metro area, is a boutique consulting firm owned and operated by Ian Roughley. We pride ourselves on providing tangible results cost effectively, and have a proven track record of successfully delivering innovative and performant solutions to our clients that range from large companies to startups.

Our commitment is to provide more than just a solution to a problem - it is to provide the best solution for your business. By understanding your business, evaluating the challenges and researching the alternatives, we can provide a comprehensive and complete solution. To achieve this, we use a combination of leading products and industry best practices, along with our technical services, to implement your requirements quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.

Along with technical solutions, we have helped clients transform their develop process. By introducing agile techniques, companies no longer need to fear changing requirements, as they can be prioritized, and if need be, quickly implemented. We find that clients also prefer agile development, as it advocates always having working software - an especially vital feature for startups as the newest features are always available to demo to potential investors.

By working closely with our clients, and by using agile processes and a pragmatic results-driven approach, we are able to deliver solutions on-time and on-budget.

Ian Roughley

Ian Roughley is a speaker, author, and consultant. For more than 10 years he has been helping clients ranging in size from Fortune 10 companies to start-ups. Focused on a pragmatic and results-based approach, he is a proponent for open source, as well as process and quality improvements through agile development techniques.

His qualifications include:
  • Java editor for InfoQ.com community web site
  • Author of "Starting Struts2" and "Practical Struts2 Web 2.0 Projects", and contributing author to "No Fluff Just Stuff 2006 Anthology"
  • Committer on the open source XWork and WebWork projects, and member of the Apache Struts PMC
  • Speaks at conferences in the United States and abroad, including JavaOne, No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums, Javapolis, JavaBrazil, & the Open Source Summit
  • Sun certified Java Programmer, Sun certified J2EE Enterprise Architect, IBM certified Solutions Architect