Larry Abrahams

Current

• VP Engineeing/Operations at Everyone.Net

Past

• VP Engineering at ActiveGrid (now WaveMaker)
• Senior VP Product Development at Blue Titan (now SOA Software)
• Director Identity Products and Standards at Sun Microsystems

• Director Java 2 Standard Edition at Sun Microsystems, JavaSoft
• Senior Director Internet Products at Apple Computer, Claris
• Senior Director Platform Software at Prodigy Services Company

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Education

• State University of New York at Albany

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Industry

Computer Software

Larry Abrahams’s Summary

Extensive success creating and delivering among the software industry’s most significant platforms and applications including Sun Microsystems’ Java and Prodigy, the first mass market consumer online service. Founder and leader of major cross industry initiatives and standards, including the Java Community Process and the Liberty Alliance for Digital Identity.

Larry Abrahams’s Experience

• VP Engineeing/Operations

  Everyone.Net

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2007 — Present (1 year)

  Mature start-up providing SaaS email and collaboration to the small and medium business and service provider markets.

• VP Engineering

  ActiveGrid (now WaveMaker)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2005 — February 2007 (2 years)

  Start-up providing a rapid development tool and AJAX framework for Enterprise Web 2.0 applications. Responsible for development of ActiveGrid Studio and Server, a LAMP/J2EE based rapid development/deployment solution incorporating BPEL, XSD, XACML, and XForms.

• Senior VP Product Development

  Blue Titan (now SOA Software)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year)

  Start-up providing Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)middleware for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) networks. Responsible for definition and development of Blue Titan software products including Network Director, a comprehensive platform for Web Services management, policy driven intermediation, security enforcement, and governance.

• Director Identity Products and Standards

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years)

  Founder and leader of the Liberty Alliance for Digital Identity standards. Led product strategy and delivery for the Sun ONE Identity Server (now Sun Java System Access Manager) a J2EE based Web security and access control management platform.

• Director Java 2 Standard Edition

  Sun Microsystems, JavaSoft

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

  Delivered Java 2 (J2SE 1.2) and revolutionary Hotspot virtual machine technology. Led strategy and delivery of J2SE 1.3 and 1.4 for Windows, Linux, and Solaris; delivering Java to industry partners and millions of developers and users.

• Senior Director Internet Products

  Apple Computer, Claris

  (Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years)

  Directed all aspects of strategy, development, and delivery for Claris products including Home Page, a web authoring tool; Emailer, the leading Macintosh mail client; and Organizer, the leading Macintosh personal information manager.

• Senior Director Platform Software

  Prodigy Services Company

  (Computer Software industry)

  1985 — 1996 (11 years)

  Helped invent consumer on-line services with revolutionary client and network technology including targeted banner advertising, remote software updating, cross platform, portable, distributed applications and streaming photos.

Larry Abrahams’s Education

• State University of New York at Albany