Amiram Hayardeny
Amiram Hayardeny has worked in IT for over for over 18 years at Fortune 500 companies like KPMG, HBO, IBM, and now Sun Microsystems. He has held positions ranging from Researcher/Developer to Project Manager to Development Manager. In his current role as Development Engineering Director for Sun in Beijing, Amiram manages teams who deliver features to the Solaris Operating System.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from SUNY at Stony Brook and an MBA from the New York Institute of Technology.
A native of Tel Aviv, Israel, Amiram has travelled and worked all over the world, including New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Haifa and now Beijing.
MikeHayden
Mike qualifies as a geezer by virtue of his considerable longevity, not his inconsiderable virtue! He first became a manager long ago... 1969, in fact.
To Mike, managing is much more about learning than about telling others what to do: "We learn to be parents from our children, and to be managers, from the people we manage." Over the years Mike has learned a bit about being a manager from literally thousands of people: a few of those were his superiors, a few more were his peers, and by far the largest number and the best teachers were those he had the privilege to know as members of groups he managed.
Mike has been a software engineering manager at Sun for over fourteen years. Prior to joining Sun, he managed a variety of software and hardware engineering groups at other computer and telecom companies. He is currently a Software Engineering Director in Beijing, China. His university education started in Neanderthal times and includes degrees in Cultural Anthropology (BA, 1967), Computer Science (MSc, 1975) and Business (MBA, 1990).
When not working, Mike loves to travel, take photos, play with children, laugh a lot, eat good food, drink good wine and single malt Scotch whisky, and spend as much time as he can with Linda, his lovely wife of 41+ years. He has two grown children who also work at technology companies, and who learned from their mother how to be loving, considerate and wonderful companions.
Sin-Yaw Wang
Sin-Yaw Wang has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years. A resident of Beijing, he is the Vice President of the Global Engineering Organization at Sun. His charter for Sun is to leverage global engineering talent and to capture market share in the dynamic Chinese IT industry.
Before his appointment to the position of Vice President in March 2005, Sin-Yaw was the Senior Director of Solaris Network & Security Technology. His organization developed the networking & security component of Sun's acclaimed Solaris Operating System. He also was the chairman of the committee responsible for the release of the Solaris 10 product.
Sin-Yaw also held several Engineering Director positions on the Solaris team- most notably being responsible for Solaris kernel which focused on resource management, server consolidation, fault and breach containment, and virtualization.
Prior to joining Sun, Sin-Yaw was a Director at Adaptec where he was in charge of all system software for the SCSI product lines. Before Adaptec, he was Vice President of Engineering at a Silicon Valley start-up called Books That Work, developing consumer software.
Sin-Yaw was born in Taiwan in 1958. He left the island country in 1982 after graduating from Tamkang University with a major in Mechanical Engineering. In 1984 he earned a Master's degree in Manufacturing Technology from Arizona State University. In 1990, while working in Silicon Valley he received his Master's degree in Computer Science and in 1997 his MBA from Santa Clara State University.