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Anthony Park Ed Bukoski Todd Ellermann

Edward B. Bukoski (contact me)

Edward B. Bukoski is an Application Development Manager and Vice President at JP Morgan Chase. He has 13 years of experience in a number of different domains including defense, e-commerce, and finance in a number of different functional roles including team lead, architect, project manager, and department manager. Additionally, he is a Sun Certified Java Programmer, IBM Certified Solution Developer, and IBM Certified Enterprise Developer. Bukoski has a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona and recently completed his MBA and Master of Engineering at Arizona State University.


Todd R. Ellermann (contact me) You can view my blog about the research experience.

Todd R. Ellermann is currently the Director of Development for VirtualTourist.com. He has 12 years of systems and development experience, the last seven of which his focus has been enterprise integration and web services, primarily supporting real time web applications. Ellermann is formerly the president of the Phoenix Java Users Group and a Sun Certified Java Programmer as well as an IBM Certified e-Business Solution Designer. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona and recently completed his MBA at Arizona State University. Ellermann is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.


Anthony N. Park (contact me)

Anthony N. Park currently works for JPMorgan Chase as a Application Development Analyst IV and Software Architect for the Commercial Real-Estate Technology division where he oversees both Java and Borland Delphi software development. Park has 10 years of professional software development experience, most of which was spent working on decision support systems for the airline industry. Park is the President of the AZDG Software Development Group. Additionally, Park is the author of MCEBrowser, a popular MS Windows Media Center plug-in, and author of www.100percentgeek.com, a software development blog. Park has extensive background in Java, Borland, and Microsoft technologies, is a Sun Certified Java Programmer, and was recently awarded a Microsoft MVP in the category of Media Center. He has a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from University of Phoenix and recently completed his MBA and Masters of Engineering at Arizona State University.


Special Thanks to our Industry Experts

Certain local experts at various languages reviewed our code, or in some cases even developed the application and did the screencasts for their WATP. We would like to especially thank these individuals as without their contribution we could not have possibly completed the research in four month timeframe that we had to work with.

  1. Bill Weinman -- Perl
    • http://www.bw.org
    • Bill Weinman is a musician and technologist who has enjoyed some notoriety as an author of computer books and co-founder of WebMonster® Networks and the Web Music Database. Mr. Weinman is the author of The CGI Book and Creative HTML Design. In late 1999 he wrote bw-whois, which he distributes freely to the Internet community. In 2000 he wrote The Web Music Database, and founded Polymorphic Data Corporation to run it.
  2. James Britt -- Ruby
    • http://www.jamesbritt.com
    • James Britt is a software developer and writer living in Scottsdale, Arizona. His primary development language is Ruby. James runs Ruby-doc.org, the main documentation site for the Ruby language. He also created RubyStuff.com, which hosts a nice range of Ruby-themed paraphernalia.
  3. Lorin Thwaits -- .NET
    • http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/
    • o Lorin Thwaits is a local software developer and trainer. Lorin is the organizer of Desert Code Camp, which is a free semi-annual developer event which focuses on live code demonstrations in various languages. Lorin is a current Microsoft MVP in the category of ASP/ASP.NET, and holds several Microsoft certifications including MCSD, MCDBA, and MCT.
  4. John C. Bland II -- ColdFusion
    • http://www.azcfug.org/
    • John C. Bland II is a local software developer and the president of the Phoenix ColdFusion User Group and the Phoenix Flash and Multimedia User Group.
  5. Robert M. Johnston IV -- Java
    • Not even a blog MJ?
    • IBM WebSphere certified, Java Certified Programmer
  6. Dallas Barabasz-Lynn -- Python

Thanks to our Advisor Dr. James S. Collofello

Dr. James S. Collofello, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Collofello, has been involved in research and teaching in the software engineering area with an emphasis on software project management and software quality assurance. He has been heavily involved with local software development firms in addressing their applied research and education needs. Collofello received his Ph.D. Computer Science - Northwestern University 1979, M.S. Mathematics - Northern Illinois University 1977, and B.S. Mathematics - Northern Illinois University 1976.