David Chappell

Current

• VP & Chief Technologist, SOA at Oracle Corp

Past

• VP & CTE at Sonic Software Corp.
• Director of Engineering, SonicMQ at Progress Software Corp
• Director of Engineering, Apptivity Application Server at Progress Software Corp

• Development Manager/Lead Architect, WebSpeed Application Server at Progress Software Corp.
• Development Manager, Client-Server Group at Progress Software Corp
• Senior Software Engineer, Client-Server Group at Progress Software Corp.
• Product Manager, Support Manager, IT Manager, Software Engineer, etc at SOLUTION SYSTEMS
• Technical Sales Manager, Software Engineer, etc. at The Programmer's Shop

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David Chappell’s Summary

Over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D, code-slinger, sales, support and marketing.

A major market influencer on the creation and evolution of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology category. Posses a strong passion for shaping the future of technology, and enjoy sharing knowledge and experience with others.

Author of 4 books, including “Enterprise Service Bus” (Oreilly), “Java Message Service” (Oreilly), “Java Web Services” (Oreilly), and “Professional ebXML Foundations” (Wrox). These books have been translated and published in French, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Polish.

Have published countless articles in multiple technical journals such as Enterprise Architect, SOA/Web Services Journal, Java Developers Journal, XML Journal, JavaPro Magazine, XML Magazine, DDJ, SD Magazine, XML Coverpages, XML.com, SearchWebServices, and is frequently quoted in major IT trade journals which include InfoWorld, eWeek, ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, CIO Magazine, Business Integration Journal, Network World, ZDNet, and ADT.

As a public speaker, have delivered 100s of lectures and seminars at over 60 cities worldwide including London, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Zurich, Geneva, Milan, Oslo, Stockholm, Tallin, Helsinki, Singapore, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Mexico City, Sao Paulo. Have also been interviewed, and quoted in major international IT journals around the world including IET – Financial-I (UK), Information Age (UK), Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), Silicon.de (Germany), ZDNet Australia, IT Sitio (Mexico), JavaSpektrum (Germany), The Guardian (UK), IT Willkommen (Netherlands), Hong Kong Economic Times, IT Vikko (Finland), ComputerWorld Poland, ComputerWorld Brazil, InformationWeek Brazil.

David Chappell’s Specialties:

Primarily focused on promotion and advancement of Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus, middleware and integration technology.

As a public speaker, have delivered 100s of lectures and seminars at over 60 cities worldwide Have also been interviewed, and quoted in major international IT journals around the world


Frequent Speaker at industry conferences.

David Chappell’s Experience

• VP & Chief Technologist, SOA

  Oracle Corp

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; orcl; Computer Software industry)

  April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

• VP & CTE

  Sonic Software Corp.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)

  November 2000 — December 2006 (6 years 2 months)

  - Promote and advance awareness of Sonic Software and its product line, which includes educating the marketplace on the technologies that are related to Sonic's products.
  
  - Promote and advance technology in the middleware and integration software field. Well known for writings and public lectures on the subjects of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and evolving standards for Web services.
  
  - A regular contributor to evolving industry standards, and a member of the Apache Web Services PMC.
  
  Books Authored - Java Message Service (O’Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (WROX), and Java Web Services (O’Reilly). Published countless articles in Java Developers Journal, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, XML Journal, Network World, and JavaPro Magazine.
  
  - Currently authoring “Enterprise Service Bus” (OReilly).
  
  - Technical editor for Web Services Journal.

• Director of Engineering, SonicMQ

  Progress Software Corp

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)

  January 1998 — December 2000 (3 years )

  Lead the development effort for SonicMQ®, which has grown to become synonymous with enterprise messaging and the Java Message Service (JMS).

• Director of Engineering, Apptivity Application Server

  Progress Software Corp

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)

  January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  Lead the team that built a highly scalable application server, which included EJB support, a distributed CORBA based backbone, and a (pre-JSP) tag-based HTML page generation engine. This was tied together with an integrated IDE that provided wizards for data mapping and generation of remote interface stubs. This appserver beat all of the other Java – based appservers in the July 1999 ZDNet/Doculabs appserver performance and scalability bake-off.

• Development Manager/Lead Architect, WebSpeed Application Server

  Progress Software Corp.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)

  January 1996 — May 1997 (1 year 5 months)

  Led a product team to design, develop, and deliver Progress Software’s first offering into the Internet marketplace - WebSpeed, a Web-based application server which allows serious business applications to be developed and deployed over the Internet/Intranet. In addition to formulating product vision and managing people and schedules, also played a lead role in overall architecture and implementation.

• Development Manager, Client-Server Group

  Progress Software Corp

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)

  January 1994 — December 1996 (3 years )

  Built and led a team that successfully accomplished complete re-architecture and re-implementation of the Progress “updateable data browser” control, an advanced grid control which has direct implicit mappings to query result sets. Built a VBX/OCX container into the Progress 4GL bytecode interpreter with mappings into the 4GL language.
  
  - Architect of the cross-platform event manager subsystem, which integrated the native windowing systems’ event handling within the 4GL runtime UI triggers. This event-driven processor was based on a Finite State Automaton based state machine.

• Senior Software Engineer, Client-Server Group

  Progress Software Corp.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)

  January 1992 — December 1993 (2 years )

  - Co-developed the revamping of the Progress 4gl bytecode interpreter to allow Progress procedures to be treated as objects. This provided the basis for a patented object model and programming methodology called ‘SmartObjects’.
  
  - Key member of the GUI development team responsible for design and implementation of all of the UI capabilities of the Progress runtime client across MSWindows, OSF/Motif, and character mode. Also responsible for creating the higher level abstraction language representation of GUI controls and event management in the Progress 4GL.
  
  - Responsible for design and implementation in areas related to event management, and all interaction between the native window managers and the runtime interpreter.

• Product Manager, Support Manager, IT Manager, Software Engineer, etc

  SOLUTION SYSTEMS

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1986 — December 1991 (6 years )

  In this startup developer tools company, held a variety of positions including Sales, Product Marketing, Tech Support, Product Management, and Product Development. Products included developer tools for the nascent PC market, including the BRIEF Programmer’s Editor, a version control product (Sourcerer’s Apprentice), a DOS Windowing library and screen designer (C-Worthy), a LISP interpreter, a Prolog interpreter, and a MKS-like toolkit.

• Technical Sales Manager, Software Engineer, etc.

  The Programmer's Shop

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1984 — December 1986 (3 years )

  While sales manager, increased sales volume by 150 percent. Redirected sales focus to high-margin, hard-sell products, and increased average gross margin from 20 to 30 percent. Responsibilities included:
  
  - Maintained and updated sales-related, detailed technical information on over 1200 products for programmers.
  - Researched and prepared detailed competitive analysis for all categories of products sold.
  
  - Created a remote access bulletin board system that allowed customers to communicate with each other via modem.
  - Wrote mailing list management software including creating complex duplication elimination algorithms.

Additional Information

David Chappell’s Groups:

SOA Patterns book

•    Oracle Coherence Users
•    SOA Manifesto Working Group

David Chappell’s Honors:

Industry awards -

“Top 10 IT Innovators” award for “casting a larger than life shadow over the industry” – CRN Magazine (2005)

“Most Outstanding Contribution to the Java Community by an Individual.” award from JavaPro Magazine (2002).

Book awards -
“Java Message Service” - 1st place “Best Book” award in 2002 Java Developer’s Journal Reader’s Choice poll, and 2nd runner up “Best Book” award in 2001 Java Developer’s Journal Reader’s Choice poll.

“Java Web Services” - 1st place “Best Web Services Book” award in the 2002 Web Services Journal Reader’s Choice poll, and 1st runner up “Best Web Services Book” award in the 2002 Web Services Journal Editor’s Choice awards.

David Chappell’s Contact Settings

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