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Joe Boulenouar
Joe Boulenouar holds advanced graduate degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. As a senior Technical Specialist with Sun Microsystems, Joe has expertise in Java technology, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technology, SOA, Web Services, and the Sun Java middleware products. He has trained many companies in the high-end Java technology, SOA, Web Services and Java EE technologies. Joe has also architected and designed many Java EE applications for Sun clients. While at Sun he won numerous awards including Technical Specialist of the year and STARS award. He is active in research in the field of Distributed Systems and Artificial Intelligence and has numerous publications in his field of research.
Linda DeMichiel
Linda DeMichiel is a senior architect in the Java EE platform group at Sun Microsystems and the chief architect for Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 and the Java Persistence API. As the Specification Lead for JSR-220, she was responsible for launching and leading the initiatives for Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 and the Java Persistence API under the Java Community Process. At the 2006 JavaOne conference, she was recognized as Java Community Process Outstanding Spec Lead for Java Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition for her leadership in this work.
Linda has over 20 years of experience in the areas of databases, object persistence, and distributed computing, and holds a Ph.D. In Computer Science from Stanford University. Before assuming responsibility for EJB, she led the team that implemented Sun's first object/relational persistence product, and worked earlier at IBM on object/relational extensions to both DB2 and the SQL99 standard.
Mark Dixon
Mark Dixon currently serves as Systems Engineering Manager for the Telecommunications vertical in the Sun Microsystems U.S. Software Practice. He joined Sun in October 2004, as Practice Lead in the Identity Management Practice. He is a recognized thought leader in the Identity Management market. He was formerly CEO of two software startups and senior practice director with Oracle Telecommunications Consulting Services.
Mark has delivered enterprise software products and custom solutions to the telecommunications, information security, digital image management, network utility, aerospace manufacturing and consumer goods manufacturing markets.
Keith Donald
Keith Donald is a Interface21 Principal specializing in supporting the delivery of customer-driven, enterprise-class Java technology applications. An experienced developer and mentor, Keith has built applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including network management, information assurance, food-services, education, and retail. He has extensive experience translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Keith has been involved with the Spring Framework as a user and core developer since July 2003. He is the lead of Spring Web Flow, a product that allows developers to model user dialogs that span many screens in a productive, logical manner. He also the founder of the Spring Rich Client Project (spring-rich), a project built on the Spring Framework that reduces the time and effort required to build a well-architected, enterprise-ready Java technology desktop application.
Keith enjoys speaking and teaching on software-related topics, both technical and business related, and has a career-oriented weblog where he frequently posts articles.
David Geary
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java technology expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java technology books of all time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstmann (co-author of Core Java), is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces. David has also written books on Advanced JSP, the JSP Standard Tag Library, and is currently writing books on the Google Web Toolkit and the Seam framework.
After working at Sun from 1994-1997, David served on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups. David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer, and is currently an Apache Shale committer.
Romain Guy
Romain Guy is a French student currently working as an intern at Google. He has 8 years of experience in Java development, as an Open Source and freelance developer. He has also worked as a freelance journalist for a French computing magazine, as a translator for O'Reilly, and taught Java technology in a University. Today Romain focuses on UI design and human interaction. Romain Guy also has the distinction of being selected as one of the JavaOne Conference Rock Star speakers by JavaOne conference attendees for the two years the program has been in existence.
Chet Haase
Chet Haase is a Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) client architect in the Java Desktop Group. He works with the client teams to make Java technology on the desktop more productive, useful, and successful. This means tracking desktop application development in general and making sure that Java software meets and hopefully exceeds developer requirements. His background is in graphics, both 2D and 3D, so he tend to focus more on graphics-specific issues in general, such as performance and graphical effects for GUI toolkits. He writes about Desktop Java issues such as graphics, performance, and Swing effects on blog at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet. Chet Haase also has the distinction of being selected as one the JavaOne Conference Rock Star speakers by JavaOne conference attendees.
Stuart Dabbs Halloway
Stuart Dabbs Halloway is a founding partner of Relevance, LLC. His current interest is adapting agile methods to work with dynamic and domain specific language projects, particularly with Ruby and Rails. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor, the industry's leading training company focusing exclusively on software developers. Long, long ago, Stuart worked as a lead engineer and project manager, shipping successful projects for Prentice Hall, National Geographic, and Duke University's Humanities Computing Facility. Stuart is the author of Rails for Java Developers and Component Development for the Java Platform. For more on Stuart and Relevance, see http://www.relevancellc.com/about.
Phil Harman
Phil is an engineer in Solaris development, focused on systems performance. He is co-author of libMicro (an open source general framework for testing system calls and library interfaces) and an acknowledged expert on multithreading.
Jon Haslam
Jon is a self confessed performance freak. He spends most of his work life wrestling with either his or other peoples code trying to make it go faster. For many arduous years Jon lost hair and pounds trying to observe the phenomenal complexity that exists in the software stacks of the world. This tough upbringing helps explain why he is a DTrace zealot. Wherever people are gathered that have an ear to hear, Jon will happily extol the virtues of DTrace. Not limited to talking about DTrace, Jon has published DTrace articles in developer journals and also authored the DTrace chapter in the second edition of the now infamous book, "Solaris Internals".
Moises Lejter
Moises Lejter received undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Linguistics from Brandeis University, and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Brown University. His graduate level work was in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (Robotics) and Software Engineering; this work led to a number of publications in both fields, and allowed him to gain experience in the areas of object-oriented design and C++. He started teaching courses on object-oriented technologies while still attending graduate school, and enjoyed it so much that he's stayed in the field ever since. He has been working with Java and Java EE technologies since their introduction. He has expertise in Java EE platforms (Sun Application Server, and others), and Java IDEs (NetBeans and others). He has been delivering cutting-edge courses for Sun Microsystems, both onsite and open-enrollment.
Steve Maring
Steve Maring graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Computer Engineering. He is currently working for GCA as a technical consultant and Sun certified Java EE platform instructor. Steve has an extensive background of practical experience with Linux, Solaris, and numerous web application frameworks and enterprise application architectures. As an entrepreneur at heart, as well as a Java EE platform architect, Steve believes strongly that under the right circumstances, the proper use of scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and Ruby can result in a lower total cost of ownership in the web tier.
Tim Miller
Tim Miller is a independent Java SE, Java EE and Java ME platform instructor that resides in Chicago, IL. Tim has consulted with many companies on their Java ME platform applications, written many web based training seminars and was the lead developer for the current Sun Java ME training course; DTJ-365. As a member of the Sun Certification team, Tim helped to define and develop the current Sun Java ME Programmers Certification exam.
John Ranta
John Ranta is a Java and JavaEE platform technology Master Instructor who resides in Dallas, Texas. He delivers both Java technology and Solaris Operating System courseware for Sun Microsystems worldwide, and is also a contributor to Sun's course development process. John readily admits that he thoroughly enjoys evangelizing, coaching, mentoring, educating, and developing using Java technology at every given opportunity.
Greame Rocher
Graeme Rocher is a software architect and Chief Technology Officer at Skills Matter - http://www.skillsmatter.com.
In Graeme's current role as CTO at Skills Matter, a skills transfer company specialising in skills transfer on Open Source technology and agile software development, Graeme is in charge of Skills Matter's courseware development strategy and general technical direction. As part of this role he actively works with a wide range of experts from the Open Source community and speaks at industry conferences whenever possible on subjects related to Groovy, Grails and dynamic languages in Java.
Graeme started his career in the e-learning sector as part of a team developing scalable enterprise learning management systems based on Java technology for the enterprise. He later branched into the digital TV arena where he was faced with increasingly complex requirements that required an agile approach as the ever changing and young iDTV platforms evolved. This is where Graeme was first exposed to Groovy and he began combining Groovy with Cocoon to deliver dynamic multi-channel content management systems targeted at digital TV platforms.
Seeing an increasing trend for web delivery of services and the complexity this brought, Graeme embarked on another project to simplify this and founded Grails. Grails is a framework with the essence of Ruby on Rails, but targeted at tight Java technology integration. Graeme is the current project lead of Grails and is a member of the Groovy JSR-241 executive committee.
Ken Saks
Ken Saks is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Java EE Platform group at Sun Microsystems, where he was the lead architect for the EJB 3.0 container implementation in the Java EE SDK and Sun Java System Application Server. Ken is an original member of the Java EE platform engineering team and has been developing application servers at Sun since 1999. He has over 12 years of experience in the areas of distributed computing, OO, and system software. Ken holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Terry Sigle
Terry Sigle is Sun's leading Identity Architect in the US for the telecommunications marketplace. He is responsible for all software related opportunities, focussing primarily on Identity, Federation and Access Management. During his career with Sun, Terry has been responsible for numerous benchmarks, proof of concepts and prototypes of access management and federation solutions. Terry is an active participant and contribute to Sun's Identity Open Source intiatives, OpenSSO and OpenDS.
Stacy David Thurston
Stacy David Thurston develops specialized Java technology course content and is an leading instructor from Sun Microsystems. As an expert in this field, he teaches courses world wide, predominantly across South East Asia. Before Sun, Stacy has been a web application developer, database application developer, Product Manager, and IT operations administrator.
Evan Troyka
Evan Troyka was born in Tupelo, Mississippi and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Evan graduated from Tulane University in 1988. Having started teaching Java technology in 1997 for Sun Microsystems through NSC Systems Group of Nashville, TN. Evan was named "Java Instructor of the Year" in both 1998 and 2002. Evan has delivered over 200 Java technology courses for clients such as AT&T, NASA, Siemens, The US Army, The US Air Force, AJ Edwards, USDA, Caraustar, BB&T, Motorola, IBM, Chrysler, and the States of Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Illinois.
Karie Willyerd
Karie is Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at Sun Microsystems. In the position of Chief Learning Officer for Sun Microsystems, Karie leads a new, consolidated organization responsible for employee, customer, partner and Sun community learning. For these distinct constituencies, she is responsible for product and technical training, executive learning, business, management and professional skill development, and sales and service learning around the globe. Karie brings a background in business and learning management to the new CLO position. Twenty years ago, Karie began work as an instructional designer at an engineering training consulting firm. Since then, she's continued to hone her skills in training, leadership development, executive coaching and management. Most recently, Karie held the position of Vice President, Chief Talent Officer for Solectron where she was responsible for worldwide executive development, organization development, global staffing, training & development, performance management, and mergers and acquisitions. In prior roles, she led the people development function at Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems and executive development at H.J. Heinz.
Karie holds a Masters in Instructional & Performance Technology from Boise State University and a Doctorate in Management from Case Western Reserve University. She is a former board member of ASTD and serves on multiple local non-profit boards. Additionally, she is on the advisory board for the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. She lives with her family in Redwood Shores, California.
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