Kito Mann

Current

Organizer at JSF Summit Conference
EG Member at JSF 2 Expert Group
Speaker at NoFluffJustStuff

Trainer at Skills Matter
Editor-in-Chief at JSFCentral.com
Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc.

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Past

Speaker at JavaOne
Speaker at TheServerSide Java Symposium
Presenter at No Fluff, Just Stuff

Author, JavaServer Faces in Action at Manning Publishing
Chief Architect at The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill
Lead Developer / Architect at Prudential Securities
Co-Founder, Software Developer, and Consultant at Virtua Communications Corp.
Lead Developer at Guardian Life Insurance
Software Developer at Johns Hopkins University
Software Developer at Johns Hopkins University
Software Developer at The Chase Manhattan Bank
Software Developer at Johns Hopkins University

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Education

The Johns Hopkins University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Kito Mann’s Summary

Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central (www.jsfcentral.com) and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc., specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. Kito has consulted with several Fortune 500 clients, including Prudential Financial and J.P. Morgan Chase & Company, and was recently the chief architect of an educational application service provider. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Kito Mann’s Specialties:

Training, mentoring, architecture, development, technical writing (white papers, documentation, and so on). Primary focus is on Java EE, JSF, Seam, portlets, open source portal servers (Liferay, eXo), Spring, Hibernate, and related technologies.

Kito Mann’s Experience

Organizer

JSF Summit Conference

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years )

Co-organizer (with the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums) of the first annual JSFOne Conference in Vienna, VA (first JSF conference in North America) and the second conference (now called JSF Summit) in Orlando, FL Dec 1st-4th, 2009.

Selected speakers and topics for four simultaneous tracks (about 40 sessions).

Managed promotion, worked with sponsors, and handled all speaker coordination.
EG Member

JSF 2 Expert Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )
Speaker

NoFluffJustStuff

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )
Trainer

Skills Matter

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Teach JSF and related topics (Facelets, Seam, JPA, etc.) for public and private courses in the UK, Ireland, and other parts of Europe.
Editor-in-Chief

JSFCentral.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

May 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

Manage editorial content and advertising directives, write new articles and editorials, and manage site development.
Principal Consultant

Virtua, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)

Provide training, mentoring, development, documentation, and product analysis services relating to JavaServer Faces and Java EE technologies. Manage development and licensing of training materials.
Speaker

JavaOne

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2009 (4 years )
Speaker

TheServerSide Java Symposium

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2009 (5 years )
Presenter

No Fluff, Just Stuff

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Author, JavaServer Faces in Action

Manning Publishing

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Chief Architect

The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

August 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 1 month)

The Grow Network (now part of McGraw-Hill) is an educational ASP who publishes reports of results for elementary and secondary standardized tests (and provides high quality instructional materials).

Founded the company's technology organization. Primary architect and lead developer of the company’s web-based reporting products (Java Servlets, JSP, Cocoon, XML, XSL, Struts). Developed foundation components for use throughout the organization (lightweight persistence framework, logging facilities, domain objects, etc.).

Responsible for design and development of low-level architecture of additional subsystems for simultaneous generation of web and print reports from a data warehouse, using XML as an intermediary data format. Also responsible for coding guidelines and practices.

Directed selection and procurement of initial software and hardware solutions (internal and production). Managed production system integration and led selection of a co-location vendor.
Lead Developer / Architect

Prudential Securities

(Public Company; WFC; Financial Services industry)

October 1999 — August 2000 (11 months)

Developed a unit trust trading system using DHTML, XML for messaging, XML/XSL for PDF presentation, Java servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), and JDBC. The EJBs talked to DB2 for read requests, and processed orders through an ECI link to CICS running on OS/390. Developed comprehensive servlet action-based framework. Worked extensively with the Apache XML Parser, including XML schemas. Contributed code to the Apache Xerces project for schema validation.
Co-Founder, Software Developer, and Consultant

Virtua Communications Corp.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 2000 (5 years )

Designed and developed comprehensive Java-based survey tool, which consists of proprietary HTML templates or a Java applet as the front-end, and a Java servlet as the back-end. System allows remote administration of surveys, immediate results, and ability for users to create surveys.

With a grant from the Peabody Conservatory of Music’s Computer Music Department, developed a system for collaboratively composing MIDI music over the Internet, which consists of Java applications (one server and many clients) that communicate through Java RMI.

Developed high-quality web sites for the College and University Work/Family Association, the International Association of Employee Assistance Programs, and Fox Industries, Inc.
Lead Developer

Guardian Life Insurance

(Privately Held; Insurance industry)

October 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Developed and supported an ISAPI authentication filter in Visual C++ for a high-profile Intranet project. The filter was deployed on IIS, interfaced with an external Proxima single-sign-on (now called eTrust) C API and made use of the Microsoft Crypto API.

Managed the development and participated in the design and development of a JSP-based Intranet Security System deployed with WebSphere and UDB.

Managed all requirements, analysis, and development of Data Security projects. Assisted with support as well.
Software Developer

Johns Hopkins University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 1998 — November 1998 (4 months)

Designed and developed extensive Windows-based client management system with Delphi, using Paradox tables. System manages all demographic data, counseling information, evaluations, service contacts, and follow-up information. Also provides comprehensive customizable reporting. Developed extensive user manual.
Software Developer

Johns Hopkins University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 1998 — November 1998 (4 months)

Designed and developed extensive Windows-based client management system with Delphi, using Paradox tables. System manages all demographic data, counseling information, evaluations, service contacts, and follow-up information. Also provides comprehensive customizable reporting. Developed extensive user manual
Software Developer

The Chase Manhattan Bank

(Public Company; JPM; Banking industry)

October 1997 — July 1998 (10 months)

Supported, modified, and documented a Delphi and SQL Server-based ISAPI application for transferring financial transactions to a mainframe via the Netscape browser. Excel spreadsheets were transferred to a server running IIS, validated, and sent to the mainframe by an NT service that initiated a TSO session via Rumba. Assisted in development of the Delphi NT service. Rewrote ISAPI extension as a Java servlet with features such as HTML templates, database connection pooling, user administration and authentication, approval, rejection, and viewing of spreadsheets, logging, and translation of Microsoft SQL Server tables into object representations via JDBC.

Developed comprehensive framework for rapid development of Java-based applications with either an HTML or applet front-end and a Java back-end that communicated either via RMI, HTTP, or sockets.
Software Developer

Johns Hopkins University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

June 1997 — October 1997 (5 months)

Designed and developed extensive Windows-based client management system for managing the Organizational Diversity office. System keeps track of demographic data, performance evaluations, provides a running log of client activity, has an extensive custom query engine, and produces extensive reports. System was developed with Delphi and Paradox.

Kito Mann’s Education

The Johns Hopkins University

BA , Computer Science , 1993 — 1997

Graduated with departmental honors

Additional Information

Kito Mann’s Websites:

Kito Mann’s Groups:

Several Java Specification Request (JSR) Expert Groups (JSF 2.0, WebBeans, Portlet API for JSF, Metadata for JSF components, etc.), National Society of Black Engineers, No Fluff Just Stuff