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Trail Blazers - Marshals - Sheriffs - Bartenders - Other Staff - Java Community - RetiredStaff
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Trail Blazers
Paul Wheaton
Paul is a Sun Certified Java Programmer working out of Missoula, Montana. Paul had a web site dedicated to Java discussion that he started in November of 1998. He merged his site into JavaRanch when Kathy turned it over to him. His contributions include the Saloon, the Cattle Drive, most of the bunkhouse, some of the code barn, the coop, gramps and granny. Paul is an organic farmer wannabe. He is a certified master gardener and a certified permaculture designer. He cares for a large garden and several fruit trees and hopes to someday live on a full size farm. Paul wrote a fairly popular article on lawn care in 1994 with an emphasis on reducing the use of toxic gick. He has since written similar articles on the use of diatomaceous earth, the mighty, the glorious, the amazing Sepp Holzer, raised garden beds, electric heaters, raising chickens and set up some permaculture forums. You can keep up with Paul on his Missoula blog. For more info see Paul Wheaton Kathy Sierra
Kathy is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and a Sun Certified Java Instructor. She travels the globe spreading the word about Java by teaching a variety of Java courses through Sun Educational Services. When she's not traveling, she's preparing new courses on Enterprise Java and writing books and articles. Kathy started Java Ranch in January, 1998 and turned the site over to Paul Wheaton in January, 2000. Since Paul didn't want to bear the title "cowgirl", Kathy kept that title for herself and gave Paul the title "trailboss".
Kathy's contributions to the ranch include the original Rules Roundup Game, some of the bunkhouse,
the campfire stories and most of the code barn.
Marshal Commander
The Trail Boss picks one Marshal from time to time as someone who is most likely to be able to jump on issues as they come up
Andrew Monkhouse
Andrew is a senior software engineer at Overstock.com in Salt Lake City - a job that he thinks is one of the best you can get. Prior to Overstock.com, Andrew has worked in many different sized companies dealing with many different problems in countries all over the world. From companies with only 2 developers, all the way up to Amazon.com with it's several thousand developers. During these jobs, he has worked on Occupational Health and Safety systems, Communication systems, Airline systems, Banking systems, and Retail systems. Side note: he says that he has been working with computers for too long (his first program was written on mark-sense cards (similar to punch cards)) and his experience spans a good number of different types of hardware, operating systems, and network protocols. Andrew has currently passed SCJP 1.2, SCJP 1.4, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD, and part I of SCEA. Andrew is best known for authoring the best selling Sun Certified Java Developers guide (SCJD). He has also contributed on a number of other best selling Java titles including: Head First Servlets and JSPs, Head First Design Patterns, Head Rush Ajax, The Sun Certified Java Programmers Guide (SCJP). When he was living in Sydney, Andrew liked to go to the nearby beaches to go swimming or snorkeling, go on bush walks, go bike riding, or go horse riding or roller blading. Some of those are still possible, but the water in Seattle is too cold for most of the beach activities. Andrew was made a Bartender in 2003, and has been a Sheriff since 2006. Email For more info see BioAndrewMonkhouse
Marshals "...The idea is that at any given time there are exactly five marshals. In time, I might select somebody else to be a new marshal - thus displacing one of the existing marshals. These are the five sheriffs that are the biggest contributors to CodeRanch right now."
Trailboss
Bear Bibeault
Bear has been turning coffee into quality software since 1976 when he starting programming in BASIC on a Control Data Cyber. He resides in Austin TX, and is currently an Architect/Tech Lead at a company that manufactures residential gateways and set-top TV boxes. Having managed to wrestle two Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of Massachusetts, he taught in the Graduate Computer Engineering Program of that esteemed institution for a decade or so. He has also served stints with Digital Equipment Corporation, Lightbridge Inc., Dragon Systems, and a whole slew of other companies no one has ever heard of (or that he's ashamed to admit association with). He also served military time as a platoon leader and infantry trainer, teaching infantry soldiers how to blow up tanks -- skills he brings to his Marshal duties on the Ranch. When he should be tending to more pressing matters, Bear likes to ride his V-Star, dabble in digital photography and video editing, cook BIG food, and read voraciously (mostly Sci-Fi and techo-stuff). He's also nerdy enough to actually write web applications for fun (if not for profit, alas). Bear is hopelessly addicted to caffeine and rationalizes it by calling himself a "coffee snob" and buying outrageously priced, but truly tasty, coffee beans that he insists on grinding himself. Bear has co-authored five books: Ajax in Practice, Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action, jQuery in Action, jQuery in Action, 2nd edition, and Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja. He is currently working on a 3rd edition of his jQuery book. Bear was made a Bartender in 2003, was promoted to Sheriff in 2006, and was made a Marshal in 2011. Email Ernest Friedman-Hill
Ernest's long, strange trip from a humble Ph.D. in chemistry (MIT, '92) to his current position as a Principal Investigator in the Distributed Systems Research department at Sandia National Laboratories is the stuff of legend. When he's not developing desktop tools to help engineers run simulations on the world's fastest computers, he dabbles in rule-based software, and is the developer of Jess, the Programmer's Rule Engine. Before all his spare time was dominated by Danielle (the little cowgirl in the picture) and Zachary, he used to teach Java, both for the University of California, as an independent consultant, and online. He reckons he's taught more than 3,000 students in all. Ernest has written several books; the latest is Jess in Action Dr. Friedman-Hill has been known to occasionally -- just occasionally -- engage in leisure activities, which may or may not include cooking, drawing, woodworking, and reading. But mostly he's too busy.
Ernest was made a Bartender in 2003, and has been a Sheriff since 2004. Email
Jeanne Boyarsky
Jeanne Boyarsky was very excited to speak at a conference in 2011 (see picture). She is a 2002 graduate of Queens College with a degree in Computer Science and completed her Master's degree in Computer Information Technology at Regis University in 2005. Jeanne is certified in the SCEA/OCMJEA and Core Spring. She works as a Java Developer for a bank in New York City. Her development interests include databases, web programming and testing. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, reading and nature. Jeanne was made a Bartender in 2004, and has been a Sheriff since 2007. Email
For more info see BioJeanneBoyarsky
Ulf Dittmer
Ulf studied computer science in Germany and the USA, culminating in an MS degree. Over the years he's worked in a variety of industries in everything from tiny startup to very-blue-chip company, variously as team lead, project lead, developer, architect, IT manager and freelance consultant. He's contributed to several open source projects such as cewolf, ImageJ, JLog, Amateur and ProfileViewer. In addition, he's reviewed a lot of books, written some articles, and was a tech reviewer for the 2nd edition of Head First Servlets and JSP. Lately he's added Android to his toolchest, which has resulted in the Ping & DNS app for TCP/IP network diagnostics being available in the Google Play Store, amongst other projects. More about Ulf can be found on his web site.
Ulf was made a Bartender in 2005, and has been a Sheriff since 2007. Email
Jaikiran Pai Jaikiran is NOT a Sun Certified Java Programmer and neither does he have any other certificates :-) He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Vishweshwaraiah Technological University in India. He completed his engineering course in 2004 from SDM College of Engineering in Dharwad, India. Jaikiran started his software development career in a software development company in Pune, in 2004. Four years later, in December 2008, he started working for JBoss and is part of the JBoss AS core team ever since. Jaikiran has been Bartender at JavaRanch since 2007 and a Sheriff since 2012. Jaikiran is also a Marshal since 2012. Sheriffs "...These people have made enormous contributions to JavaRanch, mostly by writing thousands of helpful messages in the Big Moose Saloon. They are experts in using our messaging software and have been given "sheriff" access, otherwise known as administrator access."
Trailboss
Christophe Verré
Christophe was made a Bartender in 2007 and has been a sheriff since 2010. Email.
BioChristopheVerre
Lasse Koskela
Lasse is a software development geek, having a chronic addiction for interesting technologies. This addiction has led to learning a wide variety of technologies over the years ranging from Flash and PHP to XML and web services to Java and J2EE. Most recently, Lasse has picked up a new tool in the form of the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails web framework. His interests have also moved more towards peopleware and methods, worrying more about team productivity rather than byte code efficiency. Working for a Finnish software consulting company Reaktor Innovations, Lasse spends his copious spare time between traveling from one consulting engagement to another on writing a book. Time will tell whether that project finishes on time.
Lasse was made a Bartender in 2003, and has been a Sheriff since 2005. Email
Mark Spritzler
Mark owns Perfect World Programming, LLC, a consulting and contract training firm. Specializing in Java, Enterprise Java, iPhone/iPad and Android development. He currently has 5 iPhone and 1 iPad application on the Apple App Store. Most of the time, Mark is travelling the world training many software developers. Working for companies like SpringSource? and JBoss, as well as N-Tier Training and Sum Global. He was a technical editor on Head First Design Patterns and the K&B SCJP 5.0 Exam book. He graduated from USC in 1990 with a BA in Communications. So he can now talk to people.
Mark was made a Bartender in 2001, and has been a Sheriff since 2005. Email
Frank Carver
Frank is a Sun Certified Java Programmer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Warwick and a Postgraduate Certificate of Education from the University of East Anglia, and is working on a Master's degree with the Open University. Frank runs a consultancy company Efficacy Solutions Limited which specializes in Server-side Java, but is currently employed by iO Global Ltd - a start-up company located at British Telecom's Adastral Park research site.
Frank has been a Sheriff since 1999. Email
Ilja Preuss
Ilja is an impassionate programmer since secondary school. Starting with BASIC, he migrated to Pascal, C and C++. After some meandering, he finally started studying computer science, putting some more languages into his bag of tricks. For a couple of years he is now concentrating on Java, but also keeping an eye on the uprising of dynamically typed languages. At the moment his skills are utilized by an employer in Karlsruhe, Germany. Currently he is mostly interested in the social aspects of software development. Especially the agile movement appeals to him, particularly the Extreme Programming process.
Ilja was made a Bartender in 2002, and has been a Sheriff since 2005. Email
Ben Souther
Ben is a Sr Java developer working Massachusetts. He's been developing software professionally for 10 years. In another life he managed shipping companies. Besides programming he enjoys messing about in old boats, large format photography, and guitar. Michael Ernest
Michael owns and operates Inkling Research, a band of instructors who teach Java, C, Perl, Unix administration, and enterprise systems management. He is co-author of The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide, affectionately referred to as RHE on JavaRanch. He also teaches a variety of technical and IT topics, specialzing in technology adoption. In recent years he has developed custom seminars on products as diverse as Solaris 10 technologies, including Zones, ZFS, and Dtrace; JCAPS; Lustre file system; and Dtrace/Java integration. Michael occasionally presents at JavaOne? and Java University, mostly for the free conference pass. His current writing project, The Book of Dtrace, is projected for release by No Starch Press late in 2009. It will have a bit of Java stuff in it.
Michael was made a Bartender in 2001, and has been a Sheriff since 2002. Email
Marilyn deQueiroz
Marilyn is a Sun Certified Java Programmer. She is a contractor based in Denver, Colorado, currently working for IBM After taking the CattleDrive Java course, she was so impressed with the results that she volunteered to be in charge of the Cattle Drive. The course has expanded quite a bit since that time and keeps her busy. She also maintains the Java Programming Style Guide. In her spare time she plays principal viola in the Niwot Timberline Symphony Orchestra as well as playing for weddings and other special events with the Ptarmigan String Quartet. Marilyn was made a Bartender in 2000, and has has been a Sheriff since 2001. Email
For more info see BioMarilynDeQueiroz
Mark Herschberg
Mark Herschberg (the one not in the dress :-) has received both a bachelors and masters degree in EE/CS from MIT. His masters thesis was the world's first secure electronic voting implementation (done using Java, of course). Currently, Mark is the VP of Engineering at Trafficmac in NYC. Throughout his career Mark has worked in numerous industries (development of the Curl language, enterprise JOLAP systems, financial modeling and simulations, wireless EAI) as well as academia (MIT, HBS). Starting with Java in 1996, he has worked with J2ME, J2SE, and J2EE applications, and sat on Sun's JSR-75 (J2ME PDA Profile). Mark has done numerous speaking engagements and guest lecture throughout the US and often speaks at JavaOne. He also is on MIT's UPOP steering committee, and teaches annually at the program.
Mark was made a Bartender in 2001, and has been a Sheriff since 2006. Email
Bert Bates
Bert is an SCJP 1.4, wrote his first FORTRAN program in 1974 (he was very young), and has been developing software ever since. Bert is co-author of 'Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide' ( K&B ), and 'Head First Java'. He is also the co-author of 'Head First EJB' and a little later 'Head First SCWCD', which is why he is tired. He has written in Java, C, TIRS, FORTRAN, COBOL, Basic, RPG, Smalltalk, etc. Bert is an avid Go player, skier, hiker, back-packer, and soon to be Airstream owner. He hopes to soon be making his posts to JavaRanch from his hi-tech, satellite equipped, 28' CCD. With any luck these posts will issue from the Yukon, Denali, Homer, Wells Grey, Jasper, Kalispell, Bend, Telluride, Santa Fe, Ojai, Brice, Sedona, Sioux Lookout, or Victoria. Regardless of the location, Bert will be reading science fiction, astronomy, quantum physics, or learning theory books with his wife Kathy.
Bert was made a Bartender in 2003 and has been a Sheriff since 2008 .
Marc Weber
Marc is a Sun Certified Java Programmer. Being indigenous to the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, Marc is addicted to lowercase java (the steamy beverage). He does his best work in coffee shops, and readily admits this is part of the reason he picked uppercase Java as a language. Marc was exposed briefly to BASIC in the early 1980's, but the programming bug remained latent for many years. He pursued other interests, including guitar, karate, art, journalism, and stand-up comedy. Eventually, he majored in Mathematics at Augsburg College, minoring in Chemistry and Studio Art. Since the mid-1990's, he has been employed in the financial services industry developing primarily in Lotus Notes. Current addictions (other than java and Java) include writing experimental fiction, seeking out abstract films and music, buying shoes, and running. Marc uses Mac computers. His cat, Milton, does not program.
Marc was made a Bartender in 2005 and has been a Sheriff since 2008 . Email
Weber, Marc
marc weber is the inventor of the weber grill. when he's not grilling, barbequeing, marinating
or roasting, he likes to code. marc only uses lower case letters and only under duress will he
use his [shift] key in order to utilize the occasional double quote or angled bracket.
marc dreams of the day that he'll be the only marc of any significance on javaranch, but
unfortunately for him, and fortunately for the rest of us... there are already 3 others
(2 with a 'k' and 1 with a 'c'). marc has already learned that any sheriff on the javaranch can,
and will, without provocation mess with his javaranch account. this is just another example of that.
Marc Peabody
Marc loves JVM languages like Groovy, JRuby, and Scala. He codes in plain Java when better languages won't pay the bills. Inside the Machine blog marcpeabody.com @marcpeabody Marc was made a Bartender in 2005 and has been a Sheriff since 2008. Email BioMarcPeabody
Henry Wong Henry Wong is a senior engineer, based in New York City, who used to be involved in many Java related projects. These days, he mostly work in C/C++, with a little bit of Javascript. Henry earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union in 1987. In 1994, while working for Sun Microsystems, he learned a new (then unnamed) programming language, to create demos for a financial trade show. Little did he know that this language would become the powerhouse that it is today. When not in front of a computer, Henry is an instrument rated private pilot, who also likes to dabble in archery, cooking, Scuba diving, and traveling to different places with his wife, Nini.
Henry was made Bartender in 2006 and has been a sheriff since 2010.
Katrina Owen
Katrina had a really hard time figuring out what she wanted to be when she grew up, and finally settled on biologist. After commencing her studies, she discovered that she liked programming more than cloning, and spent more and more of her spare time learning to code. She completed her Bachelors Degree in Genetics at the University of Oslo, which has never really come in handy for anything, since all her jobs since then have been in software development. She became a JavaRanch bartender in 2007, has been a sheriff since 2010, and hangs out mostly in the Cattle Drive Campbell Ritchie
Campbell was made Bartender in 2008 and has been a Sheriff since 2010.
Rob Spoor After cruising through high school without much effort, Rob first decided to ignore everybody's good advice and joined the Dutch army. Fortunately for him, he soon found out what a bad choice that was so he attended the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he earned his Master's degree in 2004. He has since worked as a programmer and database administrator at a small company near where he lives, all the while improving his programming skills.
Rob is SCJP 1.4 since 2006 with an impressing 100% score and SCJP 6 since 2008, disappointing everybody around him with a mere 91%
Rob has been Bartender since 2008 and a Sheriff since 2012. PM
Bartenders "...These people have selflessly volunteered their valuable time to help others learn Java here on JavaRanch. Each person has also taken on the responsibility of moderating one or more of the forums in the Big Moose Saloon, so they bear the title of "bartender"."
Trailboss
Paul Sturrock Paul works as a senior software engineer near Edinburgh, building various Java based systems. He was told to learn Java many years ago (despite originally spending most of his time using Microsoft technologies) and hasn't looked back. He managed to sneak out of the University of Glasgow in 1998 with a Masters in Information Technology stuffed up his sweater. Over the years he's worked with pretty much all the buzz word technologies, but tends to live in a J2EE world these days. He has an unhealthy obsession with mountains, and a much of his spare time as is possible is spent charging around the Highlands, variously mountaineering, rock climbing, mountain biking or skiing. He has very parochial views on football (the version where you really use your feet),! and believes the only truly beautiful game is played in Tannadice Park, Dundee. Don't talk to him about it, he will bore you to tears.
Paul has been Bartender since 2005.
Tim Holloway
Tim got involved in computers because his scientific interests required more arithmetic abilities than he possessed and 4-function pocket calculators hadn't been invented yet. He might hold all sorts of impressive certifications except that by the time they make up the exams, he's off learning the next generation of technology. He started off doing systems programming for mainframes and minicomputers, detoured into embedded systems, and helped pioneer object-oriented programming by producing one of the first commercial C++ implementations for a personal computer platform. He lives in Florida because any place further north would be too cold in the winter!
Tim has been Bartender since 2003.
Joe Ess Joe Ess is a Sun Certified Java Developer and holds two bachelor's degrees: Literature and Computer Science. After an ignoble start to his career, he wrote code for 5 years for 3 different employers before finally writing something someone actually used, he has settled into a comfortable position maintaining a website where he actively tries to incorporate as many technologies as possible ("This week I'm going to post user comments to Bugzilla via XMLRPC. Why? Because I can.").
Joe has been Bartender since 2004.
Balaji Loganathan
Balaji is currently working in Geneva for an international organization. He holds a Master degree from Australia in IT, and has earned IT experience in Australia, Singapore & India. He is currently working on a project involving data modeling, web services, XML, J2EE and .NET. He loves nature, forests, and country side driving with mild music. He also plays badminton weekly and is learning French. He recently started eating beef, veal, pork, frog, octopus & oyster. He is currently moderating Webservices and XML forum during his free time.
Balaji has been Bartender since 2004. Email
Fred Rosenberger
Fred graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1990, with a degree in Theatre. After spending a few years as a bookstore clerk, a high school math teacher, and an airline reservation agent, he finally settled in as a programmer in 1999, and earned his SCJP certificate a few years later. Fred lives in a small suburb in St. Louis County, Missouri with his wife Stacey, and his daughter Olivia, whom was adopted from China in 2005. Fred is probably the only person who can directly thank the JavaRanch for his having a child - you can read about much of his adoption journey here. He is, however, still learning to use the shift key in his posts.
Fred has been Bartender since 2005. Email
Paul Clapham
Paul Clapham has been in the commercial computing business since 1974, when men were men and computers had 32K bytes of memory. Currently he is living in Vancouver, Canada, working for a company that runs its business on IBM iSeries computers, whose primary programming language is RPG. (No, that's not Role Playing Game or Rocket Propelled Grenade!) So when IBM announced Java as its "strategic direction" for the system back in 1999, he was assigned to figure out what that meant. He learned Java by reading questions on online forums and finding out and posting the answers. Most of the time this worked out quite well. Paul has two adult children and spends his holiday time in distant countries with his wife Rosemary, birding and hiking and visiting local craft markets.
Paul has been Bartender since 2006.
Jesper de Jong
Jesper's interest in computers started when he was about 10 years old, when he saw a friend typing in hexadecimal codes on a home computer which impressed him so much that he still remembers it. He got his own Commodore 64 when he was 13 on which he started programming in BASIC and assembly language and he has been a computer wizard ever since. After studying electrical engineering at the Delft Technical University (in The Netherlands), he started his career as a software developer. He has been working with Java since 2000. He has done (and is doing) projects for many different clients using Java, from large Swing applications and web applications to enterprise middleware systems. Jesper is SCJP and SCWCD certified since 2001 and 2002 respectively.
Jesper has been Bartender since 2007. BioJesperDeJong
Scott Selikoff
Scott Selikoff is a senior Java/J2EE software developer with years of experience in web-based database-driven architectures. He owns and operates Selikoff Solutions, a software consulting company servicing businesses in the NY/NJ/PA area. Scott is also the author of a Java Tech Blog providing stories and advice to budding Java/J2EE developers. In his spare time, Scott enjoys swing dancing and playing fetch with his dog.
Scott has been Bartender since 2006. Email
Amit Ghorpade
Amit's first encounter with Java was in 2003 when he was learning Object Oriented languages for the first time. He discovered(?) that Java was a bit better than the 8085 opcodes and C++ . As of now he is a SCWCD for J2EE 5. As a kid he always dreamt of becoming a fighter pilot until he got a pair of spectacles due to excessive computer games. So he had to opt computers for a revenge.He did Bachelors in Engineering from Shivaji University in India .
When he is not trying hands at code, he's reading books, shaking head at music, playing computer games, trying luck with photography and cooking, with friends or on a weekend adventure.If he's doing something that's not on the list, then its probably sleeping.
Sometimes he gets thoughts of becoming a rockstar , but he does know exactly what it means being a rockstar, he just wants to be one
Amit has been Bartender since 2008.
Maneesh Godbole
Maneesh started fiddling with the computer in 2000. Understandably his first exposure was Windows, and the copy file graphics absolutely wowed him! He holds absolutely no academic qualifications whatever and is a die hard of fan of Mark Twain, who once said, "I never let schooling interfere with my education". He is a voracious reader, and is found immersed in books, when he is not pretending to work. The way to his heart is over a glass of nice whiskey. The way he won a bet with friends, in a seedy bar, after 10 rounds, way back in 1995, has passed into legend. Maneesh has been Bartender since 2008. Email
Peter Johnson Peter started his computer career in 1980 supporting a COBOL accounting package running on a Burroughs mini-computer. He started working in Java in 1998, and was lead designer on projects such as a JDBC driver for the DMSII database that runs on Unisys mainframes. For several years he was been chief architect on a team that analyzed performance of Java applications on large-scale Intel-based machines (8 to 96 CPUs), and also evaluated various open source software for enterprise readiness. Currently he is an architect in the Unisys Cloud Computing organization, acts as an open source evangelist, and is doing weird and strange things with Maven, making it do weird and wonderful things way beyond Java development. Peter speaks often about Java performance, JBoss technologies and other topics at industry conferences such as the Computer Measurement Group conference, Linux World and JBoss World. He is co-author of the book JBoss in Action.
Peter has been Bartender since 2008.
Nitesh Kant
Nitesh has been a part of the ever growing software industry in India since 2002, after doing his B.Tech in metallurgical engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. Currently, based out of Bangalore, he is working for a company called sonoa systems building a cutting edge SOA/cloud governance product. In the good old college days, nitesh was a vocalist in his college rock band and the people who were victimized by his singing are still nursing ear pains. Since then he has learned to strum the guitar and now indeed he is a "double trouble"!
Nitesh has been Bartender since 2008.
Martijn Verburg
Martijn Verburg is a Dutch Born Kiwi who is also a permanent resident of a few other nations, he likes to call it being a 'citizen of the world' ;). Martijn co-leads the London (UK) Java User Group (JUG) and also is heavily involved in the London graduate/undergraduate developer, CTOs and software craftsmanship communities. He's currently working on somewhat complex JCA Connectors and an associated open source middleware platform (Ikasan) and also spends a good deal of time herding monkeys on another open source project that deals with creating characters for d20 based role playing games (PCGen). More recently he's started writing "The Well-Grounded Java Developer (Covers Java 7)" for Manning publications (with Ben Evans). and speaks at conferences on a wide range of topics including open sourcing software, software craftsmanship and the latest advancements in the openJDK. Apart from that he enjoys traveling to weird and wonderful places, Football (the round ball version), Dance music (reach for the lasers!), Amateur Astronomy (Ohhh pretty shiny things!) and of course hanging out with his wife and pals (just in case she reads this ;p). Martijn has been Bartender since October 2008. Email: martijnverburg AT gmail DOT net
Steve Luke Sorry, no pictures of me :-) Steve graduated from Niagara University (NY) in '99 with a B.S. in Biology, and hung around doing basic research in Philadelphia, PA for a few years. But now he works for a Biotechnology company that makes hardware used to take lots of images of cells (High Content Screening) used by drug companies. Steve is a QA tester for the software and, most awesomely, gets assigned to the 'special projects' with short deadlines and high impact: the job never gets old! Steve learned programming in college, taking a C++ course. He learned Java on his own, has no certs., and really doesn't program professionally. Has taken on Python and Android recently. Steve likes a good hike, programs for fun, and can't stop watching the Phillies beat up on the National League!
Steve has been a Bartender since 2009.
Ankit Garg
Ankit graduated in 2008 and has been working as Java developer since then and completed his Master's degree along the way. He learned C++ as his first programming language in school, then learned Java during his graduation. He held grab of Java EE, Spring, EJB and Struts doing his job. He still likes to play with C++ every now and then and tries to do some cool stuff with Photoshop.
In his free time he likes to play computer games, watch movies and TV shows. He also likes to spend his time reading Java books and surfing on the internet. He and his friends likes to hang out in weekends trying to figure out what to do on next weekends Ankit has been a Bartender since 2009. Email: ankitgarg AT javaranch DOT com
Cameron Wallace McKenzie
Cameron Mc Kenzie is the most shameless self-promoter of all of the JavaRanch staff, and even this bio had to be edited to remove a bunch of self-aggrandising links that he tried to stuff in here. Cameron holds two polar opposite Sun/Oracle certifications, namely the Oracle Certified Java Associate and Oracle Certified Java EE 5 Architect designations. When Cameron's not living on his boat in the Toronto Islands, he can be found skiing down a snowy mountain in Alberta one day, and panning for gold in his secret money-pit in Nevada the next. Yes, people are always amazed at his ability to traverse climatic extremes. At least, that's what he thinks people mean when they constantly refer to him as being 'cold-blooded.' If you want to be a victim of his flagrant self-promotion, you can check out www.hibernatemadeeasy.com, but don't say we didn't warn you.
Cameron has been a Bartender since 2009.
Roberto Perillo
Roberto Perillo is a SCJP, SCWCD, SCJD and SCBCD, lives in Brazil, and has been working with Java since 2005. He started programming COBOL at the age of 15 back in high school, and started working with web development in 2001 in a small company. Some years later, went to IBM, where he had the opportunity to co-found the ibm.com GWPS LA Innovation Team and work on several challenging projects. Still in IBM, won 2 prizes for developing and leading innovation projects. In 2007, moved to Avaya, where he also had the opportunity to work on several challenging projects. He currently works as software architect at Embraer, in Sao Jose dos Campos. Roberto has bachelor's degree in Computer Science and has already finished a Software Engineering Specialization course at the Aeronautical Institute of Technology (ITA), where he is currently post-graduating in Electronic and Computer Engineering as well. He has papers published in workshops of consecrated conferences, such as RAM-SE/ECOOP and ACoM/OOPSLA, and is also part of the technical team of the MundoJ magazine (a brazilian Java magazine) where he often publishes articles as well. In his free time, he likes to run, play basketball, swim, play the guitar (some of his neighbors say he plays just like Jimmy Page!) and listen to music (mostly The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Alanis Morissette, Slayer, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Frank Sinatra and some brazilian stuff, like Tom Jobim, MPB-4 and bossa nova). Besides that, he's a huge fan of the Sao Paulo Futebol Clube soccer team.
Roberto has been a Bartender since 2010.
Roel De Nijs
Roel was born (November 22, 1979), raised and is still living in Wilrijk (Antwerp, Belgium). His little boy's dream was to become a Mathematics teacher and during the Secondary Teacher Training he came in contact with IT for the very first time (besides playing some games on a Commodore 64 in the early 90's). He really loved the programming part and spent hours in tweaking his VB applications to perfection (neglecting his other courses a lot). After one and a half years the inevitable happened: he ended the teacher training and switched to an IT education and got a (professional) bachelor in Applied Computer Sciences in 2002 (at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool, Antwerp). In 2004 he found his first job as a Java developer at the IT department of Aquafin (responsible for waste water treatment in Flandres). After 3 years he switched to a consultancy company (Cegeka Industrie nv, formerly known as MSP nv) to broaden his Java knowledge. In January 2010 he started as a self-employed Java developer (consultant). During his professional career he already passed several certifications: SCJA, SCJP (3 different versions) and SCJD (with a perfect score). A lot of his free time is spent on sports: soccer, cycling, tennis, running, snooker,... in an active role as well as a passive one. Roel has been a Bartender since 2010. Deepak Bala Deepak has been a Bartender since 2010. He has a bachelors degree in electrical and electronics. His first language was BASIC and the first programs he laid eyes on were gorilla.bas and nibbles.bas.
Deepak works under the SOA wing of a major corporation. He has several java certifications under his belt and tries to gather more when time allows. When he is not coding he likes to play TT and works on pet projects.
Devaka Cooray
Devaka started programming with Pascal and BASIC languages, when he was 13. He has been coding with Java since 2003. Now Devaka is an undergraduate of a computer science degree of the University of Moratuwa, and currently owns SCJP, SCWCD, and SCBCD certifications. He is well-known as the author of ExamLab , which is a popular exam simulator of SCJP. When he is not wrangling with his university, he involves in various JavaEE projects as a web application developer and enterprise architect. More about Devaka can be found at his website http://www.devakacooray.com/
Devaka has been a Bartender since 2010. Email
Jan Cumps
Born in 1967 in Belgium, and still living there. Jan has a degree in computer science, and works in the European IT team of an American company (a big one). Active in the open source community, with special interest for Ant, JUnit and FOP. Started the JUnitPDFReport project on SourgeForce?.
Jan has been a Bartender since 2010.
Janeice DelVecchio
Janeice has been a Bartender since 2010.
Marco Ehrentreich
Marco has been a Bartender since 2010.
Ivan Krizsan Ivan has been a bartender since 2010. Wouter Oet Wouter is a young software developer with an interest in about anything that is ICT related. He is OCPJP certified and pursuing his bachelor in Computer Science.
Wouter has been a bartender since 2010.
Greg Charles
Greg has been a Rancher since 2002 and a bartender since 2010. He's been doing software development since 1993, working in C, C++, and Java. After a short stint as software IT architect for IBM in Viet Nam from 2003 to 2005, he returned to San Diego and Java development, working long-term contracts in sectors ranging from public health to transportation to power distribution.
Jelle Klap
Jelle got hooked on computers as a gamer when he traded in his trusty ol' NES for a shiny new PC. His interest soon turned to other things besides blowing away all manner of virtual baddies, though. Basic HTML and - shamelessly ripped off - JavaScript? peaked his interest and eventually "bootstrapped" his hunt for new technologies. To that end he focused his education on IT and received his bachelor degree of information and communication technology (B-ICT) in 2006. He started working straight out of college and got down 'n dirty with Java in several projects. Several years into the game he came across an awesome Java site called JavaRanch and started frequenting the message board where he became a Bartender in 2010.
Matthew Brown
Matthew is a software developer and application maintainer in a university in the UK. He also teaches introductory object-oriented software development part-time. He took the SCJP/OCMJD certifications, and started contributing to JavaRanch, mainly to keep his hand in as he doesn't get to use Java as much as he'd like in his day job. Matthew was brought up in Yorkshire, and has a background in mathematics. So far, the only way he's been able to combine these influences is in an unhealthy interest in cricket statistics.
Matthew has been a bartender since 2011.
Darryl Burke Retired Electrical engineer, who has learned all the Java he knows on forums like these and is happy and proud to be part of this community. Darryl has been a bartender since 2011.
email: darrylbu AT yahoo DOT co DOT in
Stefan Evans
Stefan has been a bartender since 2011.
Stephan van Hulst
Stephan has no degrees or certifications to speak of, except his swimming and high school diplomas. He is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Twente. He has worked as a ferryman for two years, and is hoping to start a career in the computer industry once he finishes his studies. His interest in programming started when he got his first programmable graphing calculator, and promptly started writing chess and card games in a modified version of BASIC. A friend pointed him in the direction of Pascal, which Stephan then used throughout high school. He got introduced to Java when he first had Programming classes at university. Stephan enjoys playing board games with his friends, team sports, and he's very passionate about music.
Stephan has been a bartender since 2011.
Mohamed Sanaulla
Mohamed Sanaulla is a Software developer at Oracle and has been a Bartender since 2011.
Jeff Verdegan Jeff has known since around age 11 that his life’s work was destined to be in the world of technology. The more people he meets in his life, the more certain he becomes of the rightness of spending his days conversing with boxes of sand. The TRS-80, Apple ][, and Vic 20 gave Jeff his first taste of programming, and Lo, the Angels Wept at what that small taste of power did to his mind--a mind which was, how shall we put it, not exactly anchored to the Rock of Gibraltar to start with, if you catch our drift. He earned (or rather, somehow finagled) a BSEE from the University of Wisconsin after which he immediately moved to Japan, where he worked as a programmer for a subsidiary of Hitachi. In this job, Jeff did not gain any significant technical experience, but he did learn some important lessons, such as a basic ability to speak Japanese and the fact that, yes, there really are white-gloved guys standing on Japan’s subway platforms, cramming people into cars that make a sardine can look like the vacuum of space. Over the next several years, Jeff worked at companies both large and small. (He prefers the small, as they’re the ones more likely to keep a fridge full of beer on the premises.) He wreaked havoc with the usual hodgepodge of languages—C, C++, Perl, TCL, shell scripts, etc., and, eventually, Java, which has been the mainstay of his alleged software development activities since 1998. In his free time, Jeff enjoys cooking (though, unfortunately, not as much as he likes eating), being really awful at chess, rooting for the Packers, reading, and answering questions on Java forums. Jeff feels really weird talking about himself in the third person.
Jeff has been a bartender since 2012
Martin Vajsar
Martin was fascinated by computers ever since he encountered. He flirted briefly with various dialects of BASIC, but settled down to learn real programming with Pascal. He picked assembler, C and some "pure Windows" programming along the way. Soon after the start of his programming career some fifteen years ago he anchored in a small, cozy company, most of the time acting as his own boss, flexing out his C muscles. He guarded his happiness sloppily, though, and what was expected to be just a small affair with Visual Basic developed into bumpy and complicated relationship of hope and hate. A decade later, some three years before now, he found his rescue in Java. Martin prefers to learn on his own, which usually means from his own mistakes and, when the despair seems insurmountable, some documentation. Therefore he lacks the formal certifications and some of the most basic Java knowledge he didn’t happen to need yet. Martin tries to balance his spare time among some good reading, an amateur interest in cosmology, astronomy and particle physics, and (last but not least) his loving wife and son.
Martin has been a bartender since 2012
Junilu Lacar
Junilu joined JavaRanch in 2001 and became a bartender soon thereafter. After a few years, he put himself out to pasture for retirement but soon got restless and wandered off the range. He trekked around the wilderness in search of Agile Bliss and landed a cushy job at a large bank, name rhymes with AP Borgan Base. To his dismay, his stay there soon turned into a series of late-night production support calls and tiresome babysitting of poorly written systems. Luckily, he was rescued from that nightmare by his current manager at a well-known technology company based near San Francisco, name taken from said city. Junilu now happily leads his team from his home office in suburban Columbus OH, doing TDD and code reviews virtually over his company's web collaboration software suite (names rhyme with Jebecks and Wabber) while exploring new and exciting ways of developing software (bass ackwards ways, as old fuddy-duddies he used to know would say). He came back out of retirement with a little more wisdom and a lot less hair and is eager to share some of his experiences in Agile and great software craftsmanship. His kids are now way past sitting in his lap as pictured here but he still musters up enough energy to kick it at the local Circle of Harmony Aikido & Aikijujutsu dojo a few times a month, where he helps the other yudansha (black belts) teach the way of peace and harmony to the mudansha (not yet black belts). Junilu has been a bartender since 2001
Anayonkar Shivalkar Anayonkar holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering and is having over 5 years(as of 2013) of industry experience as Java Developer. He is SCJP, SCWCD and OCMJD. Anayonkar majorly started using CodeRanch during his OCMJD preparation, and once he was done with it (the certification, that is), he continued to help others in the same way he was helped during preparation. Anayonkar has been a Bartender since 2012
Ranganathan Kaliyur Mannar Ranga is from Chennai (India). He has been programming for over 12 years. He graduated in Computer Science studying all languages from Basic to Cobol to FoxPro? to Oracle Forms to PB to VB. After finishing college, he taught Unix, C, C++ for an year before starting to work as a programmer. He worked in Unix, C/C++ for 3 years while developing a Swing GUI frontend for the same. And been hooked on to Swing ever since even though the whole world has moved on! He then jumped into developing J2EE applications, but never understood the jsp stuff. He has lately got hooked up with NetBeans? Rich Client Platform (oh no, yet another GUI stuff?). Ranga daydreams at his dayjob and sleeps in the night. He is also hitting the gym vigorously in the hope of building muscles which can distract the attention from his shining head (due to thin hair, not any enlightment). Ranga spends time with his computer (what else?) during weekends - no, not programming, but playing games and chess on the net. Ranga has been a bartender since 2012
Tony Docherty In the dim and distant past Tony built his own wagon, hitched it to his 3 legged mule and staggered out west learning as we went. Along the way he rode in a several cattle drives, had a spell as a mountain man, tried his hand at gold panning and did a bit of cattle rustling before finally finding the love of a good women which led to him settling down and opening a saloon. Tony has been a bartender in real life since 2002 and here since 2012
Kemal Sokolovic Kemal is a prochoice oriented guy, passionate in his interests and eager to gain an in-depth knowledge in every issue related to programming. His main occupation is to make a good choice, and that's what makes him unique, or to some people weird? Believing that we are what we choose to be, Kemal didn't wait for things to be happened by destiny, he created his own, many years ago... Back then, he was in elementary school, and living in such unstimulative environemt, like his hometown is, he didn't have so many options. But, living with father-matehmatician was something what influenced his choice. By getting his first computer, his biggest passion has been born. He started researching and learning by himself, and that hard work, day by day, became his relaxation and his biggest love. Following it, he made one more choice in the same direciton, and enrolled Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. By this step, he was finally surounded by people who understand him, what increased his motivation in becoming what he always wanted to be: a programmer. Eventhough Bachelor curriculum offerd him a lot of things he wanted to learn and improve, like Object Oriented Software Development and Algorithm Design Analaysis are, he didn't allow formal education to shape him. So, he was always following researching in the fields of his interests. During his BA studies, he was mostly exploiting Java and C#. Today, he is an MA student at the same faculty, but with some new interests. He focuses his work mainly on these topics: Software Security, Rapid Software Development and new language he recently "discovered": Ruby. Working experience certainly won't take that much space in this biography, because being a student means a lot of work related to faculty, and not enough time to volunteer and get some formal experience. Untill now, Kemal worked in two companies as a practicioner, but unfortunatelly, none of these positions had nothing to do with Java, but to C#. So, that would be enough about computer-related interests. Yes, he has a life out of computer. He enjoys hanging up with his friends and his beautifull girlfriend who is his biggest support in anything he chooses to do. Also, he likes watching good movies and listening to music. Here, one special musical genre must be highlighted: it's old traditional music which really helps him to relax and transports him to some other dimension. About his hobbies – he knows what he'd like to do, but for some reasons, it's mostly impossible. In general, he likes to fill the drive and adrenaline. Hence, so far he has some plans about taking some classes in scuba diving. Kemal has been a bartender at Ranch since 2012
Jayesh's love with computers started he was in 6th grade in 1986 and his dad got him a book that talked about history of computing and a little bit of future of computing. Jayesh begged his dad to get him a computer. His uncle got him a ZX spectrum as a birthday gift, and Jayesh learned to program in Basic. That thing had 128K of RAM, and a tape drive for permanent storage. He had to wait for his program to load and he liked it!! Jayesh got his Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from University of Bombay in 1996 and pretty soon immigrated to the US in 1998. He worked as a Visual C++ programmer professionally since 95, and eventually got sick of fixing GPFs and switched to Java full time in 2000. He hasn't got sick of fixing NPEs yet :) Over the past 17 years, Jayesh has played almost all roles, from code monkey to tester to team lead to PM. Currently, Jayesh works at a not-so-small-anymore firm that provides software and services to banks. Right now Jayesh's role is of an architect, which basically means that he gets to get his hands dirty in any place he wants to Jayesh is heavily into grid computing . He has built a product that performs Monte Carlo simulations on loans, and tries to predict the performance of the loan under given market conditions. That's a very resource intensive process, so the processing is farmed out on the EC2 cloud. He uses a lot of spring and hibernate, and maven as the build tool Nowadays on the ranch, Jayesh mostly hang around recent topics, and sometimes he drops in to the threads, performance, spring and maven forums. You will mostly find him reminding people to add code tags to their posts Jayesh has been a bartender at Ranch since 2012
Other Staff "...These are people that have made large contributions to JavaRanch outside of the Big Moose Saloon. Yes! There is more to the ranch than the saloon."
Trailboss
Paul Little Paul is the guy behind Evolution Hosting who has been keeping JavaRanch running for years.
David Rizzi
David's background includes programming, systems and network management, and web development. He currently works as a contract web application developer. By night he plays drums with other jazz, rock, fusion and reggae players. Although David's contribution to Javaranch was fairly small, Paul insisted on a bio and pic because of their long standing friendship; he also threatened to supply his own - completely fictional - bio if David didn't get busy and come up with something.
Java Community "...Major contributors to the Java Community who can often be found here (one of whom begged and pleaded to have his picture shown too)."
Trailboss
Marcus Green
Marcus is a Sun Certified Java Programmer. Marcus runs the most popular site on the internet for Java Certification. His hit count is always about 30% ahead of JavaRanch. His motto is "Content Before Cows". You can find the famous "Marcus Green Site" at http://www.jchq.net/. But don't bring up the fact that the JavaRanch forums are more popular than his; it's a sensitive topic. :)
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On January 19th 2009 he added SCWCD 5 to this, with a score of 94%.
