A Bit About Me
I'm a Londoner, born & bred, currently living in central London (so central I'm thinking of putting a hotel sign above my door!)
Career-wise, I have 22 years in the IT industry, 10 of which focussed on EAI/Middleware. I joined Sun as part of the SeeBeyond aquisition. I currently manage the FAST group in EMEA, although I have held a number of roles in Sun/SeeBeyond/STC before that: Development, Product Management for eWays (adapters) and Systems Engineering (working with our Early Access Program). Looking back, all were engineering roles with a heavy customer focus... the best of both worlds!
It was in a "previous life" that I had my first exposure to "middleware" with CORBA where I introduced it to (ING) Barings Bank many years ago. During a competitive evaluation for the Bank, I came across Datagate ("CAPS v3"?) - a simple product, based on a (then) revolutionary hub and spoke model. The next version, 4.x, was a "network centric" one - again slightly ahead of it's time and before Java EE was really established. Followed by ICAN / Java CAPS 5 and finally Java CAPS 6 / GlassFish ESB / Open ESB, the most exciting version, since it espouses a new standards-based development model that promises to be the best integration platform around. More on that later.
