Roland Barcia

Kyle Brown is a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Emerging Technologies with IBM Software Services and Support for WebSphere. He has 20 years of experience in designing and architecting large-scale systems. In his role as a DE, he is responsible for helping customers adopt emerging technologies, specifically cloud technologies and services-oriented approaches. He specializes in developing and promoting best practices approaches to designing large-scale systems using SOA, Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), and the IBM WebSphere product family. He is a best-selling author and regular conference speaker, as well as an internationally recognized expert in patterns, JEE, and object technology.

Roland Barcia is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for the Mobile and WebSphere Foundation for Software Group Lab Services. Roland is responsible for technical thought leadership and strategy, practice technical vitality, and technical enablement. He works with many enterprise clients on mobile strategy and implementations. He is the coauthor of four books and has published more than 50 articles and papers on topics such as mobile technologies, IBM MobileFirst, Java Persistence, Ajax, REST, JavaServer Faces, and messaging technologies. He frequently presents at conferences and to customers on various technologies. Roland has spent the past 16 years implementing middleware systems on various platforms, including Sockets, CORBA, Java EE, SOA, REST, web, and mobile platforms. He has a master’s degree in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Karl Bishop is a Product Manager with the IBM Worklight team. He currently works with the IBM Worklight Product Design team, focusing on developer experience. Before that, Karl spent many years working within the IBM Software Services for WebSphere group. His technical focus has been mobile app development, HTML5, Web 2.0, and JavaScript toolkits. Karl has worked for IBM for more than 16 years. He previously spent another dozen years honing his geek credentials at another computer company in California. Karl currently works out of his house, hidden away in the Sandhills near Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Matthew Perrins is an Executive IT Specialist and the lead architect for the BlueMix Mobile Backend as a Service Client SDK. He is the technical lead for IBM Software Services for Mobile for Europe, which is focused on delivering first-of-their-kind mobile solutions for IBM clients. He has worked for IBM since 1989 and has spent a significant amount of time designing and building Java-based enterprise solutions based on WebSphere.

Kulvir Singh Bhogal

Roland Barcia is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Lead Web 2.0 Architect within IBM Software Services for WebSphere®. He is the coauthor of the book IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration. He has published over 40 articles and papers on topics such as Java™ Persistence, Ajax, REST, JavaServer Faces, and Messaging Technologies. He frequently presents at conferences and customers on various technologies. He has spent the past 10 years implementing middleware systems on various platforms, including Sockets, CORBA, Java EE, SOA, and most recently the Web 2.0[nd]based platform called Project Zero. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Roland maintains a blog called “Web 2.0 and Middleware” (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/barcia).

Geoffrey M. Hambrick is a Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Software Services for WebSphere Enablement Team, whose mission is to help develop and disseminate best practices for using IBM WebSphere runtimes, tools, and technologies. Geoff has long been a pioneer in the area of Distributed Object Technology, and was involved in the development of various standards, like the Object Management Group CORBA Object Services and the Enterprise JavaBeans specifications. Geoff has engaged with numerous clients and is often asked to present at conferences throughout the world. Geoff is the author of the IBM developerWorks® column “The EJB Advocate,” which describes various best practices patterns for using EJB technologies, especially entity bean components. Geoff's current focus is in pattern authoring tools that can be used to automate application of best practices. He and Chris Gerken invented the Design Pattern Toolkit, which extended the Eclipse Java Emitter Template standard and has helped make Pattern Based Engineering a practical reality.

Kyle Brown is a Distinguished Engineer with IBM Software Services and Support. He is a coauthor or contributor to several books, including Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere and Enterprise Integration Patterns. He is a well-known authority on patterns, and has been a past chair of the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) Conference. Kyle was one of the coauthors of one of the first papers on patterns of object-relational mapping, "Crossing Chasms," which was published in Pattern Languages of Program Design 2. In his day job, Kyle helps IBM's customers adopt emerging technologies, and teaches best practices for using IBM's WebSphere family of products.

Robert R. Peterson is a Senior Managing Consultant for IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He travels the world implementing strategic proof of concept projects for future IBM software systems. He has published numerous technical books and papers, is a frequent conference speaker, and has filed several US Patents for enterprise systems. You can visit his website at http://juzzam.org/PersonalSite/.

Kulvir Singh Bhogal works as a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM Software Services for WebSphere, devising and implementing WebSphere-centric, SOA solutions at customer sites across the nation. He has more than a hundred patents filed in a myriad of technology areas. Kulvir has written for numerous publications, including JavaPro Magazine, IBM developerWorks, O'Reilly Media, Java Developer's Journal, DevX, InformIT, and WebSphere Advisor Magazine. He is also a frequent presenter at numerous technology conferences.

Kyle Brown

Roland Barcia is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Lead Web 2.0 Architect within IBM Software Services for WebSphere®. He is the coauthor of the book IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration. He has published over 40 articles and papers on topics such as Java™ Persistence, Ajax, REST, JavaServer Faces, and Messaging Technologies. He frequently presents at conferences and customers on various technologies. He has spent the past 10 years implementing middleware systems on various platforms, including Sockets, CORBA, Java EE, SOA, and most recently the Web 2.0[nd]based platform called Project Zero. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Roland maintains a blog called “Web 2.0 and Middleware” (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/barcia).

Geoffrey M. Hambrick is a Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Software Services for WebSphere Enablement Team, whose mission is to help develop and disseminate best practices for using IBM WebSphere runtimes, tools, and technologies. Geoff has long been a pioneer in the area of Distributed Object Technology, and was involved in the development of various standards, like the Object Management Group CORBA Object Services and the Enterprise JavaBeans specifications. Geoff has engaged with numerous clients and is often asked to present at conferences throughout the world. Geoff is the author of the IBM developerWorks® column “The EJB Advocate,” which describes various best practices patterns for using EJB technologies, especially entity bean components. Geoff's current focus is in pattern authoring tools that can be used to automate application of best practices. He and Chris Gerken invented the Design Pattern Toolkit, which extended the Eclipse Java Emitter Template standard and has helped make Pattern Based Engineering a practical reality.

Kyle Brown is a Distinguished Engineer with IBM Software Services and Support. He is a coauthor or contributor to several books, including Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere and Enterprise Integration Patterns. He is a well-known authority on patterns, and has been a past chair of the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) Conference. Kyle was one of the coauthors of one of the first papers on patterns of object-relational mapping, "Crossing Chasms," which was published in Pattern Languages of Program Design 2. In his day job, Kyle helps IBM's customers adopt emerging technologies, and teaches best practices for using IBM's WebSphere family of products.

Robert R. Peterson is a Senior Managing Consultant for IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He travels the world implementing strategic proof of concept projects for future IBM software systems. He has published numerous technical books and papers, is a frequent conference speaker, and has filed several US Patents for enterprise systems. You can visit his website at http://juzzam.org/PersonalSite/.

Kulvir Singh Bhogal works as a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM Software Services for WebSphere, devising and implementing WebSphere-centric, SOA solutions at customer sites across the nation. He has more than a hundred patents filed in a myriad of technology areas. Kulvir has written for numerous publications, including JavaPro Magazine, IBM developerWorks, O'Reilly Media, Java Developer's Journal, DevX, InformIT, and WebSphere Advisor Magazine. He is also a frequent presenter at numerous technology conferences.

Geoffrey Hambrick

Roland Barcia is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Lead Web 2.0 Architect within IBM Software Services for WebSphere®. He is the coauthor of the book IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration. He has published over 40 articles and papers on topics such as Java™ Persistence, Ajax, REST, JavaServer Faces, and Messaging Technologies. He frequently presents at conferences and customers on various technologies. He has spent the past 10 years implementing middleware systems on various platforms, including Sockets, CORBA, Java EE, SOA, and most recently the Web 2.0[nd]based platform called Project Zero. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Roland maintains a blog called “Web 2.0 and Middleware” (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/barcia).

Geoffrey M. Hambrick is a Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Software Services for WebSphere Enablement Team, whose mission is to help develop and disseminate best practices for using IBM WebSphere runtimes, tools, and technologies. Geoff has long been a pioneer in the area of Distributed Object Technology, and was involved in the development of various standards, like the Object Management Group CORBA Object Services and the Enterprise JavaBeans specifications. Geoff has engaged with numerous clients and is often asked to present at conferences throughout the world. Geoff is the author of the IBM developerWorks® column “The EJB Advocate,” which describes various best practices patterns for using EJB technologies, especially entity bean components. Geoff's current focus is in pattern authoring tools that can be used to automate application of best practices. He and Chris Gerken invented the Design Pattern Toolkit, which extended the Eclipse Java Emitter Template standard and has helped make Pattern Based Engineering a practical reality.

Kyle Brown is a Distinguished Engineer with IBM Software Services and Support. He is a coauthor or contributor to several books, including Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere and Enterprise Integration Patterns. He is a well-known authority on patterns, and has been a past chair of the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) Conference. Kyle was one of the coauthors of one of the first papers on patterns of object-relational mapping, "Crossing Chasms," which was published in Pattern Languages of Program Design 2. In his day job, Kyle helps IBM's customers adopt emerging technologies, and teaches best practices for using IBM's WebSphere family of products.

Robert R. Peterson is a Senior Managing Consultant for IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He travels the world implementing strategic proof of concept projects for future IBM software systems. He has published numerous technical books and papers, is a frequent conference speaker, and has filed several US Patents for enterprise systems. You can visit his website at http://juzzam.org/PersonalSite/.

Kulvir Singh Bhogal works as a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM Software Services for WebSphere, devising and implementing WebSphere-centric, SOA solutions at customer sites across the nation. He has more than a hundred patents filed in a myriad of technology areas. Kulvir has written for numerous publications, including JavaPro Magazine, IBM developerWorks, O'Reilly Media, Java Developer's Journal, DevX, InformIT, and WebSphere Advisor Magazine. He is also a frequent presenter at numerous technology conferences.

Robert Peterson

Roland Barcia is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Lead Web 2.0 Architect within IBM Software Services for WebSphere®. He is the coauthor of the book IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration. He has published over 40 articles and papers on topics such as Java™ Persistence, Ajax, REST, JavaServer Faces, and Messaging Technologies. He frequently presents at conferences and customers on various technologies. He has spent the past 10 years implementing middleware systems on various platforms, including Sockets, CORBA, Java EE, SOA, and most recently the Web 2.0[nd]based platform called Project Zero. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Roland maintains a blog called “Web 2.0 and Middleware” (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/barcia).

Geoffrey M. Hambrick is a Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Software Services for WebSphere Enablement Team, whose mission is to help develop and disseminate best practices for using IBM WebSphere runtimes, tools, and technologies. Geoff has long been a pioneer in the area of Distributed Object Technology, and was involved in the development of various standards, like the Object Management Group CORBA Object Services and the Enterprise JavaBeans specifications. Geoff has engaged with numerous clients and is often asked to present at conferences throughout the world. Geoff is the author of the IBM developerWorks® column “The EJB Advocate,” which describes various best practices patterns for using EJB technologies, especially entity bean components. Geoff's current focus is in pattern authoring tools that can be used to automate application of best practices. He and Chris Gerken invented the Design Pattern Toolkit, which extended the Eclipse Java Emitter Template standard and has helped make Pattern Based Engineering a practical reality.

Kyle Brown is a Distinguished Engineer with IBM Software Services and Support. He is a coauthor or contributor to several books, including Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere and Enterprise Integration Patterns. He is a well-known authority on patterns, and has been a past chair of the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) Conference. Kyle was one of the coauthors of one of the first papers on patterns of object-relational mapping, "Crossing Chasms," which was published in Pattern Languages of Program Design 2. In his day job, Kyle helps IBM's customers adopt emerging technologies, and teaches best practices for using IBM's WebSphere family of products.

Robert R. Peterson is a Senior Managing Consultant for IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He travels the world implementing strategic proof of concept projects for future IBM software systems. He has published numerous technical books and papers, is a frequent conference speaker, and has filed several US Patents for enterprise systems. You can visit his website at http://juzzam.org/PersonalSite/.

Kulvir Singh Bhogal works as a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM Software Services for WebSphere, devising and implementing WebSphere-centric, SOA solutions at customer sites across the nation. He has more than a hundred patents filed in a myriad of technology areas. Kulvir has written for numerous publications, including JavaPro Magazine, IBM developerWorks, O'Reilly Media, Java Developer's Journal, DevX, InformIT, and WebSphere Advisor Magazine. He is also a frequent presenter at numerous technology conferences.