Keynote Speaker
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Jeff Jackson
Senior Vice President, Solaris Engineering Group
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Jeff Jackson is Sun's Vice President of engineering, managing the Solaris operating systems, clustering, database and storage software. Jeff also is involved with the open source program surrounding OpenSolaris and the Java Desktop along with other Solaris technologies. Previous to managing Solaris, Jeff managed the Java Standard Edition and Java Enterprise Edition platforms, products and the Developer programs and Tools groups within Sun. Jeff has worked at Sun for ten years on enterprise products and open source projects.
Jeff has a unique perspective on the Java Platform, having been one of the originators of J2EE project at Sun. He lead that effort from its inception through delivery. Jeff also served a dual role for J2EE in engineering and marketing. Jeff is a keen supporter of developers, developer education and collaboration. |
Session Speakers
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Chris Armes
Chris is the Senior Director of Solaris Revenue Products Engineering (RPE). Although based out of the UK his wife would argue the UK is just another hotel in which he spends his year, as with a global team split across the three geographies that Sun operates in he spends a significant proportion of his time on the road visiting not just his team, but Customers and Partners evangelizing the message of Solaris.
RPE is part of the Solaris engineering organisation, within Sun's Software business unit. The RPE team are primarily focused on the ongoing sustaining engineering of the shipping releases of Solaris, although a good portion of the time is also spent working on the next release of Solaris. The tight integration and co-operation with the New Product Engineering (NPE) team is one of the key success factors of Solaris.
The RPE team provide 24 x 7 source code engineering level expertise on the Solaris operating system. If you have an issue that needs code level expertise, including source code changes, delivered at 2am Pacific time on Christmas Day its likely you'll be working with someone in the Solaris RPE team. The team also owns a large number of the areas within Solaris that Sun is no longer doing active development on, this combined with working closely with our NPE colleagues on the latest and greatest parts of Solaris makes the RPE organisation a particularly challenging and exciting team to be part of.
Chris joined Sun in 1999 and has over 20 years of experience in the industry including software engineering of operating systems and application software for military usage. He has a BSc (HONS) degree in Computing Science from Staffordshire University. When he is not working he is married with two children, a dog and a cat and enjoys Amateur Dramatics in what little spare time he has left. |
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Frank Curran
Frank Curran currently leads Solaris Technology Outreach for Sun. He has more than 30 years experience in software engineering as a senior staff engineer, line manager and project manager. In 14 years at Sun Microsystems he has led a broad range of teams. He managed a release of the Solaris operating system, managed Sun's Internet Products Group, led teams in Solaris engineering, customer site engineering, ISV market development engineering, and custom software engineering. In the last 8 years at Sun Frank architected, managed and led innovative Developer programs, for example: Solaris Developer Conferences, Developer Code Camps and Developer Hands-on Labs at JavaOne and Sun's major software conferences, as well as on-site engagements with Sun's enterprise customers and ISVs in vertical industries. Before joining Sun Frank developed, led and managed software orgaizations and projects at GTE and General Electric specializing in operating systems, distributed networks, and enterprise computing. |
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Reggie Hutcherson
Reginald (Reggie) is the manager of the Sun Technology Evangelism group. His group is responsible for providing the long-term strategic vision of Sun's technologies to developers, executives, press and key customers worldwide. He has responsibility for creating and leveraging relationships with Sun's Global Sales and Marketing team and key ISVs to facilitate technology adoption and development of applied solutions. Reggie has an extensive background developing state-of-the-art software systems. At the Stanford Research Institute, he researched distributed systems and network protocols. At Sybase Inc., he worked in the Performance & Kernel Architecture group on their state-of-the-art distributed database engine. Reggie has a BS in Computer Science and a MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. Additionally, he matriculated in the MS program for Computer Science at Stanford University. |
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Peter Karlsson
Peter Karlsson is a Solaris Technology Evangelist who works with developers to adopt technologies delivered through the Solaris Operating Environment. Prior to joining the Evangelists, Peter had been working in the North/North-Eastern Europe sales support organization for five years. There he was senior product specialist focusing on Solaris Operating Environment and related technologies. Peter has also worked in the Sun MDE I/O-technologies and solutions, supporting third-party ISV's with device driver development. |
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Chuk Munn Lee
Chuk Munn Lee has been programming in the Java language since 1996, when he first joined Sun Microsystems in Hong Kong. He currently works as a senior developer consultant and technology evangelist for Technology Outreach at Sun in Singapore. Chuk's focus is in: Java APIs, Java EE, Java SE, and Java ME. Chuk worked with key Asia-Pacific independent software vendors (ISVs) during the last six years to helped them design, prototype, develop, tune, size, and benchmark their Java applications. Chuk is also an avid gamer; he shares his enthusiasm for Java technology adoption with other game developers. Chuk graduated in 1987 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where his favorite subject was compiler theory. Chuk was interviewed by Sun Developer Network (SDN): "A Conversation With...Chuk Munn Lee " |
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Leonid Lenyashin
Leonid Lenyashin was graduated for St.Petersburg State University, Russia in 1992 with honor as master of Math. Leonid joined Sun Microsystems in 2004 as Software Engineering Manager at Sun Studio to build new team in charge for performance analysis, tuning and optimization of code generation for x86 platforms. Later on he also took responsibility for a team working on Sun Studio IDE and NetBeans C++ Pack, specifically on language aware feature also known as code assistance.
Before joining Sun, Leonid worked as Project Manager and Senior Software Engineer for such companies as Deutsche Bank and Motorola. He has completed a number of projects in telecommunication, embedded programming (phones, routers, base stations), finance and others. He has solid experience in C/C++ development and some experience in Java Mobile. Max Zhen joined Sun in year 2003 and started as a Solaris storage HBA driver developer. In 2006, he joined matrix project team to implement Solaris xVM technology, which has been integrated into Solaris in Sept. 2007. In this project, he mainly focused on implementing I/O subsystems between virtual machines. |
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Nasser Nouri
Nasser Nouri is a staff software engineer currently working in the dbx debugger engineering group. For the last 10 years at Sun, Nasser has worked on wide spectrum of projects, such as the Massively Parallel Hardware Verilog Simulation system, the Distributed Verilog Simulation over the Internet using Load Balancing software and Java Servlet technology, and Java Graphical User Interfaces for CAD tools. Before joining Sun, he worked on Logic, Fault, and VHDL hardware simulation systems. |
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Christoph Schuba
Christoph Schuba has studied mathematics and management information systems at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Mannheim in Germany. As a Fulbright scholar, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1993 and 1997, performing most of his dissertation research in the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Christoph has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in computer and network security, cryptography, operating systems, and distributed systems at San Jose State University, USA, at the Universtitaet Heidelberg, Germany, at the International University in Bruchsal, Germany, and at Linkopings universitet in Linkoping, Sweden.
Christoph has been working since 1997 at Sun Labs and most recently in the Solaris Software Security Organization at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He holds nine patents and is author and co-author of numerous scientific articles in computer and network security. |
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Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas
Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is the CTO of Technology Evangelism at Sun Microsystems looking at new technology directions and trends. With 20 years of software development and about 7 years of technology evangelism experience, his general focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in interoperability, mobility and security. He has evangelized a number of technology areas including the early releases of Java, J2EE, Java and XML, J2ME and so on. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate classes in the evening. He publishes a standards column and has represented Sun at a number of standards bodies. He also serves in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences. Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.
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Matt Thompson
As Director of Technology Outreach and Sun's Open Source Programs Office, Matt Thompson leads Sun's technology evangelism efforts worldwide. His team focuses on educating and enabling the worldwide developer community to easily adopt Sun's emerging technologies like the core Java platform, the Sun Java Enterprise System, and Sun's secure mobility platform, as well as driving Sun's open source strategy for developers. Matt's 16 years of experience includes the software engineering of development environments, productivity tools, and object-oriented frameworks. Today, Matt spends most of his time focusing on delivering Sun's technology strategy to Sun's developers, partners and customers worldwide. Matt first started at Sun in 1988 and after several years "outside" at Taligent and General Magic he returned to Sun in 1997. |
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