Carol McDonald travels all over the world speaking at Sun Tech Days, JUGs, Companies, and conferences...Before returning to Sun in 2007, Carol worked 2 1/2 yrs as an Architect on a BIG Spring/hibernate application to manage > 10 mill loans for a leading bank. Before joining Sun the first time in 1999 Carol worked on Pharmaceutical Intranet applications for Roche in Switzerland, a Telecom Network Management Application for Digital (now HP) in France, a X.400 Email Server for IBM in Germany, and as a student intern for the National Security Agency. Carol holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, a B.S. in Geology from Vanderbilt University, and is a Sun Certified Java Architect and Java Language Programmer. Carol is also Fluent in French and German.