Miami Java Users Group Meeting 3 April 17, 2007

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Topics & Speakers:

* JVM Clustering by Ari Zilka
* Practices of an Agile Developer by Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
* Spring into Groovy by Dr. Venkat Subramaniam

Speakers Bio:

Ari Zilka

In 2003, Ari founded Terracotta, Inc and is currently CTO.

Prior to founding Terracotta, Ari was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners.

Before joining Accel, Ari was the Chief Architect at Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company’s new engineering initiatives. At Walmart.com, he built and led a team of core engineers focused on performance management, and operations cost-saving measures.

Prior to Walmart.com, Ari worked as a consultant at Sapient and before that at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. During these years, he managed development and advised businesses on high technology strategy and deployment. His accomplishments at Sapient include the successful launch of Walmart.com, as well as successful engagements with Gap.com and Nike.com. At PriceWaterhouseCoopers, he worked with Harrod’s of London, Siemens, Intel, Compaq, Barnes & Noble, and others.

Ari’s career started as a software engineer for a subsidiary of Motorola, where he wrote groundbreaking wireless paging software. Since then, his software development accomplishments also include projects revolving around statistical analysis and data warehousing. In the mid 1990’s, Ari invented a new object relational database that still exceeds the capabilities and performance of database technology today.

Ari holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science as well as in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

http://www.terracotta.org

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored more than 3000 software developers in the US, Canada, and Europe. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at conferences and user groups. He is author of “.NET Gotchas” (O’Reilly) and coauthor of “Practices of an Agile Developer” (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_view.jsp?speakerId=11
http://www.agiledeveloper.com

Venue: Dave & Buster's - Dolphin Mall (11481 NW 12th St Miami, FL 33172)

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