Sunday June 06, 2004

Tucu WHO?

I've been with Sun since early 97 and these days I work in the Sun Portal Server engineering team on some collaboration initiatives.

Why you may have heard my name ...

Does JSR168 JavaTM Portlet Specification ring a bell? I was one of the specification co-leads. As spec-lead I should have to take much of the blame. But I'm not alone there, I have a co-lead (Stefan Hepper) and a whole Expert Group to share it with, community effort I'd say. Doing JSR168 was a great experience. I've got to work with many sharp folks from different companies. I had to learn some political skills. I had fun working on the spec and I'd say I was not alone. We even managed to have an Expert Group face to face meeting in Breckenridge (CO) in January (you connect the dots :). Or Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)? I've participated on the doings of WSRP specification as well. Some more blame to take. I've met more smart people. I've learned other political skills (it's a complete different ball game when you are not the captain). We had fun there too. After a face to face in Grenoble (France) I've wandered through Pais Catar (France southwest) for a few days.

In a previous life I've worked in the iPlanet eCommerce division, in the iMM (iPlanet Market Maker) product designing and implementing a multi-dimensional spot exchange (sounds cool, doesn't it?). Before that I was in Sun IT doing reusable components in Java, many of them are part of today's Sun internal IT applications. Rewinding a little more, I was living in Buenos Aires, where I've worked for Sybar (Sybase Argentinean Distributor back then) doing technical support, presales support, consulting and some management. I'm sure there are still Sybase customers down there that have fliers with my picture offering some mony in exchange of my whereabouts. And I believe the Argentinean customs MARIA system is still using some C/C++ libraries and UI framework I did for them (through SIF America) back in 93.