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Richard Hightower

Irvington District, CA | Pleasanton, CA

Also known as: rickhigh

I specialize in JEE/CDI development using Spring, Hibernate, Java, JSF, Ajax, JPA, etc., and cloud computing. I am an editor at InfoQ and write regularly on Cloud Computing and Java topics. I am the author of a best-selling book Java Tools for Extreme Programming (#1 SW development book on Amazon for 3 months) and coauthor of Professional Struts and Struts Live (#1 download on TSS 2004-2007). I also wrote a highly rated book on Python. To see what I have been up to lately, download my resume. • Cloud computing market analysis and technology selection consulting. • Technical product marketing • Working on implementing several PaaS provider add-ons and well as PaaS solution that an be hosted on Amazon WS and OpenStack • Wrote CDI interception and annotation handling for JSR 107 JCache reference implementation. • Wrote a PDF reporting system in PHP (Quercus) and PDFLib to report on cloud computing node statistics and performance metrics from JMX. • Wrote a Java EE 6 to CDI Spring bi-directional bridge (now part of Apache CDI project). • Wrote an adapter framework to bridge Roo and SproutCore (JavaScript, HTML5). • Wrote a scalable JSON REST based system that used Roo, Spring3, Memcached, JPA2, Java, etc. • Implemented a REST service in Java, which was the reference architecture for private cloud hosted service for mobile application. Used Roo, AspectJ, ehcache, memcached, and spymemcached. Wrote complete functional testing framework in Groovy. • Profiled debugged and tuned production Java applications and services that had GC issues at three large corporations. • Worked with XenServer, Nagios, Memcached, and other tools in private cloud environments. • Worked with Amazon WS, Amazon EC2, in public cloud environment. • Worked on several JSRs for MapReduce, distributed caching, Grid Computing, Clustering, WebSockets, etc. Specialties Technical Skills Systems engineering, Engineering management, Process development, Team development, Mentoring and Training. Programming Languages: PHP, Goovy, Java, C/C++/C#, Python, JavaScript, XSL/XSLT, etc. Frameworks: Django, Grails, JavaServer Faces (JSF), Spring, Ajax, Hibernate, Tapestry, HiveMind, AspectJ, JEE, EJB 3/JPA, JMS, Servlets, JSPs, Tiles, and more Please see http://code.google.com/p/krank/