Robert Fischer is an independent development leadership consultant specializing in Groovy and Grails. He is an active member of the Grails User mailing list, the author of "Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL" (published by APress), and authored/maintains the following plugins for Grails: "BackgroundThread" (fire-and-forget background processing), "Autobase" (database managment), "Crypto" (encryption and password utilities), and "GORM Labs" (experimental persistence work).