Gateway JUG

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:

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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.

Jeff Heaton

Jeff Heaton (http://www.jeffheaton.com) is a software developer for Reinsurance Group of America. He is an author, consultant, artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and former college instructor. Heaton has penned more than a dozen books on topics including AI, virtual worlds, spiders and bots. Heaton leads the Encog project, an open source initiative to provide an advanced neural network and bot framework for Java and C#. A Sun Certified Java Programmer and a Senior Member of the IEEE, he holds a Masters Degree in Information Management from Washington University in St. Louis. Heaton lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Tomasz Mozolewski

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

Tomek studied Computer Science in Poland at Politechnika Bialostocka then transferred to the University of Missouri, St Louis in 2001 and earned his Masters in Computer Science in 2003.  He has worked at CitiMortgate since then and is currently their Technical Lead.

His main responsibilities are application design, code review, proofs of concept, and best practices.  He's been interested in parallel programming since he first started coding.

Ryan Withers

Ryan has been a software engineer professionally for 10 years.  He has worked in a variety of
industries including Health Care, Defense, and Financial Services.  While he has an interest in all aspects of software development, he considers his core competency to be in Java. 

He believes that by staying on the bleeding edge of technology and leading by innovation he can provide for, not only this generation, but the generations that come after us.

Alex Miller

  Alex Miller is a Senior Engineer with Terracotta, Inc., the makers of the open-source Java clustering product Terracotta.  Prior to Terracotta, Alex worked at BEA Systems on the AquaLogic product line and was Chief Architect at MetaMatrix.

His interests include Java concurrency, distributed systems, query languages, and software design. 

Alex enjoys writing his blog at http://tech.puredanger.com and has spoken at a number of Java user group meetings and conferences.

Scott Stanlick

Scott Stanlick has worked in IT shops ranging in size from a few million to many billions of dollars in revenue for over fifteen years.  This provided him the unique opportunity to see how specialization and staffing can be both beneficial and wasteful.  He has been engaged in software projects that leveraged prevailing technologies affording me to remain on the forward edge of the industry.

He enjoys technology and stays involved at many levels. Recently, Scott co-authored a book for Manning publishing as a way to participate in the public side of technology sharing.

He is currently working at Enterprise Rent-A-Car as a software architect, designing and implementing SOA solutions integrating Alamo, National, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car systems.