ArticlesSubscribe to All Dev2Dev Articles by Email New! Listed by: Date | Product | Technology | Role | Skill Level | Authors | Most Popular dev2dev AuthorsLucian AgapieLucian Agapie is a senior electrical engineer, member of IEEE, who enjoys writing software applications in Java, C++ and TCL/TK. He works in the telecommunication industry and is passionate about artificial intelligence applied to home automation. Right now he is involved in developing new IDE plug-ins. Puneet Agarwal Puneet Agarwal is the Product Manager for the BEA RFID Server Product. He also has immense experience in Product Marketing, product positioning and the competitive landscape Raj Alagumalai Raj Alagumalai is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at BEA Systems in the WebLogic Workshop support division. He specializes in troubleshooting and solving complex customer issues with their mission-critical applications on BEA products. Raj has presented BOF sessions at JavaOne '04 and JavaOne '05 Susan E. Aldrich Susan E. Aldrich is a senior vice president and senior consultant at the Patricia Seybold Group. She manages the development and implementation of the firms' consulting methodologies. Prior to joining the Patricia Seybold Group, she was director of Client/Server Product Management at Software 2000. Subbu Allamaraju At work, Subbu is the driver behind portal federation, and in recent years, focusing on portal-related standards such as JSR286, JSR301 and WSRP. If you want to follow his other thoughts and ideas, check out his personal blog. Kumar Allamraju Kumar Allamraju is a senior developer relations engineer at BEA Systems in the WebLogic server support division. Kumar has five years of experience in object-oriented programming and in J2EE-related technologies. Dion Almaer Dion Almaer is a principal technologist for The Middleware Company (www.middleware-company.com), one of the nation's leading training companies in EJB/J2EE and B2B technology training. The Middleware Company also built and maintains TheServerSide.com, the leading online J2EE community. Mike Amend Mike Amend is Deputy CTO of BEA Systems responsible for strategy, vision, and development of the business process management, enterprise portals, collaboration, and social computing solutions. Mr. Amend has over 10 years experience managing all facets of enterprise software. Alexander Ananiev Alexander "Sasha" Ananiev has over 16 years of experience in designing and developing computer systems using variety of languages and technologies. He has been working as a software developer and application architect on a number of large-scale software development projects. He currently works as an architect for a major consulting complany. Alexander can be reached via his web site or as alex at myarch dot com. Lakshmi Ananthamurthy Lakshmi Ananthamurthy is a co-founder of Novusware Inc, a company that provides innovative solutions for your business. Lakshmi has extensive experience and expertise in Java/J2EE, Microsoft technologies, UML/OOAD, database modeling, EAI and project management. Lakshmi Ananthamurthy is a senior consultant currently working with Accenture in Mumbai, India, and has designed, developed and implemented n-tier Web applications for more than 4 years, for clients including MBNA, MCI Worldcom, British Telecom, and Mahindra British Telecom. She has extensive hands-on experience designing and developing J2EE and Java applications using different application servers and also has expertise in object and database modeling. She has co-authored the book Teach Yourself BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 (SAMS publishing Oct 2002) based on the recently launched WebLogic Server 7.0 by BEA Systems inc. Eva Andreasson Eva Andreasson received an M.Sc. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2002, within Computer Science (Autonomic Systems). She also received the award of Best Master Thesis Project 2002 for her project regarding the usage of machine learning in JVMs. From 2001, she has been employed at BEA Systems Stockholm Engineering, as a part of the memory management development team within the JRPG. Her current work interests include the heuristics behind the memory system, the dynamic garbage collector in JRockit and future work on SSI systems, although previous projects also have included reinforcement learning. She is the author of Reinforcement learning for a more dynamic garbage collector and presented that project at JVM-02. She also co-presented a talk about the Dynamic Garbage Collector in JRockit at E-world 03. She has also provided BEA with several patent applications within the area of memory management. Her work has been mainly focused on making the garbage collection of a JVM more adaptive by considering application profiling data during runtime for a more dynamic and optimally configured garbage collection. Cezar Cristian Andrei 
Andreas Angelides
Andreas Angelides is responsible for planning, managing and developing the CodeShare community. Andreas is employed by CollabNet, which hosts CodeShare. Philip Aston Philip Aston is a technical manager for BEA Services. He regularly provides consultancy to BEA customers, specializing in WebLogic Server. Philip also maintains The Grinder Robert Baccus Robert Baccus is an expert developer and engineer with BEA Systems, Inc. 
Hussein Badakhchani
Hussein Badakhchani is an independent consultant and middleware analyst with over 10 years experience in software design, development, management and support. He now specializes in trouble-shooting live enterprise applications for financial institutions and continues to provide independent advice on application and infrastructure architecture as well as build process management. Hussein is also a regular contributer to dev2dev newsgroups posting under the name of hoos. 
Wendy Bales
Wendy Bales is Product Manager in the WebLogic Portal group of BEA Systems. She launched the introduction of AquaLogic Commerce Services to respond to customers’ growing needs for out of the box eCommerce functionality. She is also the Product Manager for WebLogic Mobility Server, which helps customers mobilize their WLP sites. Wendy has over 13 years of high-tech experience in Product Management, Supply Chain Management, and Engineering with companies such as Hewlett Packard, Converge, and World Chain. Wendy lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband, Chris and son Logan. She enjoys hiking, backpacking and snowboarding in the Rocky Mountains. Ashok Banerjee Ashok Banerjee is the Development Manager for the WebLogic Server J2EE Container team. Ashok also worked as the architect for the WebLogic Server RFID Edition incubation. His interests include distributed computing, light weight containers, autonomous systems etc. Karl F. Banke Karl F. Banke is principal consultant and general manager of iternum GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany. His working areas include J2EE and EJB architectures, Web Services and project management. Tom Barnes Tom Barnes is a senior software engineer on BEA's WebLogic Performance Team and is the author of the "BEA WebLogic JMS Performance Guide" white paper on Dev2Dev. Over the past eight years he has helped develop the messaging and transaction infrastructure for BEA's WebLogic Server, Tuxedo, and BMQ products. Ted Bashor Ankur Bassi David Bau BEA Senior Staff Engineer and XML Beans Architect Alan Baumgarten Alan Baumgarten has over 20 years' experience in software engineering and technical training. He currently teaches and develops courseware for /training/etc, Inc., a Columbia, MD-based firm specializing in software training for the enterprise. Alan holds a masters degree in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University. 
Jeff Bean
Jeff Bean is a Technical Manager working for the BEA Global Alliances Group. He has 9 years of IT experience as a software developer, professional services consultant, and systems engineer. He currently owns the technical relationships with BEA’s strategic ISV partners in the telecommunications space, including Cantata. Brodi Beartusk John Beatty John Beatty is a senior principal technologist at BEA Systems, where he works on strategic projects for the CTO Office. Prior to BEA, he was a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he served as architect and protocol specification author for the Liberty Alliance federated Web identity system. His main intellectual hobbies include trying to understand intelligence and building large-scale graph storage and computation systems. 
Gabriel Bechara
Gabriel Bechara has worked with BEA consulting services for the past two years. Gabriel assists clients using BEA products like WebLogic Server, Portal and Integration. Gabriel's interests include methodologies for defining software architecture, using products in development teams and giving the easiest path to promoting applications to production, with a focus on WebLogic Integration and methodologies related to SOA. Gabriel has been in the software industry for more than 15 years. Gabriel lives in the Paris Chinese quarter with his wife and two children. Mariano Benitez Mariano Benitez is the Integration Architect for the AquaLogic BPM Suite. He is responsible for the technical architecture of the integration of the product with other BEA and 3rd party products. He has seven years of experience in BPM sofware and has worked in all technical aspects: from development, management and sales engineering to professional services and support. 
Steve Bennett
Stephen Bennett is BEA's Americas SOA Practice Lead and has been instrumental in developing BEA's SOA technology management consulting service offerings, especially in the SOA Organization & Governance realm and has provided technology management and enterprise architecture consulting to many of BEA's enterprise customers. Stephen brings more than 20 years of technology leadership, and IT strategy execution experience and currently is focusing on SOA thought leadership and execution. Before becoming a consultant, Mr Bennett was involved in delivering enterprise-wide mission critical systems within the investment banking industry for over 12 years at companies such as Barclays Capital Bank and Credit Agricole Bank. Mr Bennett has considerable international experience working in the USA, Europe, Japan and South Korea. Cédric Beust Cédric Beust is a senior software engineer at Google and holds a PhD in computer science. His interests include aspect-oriented programming, testing, tools, back-end and GUI and everything related to software engineering in general. Cedric maintains a weblog at http://beust.com/weblog. Raghuram Bharadwaj Raghuram Bharadwaj C is a systems analyst in the architecture team at Hexaware Technologies Limited, Chennai. He has worked for BEA Systems HK Ltd, India Liaison Office in various consulting and teaching roles throughout Asia Pacific. Raghu has consulted at a technical level on customer projects involving Java, J2EE, and performance management, as well as specializing on clustering, security and application performance tuning for BEA WebLogic. Raghuram Bharadwaj C Raghuram Bharadwaj C is a systems analyst in the architecture team at Hexaware Technologies Limited, Chennai. He has worked for BEA Systems HK Ltd, India Liaison Office in various consulting and teaching roles throughout Asia Pacific. Raghu has consulted at a technical level on customer projects involving Java, J2EE, and performance management, as well as specializing on clustering, security and application performance tuning for BEA WebLogic. Sudhir Bhojwani Sudhir Bhojwani is a senior architect working for BEA Technical Solutions Group. He has over eight years of industry experience architecting and designing systems based on component technologies like CORBA and EJBs, and most recently working on SOA principles. Tom Bice Tom Bice serves as Manager of Integration Strategy for WRQ Verastream, a leading legacy integration solution. Tom brings over 10 years of legacy integration expertise and has held various Product Management, Product Marketing, and consulting roles within the host integration industry. Jonas Bonér Jonas Bonér is a senior software engineer at the JRockit team at BEA Systems and is currently working on dynamic AOP, VM weaving and AOP evangelism. He is the founder of the AspectWerkz AOP framework and committer to the AspectJ 5 project. Prior to BEA, Jonas worked as a system architect at Sony developing large-scale enterprise application systems. Jonas is a frequent speaker on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD conferences, JavaOne, JAOO, eWorld, Javapolis etc.). He occasionally blogs. Robert Brass Robert has 20 years technical experience working for Financial Services, Hardware, and Software companies. Prior to managing the development of Guardian, he managed the development of the real-time Sungard Stream product line in 2000. He designed and developed a proprietary database replication server for Thomson Financial Services in 1993 and managed the development of the Thomson Research Bank Web product. He also, wrote the DEC Remote Diagnostics System in 1990. Peter Braswell Peter Braswell is Chief Scientist at ALTERThought. Peter possesses over fifteen years of software engineering expertise. He has led the implementation of leading edge, mission critical systems and applications in a variety of industries including high technology, finance, retail, and telecommunications Chris Brook 
John Brunswick
John Brunswick is a Practice Manager within BEA's Business Interaction Division consulting group and manages the ALUI and ALBPM practices in Canada and New England. He is passionate about technology and using it to solve business problems. He founded and leads a Boston-based technology discussion forum to continue to explore and stay on the cutting edge of the industry. Adnan Bukhari Adnan Bukhari serves Albertsons, a fortune 50 company, as an Integration Architect. He has been developing software since 1996. For the last couple of years he has been deeply involved in providing EAI based solutions using Bea and J2EE technologies. Ross Bunker Ross Bunker is a senior staff engineer at BEA Systems, Inc. Thomas D. Burke Thomas D Burke is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer. He has been developing in Java since 1998 and works as a J2EE developer at The Washington Post. David Burke Dr. Dave Burke is Chief Technology Officer at Voxpilot where he is responsible for leading and implementing the overall technical direction and vision. Dave is both an editor and contributor to W3C and IETF speech standards and a regular speaker at international speech conferences. Prior to Voxpilot, Dave served as Research Coordinator at the Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory located at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Ireland. Dave has published many papers in leading international academic journals and conferences and holds a Ph.D., M.Eng.Sc., and B.E. in Electronic Engineering, from the University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland. Steve Buzzard Steve Buzzard is an Enterprise Architect with BEA Professional Services and the EA Practice Lead for the Americas East Region. Dave Cabelus Dave Cabelus is a Product Manager in the WebLogic Server group. He covers various technologies, including Messaging, JDBC, Diagnostics, Configuration, Deployment, and Management. Dave joined BEA in 2001, and has 12 years of experience in the software field. Felipe Cabrera Felipe Cabrera is a software architect at Microsoft Corporation. His current assignment is with the XML Web Services team. Prior to joining Microsoft Cabrera held appointments with IBM Corporation, the University of California at Berkeley, Hewlett Packard Corporation, the Palo Alto Research Center of Xerox Corporation and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Cabrera received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Steve Cannon Steve Cannon is a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on dev2dev.bea.com system integration and back-end development. His responsibilities include shared ownership of the application's front-end user interface workflow. Steve has more than 10 years of industry experience and has developed several n-tier Web applications at Excite.com and SGI. Outside of work he is often found fishing or playing in jazz combos. Mike Carey Bea Chan Beaky Chan is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer with BEA. Beaky is a Sun Certified Java Programmer. She specializes in troubleshooting and solving complex issue on BEA Workshops, BEA Adapters (SAP and Siebel), Aqualogic Service Bus and Aqualogic Data Service Platform (formerly Liquid Data). Peter Chapman Peter Chapman is a product manager with Quest Software. With more than five years of experience in software architecture design and performance tuning, as well as high tech product management, Peter's responsibilities include identifying market needs, defining new product requirements, and developing product marketing strategies. Mandar S. Chitnis Mandar S. Chitnis is a co-founder of Novusware Inc, a company that provides innovative solutions for your business. Mandar has extensive experience and expertise in Java/J2EE, Microsoft technologies, UML/OOAD, database modeling, EAI and project management. Mandar is an independent consultant and, over the past 9 years, has worked extensively with Java, CORBA, Oracle, OOAD, and C/C++. He has co-authored the book Teach Yourself BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 (SAMS publishing Oct 2002) based on the recently launched WebLogic Server 7.0 by BEA Systems. Chang K. Choe Neelan Choksi Neelan Choksi is a Senior Director in the Products group at BEA. Neelan came to be as part of the acquisition of SolarMetric where he served as a co-founder and president of the company. Neelan has also worked at Exxon and Andersen Consulting Strategic Services. Kingsum Chow Kingsum Chow is a senior performance engineer working with the Managed Runtime Environments group within the Software and Solutions Group (SSG). He has been involved in performance modeling and optimization of middleware application server stacks, with an emphasis on J2EE and Java Virtual Machines. Kingsum holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from the University of Washington. Thorick Chow Thorick Chow is an engineer at BEA Systems. After receiving his degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, he joined the client/server revolution at Sybase. In 1998 he joined the WebLogic team and has been involved in the development of WebLogic jDriver and WebLogic EJB products. Sean Christofferson Sean Christofferson is a Software Engineer at BEA and has worked on the last release of WebLogic Workshop. He is now working on developing compiler technology for future BEA products. You can reach Sean at sean.christofferson@bea.com. Binildas Christudas Binildas is a postgraduate in systems and a graduate in engineering, and a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform, Sun Certified developer for Java 2 Platform and Sun Certified Enterprise Architect. He has 6 years of experience in the IT industry, and is currently working with the Indian IT company, Tata Consultancy Services. Having consulted for companies like Swiss Air, Sabena Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Royal Dutch Airlines etc., he has gained experience in many new generation airline systems. He can be reached by email at biniljava@yahoo.co.in. Avinash Chugh Guy Churchward Guy Churchward is the General Manager of the Java Runtime Products Group for BEA systems and responsible for bringing the JRockit JVM and BEA's virtualization vision to market. Guy's a 20 year veteran of the industry with extensive international experience in engineering, sales, strategy and market development. Previous companies included Sun Microsystems (AKA Tarantella Inc.), Santa Cruz Operations, Olivetti and Arthur Anderson. Tom Clements Tom Clements is a senior tech writer and freelance poet, specializing in Java API documentation, web services, XML/XSLT technologies, device-driver writing and wireless communications. He has published articles in JavaWorld and Byte magazines and is a regular contributor to Oracle, Sun, JavaOne and BEA web sites. Charles Coates Charles Coates is a software engineer who has worked at BEA for 2 years. He is currently a developer for the UI components of GroupSpace, a new community-based application built on WebLogic Portal 9.2. Frank Cohen Frank Cohen is the go-to guy for enterprises that need to solve scalability and performance problems in information systems, especially Web services. Frank maintains TestMaker, a popular free and open-source utility that checks systems for scalability and reliability. Details are at http://www.PushToTest.com/ptt. Garrett Conaty Garrett Conaty is an open-source evangelist for BEA, most notably the Apache Beehive project. He has over 10 years industry experience, with the last 6 years focused on SOA and J2EE development in both integration and infrastructure. Lauren Cooney Lauren is a Senior Manager in BEA’s Developer Relations group. She works closely with developers on several programs and started the BEA User Group Program, the BEA Technical Director Program, and dev2dev Live, BEA’s online event center. George Copeland William Cox William Cox is a technical director in BEA's Office of the CTO, concentrating on transactional and portal architecture. He is a coauthor of BTP, the BTP Primer, and of WS-Transaction. William holds an M.S. and Ph.D. incomputer sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gordon Cruickshank Gordon Cruickshank is co-founder of eoLogic, a software tools company created to develop innovative testing and debugging solutions. He was previously development manager at Wind River Systems and Objective Software Technology, developing C++ visualization and debugging tools. Jim D'Ambrosia Joakim Dahlstedt Joakim Dahlstedt is the CTO of the Java Runtime Products Group at BEA Systems, Inc., where he is responsible for the future development directions for the JVM. He was the founder and one of the chief architects of JRockit, the JVM BEA acquired in early 2002. He has been working with Java and dynamic runtime optimizations since 1996. Jacob Danner Jacob Danner is a Senior Software Engineer at BEA. He has been with BEA on the WebLogic Workshop team since its inception in 2001. He has also been involved in several of BEA's open source efforts. His interests include Java, XQuery, Python and this SOA stuff. Jacob has presented BOF sessions at JavaOne ’05, ’06, and technical sessions at eWorld ’04, and BEAWorld ’05. 
Jeff Davies
Jeff Davies, Principal Architect, BEA AquaLogic, has 20 years of experience in the software field. Jeff has extensive experience developing retail applications, such as Act!(tm) For Windows and Macintosh and a number of other commercially available applications, principally in the telecom and medical fields. His background also includes the development, design and architecture of enterprise applications. Previous to joining BEA, Jeff was the Chief Architect at Covad Communications, responsible for their SOA and most recently the acquisition and deployment of Covad's Enterprise Service Bus. Now at BEA, Jeff is focused on the AquaLogic product line. Don Davis Don Davis is a senior software engineer with Customer Centric Engineering for the WebLogic Portal product. He has been producing software solutions for 25 years. These include systems for Bell Labs, IBM, AT&T Universal Card Services, DOD Simulation Command, Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin, Thomson Financial and others. Amin Daya Amin Daya has over 6 years of telecommunication industry experience spanning several areas. He joined Ericsson in 2001, and currently works has a Technical Product Manager for Service Development Studio (SDS) product. Experience include working with Telco platforms, telephony, networking, application servers, SIP, IMS and IMS solutions. He holds a bachelor's degree in Engineer from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Filip De Turck Filip De Turck is a part-time professor and a post-doctoral fellow of the F.W.O.-V., affiliated with the Department of Information Technology of the Ghent University. Filip's main research interests include scalable software architectures for telecommunication network and service management, performance evaluation and optimization of telecommunication systems. Gim Deisher Gim Deisher is a senior software performance engineer working with the Software and Solutions Group at Intel Corporation. She holds an MS in electrical engineering from Arizona State University. gim.l.deisher@intel.com Piet Demeester Piet Demeester is a professor at the Ghent University where he is responsible for the research and education on communication networks. His research activities cover various communication networks (IP, ATM, SDH, WDM, access, active, mobile), including network planning, network and service management, telecom software, internetworking, and network protocols for QoS support. He is member of the editorial board of several international journals and has been member of several technical program committees (ECOC, OFC, DRCN, ICCCN, IZS). William Dettelback Bill currently works on the AquaLogic Enterprise Security team. His focus is on customers implementing SOA Security, particularly Authorization and Entitlement solutions. Bill has been helping customers develop solutions in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Healthcare for BEA since 2002. Bill has a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science and Master's of Science in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Manish Devgan Manish Devgan is a senior R&D engineer with BEA Systems, where he is developing framework services for WebLogic Portal. At BEA, he has worked on WebLogic's Portal Entitlements Engine, Delegated Administration, Portal Administration Tools, and the end-to-end sample shipped with WebLogic Platform 7. Doug Dew Java Page Flow Program Manager Bart Dhoedt Bart Dhoedt works in the Department of Information Technology at the University of Ghent. His research interests are software engineering and mobile & wireless communications. Bart's current research addresses software technologies for communication networks, peer-to-peer networks, mobile networks and active networks. Scott Dietzen Scott Dietzen is the former CTO of the eCommerce Server Division of BEA Systems. Dietzen came to BEA via the acquisition of WebLogic, a pioneer in Java and web application technology. Prior to joining WebLogic, Dietzen was the Principal Technologist for Transarc, a developer of distributed transaction and information sharing systems that was sold to IBM in 1995. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Saurabh Dixit Saurabh Dixit is an engineer on the Performance Team at BEA's WebLogic Division. Sean Dolan Sean Dolan is a security architect at Quadrasis, a business unit of Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. He has 16 years of experience in commercial and scientific systems and application software development, including experience architecting approaches to the integration of J2EE Application Server products into enterprise security frameworks. As a member of the Sun Java Community Process (JCP) program he has participated in the definition of a number of J2EE security-related specifications. 
Paul Done
Paul is a BEA Consultant based in the UK. Still a coder at heart, Paul likes the mix of high-level architecture and low-level technical problem solving which comes with the job. Paul specialises in BEA's WebLogic App Server, WebLogic SIP Server, AquaLogic Service Bus, AquaLogic Data Services, WebLogic RealTime and JRockit technologies. Nimish Doshi Nimish Doshi works in the systems engineering group for BEA's ISV partners and has worked with various BEA partners in helping them leverage the construction and usage of controls. Nimish has been with BEA since 1999. Glenn Dougherty Blake Dournaee Blake Dournaee is a senior achitect at Sarvega, Inc, based in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. Blake is the author of XML Security (McGraw-Hill) and he was on the program committee for XML Security 2002. Before joining Sarvega, Inc in 2003, he was an employee of RSA Security. Nicolas Duminil Nicolas Duminil is a senior J2EE/EAI architect/developer working for the Simplex Software Ltd. in Paris, France. Ted Eary Josh Eckels Joshua Eckels is a staff software engineer at BEA. 
Markus Eisele
Markus Eisele is a senior technology consultant working for msg systems ag in Germany. msg systems ag is a top 25 IT consulting and systems integration companies in Germany. Markus is a software architect, developer and consultant. He also writes for German IT magazines. Markus joined msg in 2002 and has been a member of the Center of Competence IT-Architecture for the past three years. He works daily with customers and projects dealing with Enterprise Java and other new technologies, on a variety of platforms using different vendors. Kevin Faulkner Kevin Faulkner has been head of the BEA investor relations program since May 1998. Prior to that, Kevin was a corporate, securities, and mergers and acquisitions attorney for 12 years, including 10 years in Silicon Valley, representing a variety of high technology and biotech companies. Kevin worked on BEA's IPO and securities matters as an attorney, and has been working on BEA matters since November 1996. Rich Feit Rich Feit is an Apache Beehive committer. He has spent the last four years writing and contributing to web application frameworks, and currently spends his days working on 3D software at @Last, in Boulder, CO. Jeffrey Flammer Jeff Flammer is a Senior Director in Product Marketing. Jeff originated the entire RFID Server proposal some 3 years ago and was the overall lead for the incubation of the BEA RFID Server product. Tom Freund Chris Fry Chris Fry is a BEA staff engineer and the lead in the Java specification request for StAX. 
Paco Gómez
Paco Gómez is senior principal systems engineer at BEA Systems where he has been helping customers architecting solutions since 1999. He holds a Master's Degree in Industrial Automation and has over seventeen years of experience in the software industry. Mr. Gómez is co-author of a WebLogic book and is a regular contributor to the technical community, with articles, presentations and innovative tools like grinder and wlshell. Rini Gahir Rini Gahir is the product marketing manager for J2EE Solutions at Quest Software. With more than eight years of experience in ERP, e-commerce, and software application marketing, Rini's responsibilities include identifying market needs, defining new technologies to meet customer requirements, and steering product development strategies. Munish Gandhi Munish Gandhi is a Senior Consultant with the Professional Services division of BEA Systems. He has over eight years experience in software consulting and technical presales. He has been involved extensively in planning, architecture, implementation and maintenance of Java-based server side applications. Munish is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java 2 Enterprise Edition and also a certified BEA WebLogic Portal developer Ajay Gandhi Ajay Gandhi is the Director for Enterprise Social Computing at BEA Systems where he heads the worldwide strategy, partnership and marketing initiatives for Web 2.0 social computing products within BEA's Business Interaction Division. Previously at BEA, Mr. Gandhi was a Director of Product Management for the BEA AquaLogic Product Family and was responsible for platform strategy, product planning and strategic partnerships. Prior to BEA, Ajay held senior product management positions at several software companies developing products in CRM, analytics and collaborative development. He was also a Principal with Crimson Ventures focused on infrastructure software companies in the areas of distributed BPM, security policy compliance and vertically focused EAI. Earlier in his career, Ajay worked as a consultant in McKinsey's Worldwide Technology Practice and as an engineer at Microsoft, Intel and Corel. Ajay received his M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and his B.A.Sc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Heinrich Gantenbein Heinrich Gantenbein is part of the Idesign group, which specialized in .NET development. In this role, Heinrich helps customers currently using Java and J2EE understand what .NET is and how it can be utilized to benefit their business and how to architect multi-tier distributed data access application. He also participates in Microsoft's Preview Labs to give feedback on future .NET technologies. He has more than 18 years of experience in software engineering and engineering management, combining both architectural excellence and commitment to a productive development process. Heinrich held senior executive positions at Silicon Valley Group, KLA-Tencor, IBM's joint venture MAS, GolfPro International and many successful Internet start-ups. Previously, Heinrich was the Director of Engineering for Excite@Home, where he managed large teams which developed multi-tier applications for the domestic and international markets. Viresh Garg Viresh Garg is a senior software engineer with BEA Systems. He has seven years experience in software development with distributed systems using object-oriented technologies. Viresh has been working for BEA systems in the WebLogic Server division for nearly three years in various support and engineering roles. Jess Garms Jess Garms is the Javelin compiler team lead at BEA Systems. Prior to that, Jess worked on BEA's Java IDE, WebLogic Workshop. Additionally, he has a great deal of experience with cryptography, and co-authored "Professional Java Security", published by Wrox Press. Benjamin Gebauer Benjamin Gebauer works at ibi research at the University of Regensburg, Germany, an institute specialized on banking IT and innovations. The main fields of research are Enterprise Platforms, integration scenarios and business rule management systems. Besides research, Benjamin is consulting banks with integration and rules projects. Michael Gendelman Michael Gendelman is a senior analyst with Viatech, Inc., a New Jersey consulting firm where he develops enterprise systems as a contractor for the US Army. He has been developing distributive systems over the last five years utilizing DCOM, CORBA and EJB, and is a Java Certified Programmer. Jocelyn Gibart Jocelyn Gibart works as a BEA support engineer. She has worked for BEA since 1997 and entered the company as a consultant and developer, mainly around the Tuxedo product. Jocelyn as been involved in some PS solutions targeted to be "reusable components" like 'Hosts Connect', a gateway to integrate with Bull Mainframes, TCode, and the SAP adapter for WLI. Sylvain Gibassier Sylvain Gibassier is a BEA dev2dev Senior Software Engineer. His main areas of interest are dev2dev application architecture, performance, and profile management system. When not working Sylvain can be found on Tahoe's ski slopes or hiking around the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining BEA, Sylvain was busy getting his Masters degree in Computer Sciences at Ecole des Mines de Nantes University in France. Michael Gilbode Michael Gilbode is an architect for Anexinet Corp. in Philadelphia, and is experienced in large-scale J2EE projects built on the BEA WebLogic Platform. 
Stefano Gioia
Stefano Gioia is the WebLogic Sip Server Technology Specialist for BEA in EMEA. He is focused on IMS opportunities with both operators and partners across Europe, the Middle East,and Africa. Andy Glover Andrew Glover is the President of Stelligent Incorporated and is based in Reston, Virginia. He actively blogs about software quality at www.thediscoblog.com. Yaron Y. Goland Yaron Y. Goland is a senior principal technologist in the Office of the CTO at BEA, with responsibility for BP standards. Yaron is a coauthor on BPEL and BEA's representative to the W3C Choreography Working Group. Beth Gold-Bernstein Beth Gold-Bernstein is vice president of strategic services at ebizQ, the online portal for e-business integration. A recognized expert in integration technologies and technical architectures, she has worked with financial institutions, retailers, and manufacturers to plan, design, and implement large-scale distributed systems. Formerly director of business integration technologies at Hurwitz Group, she is coauthor of Designing Enterprise Client/Server Systems (Prentice Hall PTR, 1998). John Greene John Greene joined BEA as a WebLogic developer relations engineer in June 1999; he is now the Backline Engineering Interface manager. John has a degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts and is a rabid fan of Philadelphia sports teams. Phil Griffin Phil Griffin has been actively involved in developing security and electronic commerce standards for the Financial Services Industry since 1996. He serves as Vice Chair of the ISO TC68/SC2 Security Management and General Banking Operations subcommittee, Convenor of the SC2 Public Key Infrastructure Management working group, and Vice Chair of the X9 Security Applications committee currently revising X9.84, the US national biometric security standard. Mr. Griffin chairs the OASIS XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Technical Committee and the OASIS Security Standards Joint Committee (SJC). He is owner of Griffin Consulting and architect of BioloJava, a biometric security tool kit designed for building secure X9.84 and XCBF based applications. David Groves David Groves, Americas SOA Practice Lead, BEA Systems Worldwide Consulting Development, has 11 years of industry experience covering IT strategy, enterprise solutions consulting, program management and delivery methodology. David has provided consulting and service delivery management to many BEA enterprise customers in the finance, telco, and government sectors. As part of BEA Worldwide Consulting, David is focused on developing BEA's service offerings and capabilities, with a particular interest in SOA and IT strategy. Before joining IT, David worked as an analyst and strategist within the electricity industry. Rahul Kumar Gupta Rahul Kumar Gupta is a postgraduate in Computer Applications, graduate in Business Management and has around eight certifications including Sun Cerification for Java 2 Programmer. He has five years experience in the IT industry is currently working with Net Centric Technologies division of Indian IT giant HCL Technologies Limited, NOIDA (INDIA). He is a co-technical reviewer for Professional Java E-commerce, Professional EJB and Professional JSP Site Design books by Wrox publications and also involved with other technical writings. You can catch him at rahgup@mailcity.com. Arun Gupta Arun Gupta is CTO and cofounder of NeuVis Software, an innovator in n-tier rapid application development (RAD). He is a 28-year software industry veteran and expert in RAD. His prior company, DataEase Int'l, created the award-winning DataEase RAD product that shipped more than 1 million copies. Arun was also CTO of Home Financial Network, now Sybase Financial Fusion. Jitendra Gupta Jitendra Gupta is a software engineer in the BEA Platform Engineering Team. At BEA, he has worked on WebLogic Platform Integration, end-to-end solution and customer use cases. Jitendra holds a MBA in Finance and MS in Computer Science. Troy Hallock Troy Hallock has been with BEA Systems for over a year and a half working as a software engineer on the WebLogic Portal products. 
Dain Hansen
Dain is a Director, Product Marketing Manager for SOA Integration at BEA. He is currently working on projects in SOA, including: SOA Management, Governance and has long running experience with ESB technology. Steve Hanson Steve Hanson has been part of the Workshop documentation team since its inception in 2001. Steve has previously worked as a salad chef, bicycle courier, and philosophy instructor. He earned in Ph.D in classical philosophy from the University of Washington in 2003. Tim Hanson Tim Hanson is the Javelin compiler architect at BEA Systems. Tim developed much of BEA's Java compiler - one of the earliest 1.5-compliant implementations. He has written numerous other compilers, including a CORBA/IDL compiler while at IBM, and an XQuery compiler. Harriett Hardman Harriett Hardman is a senior technical writer working for BEA on the Workshop documentation team. Michael Hart Michael Hart is a systems engineer at a high tech firm in Ontario, Canada, where he assists helps design and support a large WebLogic implementation. Sayed Hashimi Sayed Hashimi is an independent consultant based in Jacksonville, Florida. Arunabh Hazarika Arunabh Hazarika is an engineer on the Performance Team at BEA's WebLogic Division. Rich Helton Rich Helton has worked on computer systems since 1982 and entered the private sector in 1990 as a lead computer architect with OmniPoint Data Corporation. He is the author of Java Security Solutions, considered to be one of the most comprehensive security books, and coauthor of the BEA WebLogic Server Bible. He has lectured extensively on security and Java and has written articles on the subject. Rich currently works as the chief architect for the Colorado Department of Labor. E-mail him at richware@earthlink.net. Anil Hemrajani Anil Hemrajani is the author of Agile Java Development With Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse. He has worked with Java Technology since late 1995 as a developer, entrepreneur, author, and trainer. He is the founder of Isavix Corporation (now Inscope Solutions), a successful IT service company, and DeveloperHub.com (formerly isavix.net), an award-winning online developer community that grew to over 100,000 registered members. He has twenty years of experience in the Information Technology community working with several Fortune 100 companies and also smaller organizations. He has published numerous articles in well known trade journals, presented at conferences and seminars around the world and received the "Outstanding Contribution to the Growth of the Java Community" award from Sun Microsystems, the "Best Java Client" award at JavaOne for BackOnline, a Java-based online backup client/server product, and was nominated for a Computerworld-Smithsonian award for a free online file storage service web site. Anil's latest ventures are the Visual Patterns and Agile Draw. Bob Hensle Bob Hensle has over 20 years of industry experience including more than eight years with BEA Consulting. During his time with BEA, Mr. Hensle has helped customers architect, design, and deploy a variety of enterprise software applications. The underlying technology for these applications has included TUXEDO, CORBA, and Java EE. Mr. Hensle is currently focused on Service-Oriented Architecture with particular emphasis on educating customers on SOA concepts and best practices to help them successfully adopt SOA. Alex Heublein Alex Heublein is the managing principal of the Next-Generation Enterprise Technologies team within HP Consulting and Integration's Technology Leadership Group. Alex's team works to evaluate new and emerging enterprise technologies in order to help assess their impact on the strategic direction of HPC&I's customers. Prior to joining HP, Alex was the CTO of an IT consulting firm focused on B2B integration technologies and was the managing principal of the Application Server & Middleware group for IBM Global Services in North America. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 
Marcus Hirt
Marcus is one of the founders of Appeal Virtual Machines, the company that created the Java Virtual Machine JRockit. He is currently working as Engineering Manager for the JRockit Mission Control team. In his spare time he enjoys coding on one of his many pet projects, and composing music. Evelyn Hobson Evelyn Hobson is a software engineer and consultant in HP's Developers Resource Organization, which explores leading-edge technologies as they relate to developers. Her areas of interest include XML, J2EE, .NET, and Web services. Juergen Hoeller Juergen Hoeller is the co-founder of the Spring Framework project. Juergen has been the most active Spring developer since the open source project began from Rod's Interface21 framework back in February 2003. Juergen and Rod together continue to provide the direction for Spring Peter Holditch Peter Holditch joined BEA as a consultant in the Northern European Professional Services organization in September 1996. He now works as a presales architect in the UK. Peter has a degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Birmingham. Gary Horen Gary Horen is the Program Manager for Ajax and Languages on the BEA Workshop team. Jason Howes Jason Howes is a Staff Software Engineer at Tangosol, a provider of in-memory caching and data management software solutions that deliver extreme scalable performance and reliability to clustered J2EE applications. Eric Hsiao 
Pieter Humphrey
Pieter Humphrey has been at BEA for 7 years, working in technical sales and product marketing to help customers understand and apply our technology. In his current role, Pieter focuses on application development tools, Eclipse, and the general concept of blended source at BEA: the intersection of open source and commercial software. Walter Hurst Walter Hurst is the founder and CTO of Wakesoft. He has been working with advanced technologies for over 10 years. Before founding Wakesoft, Walter was an independent consultant and used early versions of Wakesoft technology to deliver Internet solutions to clients. Walter received a BS in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. Peter Hussey Ivelin Ivanov Ivelin Ivanov is a frequent contributor to the open source community. Apache Cocoon, JBoss, GNU XQuery and Jakarta Commons are among the projects he has recently participated in. In his professional involvement Ivelin successfully used a balanced mix of open source and proprietary tools to build multiple high volume transactional distributed systems. Currently tech lead with BMC Software, Inc., his responsibility is to continuously evaluate, disseminate and apply software development technologies and practices in enterprise web application projects. Along with company architect Troy Cline, Ivelin is co-inventor of a patent pending technology for highly scalable transactions carried over the internet. Previous to his position with BMC, Ivelin occupied a CIO position with Cyberfort, Inc., a company building web applications for the financial and security sectors. A native of Bulgaria, Ivelin is co-founder of the first independent computer book publishing company in the country. Ivelin has a website at http://www.cocoonhive.org. Jesper Jørgensen Jesper Jørgensen is the Director of Engineering at Kapow Technologies, located in Denmark. Jesper Jørgensen holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Copenhagen. Jesper has 15 years of experience with IT, 9 of which are in industry. After working as a Post Doc at Leuven University in Belgium, and as Assistant Professor at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark, he also worked at a large Bank in Denmark as a Project Manager. Jason Jackson Srinivas Jaini Srinivas Jaini is a software architect with heavy experience in SOA and in building enterprise wide portals on J2EE and the WebLogic Platform for banking and other industries. He has a passion for technology and music. Manfred Jakesch Manfred Jakesch works as a Technical Consultant for the Nokia Siemens Networks IMS Developer Program. His main focus is development and integration of server-based telecommunication applications. Tyler Jewell Tyler Jewell is BEA's director of technology evangelism. He's the author of Java Web Services and the coauthor of Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 and Professional Java Server Programming (J2EE 1.3). He writes widely on the Web on the subject of both J2EE and Web services. 
Lan Jiang
Lan Jiang is a principal consultant with the BEA professional service. He has architected and developed many J2EE/Portal/Integration applications on the WebLogic Platform for BEA customers. He is certified by BEA as both a WebLogic Server application developer and a WebLogic Portal solution developer. His interests include J2EE, object-oriented design, SOA. Lan holds a M.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lan now resides in the Chicago area with his wife and newborn daughter. Daniel Jobst Daniel Jobst works at ibi research at the University of Regensburg, Germany, an institute specialized on banking IT and innovations. The main fields of research are Enterprise Platforms, integration scenarios and business rule management systems. Besides research, Daniel is consulting banks with integration and rules projects. 
Jesper Joergensen
Jesper Joergensen is Director of Product Marketing for BEA's Business Process Management products. Jesper has been with BEA since 2003 and has covered many of BEA's WebLogic products. While Jesper is now mostly focused on strategy and relationships with industry analysts, partners and customers, he has been known to still open up Eclipse and crank out some code now and then. Rod Johnson Rod Johnson is the founder of the Spring Framework and a well-known expert on Java and J2EE. Rod is CEO of Interface21, a consultancy devoted to providing expert J2EE and Spring Framework services. Rod holds a Ph.D. from Sydney University. Originally from a C/C++ background, he has been involved with Java and J2EE since their releases as a developer, architect and consultant. Lawrence Jones Lawrence Jones is a Senior Software Engineer at BEA Systems. He worked as a member of the Beehive Controls development team til May 2005 and is currently leading the XmlBeans team within BEA. He has over 10 years of software development experience. Rama Kalava Srinivas Kanchanavally Srinivas Kanchanavally is a software architect with CoreObjects Software in Los Angeles, California. He has an in-depth understanding of Java and J2EE. He also has vast experience designing large-scale J2EE application architectures. Srini has worked with Java, J2EE, Struts,WebLogic, and WebLogic Portal on client projects. Srinivas also has several years of experience working with various open-source frameworks and tools such as JBoss/Tomcat, MySQL, JUnit, and HTTPUnit. 
Dhrubojyoti Kayal
Dhrubojyoti Kayal works as a Senior Consultant with Capgemini Consulting. He has more than five years of experience developing and desigining applications and products leveraging Enterprise Java technologies. His areas of interests include Spring framework, ORM, SOA, Refactoring, Prefactoring and Performance Engineering. Lawrence Kaye Lawrence Kaye is the manager of delivery strategy for BEA Educational Services. He has five years of Java development experience and has taught WebLogic Server development and administration courses for the past two years. Write to Lawrence at lawrence.kaye@bea.com. Bill Kemp Bill Kemp is a developer relations engineer with BEA in Colorado Springs, with 14 years of experience in software development and support. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and BEA WebLogic Certified Developer. Bill focuses on EJB, JMS, and JDBC. Nasir Khan Nasir Khan is the architect of BEA's Weblogic SIP Server product. He has about 12 years of experience of designing and building scalable enterprise Java applications. In past 6 years he has focused on building several application containers/frameworks specifically for the telecom industry, including SIP Servlet containers and JAIN SLEE containers. He also leads JSR 289, the next release of SIP Servlet API 1.1. Johannes Klein 
Monte Kluemper
Monte is a portal specialist and principal sales consultant in EMEA. He has worked with BEA since 1999, dedicating a fair amount of this time to user interface optimization, internationalization issues, accessibility compliance, search engine optimization techniques, and other aspects of portal design. Konstantin Komissarchik Konstantin Komissarchik is a Staff Software Engineer on BEA's Eclipse tooling team and a committer on Eclipse Web Tools Project. He currently splits his time between working on WebLogic Server Tools and making open source contributions. Konstantin is also currently serving on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors as an elected committer representative. Balamurali Kothandaraman Balamurali Kothandaraman is a Senior Delivery Technologist for Education Services at BEA Systems Inc. He has over 8 years of experience in Java and J2EE technologies and is a BEA Certified Server Specialist, Administrator, and Instructor. Bala has been working with BEA for 4+ years. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences including Java One, BEAWorld and BEA User Groups. Samuel Kounev Samuel Kounev is a BEA Technical Director and serves as the release manager on SPEC's Java subcommittee. He is a research associate in the Databases & Distributed Systems Group at Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (Germany). Samuel has extensive experience in the areas of performance engineering, modeling and evaluation of distributed systems, benchmarking and capacity planning. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and a M.Sc. degree from the University of Sofia. Samuel's web page. Ed Kourany Ed Kourany is Executive Director of World Wide Consulting at BEA. Muthuswamy Krishnamoorthy Senthil Kumar Krishnan Senthil Kumar Krishnan is a member of the Platform Engineering team at BEA Systems. At BEA he has worked on WebLogic Platform Integration, end-to-end solution and customer use cases. Senthil has been developing software for more than 10 years and is involved in designing technical architectures for various large-scale J2EE-based projects. Mahadevan Krishnan Mahadevan Krishnan is a graduate in Information Technology. He has more than three years of experience in IT industry and is currently working with Verizon, Chennai. He has spent most of his career working on Oracle, Java and Java EE Technologies. Anbarasu Krishnaswamy Anbarasu Krishnaswamy, a senior principal consultant with BEA Professional Services, has several years of experience with BEA products and is a Sun-certified Java programmer and BEA-certified WebLogic Server developer. Anbarasu holds a master's degree in computer science and engineering and a bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering. Joseph K. Krozak Joseph K. Krozak is vice president of Technology Development for Krozak Information Technologies, Inc. (www.krozak.com), a supplier of advanced software solutions to Fortune 500 and midmarket companies. He has over 15 years of experience in the information technology industry, including 10 years of extensive experience building large, distributed object-and component-oriented systems. Eugene Kuleshov Eugene Kuleshov is an independent consultant. He has over twelve years of experience in software design and development and specializing in application security, enterprise integration (EAI) and message oriented middleware. His list of clients include large financial and insurance companies. Mihir Kulkarni Mihir Kulkarni is a Software Engineer working on the EJB Container for the Customer Centric Engineering team at BEA Systems. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and is a Java Certified Programmer. Previously, he has presented at BEA EWorld Conference at San Diego and has contributed chapters on Performance Tuning and J2EE Deployment to the book titled "BEA WebLogic Platform 7". Apurb Kumar Apurb Kumar is a developer relations engineer in Backline WebLogic Support at BEA Systems. He has more than 10 years of industry experience, starting with real-time programming, moving on to databases, and finally Java development. Before moving to BEA Systems, Apurb consulted for companies such as Charles Schwab, AllAdvantage.com, and Holland Systems. Budi Kurniawan Budi Kurniawan is known for his clear writing style. A consultant at Brainy Software Corp., he has written software licensed by Fortune 100 companies and architected and developed large scale applications for various organizations around the world. He has written several programming books, including Struts 2 Design and Programming: A Tutorial, How Tomcat Works, Java 6 New Features, and Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP, and EJB. Bill Laberis Bill Laberis is Vice President of Custom Content Strategy at Computerworld, a business unit of International Data Group (IDG). Previously Bill was editor-in-chief of Computerworld for ten years from 1986-1996. During his editorial tenure, Computerworld won more than 80 awards for editorial and design excellence, including the Computer Press Association's award as Best Computer Newspaper an unprecedented three times. In the ten years between leaving Computerworld as editor and rejoining as Vice President of Custom Content Strategy, Bill was founder and president of Bill Laberis Associates, a custom publishing and media consulting company. Bill is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in Holliston, Mass., with his wife and two sons. Marcus Lagergren 
Peter Laird
Peter Laird is the Managing Architect for the WebLogic Portal engineering team at BEA. Peter currently focuses on combining enterprise portal technology with emerging ideas such as Mashups and Service Oriented Architecture. David Langworthy 
Staffan Larsen
Staffan Larsen is a staff engineer working on the JRockit product, which he co-founded back in 1998. His current focus is on manageability and serviceability of the JVM, working on, for example, the JRockit Runtime Analyzer and the Memory Leak Detector. He is always interested in the ease-of-use of JRockit. He has recently been on the JCP expert groups for JVMTI and J2SE 5.0. Ken Lee Ken manages product marketing for the WebLogic Communications Platform product family, which includes the WebLogic SIP Server and WebLogic Network Gatekeeper. He has 13 years of experience in product management and product marketing. Prior to BEA, he managed enterprise Java marketing initiatives at Sun Microsystems. Caroline Leung Caroline Leung is a senior software engineer at BEA’s Business Interaction Division. She has been with the Developer Experience team for over four years, and is responsible for cross-platform and remote API design. Caroline’s main areas of expertise center around the Collaboration and Publisher Remote APIs as well as their applications. Currently, Caroline is designing the next generation multi-runtime framework for building remote Web Services-based client APIs for any service or backend system. Chengjiang (Andy) Lin Chengjiang (Andy) Lin is a senior software engineer at BEA Platform Engineering Team. Over the last 4 years at BEA, Andy has made contributions in areas including Platform Integration, Web Service Interoperability, WebLogic Clustering and Domain Provisioning Tools. Prior to joining BEA, Andy worked at AT&T Labs as a middleware architect, primarily focused on network services interoperability and performance. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio State University Grace Lin Grace Lin works at HP's OpenView Business Unit as a software engineer. She primarily focusses on enterprise management solutions with Java based technology. For the past several years she has been engaged in multiple research projects, including the JMX Metric Builder tool. Grace's development experience spans various technologies including Java, XML, JSP, ASP, Web Services, and C/C++. Beth Linker Beth Linker is a software engineer specializing in enterprise Java and web services. Based in Boston, MA, she is a software architect at Iron Mountain Digital. Jim Litton Jim Litton is a Developer Relations Engineer in Weblogic Portal Support. Takyiu Liu Dr. Takyiu Liu is with the education service of BEA, and has been training customers on J2EE topics with WebLogic Server for several years. Takyiu Liu received his B.S. from Hong Kong University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara, all in Electrical Engineering. Takyiu is a frequent speaker at both JavaOne and BEAWorld. Martin Lloyd Martin Lloyd is an Enterprise Architect for Intel. Harold Lockhart Harold Lockhart is a principal engineering technologist in the Standards and Architecture Group at BEA. An internationally known author and speaker, he has been an active contributor in the OASIS Web Services Security and SAML technical committees. He is also the co-chair of the OASIS XACML TC, and a member of the OASIS Provisioning TC, Digital Signature Services TC, and WS-I Basic Security Profile WG. Andrew Lorek Andrew Lorek is a Senior Software Engineer in BEA's AquaLogic Interaction division. He has worked on user-interface frameworks and controls for a variety of ALUI products, and is currently working on the OpenControls project developing AJAX-enabled UI controls for JSF and ASP.NET. Anwar Ludin Anwar Ludin is CTO of ExoSonic, which provides financial institutions with a reusable framework of design patterns and EJB components for developing and deploying multichannel, mission-critical distributed enterprise applications and Web services. Dennis Luemkemann Dennis Luemkemann comes from a traditional IT background, with over 10 years experience in distributed information systems, software development and networking infrastructure. His recent focus was on mobile and internet applications. Currently he is responsible for the framework and development tools at the Nokia Siemens Networks IMS Developer Program. Will Lyons Will Lyons is Director of Product Management for WebLogic Server, managing the team responsible for driving product requirements and strategy. Will's product management responsibilities at BEA have included WebLogic Server, WebLogic Platform, Web Services, Tuxedo and WebLogic Enterprise. Matt Maccaux Matt Maccaux is a Portal Performance Engineer for BEA Systems. He is responsible for performance testing WebLogic Portal and writing performance documentation. He has been in that role for over 2 years. Prior to that, Matt was in the WebLogic Portal Customer Centric Engineering Group as a QA Engineer and was involved in several critical customer escalations involving the performance of the product. Matt has been with BEA Systems for over 4 years. Dan MacKinnon Dan MacKinnon, a senior software engineer at WebGain Inc., was lead developer of the container-managed persistence integration for several releases of TopLink for WebLogic, and is currently working on EJB- and J2EE-based product initiatives. Dan holds a BSc and MSc in mathematics from Dalhousie University, and a BCS from Carleton University. Brendan MacLean 
Manu Madhusudhanan R
Manu M.R is a member of the Liquid Data team at BEA Systems. His expertise includes design and analysis of enterprise applications. His areas of interest include Design Patterns, Grid Computing and Agile Technologies. 
Prakash Malani
Prakash Malani has extensive experience in architecting, designing, and developing software. He has been doing software development in many application domains such as entertainment, finance, retail, medicine, communications, and interactive television. He practices and mentors leading technologies such as Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). He teaches as well as preaches best practices and design patterns at institutions such as California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, etc. He has published various articles in industry leading publications such as JavaWorld and WebLogic Developers Journal. Currently, he helps organize the Los Angeles BEA Users Group (LABEAUG). Dwight Mamanteo Dwight Mamanteo is a technical manager with the Global Alliances Technical Services organization at BEA Systems. He has been with BEA since 1999; his current responsibilities include providing advisory and technical enablement support to BEA's strategic SI and ISV partners. He has been involved with object-oriented programming, design, and architecture since 1993. 
Nitin Mangtani
Nitin Mangtani is the Senior Product Manager for BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform. As a founding member of the Liquid Data team, Nitin has been instrumental in defining the overall Data Services vision for BEA as well as shipping Data Services Platform. His area of focus includes Service Oriented Architecture and has special expertise in Service Modeling, Metadata, Web services and XQuery. Nitin has been part of BEA team for last 5+ years; previously, he worked for a Supply Chain Management Vendor in the Distributed Order Management space. Richard Manning Richard Scott Manning is Enterprise Architect Lead, BEA Consulting Services - Americas South Region. Focus areas include: Enterprise Architecture, SOA, BPM, Organization & Governance, Information & Knowledge Modeling, Web 2.0, Semantic Web and AI. Francesco Marchioni Francesco Marchioni joined the Java community in 1997 and is certified as a Sun Enterprise Architect. He is an employee of Pride SpA and has designed and developed many J2EE applications on the Weblogic Platform for BEA Customers. He lives in Rome, Italy with his wife Linda, and child Alessandro. He enjoys exercising and the outdoors in his spare time. John Margaglione John Margaglione is a Systems Engineer with BEA Systems, where he works to enable BEA's channel partners. John has been architecting solutions for verticals like factory automation since Visual Basic 4 was hot. John is a Sun Certified J2EE Enterprise Architect, but tries very hard not to lord it over his co-workers. Dave Martin Dave Martin is a system engineer for Wily Technology. He has worked extensively with dozens of enterprise customers to identify and correct Java application performance issues. A former software developer for Wily technology, Dave has a comprehensive knowledge of J2EE architecture and software systems design and implementation. Dmitri Maximovich Dmitri Maximovich is an independent consultant specializing in software design, development, and technical training. He has more than twelve years of industry experience and has been involved with J2EE since its inception. His job profile includes designing and developing mission critical applications for financial and pharmaceutical industries. Paul Mc Galey Rod McCauley Cindy McMullen Cindy McMullen is a software developer for WebLogic Portal. She is currently leading a team in content management to integrate SharePoint data with portal content. Paul Meijer Paul Meijer is a technical program manager for WebLogic Workshop and an Eclipse Web Tool Platform Project Contributor. Michael Meiner Michael Meiner is an Engineering Manager at BEA Systems, Inc. for the Platform Engineering team. Michael oversees QA activities for installation, configuration and licensing across the Weblogic, Aqualogic and Workshop product lines. He has over 16 years of experience in the computer industry, and has been with BEA since 1996. John Methot John Methot is a Senior Developer at BEA Systems Inc., working on the WebLogic Workshop team. He's responsible for WebLogic Workshop sample code and portions of the user documentation. John has been doing application development, consulting, and architecture for 19 years and explanation of technical concepts has been a theme throughout his career. Lately, he finds he writes more prose than code. John can be contacted at jmethot@bea.com. Gary Meyer Gary Meyer is a senior technical director for eFORCE, where he helps Fortune 1000 clients by delivering fixed-price, fixed-time projects for enterprise portals, enterprise content management, EAI, CRM, enterprise infrastructure, and Web services. Gary has been the lead architect for multiple Web services projects. Mark Meyer Mark Meyer is a senior software engineer at BEA Systems, Inc. working on the Customer Centric Engineering (CCE) team for WebLogic Portal. As part of CCE, he manages and implements solutions to customer escalations. On the team, Mark is the primary contact for Spring and security issues. Before coming to BEA, he worked in the telecommunications industry focusing on Voice over IP technologies. Mark Miller Mark D. Miller has over 20 years experience in the computer industry working on a diverse array of products including Web-based applications, Operating Systems, and Graphical Windowing Systems. He has been a Senior Software Engineer at BEA Systems for 3 years, focusing on the WebLogic Platform. William "Doc" Mills William "Doc Mills" is currently the Director of Product Marketing for NEON Systems, the leader in enterprise-class mainframe adapters that reduce integration complexity. He has more than 18 years of experience with mainframe networking and integration. Kunal Mittal Kunal Mittal is a consultant specializing in Java technology, the J2EE platform, Web services, and SOA technologies. He has coauthored and contributed to several books on these topics. Kunal works as an applications architect for the Domestic TV division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In his spare time, he does consulting gigs for start-ups in the SOA space and for large companies looking to implement an SOA initiative. You can contact Kunal through his web site or via email.
Jon Mountjoy worked as the editor-in-chief and community manager of Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch until April 2008. He enjoys working with XML, Java EE, Spring and Ruby. He is co-author of WebLogic: The Definitive Guide. He maintained three blogs on the site, now all in hibernation: Dev2Dev Editor's Blog about Dev2Dev activities, the Arch2Arch Editor's Blog, and a more personal blog used for conference coverage. Jon's home on the web can be found at www.jonmountjoy.com. Feel free to ping him about anything related to these websites. Steve Mueller Steve Mueller is a principal consultant for BEA Systems, where he specializes in the design, development, and administration of enterprise systems running on WebLogic Server. 
George Murnock
George Murnock is a Senior Software Engineer at BEA Systems, in the WebLogic Portal group. Since 2000, he has held both QA and Development roles in most areas of the product, including the core framework, tooling, and personalization. Justin Murray Justin Murray is a technical consultant in the application development resources organization in HP. He has worked for HP in various consulting and teaching roles. Justin has consulted at a technical level on customer projects involving Java, J2EE, and performance management, as well as specializing on application performance tuning for HP-UX. Justin has published several technical papers on these subjects. John Musser John Musser is a consultant who over the past 20 years has built software ranging from Wall Street trading systems to games for Electronic Arts. He is currently lead architect on an e-logistics system and teaches software development at Columbia University. Shridhar Mysore 
Ambarish Nagarajan
Ambarish Nagarajan is a senior software engineer on the Platform Engineering team. He has over 5 years of software development experience and spends his time at BEA developing SOA based end-to-end solutions for customer use cases using the WebLogic and AquaLogic product families. Prior to joining BEA, Ambarish worked at Alopa Networks in the development of Operations Support Systems and Network Management System products. Ambarish completed his post graduation in IT from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. Chuck Nelson Dmitri Nevedrov has been involved in development of desktop, web- and distributed software using J2EE as well as other middleware technologies, including Corba, Web services, and .NET. He is particularly interested in high performance computing and optimization methodologies. Dmitri holds MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Colorado and PhD in Theoretical Physics from University of Tartu. Gary Ng Gary Ng is a senior consultant with WebAge Solutions and has been involved in various J2EE projects since 2001. He graduated with from the School of Computer Science at Carleton University in 1997, before moving on to the TopLink for Java team at The Object People. Currently, he writes articles from his home in Ottawa, and has all his work proofread by his on-site staff kitties, Maxi and Bishop. 
Phil Nguyen
Phil Nguyen is a program manager at BEA Systems. In his spare time, he enjoys basketball, music, and the outdoors Paul Nixon Paul Nixon has more than 30 years experience in IT and is now Technical Director of Orbism Ltd. Paul has worked with the BEA product set for over seven years. Most recently, Paul has specialised in the automation of deployment and systems management for BEA Platform solutions. Joseph Noonan Joseph Noonan has been in software development for 18 years. He is product development manager at NeuVis Software, where he manages the runtime/J2EE construction and system architecture groups focusing on J2EE technologies and integration. Joe has an extensive background in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, and system architectural development. He is coauthor of a Windows 98 API programming book. Mark Nottingham Gerald Nunn Gerald Nunn is a business principal consultant with BEA Systems Professional Services. He is married with a four year old son and lives in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Simon Nunn Darragh O'Flanagan Darragh O'Flanagan joined Voxpilot Ltd. in 2006 as a Senior Software Engineer, and has worked over the last six years on a wide range of software products in the telecoms industry, both fixed and mobile. Darragh is particularly interested in the integration of emerging technologies, and spent a number years working on client-server solutions bringing technologies like J2EE and J2ME together. Eddie O'Neil Eddie O'Neil works on the WebLogic Portal team where he oversees features and strategy for emerging web application technologies including frameworks, Ajax, and web-based APIs with an eye to how these relate to building mashups and portals. Previously, he was a developer on WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and a computer science graduate student studying information retrieval. He is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation and holds a Masters degrees in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. Harshad Oak Harshad Oak is the creator of the Java J2EE portal IndicThreads.com. He wrote Pro Jakarta Commons and Oracle JDeveloper 10g: Empowering J2EE Development as well as coauthored Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 Bible. He is also the founder of Rightrix Solutions. Daryl Olander Marcelo Oliveira Marcelo Oliveira is a Software Engineer currently working for Cisco Systems in the Emerging Markets Business Unit. He has over 9 years of diversified telecom experience, from hardware and embedded software development to high level application design and architecture. He is the author of many patents filed through Siemens Communications in the US, Europe and China. He has been a key contributor for Siemens in new product development in the US, Germany and Brazil. In the past, Marcelo has also worked for BEA, supporting BEA's Global Alliance partners on the architecture, design, development, and deployment of solutions in the Telco space. David Orchard David Orchard is a technical director in BEA Systems' CTO Office, focusing on Web services standards. He is an elected member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group; Web services Architecture, XML Protocol, and Advisory committees. He is currently or has been a co-editor of the Web services Architecture, Web services Usage Scenarios, WS-Coordination, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Addressing, SOAP-Conversation, XML Link, and XInclude specifications. He has written numerous technical articles and is a frequent speaker on various Internet related technologies. James Owen Michael Padilla is a user experience design director for Web applications in Philadelphia, where he oversees everything from information architecture to branding integration to rich client UI architecture. Mike has led front-end development efforts for such companies as Fleet Credit Cards, Mellon Private Asset Management, the Bank of New York, and Bessemer Trust. Macromedia has featured his usability designs. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering, focusing on ergonomics, from Cornell University. Venkatakrishnan Padmanabhan Venkatakrishnan (Venkat) Padmanabhan is a senior software engineer in the BEA Platform Engineering Team. He has over 16 years of experience in the computer industry, working on CAD-CAM software, X-Windows/Motif programming and Middleware technologies. Venkat has worked at BEA since 1996, starting as a consultant for Tuxedo QA and now focussing on architecting enterprise application using WebLogic Platform. 
Yogish Pai
Yogish Pai is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of IT, at BEA Systems, Inc. Yogish has over 18 years of experience in delivering business capabilities for large enterprises. At BEA, Yogish is responsible the enterprise architecture team and has been providing thought leadership through the various phases of adopting SOA within BEA-IT. Prior to BEA, Yogish was the CTO at CellExchange Inc., Director of Architecture at Oracle, Initiative Manager at The Coca-Cola Company and as a consultant for various companies. Yogish holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Bombay University and BS in Physics from Gujarat University. Seetharam Param Seetharam Param works as a Senior Software Engineer at BEA Systems. His expertise includes application deployment in WebLogic Server. Anurag Pareek Anurag Pareek is an Escalation Engineer working for BEA Systems. He has extensive experience in implementing, tuning and troubleshooting mission-critical, high-availability applications. He performs on-site mentoring, design, and troubleshooting for BEA customers. He frequently contributes to BEA's dev2dev, and has contributed to the book "Securing Web Services with WS-Security", SAMS Publishing. Anurag is a Sun Certified Enterprise Java Architect. Jalpesh Patadia 
Sudhansu Pati
Sudhansu works as a Sr. Systems Engineer at BEA since March 2006. Prior to that, he was working for Borland as a Sr. Systems Engineer. He is part of the BEA sales team and engages with customers during the pre-sales phase. He is passionate about new technologies in Java, RIA, SOA, BPM and Portal space. He has built and published in BEA Codeshare several applications that demonstrate the value of the above technologies. Most importantly, he focuses on the business benefits of these technologies. Recently has has built an application called Golf4Geeks that shows the power of RIA in a Java EE environment. Sudhansu is a sun certified Java architect. He has acquired 6 java certifications from Sun. He believes in Java, .Net, Open Source and other related technologies. He speaks in BEA User Groups and seminars. He also works with BEA partner companies to build and showcase custom solutions that meet the customer's requirements. Abhijit Patil Abhijit Patil works as a Senior Software Engineer at BEA Systems. His expertise includes WebLogic application clustering and deployment. Paul Patrick Paul Patrick is the chief security architect for BEA. He was the architect of BEA's (and earlier Digital Equipment Corporation's) Object Broker CORBA ORB, coarchitect of WebLogic Enterprise (Tuxedo), and has been the security architect for WebLogic Server since version 6.0. Shane Pearson Shane Pearson is the director of Product Management for BEA's WebLogic Portal and manages the team responsible for its product strategy and design. This includes coordinating the definition of product requirements based on input from customers and partners to ensure the successful implementation of a competitive and innovative product. During his tenure, several releases of WebLogic Portal and earlier products have been recognized as innovative products and received industry awards. Bernardo Perez de Lara Britt Piehler Tim Pijpops Tim Pijpops is a software architect at Egova-Cronos, a Belgian company that focuses on e-government solutions with J2EE technology. Besides Java and J2EE, his professional interests include software development methodologies, patterns, and quality assurance. Tim holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Leuven (KUL). 
Andy Piper
Andy Piper is a Senior Staff Engineer in the WebLogic Server advanced development group. Andy has worked on WebLogic Server for the past 6 years and is responsible for many features and innovations. His interests include distributed systems, object-oriented design and development, high availability and open source. Andy holds a PhD and bachelor's degree from Cambridge University, UK. Ivan Polyakov Ivan Polyakov works as Software Engineer and Consultant in E-Commerce team of TogetherSoft Research Lab. He develops and maintains the J2EE modules in Together™ - "Model-Build-Deploy" Platform, closely works with SOAP, Web services and UDDI technologies, IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic application servers. He provides consultancy on integration of Together™ with J2EE technologies, building J2EE applications, and etc. Steven Pozarycki Steven Pozarycki is a principal systems engineer at BEA Systems where he helps architect solutions, troubleshoot and solve complex customer issues with their mission-critical applications on BEA products. Steve holds a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has written several articles for WebLogic Developers Journal and JavaPro online magazines and contributed many other articles to the BEA Support Patterns site. He also has two patent applications pending with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Links:
Hari Prakash Hari Prakash, a software engineer at BEA, has over 5 years experience in Enterprise Java Development, and Performance Benchmarking. He is currently involved in the performance study of end to end product usage from the BEA suites of products as well as developing scenarios which encompass real world usage of these suites of products. Radu Preotiuc Alexander Prohorenko Alexander Prohorenko is a certified professional, who holds Sun Certified System Administrator and Sun Certified Java Programmer certifications. His areas of interests include system development lifecycle methodologies, IT project management, server and application architecture. He can be contacted at white@prohorenko.com. Olexiy Prokhorenko Olexiy Prokhorenko is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, also holding Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer certifications. His areas of interests include Web software architecture, development of software with frequently changing requirements, and management of distributed outsourcing teams. You can contact Olexiy at green@prohorenko.com. Emmanuel Proulx Emmanuel Proulx is an expert in J2EE and SIP. He is a certified WebLogic Server engineer. Emmanuel works in the fields of telecommunications and Web development. Emmanuel developed telephony (VoIP) applications, IDE plug-ins, eBusiness systems, Web applications of all kinds, and authors books and articles. He is the proud father of Laura and Simon. Will Pugh Will Pugh is chief architect at SourceLabs. He was most recently principal technologist at BEA Systems working on open source strategy. Prior to that role, he led the debugger team on Weblogic Workshop. Will has extensive engineering experience focusing on application versioning, concurrency, application archiving, application modules, performance and scalability. His other career experience includes Westside (purchased by BEA) and Microsoft. Sam Pullara Sam Pullara has been a software engineer at WebLogic since 1996 and has contributed to the architecture, design, and implementation of many aspects of the application server. Jon Purdy Jonathan Purdy is co-founder of Tangosol, a company which provides in-memory caching and data management software solutions that deliver extreme scalable performance and reliability to clustered J2EE applications. Jon has a wealth of experience developing high-scalability and high-availability systems, with an emphasis on both analytics and transaction processing. His creativity and leadership in product design and development have produced several award winning and market leading products. Tomasz Radziszewski Tomasz Radziszewski is a Software Engineer at Research & Development in Ericpol Telecom Alexandre Rafalovitch Rag Ramanathan Vimala Ranganathan is a QA engineer on the workshop team. She has over eight years of experience in Java SE/Java EE technologies. She has been with BEA for more than 5 years during which time she worked as a DRE in Weblogic Server and Workshop Support Team. She has also been a contributor to Java One, Dev2Dev workshop newsgroup and the Weblogic Developer Journal. Girdhar Rao David Read David is a technical field specialist focused on BEA's EDSOA (Event-Driven SOA), Event Driven Architecture and Event Processing Network Application Development. Before joining BEA, he was a technical consultant for EDS. Byrne Reese David Remy Benjamin Renaud Benjamin Renaud is a strategist in the Office of the CTO at BEA Systems. In that role he helps set BEA's technical vision and guides its execution. He came to BEA via the acquisition of WebLogic, where he was a pioneer in Java and Web application server technology. Prior to joining WebLogic, Benjamin worked on the original Java team for Sun Microsystems, where he helped create Java 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2. Naresh Revanuru Naresh Revanuru is a senior software engineer working in the BEA WebLogic engineering team. Naresh is the team lead for the BEA WebLogic core/clustering subsystem. He works in the areas of kernel, workload management, timers, protocols and clustering/HA. Naresh has worked at BEA Systems for the past 5 years Sean Rhody Sean Rhody is the editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and is a respected industry commentator and speaker. Sean is also a partner with Computer Sciences Corporation, where he works as the Web services advocate for the Consulting Group. He recently published his latest book, Beginning Java Web services. Bertrand Richardson When Bertrand Richardson is not playing volleyball or his guitar, he moonlights as a Senior Software Engineer with considerable experience in designing and implementing Web applications. Although his focus is mainly on dev2dev's user interface workflow and content management system integration, Bertrand also helps out with project management and other miscellaneous tasks needed to keep dev2dev running smoothly. Chris Richardson Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris has been a technical leader at Insignia, BEA, and elsewhere. He has spoken at various conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium, JavaPolis, and JavaOne. Chris runs a San Francisco Bay Area-based consulting and training company that specializes in helping companies build better software faster. Website and blog: www.chrisrichardson.net. Mika Rinne Mika Rinne is a senior consultant with BEA Systems Inc. He has been programming since he was 13 and in 1995 built an Internet and BEA TUXEDO-based online ticket-selling service, the first of its kind in Scandinavia. Jim Rivera Jim is a director of technology with BEA Systems. In this role, Jim is responsible for driving adoption of BEA products through technology evangelism. Jim joined BEA in 1999 and was lead Technical Product Manager for the BEA WebLogic Server 6, 7, and 8 releases. In this role, Jim was responsible for the strategy and roadmap for various components of the server including EJB, Web Services, XML, and clustering. He has over 13 years of experience in software development, strategy, marketing, and electrical engineering. Marco Rodriguez Marco is a Test Configuration Manager at Intelligent Network Technologies S.A. de C.V. Hu Ji Rong Hu Ji Rong has been working on J2EE since 1999. He was developing e-banking and e-trading system on BEA WebLogic platform in Netlife Singapore. Last year, he started working on WebSphere product family in Lido AeroNet. He has a B.E. in Telecommunication engineer and M.Sc. In information security. He's also a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer. He can be reached at jirong.hu@lido.net. Jon Rose Jon Rose is a software engineer with Gorilla Logic, Inc. Gorilla Logic is a full-service enterprise software development company located in Boulder, Colorado. Jon specializes in using Flex and Java for building enterpris |
