Name: Bill Burke

Company: JBoss

Job Title: Chief Architect

Bio: Born in 1971, Bill Burke has a history of implementing middleware starting with when he was introduced to DCE while at the parent company of Open Environment Corporation. He later went on to being a core member of the Orbix2000 team at Iona, where he helped them build some of their CORBA products. After Iona, Bill was introduced to JBoss while building a large marketing J2EE application at an internet startup. As Chief Architect, Bill is closely involved with clustering, the EJB container, and JBoss's Aspect-Oriented Middleware. He also sits on the EJB 3.0 expert committee as JBoss Inc.'s representative. Bill is co-author of O'Reilly's "JBoss 3.2 Workbook", and has numerous other in-print and on-line publications. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.C.S. from Northeastern University in Boston in 1994.