At Scissor, we don't much like blowing our own horns. Happily, our clients are willing to do it for us! Below are some excerpts from reference letters; we're happy to provide the full text and contact details on request.

From our work for Bank of America's Global Corporate Investment Bank

[...] As a working architect and hiring manager, I've had many consultants work for me, and William Pietri would have to be at the very top of my list. His professionalism and creativity is top drawer. Not only does he do it all technically, he is the type of leader and mentor that one could build a team around. Should you have a chance to put William on your team, you should take the opportunity. Please do not hesitate to call me if you have any questions about this extraordinary talent.

Hal Arnold
Vice President and Senior Technical Manager
Bank Of America

From our work for bianca.com

Scissor has helped us in a great many ways. William Pietri worked extensively for my company in numerous roles: as a systems administrator, software developer and business model consultant. He excelled in all these areas, effectively redoing our entire hardware and networking infrastructure, implementing a complete software development platform from scratch, migrating one of our key services from C and Perl to Java, and creating countless tools which have made running bianca.com considerably easier than before William joined us.

Frankly, we would have had a hard time surviving without his help. William's knowledge of UNIX-based operating systems is both broad and deep, he has a very tight grasp on object oriented programming theory and implementation and can crank out complicated and robust Perl scripts faster than anyone I've met. I enjoyed working with him greatly and look forward to working with again should the opportunity arise.

Dave Thau
CEO, Bianca Troll Productions
CTO, Nerve.com
author of The Book of JavaScript

From our work for the Michigan Department of Community Health

[...] Although I originally contracted Scissor to assist with providing technical advice, when the project turned direction and I suddenly needed an individual to prepare a system for demonstration purposes, Scissor came to the rescue. In fact, they  not only prepared the system, William Pietri also took a leading role in a large conference that was devoted to explaining and demonstrating the system. Individuals participating in this project and conference were overwhelming in their praise [..]

Judith Boonstra
Senior Consultant, Information System Planning and Design

From our work on SOMA Living

[...] From the beginning, William was calmly receptive to the problems on our project. Besides displaying obvious knowledge and experience regarding large software projects, William was articulate beyond my dreams when it came to identifying the most important issues and finding solutions. He was insightful regarding our needs and made recommendations that helped us begin development immediately while we honed our specification. In other cases he worked without much in the way of specification, directing other programmers on his side while patiently responding to our needs [....] As a developer William was flexible and efficient and did expert-level work, but his real contribution was in helping us guide the project to completion, which I am sure would never have been completed without his involvement.

Randy Kessler
Principal, ACME Interactive, Inc.