Speakers

Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is a best-selling author, experienced consultant, and open source developer, as well as a popular conference speaker.

Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002) was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE. The sequel, J2EE without EJB (July 2004, with Juergen Hoeller), has proven almost equally significant, establishing a comprehensive vision for lightweight, post-EJB J2EE development.

Rod has extensive experience as a consultant in a wide range of industries: principally, finance, media and insurance. He has specialized in server-side Java development since 1996. Prior to that, he worked mainly in C and C++.

His experience as a consultant has led him to see problems from a client's perspective as well as a technology perspective, and has driven his influential criticism of bloated, inefficient, orthodox approaches to J2EE architecture, which have delivered very poor results for stakeholders.

Rod is the founder of the Spring Framework, which began from code published with Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Along with Juergen Hoeller, he continues to lead the development of Spring.

He regularly speaks at conferences in the US, Europe and Asia, including the ServerSide Symposium (2003, 2004 and 2005), JavaPolis (Europe's leading Java conference), and JAOO (2004). Engagements in 2005 include two presentations at JavaOne 2005 and a keynote at the JavaWorld 2005 conference (Tokyo, June).
Rod serves in the JCP on the Expert Groups defining the Servlet 2.4 and JDO 2.0 specifications.

Rod continues to be actively involved in client projects at Interface21, as well as Spring development, writing and evangelism.

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.

Juergen has earned great respect in the Spring and J2EE communities for his energy, the quality of his code, his incredible attention to detail, and his huge contribution in Spring forums and mailing lists.

Juergen is an experienced consultant, with outstanding expertise in web applications, transaction management, O/R mapping technologies, and lightweight remoting. He has specialized in J2EE since early 2000, having held technology leader positions in various projects ranging from enterprise application integration to web-based data visualization.

Adrian Colyer is the leader of the AspectJ open source project and a well-known industry expert on the topic of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). He is a co-author of the book "Eclipse AspectJ : Aspect-Oriented Programming in Eclipse with AspectJ and AJDT," and has also published numerous book chapters, articles and published papers. His short essay, "AOP without the buzzwords" has been described as "the best explanation of AOP, ever."

In 2004, Adrian was recognised as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world by MIT Technology Review for his contributions to the development and adoption of aspect-oriented programming in industry.

Adrian is a popular conference speaker and panelist at Java conferences and events around the world including the ServerSide Symposium, JavaPolis and JavaZone. He served on the Program Committee for the International Conference in Aspect Oriented Software Development for the 2004, 2005, and 2006 conferences, and was the first Industry Chair of the conference in 2002.

Adrian founded the AspectJ Development Tools project (AJDT) on Eclipse.org in 2003, a project that continues to lead the world in providing IDE support for AOP. As leader of the AspectJ project, Adrian has overseen several releases of the compiler and designed and implemented many of the AspectJ 5 language extensions to support Java 5 features such as generics and annotations. He is the author of the "AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook" available from the AspectJ website.

Prior to joining Interface21, Adrian gained over a decade of experience in building enterprise middleware at IBM. Whilst there he built what he believes to be the best aspect-oriented development team in the industry at the time of his departure, and oversaw the introduction of aspect-oriented programming to many IBM development teams.

At Interface21, Adrian contributes to the Spring, AspectJ, and AJDT open source projects and provides education, training, and consultancy to clients working with Spring and AspectJ. He is also actively involved in writing and evangelism on these subjects.

Aaron Zeckoski is Senior Research Engineer in CARET (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies) at Cambridge University. He has been involved in many aspects of system development over the past six years including analysis, design, implementation, QA, deployment, and support. His current responsibilities include project analysis, system design, and system implementation for web application development. Recent work involves Java, Spring, Hibernate, RSF (Reasonable Server Faces), PHP, and Sakai.

Alef Arendsen is VP and Principal Consultant at Interface21. Originally, Alef joined the development team of the Spring Framework in early 2003. Currently, Alef is responsible for several strategic Interface21 clients and he helps them achieve great results using some of the Spring Portfolio products. Furthermore, Alef is responsible for several activities related to technical marketing.

Alef is based out of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Antranig Basman is designer and architect for RSF, an innovative and minimal open source Java web presentation framework, which is based on Spring. Antranig's original training was in Mathematics, but he has since branched out into biotechnological applications of software engineering, (Bayesian) statistical inference and machine intelligence systems (his PhD is in Information Engineering).

Antranig is director of Lucendo Development Ltd., which specialises in sustainable, open source development for the academic sector, and is currently based at the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) at the University of Cambridge.

Arjen Poutsma is a senior enterprise application architect with more than ten years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both J2EE and Microsoft .NET.

Two years ago, Arjen started to specialise in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organisations.

Arjen is the founder and the project lead for the Spring Web Services. This Spring project aims at facilitating development of document-driven web services. Arjen has also contributed to various other open source projects, including XFire, NEO and others.

Since early 2005, Arjen has been a consultant for SpringSource in The Netherlands.

Ben Alex is Interface21's Regional Director, Australasia, and has over 12 years' experience architecting, developing and managing enterprise application solutions. During his career, Ben has been extensively involved in all aspects of software development using both Java and Microsoft platforms, and his experience covers a range of sectors, ranging from small startups through to large Government and corporate environments.

Ben has been a user and core contributor to the Spring Framework since mid-2003. In addition, Ben is founder and lead developer of the Spring Security (also known as Acegi Security) project. He is a developer on the Spring Rich Client project, and has also authored several Spring training modules and books, including the security chapter of "Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework". Ben is also an active participant on the Spring forums, having answered over 2,000 questions from Spring users. He regularly speaks at international conferences and user group meetings about security and application architecture topics, and has delivered Interface21 training courses throughout Australasia, UK and USA.

In addition to his extensive experience developing highly scalable enterprise applications, Ben has also gained significant experience successfully managing projects, operations and commercial functions within a variety of companies. You can read Ben's blog at http://blog.interface21.com/main/author/bena/.

Ben Hale is a senior consultant for Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework and the Spring family of products. Ben's specialties include middle tier architecture with an emphasis on integration technologies such as JMS and JMX. Leading up to his role at Interface21 Ben has led teams in the architecture and development of large-scale enterprise management applications.

Billy is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He's been at IBM since 2001. Billy was the lead on the WorkManager/ Scheduler APIs which were later standardized by IBM and BEA and are now the subject of JSR 236 and JSR 237. Billy lead the design of the WebSphere 6.0 non blocking IO framework (channel framework) and the WebSphere 6.0 high availability/clustering (HAManager). Billy currently works on WebSphere XD and ObjectGrid. He's also the lead persistence architect and runtime availability/scaling architect for the base application server.

Before IBM, Billy worked as an independant consultant at investment banks, telcos, publishing companies and travel reservation companies. He wrote video games in C and assembler on the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga as a teenager. He started programming on an Apple IIe when he was eleven, his first programming language was 6502 assembler.

Billys current interests are lightweight non invasive middleware, complex event processing systems and grid based OLTP frameworks.

Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the recently published book "POJOs in Action". He runs a consulting company that helps development teams become more productive and successful by adopting POJOs and lightweight frameworks. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems. Chris has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.

Christian joined Accenture in 2002 and is a member of the Technical Architecture capability group within Financial Services. Christian has been working as a technical architect to design and implement multi-channel, mission-critical financial applications which leverage Spring features across all tiers.

Christian is co-lead of the Spring IDE (http://springide.org) Open Source project, providing development tools for the Spring Portfolio.

Colin, a core Spring developer, is an architect with over 18 years of experience in developing commercial software, including all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Colin is co-author of 'Professional Java Development with Spring'

Colin has had a long and varied career, including experience developing for and managing his own retail software company, other experience in the C++ shrinkwrap and enterprise software space, experience with Java since '97, and a complete focus on enterprise Java since '99.

As architect and then chief architect at a software incubator / VC, from the '99 to 2004 time period, Colin's role was split between one part hands on architecture, design, and coding, another part mentoring and teaching best practices at the code and process level, and a final part performing technical due diligence and consulting for the VC arm. Throughout this period, Colin gained experience with and an appreciation for agile development practices as a vital part of software success.

Throughout his career, Colin's experience, wide ranging interests and general knowledge in the technology space have led him to be a resource that others have been able to draw on for advice. In general, Colin's background has left him with a deep knowledge of all it takes to successfully put out good software, at the code, process, and business level.

Along with client work at Interface21, Colin also spends significant time on Spring evangelism, including talks at a number of JUG meetings.

Costin Leau is an Interface21 consultant based in Romania. His interests include data access and aspect oriented programming. With significant development experience, Costin is currently the lead of the Spring OSGi and Spring JavaConfig projects. In addition, he has worked on the Spring JPA support project, Pitchfork (http://www.interface21.com/pitchfork), and has recently co-authored Interface21's public Hibernate training course.

One of the most active Spring forum contributor with around 3,700 posts in 2006, Costin is also involved as Project Lead for Spring Modules.

Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 14 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is the author of Spring in Action (now in its second edition) and XDoclet in Action, both published by Manning and is currently writing about OSGi and Spring-DM.

When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 6 birds, and 3 dogs.

Dr David Syer is the technical lead on Spring Batch, the batch processing framework and toolkit from Interface21. He is an experienced, delivery-focused architect and development manager. He has designed and built successful enterprise software solutions using Spring, and implemented them in major financial institutions worldwide. David is known for his clear and informative training style and has deep knowledge and experience with all aspects of real-life usage of the Spring framework. He enjoys creating business value from the application of simple principles to enterprise architecture. David joined Interface21 from a leading risk management software vendor where he worked closely with Interface21 on a number of projects. Recent publications have appeared in Balance Sheet, Operational Risk and Derivatives Technology.

Erwin Vervaet is a software engineer with a keen interest in applying modern IT concepts and tools. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

Erwin has been using Java since its inception and has extensive experience applying it in IT research, e-commerce projects, open source initiatives, industrial software systems and business support applications. He currently works as an independent consultant, running his own software and consultancy company: www.ervacon.com.

Erwin also enjoys teaching and speaking on Java and Spring related subjects. As the originator the Spring Web Flow project, he currently co-leads it's development together with Keith Donald. He also authored the first book entirely dedicated to Spring Web Flow: Working with Spring Web Flow.

Graeme Rocher is the project lead and co-founder of the Grails web application framework. He's a member of the JSR-241 Expert Group which standardizes the Groovy language. Graeme authored the Definitive Guide to Grails for Apress and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, NoFluffJustStuff, JAOO, the Sun TechDays and more. Before founding G2One Inc, Graeme was the CTO of SkillsMatter, a skills transfer company specializing in Open Source technology and agile software development, where Graeme was in charge of the company's courseware development strategy and general technical direction.

Hal Hildebrand arrived on earth some eons ago when his physical essence filtered down from the stars, and he took human form. Lingering for awhile on the plateau of Leng while waiting for the apes to evolve, he eventually mingled among human society, generally without being detected, although the century he spent staked out in a peat bog in Denmark was rather unpleasant and not something he'd care to repeat. Once computers were invented he became involved in distributed systems in the hope that enough insider knowledge would, at the right time, allow him to convince the artificial intelligence in control to bypass electronic security measures on the first translight spacecraft and allow him to return to the stars. This is probably still some time away. Until then he spends his time as an architect at Oracle, working on cracking the Dharma cycle of large scale distributed systems and autonomic control.

Jennifer Hickey is a senior software engineer for SpringSource, the company behind Spring. She holds a master's degree in software engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology. Jennifer specializes in enterprise application management, with a focus on application modeling methodologies and techniques for rapid development and deployment of management agents. Her interests include aspect oriented programming, asynchronous messaging, JMX, and OSGi.

Jennifer is also very interested in improving organizational productivity through testing. In a previous position, she won an excellence award for introducing automated unit, integration, and regression testing into the development process.

Prior to joining Interface21, Jennifer was a principal architect of a large-scale network management system.

Jeremy Grelle is a senior software engineer with SpringSource and the technical lead of the Spring Faces project which provides first-class integration between Spring and Java Server Faces. He is a software artisan with extensive experience in combining server-side Java with the latest web browser technologies to deliver a rich and usable experience for the end user on the web. He has worked heavily with JSF since its initial release and is a member of the JSR-314 Expert Group for JSF 2.0.

Prior to joining SpringSource, Jeremy spent several years crafting large-scale enterprise web applications for the giants of the telecommunications industry. He was a leader in utilizing Spring, JSF, and the latest Ajax techniques to solve a wide variety of problems ranging from inventory management, to low-level network device monitoring, to providing more efficient integration with legacy mainframe systems. He began his career developing e-commerce systems at several web startups where he first became fascinated with bending web browsers to his will and hasn't turned back since.

Jim is a Senior Consultant for SpringSource, and has spent over a decade delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack. His experience ranges from designing back-end enterprise systems for multi-national corporations, to basic infrastructure (eg, committer emeritus for the Apache log4j project), to rich desktop applications (eg, committer for the Spring Rich Client project).

He enjoys working with a wide range of technologies and languages, and speaks at user groups and conferences about the easiest ways to get development tasks done, whether that be specific technologies or methodologies.

John A. Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is a 16 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. He has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides JSR-168 support in the core Spring Framework.

Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring. He is best known in the Spring community for creating Spring Web Flow. At SpringSource, Keith is the lead of the Web Products Team. His team, based in Melbourne, Florida, sustains the development of Spring Web MVC and Web Flow and their associated integrations, and is also responsible for future innovations in the domain of web frameworks.

Since the first Spring Experience in 2005, Keith, with Jay Zimmerman of NoFluffJustStuff Software Symposiums, has served as director of the popular conference series.

Keith is also the principal architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical training on Spring to over 3000 students worldwide.

Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, and retail. He is particularly adept at translating business requirements into technical solutions.

Keith's blog can be found at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/keithd

Lucas Ward is a Java Architect focused on batch architectures within the Innovation and Architecture practice within Accenture. He has been working over the past two years on Accenture's methodology and architecture best practices, in particular regarding the use of open source. Lucas is co-leading the development of Spring Batch, utilizing experiences from multiple batch architecture implementations throughout Accenture.

Mark Fisher is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource and lead of the Spring Integration product. As a core developer for the Spring Framework, he has played a central role in developing the annotation-based configuration features of Spring 2.5. He has also provided consulting and training services for clients across numerous industries throughout North America including several fortune 500 companies.

In addition to the "No Fluff, Just Stuff" symposium tour, Mark speaks regularly at conferences such as The Spring Experience and SpringOne. He has also presented at Java User Groups throughout the United States on various Spring-related topics.

Mark Kralj-Taylor co-leads the Java Toolkits Application Infrastructure group at Morgan Stanley. The group provides Java infrastructure centrally, including open-source libraries, to improve the productivity of Java developers throughout the firm. Mark focuses on technical direction for the group, and how Java is used across the firm, evolving a blend of open-source and in-house libraries, to take best advantage of the ever changing Java landscape, and integrate with the firm's technology environment. Before this Mark worked in application groups, using Java to deliver solutions to the business.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2000, Mark used his Physics background to develop numerical simulations in C++.

Dr. Mark Pollack has worked extensively in the financial sector as an architect and developer on various front office trading systems that involved a mixture of Microsoft and Java technologies. Always interested in best practices and improving the software development process, Mark has been a core Spring (Java) developer since 2003 and founded its Microsoft counterpart, Spring.NET, in 2004 which he continues to lead.

Prior to joining SpringSource, he was a founding partner at CodeStreet, LLC, an independent software vendor in the financial services industry. This year Mark has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the technical community.

Mattias Arthursson is a senior consultant for Jayway, Sweden's leading Java consultancy firm. During his 11 years in the industry he has been working with system development on a wide variety of platforms and technologies, focusing on Java since 2000. Mattias is co-lead of Spring LDAP.

Michael Alford is a Senior Architect for Orbitz Worldwide's online travel commerce platform, with a focus on internationalization, web architecture, concurrency, and resource-oriented architecture. He has been working with Java and e-commerce since 1997 and holds a B.S. in Computer Science (1995) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mik Kersten is the President & CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project, and a committer on the AspectJ projects. While a research scientist at Xerox PARC Mik created the first Aspect-Oriented Programming tool support and implemented AspectJ plug-ins for JBuilder, NetBeans, VisualStudio, and Emacs. Mik created Mylyn and the Task-Focused UI technology while completing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. His passion is building tools that make it more natural and less stressful to work on very large systems.

Mike Esler is a Senior Manager at HSBC, responsible for the product management and product architecture of the framework, tools, and training provided to HSBC's global Java and Cobol development communities. He has a particular interest in developer productivity. Mike holds an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington and expects to complete an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management next year.

Nati is responsible for GigaSpaces' technology roadmap and the direction of GigaSpaces' products as they relate to standards adaptations, architecture, and product design. Nati is also the Head of the Israeli Grid consortium. He has led the development of the first Reverse BID exchange in the Israeli Yellow Pages. He previously worked with IONA, and was responsible for the penetration of their products and technology, to most of the leading ISV's in Israel. Nati is an experienced software engineer, with a strong background in middleware and specifically CORBA and EJB. He has been working for the past ten years with some of the leading Israeli companies, such as ECI, Comverse, BMC, Elisra, Rafael, and Amdocs. Nati holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Coventry University, U.K

Patrick Peralta is a Software Engineer for Oracle, specializing in Coherence. Patrick's software development experience includes implementing Java/J2EE middle tier solutions, web applications, system integrations, and Swing desktop clients. Prior to joining Oracle/Tangosol, Patrick was a Senior Developer at Symantec, working on J2EE and integration systems. He enjoys mentoring others on technology, and he especially enjoys participating in Open Source. Patrick has a BS in computer science from Stetson University in Florida.

Ramnivas Laddad is an Interface21 Principal. He has over a decade of experience in applying his enterprise Java and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) expertise to middleware, design automation, networking, web application, user interface, and security projects.

Ramnivas is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP. He is the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on AOP and AspectJ. His book is highly recommended by leading industry experts for its practical and innovative applications of AOP solving a wide range of real-world problems. Ramnivas is also one of the industry's leading conference speakers, who has given over one hundred talks at conferences such as JavaOne, No Fluff Just Stuff, JavaPolis, and EclipseCon. Ramnivas hosts the Aspectivity blog, where he shares his thoughts on AOP and related topics. He is an active member of the AspectJ community and has been involved with AOP since its early form.

Ramnivas’ role at SpringSource includes working with the Spring community and SpringSource clients to help them leverage the power of AOP. He is currently involved in interesting work combining ideas in domain-driven design with AOP and DI. He is also working on creating reusable aspects to simplify development of typical Spring-based projects. His work at SpringSource is expected to drive major new innovations atop the Spring 2.0 platform.

Ramnivas lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Rob is the author of five books, including Pro Spring, a widely acclaimed, comprehensive resource on the Spring Framework.

Rob has been a core developer of the Spring Framework since June 2004 and currently leads the JMX and AOP efforts. In addition to his work on the Spring core, Rob leads the Spring Modules project, which is working to provide Spring integration for a variety of popular useful open source tools.

He co-founded UK-based software company Cake Solutions Limited in May 2001, having spent the previous two years working as Lead Developer for a successful dotcom start-up.

Rob is a member of the JCP and is involved in the JSR-255 Expert Group for JMX 2.0. Rob is a software consultant specializing in delivering high-performance, highly scalable enterprise applications. He is an experienced architect with a particular flair for understanding and solving complex design issues.

With a thorough knowledge of both Java and .NET, Rob has successfully deployed projects across both platforms. He has extensive experience across a variety of sectors, in particular retail and government.

Rossen is an experienced software developer with a diverse background in enterprise application development. He acquired his architectural vision and expertise while consulting for top-tier investment banks, Fortune 500 companies, and brand name e-commerce web sites. He has developed applications in sometimes very complex domains.

After starting his career writing Banyan VINES directory services software for customers with global, distributed networks in C and C++ Rossen switched to consulting and became a Sun-certified Java programmer in 1998. Having used a variety of J2EE architectures since, he came to know and use the Spring framework and Spring MVC on several commercial projects in addition to adopting AspectJ from the early days of AJDT.

Rossen can be found online frequenting the Spring Web Flow, the AOP and other Spring Framework forums. He thrives on finding simplicity and bringing clarity to complex problems. He is also believer in agile values and practices as well as an active member of the Agile Alliance.

Shay is the founder of the Compass open source project, a unique solution enabling search capabilities into any application model. He started working on mission critical real time C/C++ systems, later moving to Java (and never looked back). Within the Java world, Shay has worked on a propriety implementation of a distributed rule engine(RETE) server, your typical Java based web projects, and messaging based projects within the financial industry. Currently, Shay is a System Architect at GigaSpaces, GigaSpaces provides a single platform for end-to-end scalability of high performance and stateful distributed applications. GigaSpaces’ unique approach enables developers to Write their business logic Once and then seamlessly Scale out the application linearly Anywhere.

Ted Goddard is a Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and is the technical lead for the JavaServer Faces Ajax framework, ICEfaces. Following a PhD in Mathematics from Emory University that answered open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, he proceeded with post-doctoral research in component and web-based collaborative technologies. He has held positions at Sun Microsystems, AudeSi Technologies, and Wind River Systems, and currently particpates in the Servlet and JavaServer Faces expert groups.

Thomas has been a developer on the Spring Framework project since early 2003, contributing to enhancements of the JDBC framework portion.

Thomas currently works as a consultant for SpringSource specializing in Java EE and database projects. He has been involved with developing database applications, both as a DBA and as an application developer for over 20 years, using a wide variety of languages and databases.

Thomas is co-author of "Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework" together with Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, and Colin Sampaleanu, published by Wrox in 2005.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. He is author of ".NET Gotchas" (O'Reilly), coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Wayne has over 20 years of experience creating, developing, and deploying enterprise architectures systems for some of the largest organizations in finance, telecom, products and government.

Wayne is a senior technology manager within Accenture and a member of the Innovation and Architecture / Custom Solutions Architecture practice. In this capacity, he has been involved in the implementation of many enterprise applications including case management, customer service, web commerce, point of sale, call center, transportation operations and government programs. He is experienced in product development life cycle, bringing a solution from concept to production and operation.

Wayne's career over the past 8 years has had special emphasis on J2EE architectures with WebSphere/WebLogic focused on configuration, deployment, and performance. Wayne has had a history with object databases and has been a strong advocate for ORM solutions including TopLink and Hibernate. He's been a speaker at JBOSS World 2005 and in many internal Accenture architecture workshops.

Most recently, Wayne has been involved with a global architecture team involved with re-defining Java architecture based on open source and Spring's lightweight frameworks. One of the most interesting of those frameworks has been the introduction of a Spring based Java Batch framework based on years of experience with large, high performing batch solutions.