The Java Road Trip: Code to Coast tour demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to the Java programming language. Among the tour participants are distinguished Java technologists at Oracle who will demonstrate rich new Java technologies, support fellow developers at Java user group (JUG) meetings, meet with enterprise developers and consumers, and share the spirit of innovation that is the essence of Java.
Amy recently joined our Java Road Trip crew as our energetic Video Blogger. She's responsible for capturing each of our Road Trip events through photos, videos, and personal insight. She keeps our followers engaged and entertained by posting to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and our tour blog at java.com/roadtrip. She's heading out on the road for 10 weeks, visiting 20 cities with a camera in one hand and a computer in the other to feature java users, evangelists, and rock stars at their best. Fair warning that when you come to a Road Trip event, Amy will likely catch you on camera with food, drink, and a big smile on your face!
Our Tour Manager, Ben Beksel, is excited about bringing the Java Road Trip: Code to Coast to a city near you! Ben drives our tour bus across the country and manages tour logistics on the road. He works with event contacts, rental companies, hotels, etc. to make sure the tour is always running seamlessly. On any given event day you'll find Ben on the mic making announcements, training the crew, mingling with the guests, and capturing the energy of our events in photos. Challenge him to a ride on our mechanical surfboard and you won't be disappointed!
Dr. Greg Bollella has been interested in algorithms and software architectures that support deterministic execution completion guarantees within general-purpose operating systems and virtual machines since 1992.
While a Senior Architect at IBM, he led the Real-Time for Java Expert Group under the Java Community Process which developed the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). A number of product implementations of the RTSJ and underway. At Sun Labs he continues to be actively involved in internal and external projects which support the RTSJ and in the continued development of the RTSJ.
Greg holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation research is in real-time scheduling theory and real-time systems implementation.
Roger Brinkley is the Community Leader for the Mobile and Embedded Community at Oracle. He is responsible for community development related to Java ME technologies. He is part of the Evangelism and Blueprints team in the Java Platform Group, was a member of Sun's Open Source Group, the Java.Net Management Board, and serves as a Track Lead for the JavaOne Program Committee.
Roger has more than 30 years of industry experience with over 14 years at Sun. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences around the world and cohosts the weekly Java Mobility Podcast with Terrence Barr.
Prior to becoming the Mobile and Embedded Community Leader he was the specification lead for JSR 97 JavaHelp 2.0 Specification and was the community leader for both the JDK and JavaDesktop communities. He has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Quantitative Analysis and a Masters Degree in Business Administration.
Eric Bruno is a Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle, and best selling author on Java and other software development topics. He's lectured as a guest at MIT, and helped numerous banks and financial exchanges with their research involving real-time Java. He is also a contributing editor for Dr. Dobbs Journal with countless articles to his name, and he writes their online Java blog. He is the author of three books: Real-Time Java Programming with Java RTS (Pearson 2009), JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications (Pearson 2009), and Java Messaging (Cengage 2005). Contact him at eric@ericbruno.com.
Angela Caicedo is a Technology Evangelist at Oracle. Angela's expertise includes: Java ME, Java SE and Java EE. 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.
Sharat Chander is the Principal Product Director in Oracle's Application Grid Product Marketing Team, focusing business efforts on Java-related application development technologies. He has 16 years of industry experience in high-technology, working at firms such as Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Sun Microsystems, and now Oracle. Sharat is passionate about and focused on developer efforts specific to community outreach, university relations, and both start-up and enterprise development teams, as well as on software tools such as the NetBeans IDE and Java programs like the JavaOne conference (serving as the JavaOne Program Committee Chairperson).
Brent is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with Oracle, working out of Seattle, WA. In his 10+ years with Sun, he worked on Client Java technologies which included the AWT and Swing toolkits, as well measuring, analyzing, and improving client performance. He has spent the last few years on the JavaFX graphics team, focusing on the animation system along with performance benchmarking and analysis.
Jim Clarke is a Principal Sales Consultant with Oracle and has spent the last thirteen years developing with the Java Platform. Prior to that time, Jim specialized in distributed object technologies. For the past three years, Jim has been working directly with JavaFX, Embedded Java, Java Realtime, and Java TV, and he is the principal author of JavaFX-Developing Rich Internet Applications.
Jim Connors, a Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle, has spent the last dozen years helping customers further utilize Java technology ranging from Java Card and Java Micro Edition through to Java Enterprise Edition. His current focus involves providing software solutions to Sun's embedded market, including real-time Java, Solaris, and most recently JavaFX. Jim has twenty-five years experience in systems software development including stints as a compiler developer for both the C and ADA programming languages. Along with Jim Clarke and Eric Bruno, Jim developed and demonstrated one of the first applications utilizing JavaFX Script back at JavaONE 2007. A regular blogger, you can read his occasional rantings at http://blogs.sun.com/jtc.
Siraj Ghaffar is a Priniciple Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, based in Atlanta, GA. Prior to Oracle, Siraj worked for Sun Microsystems for more than 10 years. Recently, he has been spending most of his time on embedded GlassFish. Earlier, he lead various engineering efforts in the application server group, such as monitoring and administration console.
Arun Gupta is a Java EE and GlassFish evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 14 years of experience in the software industry working in the Java(TM) platform and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works to create and foster the community around Java EE 6 and GlassFish. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other companies. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all Java EE releases in different capacity. Arun has extensive world wide speaking experience on myriad of topics and love to engage with the community every where.
He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta. This blog has over 1000 blog entries with frequent visitors from all the world and reaching up to 25,000 hits/day. You can catch him at @arungupta.
Tony Printezis is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, based in Burlington, MA. He has been contributing to the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine since 2006. He spends most of his time working on dynamic memory management for the Java platform, concentrating on performance, scalability, responsiveness, parallelism, and visualization of garbage collectors. He obtained a PhD in 2000 and a BSc(Hons) in 1995, both from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
Nandini Ramani drives new ventures and outreach for Oracle's Java Platform Group, and has a long history of creating innovation and futures for Sun.
Nandini launched the JavaFX Platform and tools and has been actively involved in JavaFX since its inception in May 2007. Prior to joining the client group, Nandini worked in the Software CTO Office driving the emerging technologies group for incubation projects. She has a background in both hardware and software, having worked in the Graphics and Media team in the JavaME group and hardware Architecture and Simulation team in the Accelerated Graphics group. She was involved in the development of XML based standards, as Co-Chair of the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics working group and as a member of the W3C Compound Document Formats working group. She was also a member of several graphics and UI related expert groups in the JCP.
