Gateway JUG

Mike Menne

Mike earned a Bachelor of Science, Computer Science degree from Truman State University in 2009, but has been doing Java for several years before that.

He has worked for several different companies, but is currently at Monsanto as a consultant from Daugherty Business Solutions.  His duties include perfecting the code base at Monsanto. 

He has a passion for using fun technology, working on cool and meaningful projects, and most importantly ...writing clean code.

You can read more about him at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-menne/16/60/61

Scott Delap

 

Scott Delap is a Scalability Architect at Riot Games, Inc. creator of the award winning online MOBA game League of Legends. He focuses on architecture for large scale, fault tolerant application platforms. Scott is also the former lead Java editor for InfoQ.com. In past lives Scott is the author of the popular Desktop Java Live ebook and a seasoned UI developer. Scott is a frequent presenter at conferences such as JavaOne, QCon, and No Fluff Just Stuff. He won a Java Rockstar Award for his 2006 JavaOne presentation on Swing Threading.

Justin Miller

Justin Miller writes Java code for a local information technology firm which focuses on providing software for primarily utility cooperatives and telecommunications companies. In his spare time he enjoys learning more about Groovy, Clojure, and Android development. He received his Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri - Rolla. His research interests include machine learning and computer security.

Dnyanesh Sonavane

Dnyanesh is an IT professional with over 10 years of experience in consulting Fortune 500 companies in the space of Enterprise Software Development.  His major areas of expertise are Service Oriented Architecture, Business Rules Management System, Information Security, Open Source Software and Web 2.0.  Dnyanesh is also an avid Java developer with a deep interest in Meta-programming, code generation frameworks, Concurrent Transaction Management Systems, as well as the popular Open Source Frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Struts, and Apache.

He is in St Louis from March 2007 consulting at GMAC Insurance, MasterCard Worldwide, and Monsanto through Talented IT based in the Greater Chicago area.

James Carr

James is a contractor in the St. Louis area who shares a passion for software craftsmanship.  He has enjoyed software development since he wrote his first program in Basic on the Tandy Color Computer 3, way back in 1988!

In addition to a passion for technology, he has a keen interest in improving teamwork and collaboration through interactive activities to get people thinking creatively and help them develop stronger, richer communication channels with their stakeholders.

Mahesh Desai and Pradeep Chandrababu

Mahesh Desai has been working on Java EE for the last seven years and is currently working at Monsanto as a Java EE consultant.  He has a Masters Degree in Computer Applications.  Prior to Monsanto he worked for Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St Louis, IBM in Singapore, and Mphasis Software in Mumbai, India.  He has been focusing on web application design and development using Spring Framework, JEE 5/6 in an agile environment.  Mahesh is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, Sun Certified Business Component Developer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer, and Sun Certified Java Programmer.  He is passionate about Open Source technologies and his current focus and expertise lies in cutting edge JEE design and development with special attention to testability and beautiful coding.

Pradeep Chandrababu has been working on JEE related technologies for the past 10 years.  He has worked at Monsanto and MasterCard in St Louis.  Prior to that, he worked as a consultant in England, France, and India.  He is currently a Technical Lead at Monsanto, focusing on designing and developing cutting edge JEE applications.  Pradeep is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, Sun Certified Business Component Developer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer, and a Sun Certified Java Programmer.

Tomasz Mozolewski

Tomasz has been a regular attendee at the monthly JUG meetings.  He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science and has worked for CitiMortgage for a number of years.

Mr. Mozolewski studied Computer Science in Poland at Politechnika Biaolstocka, then transferred to the University of Missouri, St Louis in 2001 and earned his Masters in Computer Science in 2003.  He has worked at CitiMortgage since then and is currently their Production Re-engineering Manager.  His main responsibilities include managing a team of technical leads who provide application design, code review, proofs of concept, and best practices.

Darryl Parks

Darryl Parks is currently a Technical Lead at Monsanto, Inc. over a field sales intranet site supporting sales analysis and compensation.  He first started at Monsanto in 1995 as a contractor and became a full-time employee four years ago.

Darryl graduated with High Honors with a Bachelors in Computer Information Systems from Idaho State University in 1987.  He has had a varied background in languages, starting in Rpg, COBOL, then C, and later VB, MS Access, ASP, and now Java.  Business areas include Issues Tracking sessions for Tiger Teams at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Cost Accounting.

Sharath Sahadevan

Sharath Sahadevan is a consultant at MasterCard Worldwide.  He is currently working on a Business Process Management (BPM) tool that supports exception processing.

He is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect and has been involved in developing a number of applications at MasterCard.  He is interested in the innovative application of emerging technologies to improve business processes.  Prior to joining MasterCard in 1998, he worked at Northwest Airlines. 

In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing tennis and cricket.

Here is a link to his profile on LinkedIn:

SharathSahadevan

Jackson Thompson

Jackson has been in the computer industry for almost 30 years, starting in hardware / avionics in the 80s and moving to software in the 90s.  He first put production Java applets out in 1997.  He has worked for a variety of companies, both large and small.  He worked on core web server technology including the Web Container for Netscape and Sun.

Currently he runs IT for a small hospitality services company, small enough that he codes daily.  Topaz Hotel Services put out its first generation Ajax web booking engine in 2006 and continues to grow the product.  They started with hand-coded javascript and JAXB.  Now they are currently developing with Dojo toolkit, JSF, and JSON-RPC.  That could always change.