Rob Woollen

Current

• Principal Architect at Salesforce.com

Past

• Chief Architect, WebLogic Server at BEA Systems
• Sr Staff Software Engineer at BEA
• Software Engineer at HP

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Education

• Princeton University

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Industry

Computer Software

Rob Woollen’s Experience

• Principal Architect

  Salesforce.com

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

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

• Chief Architect, WebLogic Server

  BEA Systems

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

  July 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  I am responsible for technical architecture and oversight of the WebLogic Server 9.x and future directions.
  
  I performed the technical due-dilligence on the ConnecTerra and SolarMetric acquisitions.

• Sr Staff Software Engineer

  BEA

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

  December 1998 — July 2005 (6 years 8 months)

  I was the EJB Development Lead for WLS 6.x and the architect and main implementor of the world's first EJB 2.0 container.
  
  I was the J2EE 1.4 development lead and the architect and main implementor of the extensible application container, the foundation for WLS's J2EE containers.
  
  I have extensive WebLogic Server and J2EE experience and have participated in the implementation/design of nearly every subsystem in WLS.
  
  I have answered over 5000 customer questions in BEA newsgroups.
  
  PUBLICATIONS
  
  Girdley, Michael, Rob Woollen, and Sandra Emerson. J2EE Applications
  and BEA WebLogic Server. New York: Prentice Hall, 2001.
  
  Woollen, Rob. "Best Practices For Writing EJB Applications". Java
  Developer's Journal: Volume 6 Issue 4.
  
  Woollen, Rob. "Avoiding Performance Pitfalls with Entity EJBs".
  WebLogic Developer's Journal: Volume 1 Issue 1.
  
  Woollen, Rob. "Common WebLogic Server Deadlocks and How To Avoid
  Them". WebLogic Developer's Journal: Volume 1 Issue 5.

• Software Engineer

  HP

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

  July 1997 — December 1998 (1 year 6 months)

Rob Woollen’s Education

• Princeton University

  BSE , Computer Science , September 1993 — June 1997

Additional Information

Rob Woollen’s Groups:

•    BEA Systems Greater Network
•    Princeton University - Alumni Association

Rob Woollen’s Honors:

BEA Achievement Award Winner 2000
HP STARS award recipient May 1998

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