Oklahoma City Java Users Group » Speaker Bios

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.

Les Martin

Jason Lee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:58:53 +0000

Les Martin is a programmer for MBO Partners. He has been programming web related software since 2004.

Les is married and has one child. He enjoys music and watches too much television (Lost anyone?). A fan and user of Ubuntu Linux.

Michael E. Shorter

Jason Lee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:58:35 +0000

Michael Shorter is a professional code poet who works for Power Costs, Inc. He has been working with Java almost since its inception. Mike has been professionally programming over the past two and a half decades and has primarily worked in the arenas of systems architecture and systems programming. As a code poet, he has worked with over 27 different languages, and in environments ranging from mini and mainframe computers to n-tiered client server architectures. His operating system of choice is UNIX, or any derivative (spelled LINUX). When he first learned how to program, his goal was to write HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, so his interests in the field of computing are neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic and arithmetic and data persistence. Outside of computing, Mike enjoys dabbling in high energy particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum physics and comparative belief systems based on sacred texts – the goal being to integrate consciousness and life as basic forces of nature along with those specified by the Standard Model. He lives in Norman with his wonderful wife Tina Rae and their four Whippets Buster, Currie, Einstein and Newton.

Scott Centille

Jason Lee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:58:07 +0000

Scott Centille is a Senior Consultant for Valtech, who has worked as an: Architect, Developer, Project Leader, and Mentor for over 20 years in the Consulting, Tele-Communication, Hydraulic Distribution, Financial, and Food Service Industries. As an instructor, he created and taught Java Programming and Web Development with Java Server Page classes. A Taekwondo martial arts enthusiast, he enjoys competing in local tournaments and is close to earning his first degree black belt. He lives with his wife and four sons here in Oklahoma City.