Chris Nelson is a motivational speaker and he lives in a van down by the river. He is also founder of the Trails project and has been developing server-side Java applications since 1997. At his day job, he works for FusionAlliance and helps clients successfully develop enterprise Java applications using agile development principles. But most importantly, he is the father of Suniti, Sanjay, Vasant, and Kavita, and husband of Anjali.