Horizons 2006 Summit

Nancy Abell

Product Manager, Clinical Applications
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Nancy Abell is Product Manager, Clinical Applications, Sun Microsystems, Inc. In her role, Abell is responsible for meeting client business requirements by providing consultation services to prospective and existing clients focusing on process analysis and workflow restructure to improve processes and efficiencies. Abell has a wealth of knowledge and experience in successfully implementing clinical care management applications, audit and bill review services, and peer review services at hundreds of payer and provider locations.

Abell previously worked with Pacific Partners Management Services, Inc., a software company delivering Web-based managed care software and MSO services for physician groups. Abell is a Registered Nurse who received her nursing education through Deaconess Hospital and University of Evansville, Evansville, IN and Medical Nurse Practitioner certificate through Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL.

Ross Altman

CTO, Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Ross Altman is the Chief Technology Officer for Sun Microsystems' Business Integration Platforms. In this role, he focuses on the direction, development, and communication of the Sun Business Integration Division's technology vision and strategy. Altman came to Sun through Sun's acquisition of application integration and SOA development tools vendor, SeeBeyond Technologies.

Prior to joining SeeBeyond, Altman was Director of Integrated Technologies at EDS, where he developed programs in application integration architecture, methodology and governance. He also developed an EAI Audit program offering, the first of its kind in the industry.

Winston Anderson

Business Integration Manager
Bytes Technology Group

Lasse Andresen

Practice Manager SOA/Business Integration & Identity Management
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Norway

William Awab

VP Commercial Lines
St. Paul Travelers

Prabhu Balashanmugam

Product Manager, SOA and Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Prabhu Balashanmugam is a Product Manager for SOA and Business Integration Platforms for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Balashanmugam has been with the Sun/SeeBeyond Product Management team for over two years. During this period, he has served as the Product Manager for the Web Services framework and eTL Integrator product in the Composite Application Platform Suite. His background includes technical consulting, architecture, and implementation of Enterprise-level and Integration solutions for customers in a variety of verticals. Balashanmugam received his Master of Science equivalent degree from University of Madras in India.

Ian Campos

Accenture

Brian Bishop

Supervisor Health System Information Services
University of Alabama Medical Center

Brian Bishop is the Supervisor for Health System Information Services for the University of Alabama Medical Center. In his current position, Bishop is responsible for managing the Interface Group and development and support for approximately 100 interfaces, managing the system use and maintenance for UAB's EMPI, participating in interface development as needed as well as managing Computer Operations for the Health System and Change Control process for systems. He is also responsible for Physical Security access for the IT and HIM departments and serves on the Hospital Operations Environment of Care Committee and numerous other Project, Implementation and Steering Committees.

Bishop has over 14 years healthcare experience in the areas of Integration, Development, Operations and Management. He received his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1992.

Brasic, Jim

Manager of Integration Services
Kroger Co.

Jim Brasic is the Manager of Integration Services for The Kroger Co. In this role, Brasic is responsible for the oversight of batch-based and real-time integration. His responsibilities also include investigation of new technologies for the company's enterprise platform. Brasic has 15 years of experience in the IT profession providing contributions to various industries including Governmental, Training and Development, Telecommunications and Retail sectors.

David Bryant

Senior Director, Marketing, Application Platform Products
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Marti Buurkarl

Business Analyst and Integration Team Lead
Hill Physicians Medical Group

Marti Buurkarl is Business Analyst and Integration Team Lead at Hill Physicians Medical Group, one of the largest IPAs in the nation. She has seven years of experience in administrative and clinical electronic data interchange (EDI) and over 14 years of health care experience in the areas of Integration, Development, Operations and Management with a background in training, quality assurance and project management.

Previously, Buurkarl worked in managed care administration with health plans for large employers and physicians groups for 15 years. Hill Physicians Medical Group offers an extensive HMO health care network in northern California with more than 3,000 participating physicians and health care providers as well as affiliations with 20 hospitals.

Rex Chan

Product Manager, SOA and Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Rex Chan is a Product Manager for SOA and Business Integration Platforms for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chan has been with Sun/SeeBeyond for four years in the role of Product Manager for the eWay Intelligent Adapters in the Composite Application Platform Suite. Prior to joining Sun, he worked in the EAI and IBM Mainframe space at TIBCO, Mercator, and other companies in pre-sales and product management roles. Chan received his Master of Science in Systems Engineering from UCLA and his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of New Orleans.

Manish Chopra

Chief Field Architect, SOA/Business Integration Professional Services
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Manish Chopra is the Chief Field Architect of Sun Microsystems' SOA/Business Integration Professional Services Organization. In his role, Chopra manages Sun's SOA/BI Professional Services Field Competency Architecture Center, Sun's SOA Service Offering Delivery Assurance and Sun's Solution Factory Initiative with the goal of leading successful Sun SOA field implementations and maintaining focus on customer satisfaction, immediate profitability and strategic Enterprise Architecture Planning.

Jim Clarke

Chief Architect for RFID
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jim Clarke is Sun's Chief Architect for RFID and is recognized as an industry expert on RFID technologies. In his current position, he is responsible for overseeing and managing all architecture aspects of Sun's RFID offerings.

Clarke was a founding member for the Auto-ID Center Software Action Group, formed to develop universal RFID standards. Ultimately, this group evolved into the EPCGlobal Software Action Group. Clarke continues to be a key contributor.

Clarke has an extensive background in enterprise computing architectures including high performance, high throughput computing. For the past 10 years, he has specialized in enterprise class distributed computing architectures, including client/server, n-tier and service oriented architecture. He has written many publications on distributed computing, including works for SIGS Books, and SPIE International Symposium - Information Technologies and Communications.

Ken Drachnik

Group Product Marketing Manager, Application Platform Products
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Ken Drachnik is Group Product Marketing Manager for Sun Microsystems' Application Platform Products which includes Java EE technology as well as the Application and Web Tier products. Drachnik is also responsible for marketing Project GlassFish, Sun's community development project for developing an Open Source Application Server based on Java EE 5 and is the basis for Sun's next generation application server.

Drachnik has been with Sun for four years. Previous to this position, he worked in the J2ME organization on mobility strategy and marketing.

Albert T. Edwards, Jr.

Director, Office of Clinical Integration & Interfaces
Cleveland Clinic Health System

Albert Edwards, Jr. is the Director, Office of Clinical Integration and Interfaces for the Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS). He has over 20 years healthcare experience and in his current position, he works with a group of Integration Analysts, supporting over 700 Clinical & Financial interfaces across the health system.

Edwards has been involved in HL7 since 1995, has participated in several Chapter 4 and 7 (Orders & Observation) Working Group sessions, and is active with the HL7/NCPDP ePrescribing mapping standards committee. As director of the Clinical Integration Team, he is obtaining a working knowledge and experience with a number of SDO, including HL7, X12N, NCPDP and DICOM.

He received his B.A from Capital University, is a Certified HL7 Specialist and has served on the Integration User Advisory Board with SeeBeyond Technologies.

Jeff Freeze

Team Lead for Integration Competency Center
Transamerica Life Insurance Company

Jeff Freeze is Team Lead for the Integration Competency Center at Transamerica Life Insurance Company. In this role, Freeze is responsible for DB2 DBA on the Business-to-Business (B2B) team, and also serves as Team Leader for the B2B team, Development Lead for the Web Development team as well as Team Lead the Integration Competency Center (ICC).

Prior to working at Transamerica, Freeze worked for Perot Systems Corporation for eight years as a technical and project consultant. There his responsibilities included lead programmer, DBA and architect. Leadership responsibilities included client server and mainframe team leadership, strategic planning, budget planning, P&L, forecasting and hiring.

Richard Garcia

Senior Solutions Engineer, Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Richard Garcia is Senior Solutions Engineer, Business Integration Platforms, for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Garcia joined the company in 1994 and has held various roles in the healthcare vertical. Most recently, as a Senior Sales Engineer, he is responsible for addressing client business requirements as well as presenting Sun solutions to demonstrate the advantages of using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on an open, web services integration platform.

Previously, Garcia worked as Project Manager, Marketing Advisor, and Sales Engineer for the Sun HIPAA Solution. Capitalizing on a technological fit between current products and HIPAA requirements, and working closely with Product Management, Marketing and Industry Workgroups.

Garcia graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut with a degree in Literature and Philosophy. He has increased his industry knowledge through membership in various organizations, such as HL7 and X12.

Leo Golubovsky

Senior Application Architect, SOA/Business Integration Center of Excellence
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Leo Golubovsky is a Senior Application Architect with Sun Microsystems' SOA/Business Integration Center of Excellence. He specializes in SOA, Composite Applications, B2B systems and integration.

Golubovsky spent the past 20 years specializing in creating highly-scalable, distributed systems and frameworks for numerous clients where he was involved with all phases of the software lifecycle. His professional interests include distributed systems, messaging and model driven development.

Bryan Grant

Lead Application Integration Developer and Architect
Davita, Inc.

Bryan Grant is the Lead Application Integration Developer and Architect for DaVita, Inc., the largest independent provider of dialysis services in the United States. Grant has been working in the Healthcare industry for six years with roles including Billing System support, Oracle PL/SQL Development and eGate development. As the Lead Developer and Architect, his responsibilities include architecting an ICAN environment that is flexible and expandable, enforcing development standards, design and development, as well as upgrade management and planning.

Paul Hinz

Portal Product Architect, Software Marketing
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Vivek Khandelwal

Sr. Solutions Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Vivek Khandelwal is a Senior Solutions Engineer for Sun Microsystems, Inc. In this role, Khandelwal leads the development of RFID industry solutions, bringing together his business and technical expertise around RFID and Business Integration technologies to create end-to-end solutions focused on various problems and processes in various industry verticals. Additionally, he contributes to Sun's overall business and product strategy around RFID technology. Before joining the RFID business unit, Khandelwal held various positions in the Java/J2EE business teams and computer systems engineering teams at Sun.

Prior to joining Sun, Khandelwal was a member of the technical staff at Wipro Infotech's Global R&D Center. He received his Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Technology, BHU, India, and an M.B.A. from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Brian King

Solution Architect
St. Paul Travelers

Adhishesh Kondi

Enterprise Architect, IdentityManagement Practice
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Shesh Kondi is an Enterprise Architect with Sun Microsystems' IdentityManagement Practice, specializing in Access Management and Federation Technologies. Kondi has over 10 years of experience in Designing and Deploying Security and Identity Management solutions for medium and large enterprises. His core areas of interest include IdentityFederation and Web Services.

Shannon Kriel

Integration Centre of Excellence Architect
Standard Bank

Arthur Lathrop

Sr. Product Manager, SOA and Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Arthur Lathrop is a Senior Product Manager for SOA and Business Integration Platforms for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lathrop has been on the Sun/SeeBeyond Product Management team for over five years. During that period, he has served as the Product Manager for Sun eInsight Business Process Manager, Sun eVision Studio, Sun eBAM Studio, as well as other products in the Composite Application Platform Suite. His background includes sales experience and experience with product management in the areas consumer, internet, and enterprise level applications. Arthur received his Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from the University of Oregon.

Brian Leonard

Marketing Manager, Web Tier Products
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Brian Leonard is the Marketing Manager for Sun Microsystems' Web Tier Products which includes Web Server, Web Proxy Server and the Web Infrastructure Suite products. Together these products provide the industries best solution to providing a high-performance and secure web tier environment.

Leonard has been with Sun for 10 years. Previous to this position, he was the Program Manager for Sun's RFID product line.

David Llamas

Director Information Technology
Harrods

David Llamas is the Director of Information Technology for London retail giant, Harrods. After 10 years of working as a consultant and ERP project manager in retail and other industries, Llamas joined Harrods in February 2003 as Enterprise Applications Controller. In April 2005, he was promoted to his current position of IT Director in charge of Technology, Applications, Business Intelligence, e-Commerce and Telecoms.

Llamas earned his Executive MBA at the London Business School in 2005. Harrods has been London's premier retail outlet for over 155 years.

Lorenz, Greg

Director SOA/Business Integration Professional Services
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Greg Lorenz is a Director of Professional Services with Sun Microsystems' SOA/Business Integration organization. For over 15 years, he has focused on all aspects of delivering consulting services to companies ranging from mid-size to global enterprise organizations. For the past six year, Lorenz has focused on working with organizations to maximize their ROI with business integration.

Allen Lu

Senior Product Manager, SOA and Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Allen Lu is a Senior Product Manager for SOA and Business Integration Platforms for Sun Microsystems, Inc. In his position, Lu is responsible for the conceptualization and management of composite applications for the healthcare domain. Prior to joining Sun, Lu served as a Project Manager at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, where he managed the design, build, testing, and implementation of billing applications for Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region.

He also has extensive business process redesign and EDI implementation experiences through his tenure at Ernst & Young, LLP as a Senior Healthcare Consultant.

Lu holds Bachelor degrees from University of California, San Diego, and a Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Alex Maclinovsky

Senior Architect, Sun SOA Business Integration Center of Excellence
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Alex Maclinovsky is a Principal Application Architect with Sun Microsystems' SOA/Business Integration Center of Excellence. In this position, he specializesi in SOA and Composite Applications based on J2EE technologies. For over 15 years, he has focused on architecting and developing large distributed object systems on the enterprise, national and global scale.

Maclinovsky's professional interests include solution-oriented architectures, adaptive frameworks and OO methodologies.

Satish Madhira

CEO
YASU Technologies

Stein Myrseth

Senior Solution Architect
Software Innovation, ASA, Norway

Roger Nolan

Sr. Director Product Marketing, SOA and Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Roger Nolan is Senior Director Product Marketing for Sun Microsystems' SOA/Business Integration Practice. Nolan has held management positions in SOA and Business Integration Product Marketing for the past three years. During that time, he was involved in the acquisition of SeeBeyond and a new Java standard for service oriented architectures; Java Business Integration (JSR 208).

Nolan has been with Sun for 15 years in a variety of product marketing, product management and business development capacities. In addition to his Sun experience, Nolan was also VP of Business Development for a successful turnaround of the wireless company, Metricom. Prior to Sun, he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and Wang Laboratories. Nolan has an MBA from Boston College.

Jordan Olin

Engagement Manager, Sun SOA BI Professional Services
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Rai Parvataneni

Operations Manager
GM Global Integration Factory

Rai Parvataneni is the Operations Manager General Motors Global Integration Factory. Parvataneni has served in this role since 2001 and in this position has played a key role in expanding the integration scope from one application to close to 125 applications covering all areas of business within GM. Prior to the integration assignment, he worked on major projects including converting the organization's legacy systems to off-the-shelf products.

Before joining GM, Parvataneni worked for EDS in various leadership and technical roles supporting the GM Manufacturing and Engineering applications.

Bryce Rendall

Manager of Integration and SOA
Emerson Process

Bryce Rendall has worked for Emerson Process for 25 years in the Engineering and IT areas. His background includes experience as an Oracle database administrator and as an operations manager for the the Process and Systems Division of Emerson Process Management. In 2001, Rendall established an EAI team to provide Enterprise Application Integrations for the Emerson Process Management Divisions. Over the past five years his EAI Team has created a World-Wide Enterprise Deployment providing Key Business System and Application Links to all three World Areas (Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas).

Rendall currently manages Global EAI SeeBeyond Development, Production Support and Deployments for all 14 of the Emerson Process Management Divisions and three World Areas.

Mary Rich

IT Manager
CenterPoint Energy

Mary Rich is the Information Technology Manager for CenterPoint Energy. Rich has a 30-plus year career in IT working in both development and infrastructure. She has held many IT positions including developer, systems analyst, technical consultant, network architect as well as manager of IT. Her management experience has included infrastructure operations and development with the latter including over 10 years experience in IT Project Management. Rich is also a Certified IT Project Manager. Her work has spanned various industries such as Oil and Gas, Electric and NASA, but has been mostly focused on Energy.

Rich has been at CenterPoint Energy for six years and during that time has functioned as an IT Manager in Development, managing several major project implementations. One of her largest projects during that time has been around the de-regulation of the Texas electric market. Since 2002, she has been a principle contributor and manager for IT upgrades incorporating the CAPS Integration Suite of products at CenterPoint Energy.

Oleg Rubin

Enterprise Architect, SOA/Business Integration
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Oleg Rubin is an Enterprise Architect for Sun Microsystems' SOA and Business Integration organization. In this role, he is responsible for assisting Sun's customers in architecting large-scale, mission-critical enterprise systems. Rubin is also responsible for developing Java Composite Application Suite (CAPS) best practices and reference architectures.

Before joining Sun, Rubin worked with SeeBeyond, and prior, spent more than 25 years of his career in R&D, product development and consulting in a variety of IT organizations. He is also one of the pioneers of online trading as he was part of the team that architected and created the first computerized system for trading financial securities. Recently, Rubin's professional interests include SOA, Composite Applications, EAI and B2B solutions.

Arun Shrestha

Sr. Director Sun SOA BI Professional Services (US)
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Arun Shrestha is the Senior Director of Sun Microsystems' SOA Business Integration Practice. In this position, Shrestha leads the professional services team to assist the customers with their SOA and Business Integration initiatives. His team is dedicated to building the implementation methodology and best practices to accelerate deployment of Sun's SOA platform.

Shrestha has been instrumental in rolling out Sun's latest SOA Service Offerings such as SOA Jumpstart Workshop, SOA Opportunity Assessment , SOA Governance Framework and SOA Center of Excellence. He has been managing software services practice with Sun and SeeBeyond for over five years and has over 15 years of IT services experience working for companies such as Sun, SeeBeyond Technology Corp, CSC and Harbinger.

Kevin Schmidt

Director, Product Management, SOA and Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Kevin Schmidt is a Product Manager for SOA and Business Integration Platforms for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Schmidt has been with Sun/SeeBeyond for over two years serving first in the role of Senior Product Manager for eGate Integrator and currently as Director of Product Management for the Composite Application Platform Suite. Prior to Sun, Kevin spent over seven years in the data and process integration space at Enterworks in roles including development, professional services, pre-sales and customer service. Kevin received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Walla Walla College.

Mike Smith

Integration Architect
Kroger Co.

Mike Smith is the Integration Architect for The Kroger Co. In this role, Smith leads the Kroger ICoE. With more than 20 years of experience in IT, he has a broad background as a change catalyst for Fortune 500 companies in the Financial, Manufacturing, Retail, Insurance and Education sectors, helping to deliver corporate initiatives faster by overcoming data and integration challenges. Smith's current responsibilities include tactical and strategic integration direction, as well as advancing paradigm shifts to enable SOA.

Paul Stanley

Senior Account Executive
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Paul Stanley is Senior Healthcare Account Manager for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stanley joined Sun in 2005. With over 12 years of experience in healthcare publishing and revenue cycle management, he brings extensive industry knowledge to the organization.

Prior to joining Sun, Stanley held the position of Senior Account Executive for Per-Se Technologies in Atlanta, GA. He also spent many years as the Northeast Account Executive for Thomson Micromedex of Denver, CO.

Stanley graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in business and systems analysis.

Hal Stern

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Hal Stern is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Software for Sun Microsystems, Inc. His job responsibilities include governance models, architectural alignment of various cross-Sun software projects, and strategic management of capabilities ranging from open source projects to security reviews.

Stern has been with Sun for more than 15 years, having previously held the titles of CTO for Sun Services, Chief Architect for Sun Professional Services, CTO of the Sun ONE (iPlanet) infrastructure products division and Chief Technologist of the Northeast U.S. sales area. He became the first employee from the field organization promoted to the position of Distinguished Engineer in February 1995 and was one of the creators of the first Java Day, held in New York City in September 1995.

Stern received the Sun President's Award in 1993 for contribution to Sun's product strategies in clustered systems. He is also listed as inventor or co-inventor on three patents related to network applications.

Lindsy Strait

Chief Technology Strategy Officer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Lindsy Strait is the Chief Technology Strategy Officer in Healthcare for Sun Microsystems, Inc. He is considered a subject matter expert and thought leader for Healthcare and Life Sciences Systems which has helped secure Sun's position as the preeminent supplier of leading- edge integration and composite application development solutions to the healthcare industry.

In this role, Strait utilizes his over 20 years of experience in Information Technology and healthcare informatics to develop and execute high-level strategic planning, definition, and assessment of operations and processes for the Healthcare division.

Strait graduated from the University of Southern California in 1984, with a Master's Degree in Systems Science Computers and Logistics. He also has his Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy, Law and Drama from the University of Virginia, Mary Washington campus. Strait also has a distinguished military service record, which includes being a Marine Corps Computer Sciences School Graduate.

David Todd

Senior Product Manager, SOA and Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

David Todd is a Senior Product Manager for SOA and Business Integration Platforms for Sun Microsystems, Inc. In this position, Todd is responsibe for eView Studio product in the Composite Application Platform Suite. He also manages the internationalization of the Composite Application Platform Suite, and supervises the protection of the former SeeBeyond intellectual property assets.

Prior to joining Sun, Todd worked as a product manager for financial services applications at Oracle, and as a vice president for strategic planning at several financial institutions. David holds an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.

Van Der Watt, Hendrik

Information Technology Manager, Technology Operations
Standard Bank

Jen Viens

Practice Director, SOA and Business Integration Professional Services
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jen Viens is the Practice Director for Sun Microsystems' SOA/Business Integration Professional Services for the Eastern Region including Financial Services and Government. In her role, Viens is focused on leading a team of Engagement Managers and Consultants overseeing the implementation and layout of integration projects focused on Enterprise SOA. Prior to joining Sun, Viens accumulated over 20 years experience in the software industry. She was part of the early Internet boom during which she played a key role in many organizations. Her professional highlights include management positions with Sybase, Allaire, Macromedia and Citrix Systems. Viens professional interests include business development, solution productization, mobility solutions and multimedia.

James Wedberg

Director Enterprise Architecture
Securus Technologies

James (Jim) Wedberg is Director, Enterprise Architecture for Securus Technologies, Inc. of Dallas, TX. In his current position, Wedberg leads a team made up of J2EE, CM and Data professionals in creating a vision for the future of the company and delivering framework solutions to implement that vision.

Wedberg is a committed IT professional with over 25 years of experience combining proven leadership skills, business acumen, and technical expertise directed towards architecting, designing, and driving technology solutions to business problems. In roles ranging from Developer to Director, Wedberg has actively participated in and spearheaded many business-critical projects, leveraging established and emerging technologies into tightly integrated solutions with components linking the past to the present.

Mary Ann Williams

Sr. Solutions Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Yvette Williams

Interface/eGate Manager
First Consulting Group

Yvette Williams is currently the Interface/eGate Manager for First Consulting Group. She has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology with 18 years working in Healthcare and Healthcare related environments.

Williams' primary focus over the past 10 years has been managing and implementing Integration solutions for medium to large size healthcare facilities. She began her consulting career in 1998 and has been with First Consulting Group since July 2002. Williams is currently part of the outsourcing team at UPHS and lead her team through the conversion from Datagate to eGate in 2003.

Williams has attended each of the SeeBeyond conferences since its inception in 1994 and participated in the first "Tips and Tricks" panel discussion held at the 2nd annual conference. She received her Bachelors Degree in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently working on her Master's Degree in Hospital Administration at Eastern University in PA.

Steven Yap

Product Manager, SOA and Business Integration Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Stefan Yap is Product Manager, SOA and Business Integration Platforms for Sun Microsystems and has been a member of the product management team for just under 2 years. In his position, Yap focuses on Sun's initiatives in composite applications.

Stefan has over 6 years of experience in the enterprise software and technology field with prior positions at Invensys, Accenture and i2. In these roles, he oversaw the development and implementation of business solutions which integrated critical processes for hundreds of different organizations and their partners. Stefan received a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with a Minor in psychology and graduated with honors from the University of California, San Diego.

Gary Yu

Architecture Manager
GM Global Integration Factory

Gary Yu is the Architecture Manager for General Motors Global Integration Factory. Yu joined GM in 2000 and has served as the GM EAI Architect and helped implement the EAI architecture in GM. Yu has extended experience and knowledge in enterprise integration, from strategy to architecture, and in implementation infrastructure. He is currently playing a key role in defining SOA strategy and Web Services Security within GM.

Prior to joining GM, Yu worked for Ford and lead the Powertrain engineering application development and STEP standardization activities.