JavaOne Keynotes

Richard Bair is the chief architect for the Client Java Platform at Oracle. He was an influential lead in the development of JavaFX UI controls and associated APIs. Prior to that he was the lead of the SwingLabs project, which was an open source community supported by Sun with a focus on enhancing and extending Swing. Before working at Sun, Blair was an application developer with a focus on data-oriented rich client applications backed by databases. He has a passion for graphics, performance, and developer productivity.

Linda DeMichiel is Specification Lead for the Java EE 7 Platform and for Java Persistence 2.1. She is a long-standing member of the Java EE architecture team and has been fundamental in driving many of the recent simplifications to the Java EE platform. Linda has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, working primarily in the areas of middleware and database technologies. She has been working with Java technology since 1997, initially at Sun, and now at Oracle. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Mark Reinhold is chief architect of the Java Platform group at Oracle. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, and service loaders. Mark was the lead engineer for the 1.2 and 5.0 Java releases and the specification lead for Java SE 6. He is currently leading the Jigsaw and JDK 7 projects in the OpenJDK community. Mark holds a PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hinkmond Wong is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff with the Java Embedded Group at Oracle. He was the specification lead for the Java Community Process (JCP) Java Specification Requests (JSRs) 36, 46, 218, and 219, Java ME Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and Foundation Profile. He holds a B.S.E in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and an M.S.E in computer engineering from Santa Clara University. Hinkmond's interests include working on proof-of-concept projects using Java Embedded technologies and on-device or networked Middleware services. His recent projects include investigating ports of Java ME CDC to smartphones, such as iOS and Android phones, and tapping into on-device Middleware such as the Berkeley Database using Java Embedded technology. He is the author of the book titled "Developing Jini Applications Using J2ME Technology".

Doug Fisher is corporate vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group's (SSG) Systems Software Division. He leads a worldwide organization responsible for Intel's efforts in software product development, enabling and architecture analysis. His responsibilities span a broad range of efforts that includes pre-boot firmware, operating systems (Windows, MeeGo, Android, Chrome OS, OS X, and Solaris), virtualization, middleware software, and platform performance and power projections. In addition, Fisher recently assumed responsibility for SSG product planning and program management.

Fisher is currently chairman of the Linux Foundation and is a member of the internal board for Wind River Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation.

For the first few years after joining Intel in 1995, Fisher managed several new product development and research efforts, including projects involving remote LAN access, TV data broadcasting and packaged Internet server solutions before moving to Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, where for 3 years he led the organization developing Server Management Software. In 1999, Fisher transferred to Intel Online Services as the director of engineering for Europe and shortly thereafter was appointed director of worldwide engineering for Intel Online Services. Prior to joining Intel, Fisher spent 10 years at Hewlett-Packard.

Fisher holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a master's in management from Stanford University.

Adam Messinger is Vice President of Development in the Fusion Middleware group at Oracle. He is responsible for managing the Java SE and Java ME product lines as well as the Exalogic product line. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked as a venture capitalist at Smartforest Ventures and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Before that Adam was a co-founder at Gauntlet Systems and an early employee of both WebLogic and Organic. Adam is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was a Sloan Fellow and of Willamette University where he was a G. Herbert Smith Scholar.

Cameron Purdy is Vice President of Development at Oracle, responsible for the Java EE platform, web server and application server products. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Purdy was the CEO of Tangosol, whose revolutionary Coherence Data Grid product provides reliable and scalable data management across the enterprise. Mr. Purdy has been working with Java and Java-related technology since 1996, regularly participates in industry standards development and is a specification lead for the Java Community Process. As a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Purdy is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to the Java community, including three times being named as a JavaOne RockStar and being recognized in TheServerSide's "Who's Who in Enterprise Java".

As senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java Products, Hasan Rizvi is responsible for the company's Application Server, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application and Data Integration, Content Management and Portal, Identity Management and Security and Java product development, product management and architecture. Previously Mr. Rizvi was vice president of Oracle Enterprise Manager responsible for the company's Data Center Automation products.

Prior to returning to Oracle in 2001, Mr. Rizvi was vice president of Engineering for Corio, Inc. where he led the development of key technologies to enable efficient delivery of software as a service. Prior to that, Mr. Rizvi served as director of OLTP technologies for Oracle, where he was instrumental in development of transaction processing, messaging and queuing and high-end scalability technologies for Oracle Database products.

Mr. Rizvi has a M.S. in computer science from Rutgers University and an M.S. in engineering management from Stanford University. He also holds eight patents in the database management area.

David Ward serves as CTO of Juniper’s Platform Systems Division, responsible for the switches, routers and data center products in the portfolio as well as the Operating System (Junos) and ASICs. David is also a Juniper Fellow and Chief Architect working on operating system and next generation routing systems. In addition, he speaks at internet-related conferences and works closely with universities on academic research in advancing networking technology including OpenFlow, routing protocols, optical/lambda switching and buffering.

Before joining Juniper, David was a Cisco Fellow and held the roles of software architect for IOS-XR; co-system architect of the CRS-1 multi-terabit router & ASR900; and co-system architect of several next generation routers, line cards, route processors and service blades for multiple routing products in Cisco’s Service Provider portfolio.

Ward is also a member of the IOS and Service Provider patent committees and has 112 issued patents, 17 allowed, 43 filed with the USPTO and 9 more in progress of filing.

David graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in International Relations, and later received a Ph.D. (ABD) and Master of Science in Forestry from University of Minnesota.

David has a small vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains and an heirloom tomato farm along the St Croix River in Somerset, Wisconsin.

Sharat Chander is the JavaOne Program Committee Chairperson and directs the conference's content strategy and technical tracks, as well as oversees and manages the entire call for papers review and selection process. He is extremely active in the Java community, having participated in many global Java related events and activities. Sharat has over 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 growth efforts specific to community outreach and university relations. Follow Sharat on Twitter: @sharat_chander.

Jason McGee is a Distinguished Engineer (DE) and Chief Architect for WebSphere Cloud Platforms and Runtimes. Jason is currently responsible for defining technologies and products related to running middleware on cloud infrastructures. Previously Jason has served as Chief Architect of WebSphere Extended Deployment (comprised of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, WebSphere eXtreme Scale and WebSphere Compute Grid), WebSphere sMash, and WebSphere Application Server on distributed platforms. He is a Senior Architect on the WebSphere Foundation Architecture Board. Jason serves as the Director of WebSphere Advanced Technologies, responsible for productization of new technologies into the WebSphere platform. Jason joined IBM in 1997 and has been a member of the WebSphere Server team since its inception. Jason graduated with a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995.