Name: David A Chappell
Company: Sonic Software
Job Title: Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist
Bio: David Chappell is vice president and chief technology evangelist for Progress Software Corporation (Sonic).
Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D, code-slinger, sales, support and marketing. He is well known for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of the enterprise service bus (ESB), Service Oriented Architecture(SOA), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards.
As director of engineering for Sonic Software, Chappell led the development effort for SonicMQ(r), which has grown to become synonymous with enterprise messaging. He has extensive experience in distributed computing, including JMS and MOM, CORBA, COM, EJB and Web application server infrastructure. Chappell's experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters.
Chappell is well noted for authoring the Enterprise Service Bus (O'Reilly), Java
Web Services (O'Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly). In addition, he has written numerous articles in leading industry publications, such as Business Integration Journal, Enterprise Architect, Java Developers Journal, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, XML Journal and Network World. Chappell and his works have received many industry awards including the "Java(tm) Technology Achievement Award" from JavaPro magazine for "Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community" in 2002, and the 2005 CRN Magazine "Top 10 IT leaders" award for "casting larger-than-life shadow over the industry".