Peter Brittenham

Peter Brittenham is a Senior Technical Staff Member working in the IBM Emerging Technology group. Peter is currently an architect applying service-oriented architecture concepts to IBM's Autonomic Computing initiative.

Glen Daniels

Glen Daniels has run the gamut in his 13 years in the software industry, from device drivers and network stacks up through user interface and Web site work, in everything from assembly language to C++ to Lisp. Distributed computing has always been a passion, and as such he is currently the technical lead for the JRun Web Services team at Macromedia. Glen is also an active member of the W3C XML Protocol group as well as one of the lead developers of Axis.

Doug Davis

Doug Davis works in the Emerging Technology organization of IBM, working on IBM's Web Services Toolkit, and he is one of IBM's representatives in the W3C XML Protocol working group. Previous projects include WebSphere's Machine Translation project, TeamConnection, and IBM's FORTRAN 90 compiler. Doug has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University.

Paul Fremantle

Paul Fremantle is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Software division. Paul works on IBM's Enterprise Service Bus initiative and other Web services activities in the WebSphere product.

Steve Graham

Steve Graham is an architect in the Emerging Technologies division of IBM Software Group. He has spent the last several years working on service-oriented architectures, most recently as part of the IBM Web Services Initiative. Before this, Steve worked as a technologist and consultant working with emerging technologies such as Java and XML; before that, he was an architect and consultant with the IBM Smalltalk consulting organization. Before joining IBM, Steve was a developer with Sybase, a consultant, and a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in math and a Master of Arts degree in math in computer science from the University of Waterloo.

Dieter Koenig

Dieter König is a software architect for workflow systems at the IBM Germany Development Laboratory. He joined the laboratory in 1988 and has worked on Resource Measurement Facility for z/OS, MQSeries Workflow, and WebSphere Process Choreographer.

Yuichi Nakamura

Yuichi Nakamura is a contributor to the Apache SOAP and Axis projects.

Simeon Simeonov

Simeon (Sim) Simeonov has been developing software for more than 15 years. Sim's areas of expertise encompass object-oriented technology, compiler theory, Internet tools, enterprise computing, and the broad spectrum of XML technologies. As chief architect at Macromedia Inc., Sim provides direction for the evolution of the company's technology and product strategy as well as the architecture of its server-side platform products. Previously, Sim was chief architect at Allaire Corporation, where his initiatives brought about numerous innovations to the core product lines. Sim is currently working on service-oriented architectures for the next generation of distributed XInternet applications. He is actively involved with the Java Community Process in the areas of Internet applications, XML, and Web Services. Sim also represents Macromedia on the W3C working group on XML Protocol. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a monthly columnist for XML Journal. Sim holds a B.A. in Computer Science, Economics, and Mathematics and a MSc in Computer Science.

Claudia Zentner

Claudia Zentner is an architect working for IBM's Software Group at the IBM Development Laboratory in Böblingen, Germany. Currently she is an architect for the process choreography component of the WebSphere Business Integration offering.