Our lineup of experienced practitioners

John Allspaw

Manager, Technical Operations, Flickr.com

John has worked in systems operations for over ten years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Friendster.com and Flickr.com, where he currently manages operations.

Wayne Ariola

Vice President, Corporate Development, Parasoft Corporation

Wayne Ariola is vice president of corporate development at Parasoft. He oversees the company's business development team as well as the enterprise test team. In this capacity, Wayne is responsible for product strategy that leverages customer input from the over 10,000 Parasoft customers worldwide. Wayne brings more than 12 years of strategic consulting experience within the high technology and software development industries. Prior to joining Parasoft, Wayne was responsible for corporate development for Fasturn Inc., a company he helped to start. He was a principal consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was recognized as a leader in the strategic change practice. Wayne joined Parasoft in March of 2003. He has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an M.B.A. from Indiana University.

Artur Bergman

Operations Architect, Six Apart / Livejournal

Arthur Bergman is operations architect at Six Apart. He oscillates between operations and system development depending on where he can have the most fun. He believes in measuring everything so you can react intelligently and that every backend engineer should spend some time living the neverending story of an operations engineer. In previous lives, he has worked on stock exchanges and a large photo website for a huge camera manufacturer.

Jon C. Bostrom

Senior Chief Architect — Java, Nokia Inc.

Jon Bostrom is senior director of Java in technology platforms for Nokia, which he joined in 2003 as chief Java architect in Nokia mobile software. Jon has over 23 years of systems experience, including designing and implementing large-scale, object-oriented, distributed applications. Jon is responsible for defining and driving the vision and architecture for the mobile end-to-end Java environment and has focused on defining the technology and creating the partnerships that will foster the next generation of Java-enabled mobile devices. Prior to joining Nokia, Jon was chief architect and a key driver of Sun's mobility technology solutions group, working to define the end-to-end architecture for Java technology solutions in 2.5 and 3G environments. Jon was the Sun lead architect for SprintPCS Vision and the lead architect for DoCoMo i-Mode Java. He was the lead designer for Java software provisioning for wireless and the creator of the "Java Service Vending Machine" concept. Jon has advised most of the top manufacturers and operators around the world on wireless data services, and he is also one of the original members of the Jini technology team, having been instrumental in the Jini technology launch and formation of the Jini technology community effort. During his time with Sun, Jon won two Chairman's awards for technology innovation and filed patents in Java mobile security, interface design and content handling. He has also been a key contributor to JavaOne and has spoken as the keynote at many software events across the world, and he is on the board of directors of the Open Services Getaway Initiative (OSGi), co-leads the Mobile Expert Group, and is co-spec lead for the Java Community Process (JCP)'s JSR 232, "Mobile Operational Management."

Ryan Breen

Vice President, Technology, Gomez Inc.

Ryan Breen is the vice president of technology at Gomez, a provider of Internet application performance information. After graduating from Duke University with degrees in computer science and economics in 2000, he led a team creating a suite of Web performance management technologies, including a Java-based, Web browser emulation platform. Using these tools, Ryan has worked with hundreds of top Internet companies to measure and manage the performance of their Web applications. As more customers have moved to Ajax technologies, Ryan has helped them define performance best practices applicable to the new development style.

Robert Brewin

Co-CTO, Sun Software, Sun Microsystems

Robert Brewin is a Sun distinguished engineer and co-CTO of Sun Software. He is responsible for developer products and application platforms, which include the Java platform, mobility, enterprise software and business integration products. Within this role, some of his key areas of responsibility include Sun's ever expanding role in Web 2.0 technologies and generally improving the developer experience, alignment and integration of our platforms, technologies and tools in a next-generation Web world. Bob will be bringing his extensive customer- and developer-focused experience to bear, as prior to taking on this new role he was the chief architect for Sun's developer tools portfolio, where he was a principal driver behind a number of key initiatives and projects. These projects included strategic enhancements to the award-winning NetBeans IDE, architectural changes and alignment of the Studio family of tools and add-ons with NetBeans. Robert was also the visionary behind the design, creation and delivery of the revolutionary Java Studio Creator product. Prior to joining Sun over 13 years ago, Robert worked at Taumetric Corporation, a leading supplier of compiler technology to many industry-leading companies.

DL Byron

Principal, Textura Design, Inc.

Byron is the Principal of Textura Design, Inc. He first stole Zeldman's code in 1997, then lived dotcoms, dotcom crashes, Clip-n-Seal, and now he is evangelizing Standards-based design, writing a New Riders book about blogging, and speaking at conferences. With more than 11 years of experience, Byron is an expert blogger, web designer and developer. An entrepreneur and an inventor, he also consults with clients, co-founded the Blog Business Summit, and publishes a network of successful blogs, including one of the first business blogs.

Miguel Castro

Consultant and Trainer

Miguel Castro is an independent consultant and trainer who specializes in building .NET solutions. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, VSLive! conference speaker, contributor to CoDe Magazine and DevSource.com, as well as an active blogger, and he has been a software developer for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic, in fact), Miguel jumped on .NET as soon as the first public beta was released and has provided .NET solutions for clients in a variety of industries, including financial markets, pharmaceuticals, trucking, insurance, food distribution and others. He considers himself to be a .NET developer and architect and has equal love for both Visual Basic and C#. Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups and code camps around the country, where he focuses on preaching and evangelizing the world of custom WebControl development, with hopes of increasing the numbers that tackle this underused technology. He has also been featured on the Internet radio talk shows ".NET Rocks," ".NET Rocks-TV," Microsoft's ARCast (Architecture Podcast) and The Polymorphic Podcast. Miguel contributes a lot of the components he develops to the development community, which can be found along with his blog at http://www.dotnetdude.com.

William Cava

CTO, Ektron Inc.

As chief technology officer, Bill Cava is responsible for guiding Ektron's technology direction, including product strategy, new product development and engineering practices. With more than a decade of experience, Cava brings his passion for Internet technology, software architecture, and user-centric interface design to Ektron. Prior to joining Ektron, Bill served as a team leader and software architect at Lycos, one of the Internet's first search engines. There he led numerous high-profile projects, including a large-scale distributed advertising content management system still used across well-known sites such as Lycos and Wired. As an undergraduate at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Bill pursued degrees in computer science, Italian literature, and fine art, and is currently finishing a Master of Science degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Christophe Coenraets

Senior Technology Evangelist, Adobe Systems

Christophe Coenraets is senior evangelist for Adobe's new developer-centric Rich Internet Applications initiative. Christophe started working with Java in 1996 and became the technical evangelist for Powersoft's (which became part of Sybase) Java and Internet Application Division. Christophe then joined Macromedia as the technical evangelist for JRun, the company's J2EE application server. In this position, Christophe started working on Rich Internet Applications and on ways of integrating Flash front ends with J2EE back ends. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last ten years.

Bryan Cole

Load Testing Subject Matter Expert, Compuware

Bryan Cole is a load testing subject matter expert with Compuware Corporation. Bryan has a degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo.

John Crupi

CTO, JackBe

John Crupi is the CTO of JackBe Corporation, where he is entrusted with understanding market forces and business drivers to drive JackBe's technical vision and strategy. John has 20 years experience in OO and enterprise-distributed computing. Previously, John spent eight years with Sun Microsystems, serving as a distinguished engineer and CTO for Sun's Enterprise Web Services Practice. John is coauthor of the highly popular Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies (Prentice Hall Ptr 2004), has written many articles for various magazines, and is a well-known speaker around the globe. He is a frequent blogger and was selected to join the international advisory board for an industry trade journal. John was also named as a member of Software Development Magazine's dream team.

Scott Dietzen, Ph.D.

President and Chief Technology Officer, Zimbra, Inc.

Scott Dietzen is widely credited with helping put together the J2EE standard, launching the Web application server category, and launching the Java Community Process (JCP). Prior to Zimbra, Scott was CTO of BEA Systems, where he was the principal architect of the technology strategy for the WebLogic product family.

Erica Douglass

Simpli Hosting, Inc.

Erica Douglass is a seasoned Web hosting veteran, having navigated the Web hosting industry herself since 1997, first as a shared hosting customer and then moving to colocating her own servers at several different datacenters around the country. She decided to start a Web hosting company, Simpli Hosting, Inc., in 2001. Simpli serves several hundred dedicated server and colocation customers worldwide.

James Farley

Technical Specialist, Compuware

James Farley is a technical specialist in quality technologies for Compuware Corporation. James has a B.S. in physics and an M.S. in computer science.

Marina Fisher

Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Marina Fisher is a staff engineer for Sun Microsystems, specializing in SOA and .NET-J2EE interoperability. She has extensive experience designing, implementing and deploying large-scale enterprise systems to Fortune 500 customers and is the coauthor of the book, Java EE and .Net Interoperability: Integration Strategies, Patterns and Best Practices (Prentice Hall 2006).

Chiara Fox

Senior Information Architect, Adaptive Path

Chiara Fox is a senior information architect for Adaptive Path. Chiara has developed successful information architectures for intranets, informational Web sites and e-commerce sites. She has worked with Fortune 100 and 500 companies such as PeopleSoft, AT&T, Square D, L.L. Bean and Hewlett-Packard.

Jesse James Garrett

Cofounder and Director of User Experience Strategy, Adaptive Path

Jesse James Garrett is cofounder and director of user experience strategy of Adaptive Path, a product strategy firm based in San Francisco. Jesse's tools and concepts have been published in more than a dozen languages and his book The Elements of User Experience is considered one of the seminal works on user-centered design. He is internationally recognized as a leading user experience thinker and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week. In 2006, Jesse received WIRED Magazine's Rave Award for Technology for coining the term Ajax.

Ted Goddard

Senior Software Architect, ICESoft Technologies Inc.

Ted Goddard is senior software architect at ICESoft Technologies Inc., where he develops a framework for rich Web applications with Ajax. Ted received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1996, answering open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, and then he proceeded with postdoctoral research in component and Web-based collaborative technologies. Following work at Java Software, Sun Microsystems, he was a service management and XML architect at Wind River, participating in the IETF NETCONF design team.

Christian Gross

Speaker, Mentor, and Author

Christian Gross is a speaker, mentor, and author specializing in Internet applications programmed using Ajax, SOA, and Web services (for example, SOAP and REST). He has authored two popular Ajax/REST books, Ajax Patterns and Best Practices (Apress 2006), and Ajax and REST Recipes (Apress 2006). These days he spends his time writing Ajax/Web services applications that process large amounts of data in near real- time situations.

Kevin Hakman

Director and Cofounder TIBCO General Interface, TIBCO

Kevin Hakman is the director of product marketing for TIBCO General Interface, the award-winning Ajax and rich Internet application framework and toolkit. Kevin pioneered Ajax in the enterprise, cofounding General Interface in 2001. Since that time General Interface (GI) has been powering Web applications that look, feel and perform like desktop applications, but run in the browser at Fortune 500 and US government organizations. General Interface was also the first to use its own toolkit to provide full visual tooling for Ajax when it released its 2.0 version in 2003. TIBCO acquired General Interface in 2004 to extend its vision for service-oriented applications to the end user. Kevin is a contributor to several trade publications.

Ask Bjoern Hansen

Develooper LLC

Ask Bjoern Hansen is a software developer and consultant focused on Perl, Apache, Linux and other open source technologies. He has worked with Perl for more than eight years, building large and small systems in Perl, including mod_perl systems serving thousands of requests per second. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been building and managing much of the perl.org community infrastructure since 1999.

Cal Henderson

Engineering Manager, Flickr

Cal Henderson has been a Web applications developer for far too long and should really start looking for a serious job. Originally from England, he currently works at Yahoo! Inc. in Sunnyvale, California as the engineering manager for the photosharing service Flickr. Before working at Flickr, Cal was the technical director of special Web projects at Emap, a UK media company. By night, he works for several Web sites and communities, including the creative community B3TA [www.b3ta.com] and his personal site, iamcal.com. In his spare time, he writes Windows software, develops Web publishing tools and writes occasional articles about Web application development and security. In 2006, Cal wrote Building Scalable Websites, published by O'Reilly Media Inc.

John Herren

Developer Evangelist, Zend Technologies

John Herren is a developer evangelist for Zend Technologies and a freelance technical consultant who focuses on Web applications. Along with founding neat experiments like TagCloud.com, John served as senior project architect at Ionzoft Inc., and he cofounded what is now the largest Web development firm in Mississippi. He is a Zend-certified engineer, a published author of Linux certification study material, and is really, really close to converting his first patent. John enjoys using open source software like PHP to bend the Web into exciting new chimeras of hyperlinked goodness.

Dion Hinchcliffe

President and CTO, Hinchcliffe & Company

Dion Hinchcliffe is Founder and Chief Technology Officer for the Enterprise Web 2.0 advisory and consulting firm Hinchcliffe & Company, based in Alexandria, Virginia. A veteran of software development, Dion has been working for two decades with leading-edge methods to accelerate project schedules and raise the bar for software quality. He has extensive practical experience with enterprise technologies and he consults, speaks and writes prolifically on IT and software architecture. Dion still works in the trenches with enterprise IT clients in the federal government and Fortune 1000. He also is the creator of and instructor for Web 2.0 University, which provides Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Ajax premier training events for private corporations and the general public. He also speaks and publishes about Web 2.0 and SOA; he is working on a book about Web 2.0 for Addison-Wesley and is Editor-in-Chief of the upcoming Real World Ajax. He is also currently Editor-in-Chief of the Web 2.0 Journal and AjaxWorld Magazine.

Alan K'necht

President, K'nechtology Inc.

Alan K'necht is president of K'nechtology Inc., one of Toronto's Leading SEO, SEM and Web analytics consulting firms servicing organizations from Canada's Fortune 500 to small entrepreneurial businesses. K'necht is an internationally published columnist and has spoken at conferences throughout North America and Australia including past Fawcette conferences. He has been working in the Web development field for over 12 years.

Nate Koechley

Senior Engineer and Designer, Yahoo! Inc.

One of the first web developers at Yahoo!, Nate Koechley has been instrumental in creating and defining the practice of Web development and front-end engineering. Through evolving roles as developer, manager, and evangelist on both the development and user experience and design sides of the company, Nate has championed modern standards-based Web development, a commitment to accessibility, code and pattern library creation, and open-source and blogging initiatives. Through it all, Nate focuses on the intersection and coordination of design and development, helping teams understand "why" in addition to "how". Nate speaks worldwide about the intersections of Design and Technology, and blogs occasionally at http://nate.koechley.com/blog/.

Christen Krogh

Vice President, Engineering, Opera Software

Christen Krogh has been vice president of engineering at Opera Software since 2001. Christen is responsible for all software development at Opera. Before joining Opera, he worked as research director at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics and as business developer at TV 2 Interactiv. His previous work experience includes assignments as a research scientist at various research institutes and as an adviser and group leader. Christen has given numerous lectures on a wide set of subjects and is an expert on such topics as Opera the company, its products and philosophy; browser products and platforms; browser technology; emerging technology and business models and their future; browser security and what can go wrong; mobile browsing; browser development; and software engineering. Christen holds an interdisciplinary doctorate degree from the University of Oslo, and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Glasgow University.

Chris Lea

Director of Technology, Media Temple

Chris Lea is the Director of Technology for (mt) Media Temple, an Inc. 500 Web hosting company in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to this, he was a freelance software developer and author who co-wrote four books on the PHP programming language and coded applications for a variety of online properties in the entertainment and creative spaces. He received a B.S. in Physics with Highest Honors and distinction from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Lance Loveday

CEO, Closed Loop Marketing

Lance Loveday is the Founder and CEO of Closed Loop Marketing, an online marketing company dedicated to helping clients understand and maximize the return on their Web investments. Drawing on 10 years of experience in user psychology, economics, usability testing and design, Lance works directly with companies like Hewlett-Packard, InsWeb, SalesForce.com and Quicken Loans to create end-to-end marketing campaigns with measurable ROI. Lance is a regular speaker at industry conferences and produces custom training seminars on the topics of online marketing strategy, increasing online conversion, search engine marketing, usability consulting, online lead generation, information architecture and ROI analysis (closed loop marketing). With a knack (and a passion) for making online marketing exciting and engaging for novice and expert alike, Lance is currently working on a New Riders book on conversion marketing and Web design, due out in 2007.

Mark Lucovsky

Technical Director Engineering, Google, Inc.

Mark Lucovsky is technical director of engineering at Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. Mark has held this position at Google since November 2004. Before joining Google, Mark was a distinguished engineer at Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corporation. While at Microsoft, Mark was a founding member and principal architect of the 32-bit Windows team, where he designed and coded major portions of the Windows operating system. Prior to Microsoft, Mark designed and coded operating system internals for a variety of UNIX and proprietary operating system-based minicomputers, minisupercomputers, mainframes, PCs and workstations.

Joe Marini

Group Product Manager for VSIP, Microsoft

Joe Marini has been active in the Web and graphics industry for more than 15 years. He was an original member of the Dreamweaver engineering team at Macromedia, and has also held prominent roles in creating products such as QuarkXPress, mFactory's mTropolis, and Extensis QX-Tools. He is a regularly featured speaker at industry conferences and has authored or co-authored several books on Web development. His book The Document Object Model is widely regarded as the definitive resource for working with the DOM.

Steve Mulder

Senior Consultant, Molecular

Steve Mulder is a Senior Consultant in the User Experience group at Molecular, an Internet consulting firm in Boston. He has delivered successful user experiences for clients such as Morgan Stanley, PC Connection, Estee Lauder, 3M and Lycos. Through his expertise in information architecture, he translates knowledge about customers into effective features, site structure, navigation and search systems. Through his expertise in usability, he applies testing techniques and best practices to ensure that the end product actually works.

Greg Murray

Ajax Architect, Sun Microsystems

Greg Murray was appointed as Ajax Architect for Sun Microsystems, and he is deeply involved in the Ajax movement through his participation in the OpenAjax Alliance and contributions to the Dojo Foundation's open-source JavaScript toolkit. Within Sun, Greg leads a grassroots effort advancing the integration of client-side scripting with Java technologies and is the creator and principal architect of Project jMaki. jMaki uses the best parts of Java and the best parts of JavaScript to deliver rich, Ajax-style widgets through a single, easy-to-use interface that accesses components from popular widget libraries such as Dojo, Script.aculo.us, Yahoo's UI Library, Spry, DHTML Goodies and Google's Web Toolkit. Greg contributed recently to the design and development of the Ajax-based Java Pet Store 2.0 Demo and helped create Java BluePrints solutions for using Ajax with Java technologies.

Sarah Nelson

Design Strategist, Adaptive Path

Sarah Nelson is a design strategist for Adaptive Path. She has ten years of experience in interactive media, designing online experiences for both corporate and not-for-profit organizations. Clients include The New York City Opera, AOL, Nintendo and the Federal Home Loan Bank.

Joshua Porter

Director of Web Development, User Interface Engineering

Joshua Porter is the Director of Web Development at User Interface Engineering. A leading member of UIE's research team, he has written extensively on such topics as Web 2.0, Ajax, Web standards and on-site search systems. Josh shares many of his design thoughts and commentaries on his personal blog: Bokardo.com. Josh is responsible for overseeing the development of the User Interface Engineering's Web sites and managing UIE's team of Web developers. He received his Master's degree in Information Technology and his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He brings with him extensive experience and knowledge in the areas of human factors, usability testing and Web site design and development.

Peter Rodgers

President, 1060 Research

Peter Rodgers is a cofounder of 1060 Research and a co-architect of 1060 NetKernel. Prior to forming 1060 Research, Peter was the leader of Hewlett-Packard's Dexter research program. At HP, he held a number of positions including senior research scientist and senior strategist to HP's mobile computing division. In 1999, Rodgers founded HP's Information Commerce research program. He holds a first-class BSc in physics from St. Andrews University and a Ph.D. in solid-state quantum mechanics from the University of Nottingham.

Sanjay Sarathy

CEO, Above All Software

Sanjay Sarathy was promoted to Above All Software's chief executive officer in October 2006, after serving as VP of marketing since early 2005. Sanjay is responsible for setting the company's strategic direction and for the day-to-day leadership and management of the company. Sanjay brings more than 14 years of diverse technology experience, including specific expertise in the areas of Web services, product and go-to-market strategies, and community development. Prior to joining Above All, Sanjay was Vice President of Marketing at Qualys, a leading network security provider. Sanjay also spent over six years at Sun Microsystems where he held various marketing leadership positions, most recently heading Sun Developer Network, for which he managed marketing, program and engineering teams working on Sun's developer program. He also led product marketing for Sun's Web, application and integration server lines. Prior to Sun, Sanjay managed market development and platform marketing for NetDynamics, an early pioneer in the application server space. Sanjay has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

David Seymour

Electronic Advertising Manager, Fawcette Technical Publications, Inc.

David Seymour is the Electronic Advertising Manager for Fawcette Technical Publications and has worked for seven years on both sides of the advertising fence: publisher and agency. At FTP, David manages all aspects of post sale advertising on FTPOnline including adserving, reporting and client relations.

Paul Sheriff

President, PDSA Inc.

Paul D. Sheriff is the president of PDSA Inc., a Microsoft partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with Developer Days and several of their large events each year. Paul has authored five books on .NET and two on SharePoint in the form of eBooks that can be purchased at the PDSA Web site at www.pdsa.com/ebooks.

Chris Shiflett

Principal, OmniTI

Chris Shiflett is a principal of OmniTI, where he leads the web application security practice. He is a leader in the PHP community — a popular speaker at industry conferences worldwide, the founder of the PHP Security Consortium, a contributor to the Zend Framework, and an author of the Zend PHP Certification. A prolific writer, Shiflett is the author of the critically-acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly) and HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams). His writing has also appeared in numerous articles for php|architect and PHP Magazine, as well as a number of other popular books including Programming PHP (O'Reilly) and PHP Cookbook (O'Reilly).

Jared Spool

Founding Partner, User Interface Engineering

Jared is among the world's most effective and knowledgeable communicators on the subject of usability. He has guided the research agenda and built User Interface Engineering into the largest research organization of its kind in the world. He's been working in the field of usability and design since 1978 — before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers.

Jared works with the research teams at the company, helps clients understand how to solve their design problems, explains to reporters and industry analysts what the current state of design is all about, and is a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year. The conference chair and keynote speaker at the annual User Interface Conference, he is also on the faculty of the Tufts University Gordon Institute.

Peter Varhol

Editor in Chief, Fawcette Technical Publications Inc.

Peter Varhol is editor in chief of FTPOnline and a frequent contributor to technology publications. He has graduate degrees in applied mathematics and computer science, and he has held leadership positions in industry and academia.

David Verba

Director of Technology, Adaptive Path

David Verba is Director of Technology for Adaptive Path, a leading user experience company. His many years of technical leadership and architecture experience cover a broad range of projects and strategies. David brings 15 years of development experience with both open source and more traditional technologies to Adaptive Path. In addition to the typical mix including Sun, Java and Oracle, he has many years of involvement with a variety of open source approaches including linux, perl, apache, mysql, postgres and now ruby and ruby on rails. He launched the WholePeople.com initiative as part of Whole Foods Inc. and was a core developer for CodeZoo.com, an O'Reilly and Associates Web product. He also provided necessary technical leadership to the Measure Map product acquired by Google.

Tim Walling

Software Architect, Allurent Inc.

Tim Walling is a software architect at Allurent and is responsible for developing data-driven commerce applications for consumers and business users. Tim has more than six years of experience in developing Web-based applications with knowledge in various fields including usability, interface design, information architecture and rich Internet applications (RIA). As a contractor, Tim worked on several projects for clients such as iRobot, Fidelity, Equifax and MINI USA, including the MINI USA configurator redesign/relaunch, which has been featured as an Adobe RIA case study. He holds a BA in Biology from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.

Coach Wei

Chairman and CTO, Nexaweb Technologies

Coach Wei is chairman and CTO of Nexaweb, an enterprise Web 2.0 software company. Coach founded Nexaweb in 2000 and served as CEO until summer 2003. Before founding Nexaweb, Coach architected and designed enterprise software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. As a graduate researcher at MIT, Coach developed software and hardware systems for nondestructive evaluation as well as signal/image processing algorithms. Coach was a finalist in the 1999 MIT $50K entrepreneurship competition and holds several U.S. patents. Coach holds an M.S. in information technology from MIT. Over the last ten years, Coach has been working on the vision for the next generation Web. He wrote one of the first Ajax-based word processors from 1997 to 1999. He founded Nexaweb in 2000 for enterprise Web 2.0, initiated the Apache XAP incubation project for declarative Ajax, and has been actively promoting open source and open standards via W3C and OpenAjax Alliance as well as maintaining a Web 2.0 blog.

Cal Henderson

Engineering Manager, Flickr

Cal Henderson has been a Web applications developer for far too long and should really start looking for a serious job. Originally from England, he currently works at Yahoo! Inc. in Sunnyvale, California as the engineering manager for the photosharing service Flickr. Before working at Flickr, Cal was the technical director of special Web projects at Emap, a UK media company. By night, he works for several Web sites and communities, including the creative community B3TA [www.b3ta.com] and his personal site, iamcal.com. In his spare time, he writes Windows software, develops Web publishing tools and writes occasional articles about Web application development and security. In 2006, Cal wrote Building Scalable Websites, published by O'Reilly Media Inc.

Jim Heid

Contributing Editor, MacWorld

Jim Heid is one of the most experienced technology writers and instructors in the world. His 24-year career began at the dawn of the personal computer revolution, when he quit his job as a typographer to become technical editor of Kilobaud, one of the first computer magazines. He's been online since 1980, when he fired up a 300-baud modem and logged onto The Source, an early online service.

Since 1998, Jim has served as Conference Chair for over a dozen Thunder Lizard conferences, and has spoken to thousands of Web professionals on subjects ranging from typography to streaming media. As Conference Chair, he is responsible for planning the editorial scope of each event, recruiting speakers, and planning session content.

Jim has been a Contributing Editor and columnist for Macworld magazine since 1984, specializing in digital media topics ranging from Web design to DVD authoring. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, PC World, and Internet World, and has taught at the University of Hawaii, the Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine, and at dozens of conferences and industry events in between.

Terrence O'Donnell

Senior Editor, FTPOnline

Terrence O'Donnell is editor, Java Pro, and senior editor, FTPOnline. Terry has been on the editorial staffs of several FTP publications, including XML Magazine, XML and Web Services Magazine, Enterprise Architect, and WebLogic Pro as well as the partner publication The Architecture Journal (a Microsoft Corporation publication). He has also served as co-chair for FTP's Enterprise Architect Summit and Java Pro Live! conferences.

Peter Varhol

Editor in Chief, Fawcette Technical Publications Inc.

Peter Varhol is editor in chief of FTPOnline and a frequent contributor to technology publications. He has graduate degrees in applied mathematics and computer science, and he has held leadership positions in industry and academia.