MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2004 Speakers

Jim Abbott

Senior Product Manager, Novell

Jim Abbott is a product manager, that manages web enabling technologies so they integrate and provide synergies as they are deployed in both the NetWare and Linux environments.

John Paul Ashenfelter

Transitionpoint

John Paul Ashenfelter is CTO of TransitionPoint, where he builds web-based business applications for startups and small companies. He has written the aboutSQL column for O'Reilly's onLAMP.com site, contributed to WebReview.com, and written several books.

Mike Balma

Linux Business Strategist, Hewlett-Packard Company

HP Linux Business Strategist, has helped drive HP's strategy for Linux and Open Source software across the company since 1999. A member of HP's Open Source Review Board, Balma was involved in the porting of Linux to Itanium and PA-RISC, and he also helped create an exchange for open source software development. Balma has been with HP for 20 years and has led several HP efforts to create specific industry solution architectures.

Brian Behlendorf

Founder and CTO, Collabnet

Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites.Behlendorf is President of the Apache Software Foundation. He also serves as a Technical Advisor to Critical Path (CPTH) and Topica.

Reggie Burnett

President, ByteFX, Inc.

Reggie Burnett is a software consultant based in Nashville, TN. His company, ByteFX, Inc. is currently focused on .NET technologies on both the desktop and server and develops products for both the developer and consumer. ByteFX currently has available a fully managed, open-source MySQL ADO.Net provider and is preparing a beta release of MySQL Explorer, a commercial add-in for Visual Studio.NET that allows for easy manipulation of MySQL databases as well as application development using MySQL. ByteFX is also currently working on ADO.Net providers for other databases including PostgreSQL and SAP. Reggie has written for .NET Developers Journal and spoke on .NET at the 2003 MySQL Developers Conference. His company also provides .NET training and is always available to discuss your .NET consulting or training needs. The ByteFX website can be found at http://www.bytefx.com and Reggie can be reached at reggie@bytefx.com.

Mariella Di Giacomo

Library Software Engineer, LANL, Research Library

Mariella Di Giacomo is a member of the Library Without Walls team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her interests include digital libraries, distributed database systems, cluster computing and large-IO systems. She received her Laurea degree in computer science from the University of Pisa, Italy. For the ten years prior to joining LWW she worked for the Consorzio Pisa Ricerche and various telecommunication and software firms. In October 2002 she was an invited speaker at the Personalization and Digital Libraries Seminar hosted at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Brad Fitzpatrick

President and CTO, Danga Interactive

I started messing around with dynamic web apps and databases in 1994, at age 14. During high school I started a website, FreeVote.com, which let users create their own "voting booths" and visitors to booths could add items and/or vote on existing items. With FreeVote, I developed the web templating system I continue to use to this day, BML. I learned a lot about database design from FreeVote.com and turned it into a company, staffed by friends and volunteers. I later went on to make the now-insanely-popular LiveJournal.com, a community system and blogging platform. LiveJournal has taught me tons about large-scale systems architecture, and I continue to learn to this day. LiveJournal.com started as a hobby project, then turned into an open source project, and later a community-run website. Today there are over 1.7 million accounts, a million of which are active. We have two dozen MySQL databases and lots of open source code to make using MySQL in crazy, fun ways easy. I wrote an object-oriented templating language with syntax similar to Perl and Java with support for internationalization, reflection for HTML configuration wizards. That's in use by both LiveJournal.com and our photo hosting platform, PicPix.com. I'm one of the main creators of "memcached", a high-speed distributed memory object caching system. There are now five language bindings for it, and it's in use by many popular sites including Slashdot and Wikipedia. Memcached and MySQL complement each other nicely, especially when the application author knows more about the cache validity constraints than MySQL's query cache could possibly know, which must constantly empty its cache on table updates. In addition to memcached, I've developed different load balancing systems and others tools for dealing with tons of servers in highly dynamic environment (pretty much no static files... mod_perl and MySQL/memcached for everything). I'm interested in compilers, databases, operating system internals, and large-scale high-availabilty system design.

Marc Fleury

President and Founder, JBoss, Inc.

Marc Fleury is the president and founder of JBoss, and the developer of the EJB container JBoss is built upon.

Beth Goldsmith

Library Software Engineer, LANL, Research Library

Biography not available.

Christoffer Hall

PhD Student, University of Copenhagen

Christoffer is a PhD student in the computer science department at University of Copenhagen. His area of expertise include operating systems as well as database systems. His PhD focuses on improving the IO efficiency of database systems.

Eric Herman

Developer

I write code for fun as well as professionally. I live in Seattle, Washington where I am active in the Pair Programming and Extreme Programming interest groups. I advocate test-first development and prefer to use and write Free Software.

Mike Hillyer

Webmaster/Author, vbmysql.com

Mike Hillyer is the Webmaster of VBMySQL.com, a popular site forWindows users of MySQL. Mike has participated in both MySQL betacertification programs and served as a technical reviewer for theMySQL Professional Certification Exam Prep guide by Paul Dubois and other MySQL related books. Mike currently holds the MySQLProfessional Certification and is the top ranked MySQL expert atExperts-Exchange.com.Mike has written several articles that have been featured in theMySQL newsletter and was a speaker at the 2003 MySQL User Conference and Expo on the subject of Visual Basic and MySQL integration.Mike currently works as a software developer maintaining legacysoftware and developing new applications using Visual Basic and MySQL for the automotive industry.

J�rg Hoffmeister

Development Manager, SAP AG

J�rg Hoffmeister has worked on SAP DB/MaxDB and its predecessors since 1985. First within Nixdorf then with Software AG and finally, since 1997, with SAP. He started his work in database kernel development then took over the responsibility for the SAP R/3 port of SAP DB (1993, at that time ADABAS D) and today focuses on product and quality management topics around SAP DB/MaxDB.

Kari Honkanen

CTO and Founder, Emic Networks

Emic Networks CTO and founder, previously worked as a senior security engineer at Stonesoft, a VPN and firewall high-availability company.

Aaron C. Newman

Chief Technology Officer, Application Security, Inc.

Aaron Newman is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Application Security, Inc (AppSecInc). Widely regarded as one of the world's foremost database security experts, Aaron co-authored the Oracle Security Handbook for Oracle Press, has delivered presentations on database security around the globe, and has written numerous white papers and articles on database security. Prior to founding AppSecInc, Aaron founded several other companies in the technology area, including DbSecure, the pioneers in database security vulnerability assessment, and ACN Software Systems, a database security consulting firm. Aaron has spent the last decade managing and designing database security solutions, researching database vulnerabilities, and pioneering new markets in database security. Aaron has held several other positions in technology consulting with Price Waterhouse, Internet Security Systems, Intrusion Detection Inc, and Banker's Trust.

Stacey Quandt

Principal Analyst, OSDL

Stacey Quandt is a principal analyst at OSDL. She is responsible for covering key market trends important to IT vendors and corporate end users of Linux. She is a principal speaker for the Lab at industry conferences and tradeshows and plays a leadership role in developing Lab market research, technical publications and industry opinion pieces. Prior to joining OSDL she was an industry analyst at Forrester Research, where she created the firm's Open Source Research Competency. There she advised Fortune 1000 customers with tactical and strategic advice on Linux and published research. A popular speaker at industry conferences and events, she has presented at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Oracle OpenWorld, the National and Local eGovernment Programs, GigaWorld IT Forum, IBM Roadshows, Sun Microsystems ISV Advisory Board, and many others.

Matt Raible

President and Chief Architect, Raible Designs, Inc.

A Montana native who grew up in a log cabin without any electricity or running water. After hiking to school a mile and a half every day (and skiing in the winter), he would arrive home to a very loving family. "The Cabin" is a beautiful and awesome place that will always be near and dear to Matt's entire family. Even without electricity, his father, Joseph, connected them to the Internet using a 300 baud moden, a Commodore 64, and a small generator. CompuServe was the name, slow was the game. Matt became inspired by the Internet in the early 1990s, and has been developing websites and web applications ever since. He graduated from the University of Denver in 1997 with degrees in Russian, International Business and Finance.Matt currently resides in Denver with his wife Julie and daughter Abbie. He consults as a J2EE Developer for Raible Designs and is always striving to find the easiest solutions for web applications. His current favorite technologies can be found within his open source AppFuse application. He is activily involved in the Open Source community and loves Java

Lars Samuelsson

Software Project Leader/Developer, Lentus

Biography not available.

Guido Sintoni

WillyStudios.com

Biography not available.

Kevin J Smith

Director, Intel

Kevin J Smith is a director of Intel?s Software Products Division that has development centers in over 12 locations in 7 countries. He joined Intel Corporation in 1989 and has more than 27 years of experience in providing technology leadership and guidance to high performance software solutions. Prior to joining Intel, Kevin played key engineering management roles in the design and implementation of high performance software solutions at Control Data. Kevin holds 5 patents in advanced code generation technologies.Kevin has spoken extensively on various topics during leading industry events. Kevin holds BA from University of Colorado.

Helmut Spoecker

Consulting Manager, Realtech

Joined REALTECH system consulting in 1997 after he finished his studies in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Boston, Massachussetts, with a Master of Physics. Helmut Sp�cker has reached the position of a Consulting Manager and takes full responsibility for a team of consultants. He started with the realization of SAP system upgrades with large customers, whereafter he soon focused on the optimization of SAP system landscapes. He has been responsible for analysis and redesign of SAP IT structures in a number of optimization projects from planning aspects through realization and implementation. Furthermore he established, and until today coordinates, the close cooperation of REALTECH and the SAP LinuxLab.Within the REALTECH organization, Helmut Sp�cker accountsfor the topics IT strategy consulting and system landscape optimization(SLO), migration, upgrade and Linux.

David Stokes

Emic Networks

Chris Stone

Vice Chairman, Novell

Chris Stone was appointed Vice Chairman, Office of the CEO, of Novell in March, 2002, marking his return to the company after departing in late 1999 to start Tilion, a web services startup. At Novell, Stone has responsibility for all engineering, support, marketing, product management, alliances, global sales and consulting. Stone will be instrumental in driving Novell's one Net vision forward, and is focused on reasserting Novell's technology leadership moving into a Web services environment.Stone has a degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and attended the Executive MBA program at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. He has been named a "Top Ten Entrepreneur" by Red Herring for 2001.

Steve Stover

CTO, Quest Software, Inc

Steve Stover is the Chief Technology Officer for Quest Software?sDevelopment and Deployment Solutions. Steve has 9 years of experience developing and architecting enterprise applications while focusing on Java and J2EE solutions on Oracle and other databases for the last 6 years. Steve has conducted consulting engagements for Quest?s customers and public web presentations on architecting high-performance and scalable J2EE applications.

Massimiliano Stucchi

Partner, WillyStudios.com

Computer Science student at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Massimiliano stucchi also runs a consulting company and ASP supporting FreeBSD in mid- to big-sized enterprise environments. Based in Milan, Italy, his activities range from normal system administration, to operating system development, to cluster deployments. He's also active member of the board of directors of the Italian FreeBSD Users Group, and in his free time he enjoys playing chess.

Garima Thockchom

Product Line Manager, Sun Microsystems

Garima has worked at Sun Microsystems for 8 years, as a softwareengineer, and as a marketing manager in the Availability Productsgroup. Her focus is strategy and go-to-market programs with leading ISV partners of Sun's availability products.

Laura Thompson

Lecturer, RMIT University

Laura Thomson and Luke Welling are the authors of "PHP and MySQL Web Development" and the new book "MySQL Tutorial". Laura is a lecturer at RMIT University where she teaches various web-related and database courses to postgraduate students. She has previously worked as a programmer and management consultant. Luke is a Senior Web Developer at MySQL AB. He has previously worked as a programmer, university lecturer, and research assistant. They reside in Melbourne Australia.

Heikki Tuuri

Founder, Innobase Oy

Heikki Tuuri (born 1964 in Helsinki, Finland) is the founder of Innobase Oy and leads the development of the InnoDB transactional engine. He holds a PhD degree in mathematical logic from the University of Helsinki, 1990. During 1988-92 he held various research and teaching positions at the Dept. of Mathematics. Heikki Tuuri started his career in database industry in 1992-93 when he was employed by Solid Information Technology, Ltd. During 1993-95 he worked at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, doing research on high performance database technology. In 1995 Heikki Tuuri founded Innobase Oy to develop InnoDB, a high performance transactionaldatabase engine. In September 2000 Innobase Oy started collaboration with MySQL AB, which resulted in the release of MySQL+InnoDB in March 2001.

Nils Valentin

Biography not available.

Vikram Vaswani

CEO, Melonfire

Biography not available.

Alan Walker

VP Sabre Labs, Sabre Holdings

Alan has worked in data processing for over 20 years, working on high performance decision support and transaction processing systems, primarily in the travel and transportation industry. His specialty is the convergence of mathematics, operations research and algorithms. His most recent work has been designing new techniques for finding cheap airfares. Prior to this, he has worked on revenue management, airline schedule planning, crew schedule planning and other decision support systems.

Peter Wayner

Author/Consultant

Peter Wayner is the author of more than 13 books and hundreds of articles in both technical publications like Linux World and non-technical venues like the New York Times. He consults on a wide range of areas and contributes to some open source projects.

Aaron Werman

Principal, Database Administrator, Open-DB Solutions

Corporate DBA for 25 years, including work at the largest financial, telecommunications, software and hardware, and biopharm firms. Author of a book on DB2 administration. Currently focusing on enterprise deployment of open source databases, particularly MySQL.

Jeremy Zawodny

Yahoo's resident MySQL Geek, Jeremy is also the lead author of "High Performance MySQL." He's been using MySQL in various capacities at Yahoo! for over 4 years and has written numerous articles for Linux Magazine and has been speaking about MySQL at conferences since 2000.