Speakers

• Stephen Colebourne

  
  Stephen Colebourne is a hands-on Technical Architect at SITA ATS Ltd,
  where he oversees the development of e-commerce systems for airlines. He was elected
  Java Champion and a JavaOne RockStar. He has been developing in Java ,since version 1.0
  and has both client and server side experience.In his spare time he keeps himself very busy.
  Dates and times have become a passion, and he is co-spec lead of JSR-310 Date and Time API
  and project lead of Joda-Time. The second major area of interest is Java language change, where he is
  the co-author of FCM closures and founder of the Kijaro project where language change ideas can be implemented in javac. Finally, he is a member of the Apache Software Foundation following work on Commons Collections, Lang and IO.
  Stephen is now a regular conference speaker and a frequent blogger at jroller.com.
  
  
  

• Alef Arendsen

  
  Alef Arendsen is Principal Consultant and founder at Spring Source. Originally, Alef joined the development team of the Spring Framework in early 2003. Currently, Alef is responsible for several strategic Interface21 clients and he helps them achieve great results using some of the Spring Portfolio products. Furthermore, Alef is responsible for several activities related to technical marketing. Alef is based out of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  
  

• Frederic Simon

  
  Frederic Simon AlphaCSP founder in 1998 as CTO and chief architect. His development experience goes back to 1992, and has been a Java & JEE consultant since 1999. His Open Source activities are with jfrog and setllarium4Java
  
  

• Yoav Landman

  
  Yoav joined AlphaCSP on Q1 2002 after serving in various technical lead and management positions in Israel and overseas organizations, including Versata Inc, Sausage Software and Attunity. As one of AlphaCSP’s principal consultants Yoav manages and escorts the development of large-scale Java and JEE based production systems and plays a central role in assimilating cutting edge open source technologies into projects.

• Dmitry Jeremov

  
  Dmitry Jemerov, IntelliJ IDEA development lead, JetBrains Since joining JetBrains in 2003, Dmitry has worked on Omea, IntelliJ IDEA and a number of other projects. Currently he leads the development of new products based on the IntelliJ IDEA platform. Dmitry has been a speaker at several conferences, including JavaOne, JavaPolis and JavaEdge 2007. He lives in St.Petersburg, Russia.

• Dror Bereznitsky

  
  Dror Bereznitsky is a senior consultant and architect at AlphaCSP. Dror has more than nine years of experience in the IT industry and has been working for AlphaCSP since 2006. Prior to joining AlphaCSP Dror held various technical lead and management positions in the Israeli high-tech industry. Dror holds a B.Sc degree in computer science from Bar-Ilan university and is currently completing his M.B.A degree. As one of AlphaCSP’s senior consultants Dror manages and consults the development of large-scale Java and JEE based projects in sectors varying from the financial industry to the mobile world. Dror is an active member of the open source community leading a Java build related sourceforge project .
  
  

• Ophir Radnitz

  
  Ophir Radintz is a Java technologies consultant at AlphaCSP. He has been working with Java technologies for over 6 years and as an AlphaCSP consultant for the last two years . During this time he has been exposed to a wide array of projects with very diverse sets of requirements and constraints. These projects vary from large scale deployments to start-up applications available tools and techniques. He is specialized in domain modelling and design from the entities level to the process definition and business rules execution.
  
  

• Baruch Sadogursky

  
  Baruch Sadogursky is AlphaCSP's Training Center Manager, and has overall responsibility for AlphaCSP training activities. Baruch is also one of AlphaCSP's consultants and architects. Baruch has more than 7 years experience in Java (developing, mentoring, consulting and training), last four of which with AlphaCSP. He has worked with some major AlphaCSP clients in various development and consulting positions, developed and delivered most of AlphaCSP courses.
  
  

• Ori Dar

  
  Ori Dar is a Java Architect and Consultant at AlphaCSP. Ori has more than 8 years expirience in Java as a developer, team leader and consultant. Ori had joined AlphaCSP in 2007, and since, has been working with some of AlphaCSP's clients in various development and consulting positions. Prior to joining AlphaCSP, Ori held a few technical lead positions in the Israeli high-tech industry.
  
  

• Roi Aldaag

  
  Roi is a Java Architect and Consultant at AlphaCSP. Roi has 8 years of Java experience as a developer, team leader, development manager and as a consultant. Former CEO and founder of the startup company Arcode Software Solutions, Ltd. Holds a B.Sc degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University. Takes his Java black with extra sugar.
  
  

• Avishay Halperen

  
  Avishay Halperen is a Site Manger and Java Consultant at AlphaCSP. Joined AlphaCSP on Q1 2004 and has been practicing Java ever since as a developer, team leader and site manager on one of the largest project of AlphaCSP. Specializing on various JEE and J2SE frameworks and infrastructures. AKA "The Doctor".
  
  

• Alex Waisburd

  
  Alex Weisburd is a Consultant at AlphaCSP. Alex joined the AlphaCSP team as a Java novice to the special JTeam project in January 2001. Currently, Alex is managing a project at the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation - NITE based in Jerusalem.
  
  

• Yoav Aharoni

  
  Yoav Aharoni is a Web Consultant at AlphaCSP, Yoav has joined AlphaCSP in Q4 2006. Aside from being a java developer Yoav brings to AlphaCSP a vast knowledge of web technologies. Continuously exploring, Yoav is trying is keep himself updated with the newest and hottest innovations the web has to offer today.
  
  

• Nadav Wiener

  
  Nadav Wiener is a senior developer at AlphaCSP. Prior to joining AlphaCSP this year, Nadav held a succession of architectural and team leading roles in the telecom industry, working on heavy lifting portions of software machinery. Nadav has been working on Java based enterprise systems for the past 5 years
  
  

• Guy Nir

  
  Guy Nir is a professional on research and development for approximately 20 years, focusing the last 8 years within the Java domain, mainly on enterprise applications. Since joining AlphaCSP a year ago, Guy has participated in a number of enterprise projects, ranging from service oriented systems to back-office network management systems (NMS).
  
  

• Gilad Garon

  
  Gilad Garon is a Software Engineer at AlphaCSP. Gilad has been working with Java for over 4 years as a developer. Since joining AlphaCSP in 2007, Gilad has specialized in build architecture, web framework technologies, and application servers.
  
  

• Yossi Shaul

  
  Yossi is a senior developer working with Java technologies for the last 5 years. Yossi joined AlphaCSP on 2005 and since then was involved in numerous projects for various small to large-sized clients such as Viola Networks, NITE, IDI, Cisco and others. Yossi has gained vast experience with enterprise scale applications, build technologies, software engineering and agile methodologies. Yossi is an active committer in several open-source projects. Yossi holds a BA (Magna Cum Laude) in Computer Science from the Open University