Carl Raymond is a member of a team that designs and develops Web sites for his own department, other University units, and external clients. He takes particular interest in learning and applying software development practices, technologies, and tools that promote building robust, reliable, flexible, and maintainable systems. Before joining MSU in 2007, he was the founder and principal at Orchard Software Development, where he built custom software solutions and provided consulting services to a wide spectrum of clients. Over a span of 13 years, he met many interesting people with interesting projects to work on, and really learned the value of robust, reliable, flexible and maintainable systems.