He is an entrepreneur and an expert in the design and application of object-oriented technologies with more than 20 years of commercial software development experience, including 14 years of experience with Java and 10 years with Eclipse. He was the primary architect and product manager for several successful commercial products including RCP Developer and WindowTester, and has played key design and leadership roles in other commercial products such as WindowBuilder Pro, VA Assist, and CodePro Studio. He is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences, co-author of two books on Eclipse: "Eclipse Plug-ins" and the forthcoming "Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)."