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Event Information
All Participants who arrive before 8:30 a.m. on the first day of the conference will be entered into a draw to win an iPod Shuffle!
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Meet the Sun Technology Evangelists
Sun proudly presents the following technology and product experts, who
will familiarize you with Sun's latest, new and exciting, cutting-edge
technologies!
Following are the Technology Evangelist speakers featured at
our Sun Tech Days events. Keynotes and speakers vary by city and are
subject to change.
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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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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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Angela M. Caicedo
Angela Caicedo is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Angela's
expertise includes: Java ME, Java SE, Java EE, and the entire Sun Java
Enterprise System. She loves spending time in new and cool technologies
like: Game developments, 3D, bluetooth, smartdust (Sun' SPOTs), and
others. She has also presented these topics at developer conferences
around the world. Angela graduated from the University EAFIT of
Medellin Colombia in 1998 with a B.S. in Computer Science. During
1996-1997 Angela was a visitor student at Center for Educational
Computing Initiatives at MIT. Prior to joining Sun, Angela worked for
three years as a software developer and researcher at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne Switzerland, and
participated in several European Projects. Angela has also done
research on Intelligent Agents which is one of her specialties. |
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Dr. Doris Chen
Dr. Chen, a staff engineer and Java™: Technology Evangelist at Sun
Microsystems with over 10 years industry experience, her expertise
includes JavaServer™ Faces, Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java
EE) technologies, web services/SOA, Java™ ME platform wireless
programming, Java technology performance tuning, grid computing, and
web-based distributed computing. She speaks at major industry
international conferences: JavaOne, Sun Network Conference, Software
Development, etc. Doris received her Ph.D. from the University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer engineering, specializing
in medical informatics. Before coming to Sun, Doris developed medical
image compression applications and web-based network management
products. Download, view and listen to Doris Chen's sessions on Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)Technology in both PDF and MP3 formats! |
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Inyoung Cho
Inyoung Cho
has been with Sun Microsytems Inc. since 1995. She is a Java Technology
evangelist focusing on various aspects of Java technologies, lately she
is focusing on Java Tools to make Java Platform easy to use. In
previous positions, Inyoung worked at Nortel in the role of senior
software engineer, and she has developed network management software
for Digital Switch, as well as Optical Transmission Products. Inyoung
has a BS in Computer Science from University of Toronto. |
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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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Michael Li
Michael Li is a Technology Evangelist based at Beijing. Michael is a
Java certified programmer, his focus is in Java APIs, J2EE and various
web based application frameworks. Before join Sun Microsystems, Michael
was a consultant doing projects for various industries for 5 years, such
as automobile manufacturer and health insurance. Michael obtained his
undergraduate degree from Tsinghua University of Beijing and his
master's degree from Temple University at Philadelphia. |
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Zhuo-Li "Joey Shen"
Joey Shen is a Technology Evangelist for Sun Microsystems based in
Beijing, China. He specializes in Java technology, embedded system and
desktop solutions. Joey joined Sun Microsystems as a developer of the
Java Desktop System in 2002. He's the owner of several open source
projects on Java.net. Joey has his master degree at Tsinghua University
in Automatic Control. |
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Kiran Patel
Kiran
Patel is a Java Technology evangelist focusing on Java ME and related
mobile technologies such as RFID, SMS, Smartdust, and location based
services. She has done extensive research and published papers on
peer-to-peer mobile payment systems and security solutions for
mCommerce systems. Kiran did her undergraduate work in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.
She received her masters degree at San Jose State University in
Computer Engineering. Kiran enjoys travelling and playing golf. She
also works with number of charity organizations to promote child
education. |
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Rima Patel
Rima Patel Sriganesh is a Staff Engineer presently working in the
Technology Outreach group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. She specializes in
Java, XML and Integration platforms. Rima represents Sun at various
financial services standards. She is a co-author of two books and
publishes her take on technology in the form of papers and blogs. She
also speaks frequently at various industry conferences. To find out more
about her work, google - "Rima Patel" Sun Microsystems OR "Rima Patel
Sriganesh" |
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Sridhar Reddy
Sridhar has been with Sun for over 12 years in various roles of
application development and now as a Java Technology Evangelist. His
core competencies include: Java SE, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0,
Web Services, JavaServer Faces, and other Java EE technologies using
Netbeans™ and Sun Java Studio Creator™ tools. He is a Java Certified
programmer and has over 9 years of experience in Java, over 17 years of
programming experience. He speaks and conducts developer workshops at
technical conferences around the world including Sun TechDays and
JavaOne. Sridhar loves to travel and meet the Java developers all over
the world and share his experience and knowledge. Sridhar holds an MS
in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology, and a BS in
Mechanical Engineering from Hyderabad, India. In his spare time he
plays basketball, volleyball, chess and reads books. |
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Simon Ritter
Simon Ritter specializes in emerging technologies including grid computing, RFID, wireless sensor networks, robotics and wearable computing.
Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of
Science
degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K. Originally working
in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then
Novell, Simon joined Sun in 1996 and started working with Java
technology; he has spent time doing both Java development and
consultation. |
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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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Sang Shin
Sang Shin is a Java Technology Evangelist and Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He has
developed and delivered numerous talks on Java SE, Java EE, Java ME, Web application
frameworks such as Struts and JavaServer Faces and Web services technologies to worldwide
developer audiences. Sang Shin, who has taught Java programming courses ("J2EE Programming
with Passion!", "Web services programming with Passion!", "XML", and "Distributed
programming") at Brandeis University and Boston University, is currently teaching a free "J2EE programming with Passion!" online course to several thousand worldwide Java
developers. The course can be taken through http://www.javapassion.com. He is also
co-author of "Advanced Computer" published by University of Maryland in 2005
Java is Sang's passion: Current speaking schedule.
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