IBM Websphere Portal V5: A Guide for Portlet Application Development - page 5

The team that wrote this redbook

This redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center.

Juan R. Rodriguez is a Consultant at the IBM ITSO Center, Raleigh. He received his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide on such topics as networking, Web technologies, and information security. Before joining the IBM ITSO, he worked at the IBM laboratory in the Research Triangle Park (North Carolina, USA) as a designer and developer of networking products

Serena Chan is an Advisory IT Specialist in the Portal and Content Management Practice with IBM Global Services in Toronto, Canada. She has in-depth industry experience in investment banking and has extensive Enterprise portal design and architecture experience in various products including IBM WebSphere Portal. Serena holds her Honors Degree in Bachelor of Commerce (H.BCom.) from the University of Toronto and is pursing her Master of Science in Computer Information Technology (M.Sc.) at Regis University.

Belen Gonzalez is an IT Specialist in IBM Global Services in IBM Spain. She holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Universidad Autonoma of Madrid. She has participated in e-business projects such as the Sydney Olympic Games. Her areas of expertise include J2EE application development with WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio Application Developer. She has worked in e-commerce projects and now focuses on WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Studio Portal Toolkit.

George Kroner is a Co-op IT Specialist at the IBM ITSO Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Sciences and Technology at Pennylvania State University. His interests include Web applications, pervasive computing, intelligent interfaces, and business process refinement.

Monica Parlangelo is an Advisory IT Specialist with the WebSphere Software Platform (Software Group) in IBM Brazil. She has four years of experience with WebSphere products developing solutions with e-Commerce and Portal solutions. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Systems Analysis from the Universidade Paulista (UNIP) in Brazil and a post-graduate degree from Faculdade de Inform tica e Administra § & pound ;o Paulista (FIAP), Sao Paulo Brazil on enterprise solutions using distributed object technologies with Java.

Sandro Schwedler is an IT Specialist at the WebSphere Innovation Center in IBM Germany. He has been working for IBM since 1998 and was involved in teaching and consulting different WebSphere Studio products such as Application Developer and IBM Rational XDE ¢. His areas of expertise include middleware, XML, Portlet and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development. He holds a degree in Information Technology from the Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Germany.

Andre Venancio is an Advisory IT Specialist with the WebSphere Software Platform (Software Group) in IBM Brazil. He has four years of experience with WebSphere products developing solutions with Host Integration, Edge Server and Portal solutions. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the Funda § o Santo Andr in Brazil and a post-graduate degree from Faculdade de Inform tica e Administra § o Paulista (FIAP), Sao Paulo Brazil on enterprise solutions using distributed object technologies with Java.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Cecilia  Bardy
International  Technical  Support  Organization,  Raleigh  Center

Amber  Roy-Chowdhury,  Marshall  Lamb
IBM  Research  Triangle  Park,  North  Carolina,  USA

Shawn  Van  Raay
Perficient,  Inc,  Hamilton,  Ontario,  Canada

Guillermo  Villavicencio
Avatar  e-Business  Solutions,  Lima,  Peru