Oklahoma City Java Users Group » Speaker Bios

Alex Miller

brian.sheldon — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:55:57 +0000

Alex Miller is a Senior Engineer with Revelytix, building federated semantic web query technology with Clojure.

Prior to Revelytix, Alex was technical lead at Terracotta, an engineer at BEA Systems, and Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His interests include Java, concurrency, distributed systems, languages, and software design.

Alex enjoys tweeting as @puredanger and blogging at http://tech.puredanger.com.

In St. Louis, Alex is the founder of the Lambda Lounge group for the study of functional and dynamic languages and the Strange Loop developer conference.

Ken Sipe

brian.sheldon — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:48:45 +0000

Ken Sipe is the CTO of Gradleware, Inc. (gradleware.com). With the co-founders Hans Dockter and Adam Murdoch, Ken helps companies of all sizes adopt agile practices and automate their enterprise systems enabling faster time to market and higher quality.

Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken’s current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

John Woodward, PhD

Ryan Hoegg — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:25:08 +0000

John Woodward is a Principal Consultant for Improving Enterprises, based out of Dallas, Texas. He has been with Improving Enterprises for 4 years, and has been a professional software developer for the last 15 years (not counting 5 years of writing fluid dynamics software while pursuing his PhD in Astrophysics).

Kenyatta Clark

Ryan Hoegg — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:01:44 +0000

Kenyatta is a mild mannered fellow with a love for technology. Kenyatta has 11 years of relevant real world experience. He works for MBO Partners in Edmond, OK. He lives in Oklahoma City with his lovely wife and three children.

Adam Farlee

Ryan Hoegg — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:35:57 +0000

Adam Farlee is a Sr. Software Engineer/Architect working for Objectstream, Inc. on internal applications development. He has 25 years of experience in Software Development and is currently working on web development under the Rational Unified Process and Agile methodologies. He has spent his career acting as a proponent for new technologies as they became available, starting with RPG II and working all the way through Java.

Daniel Mavis

Jason Lee — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:18:07 +0000

Daniel Mavis is an agile web application developer working as the technical lead of the Flight Inspection Automation Team at the FAA in Oklahoma City for Objectstream, Inc. As a relatively young developer, he enjoys working on the bleeding edge of technologies, constantly learning and looking for new ways to be more agile and effective. In addition to working full-time on the Java platform, he has also worked in .NET and more recently in Ruby and various Ruby frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra.

Grant Schofield

Ryan Hoegg — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:59:31 +0000

Chad Gorshing

Jason Lee — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:33:10 +0000

Chad Gorshing has been a software developer for nine years and is currently a consultant for Valtech. He started his career working at Tinker AFB, and branched out of the DoD business into the private sector four years ago. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Midwest City.

Greg Bugaj

Jason Lee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:59:36 +0000

Greg Bugaj was born and raised in Poland, and moved to the US in 1996. He is a member of the United States Marine Corps, having served in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. He works as a Java web application developer working with JSF, Seam and Grails, specializing in developing rich client apps. He is currently employed by American Bank Systems. In addition to working, Greg is attending the University of Central Oklahoma, with just a few hours left to get his B.S. in C.S. Greg is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP 1.5), and a member of ISSA and DC405.

Brian Sheldon

Jason Lee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:59:14 +0000

Brian has been a programmer since 1987 and has been a java developer for Hertz since 2002. He is more passionate about getting the job done than making it pretty. He is not proud of his code. If you know a better way to do something, go for it.

He has been married since 1982 and has two wonderful daughters.