She currently leads a team investigating emerging technologies for enterprise systems focusing on SOA and Web2.0. She is an author of several technical papers & specifications, an editor of several standards and a speaker at conferences. She has actively contributed to various specification developments at w3c, JCP and OASIS on SOA, Web Services and Java(TM), including but not limited to WS-Policy, SCA Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Addressing, WSDL 2.0 and Enterprise Java Beans 2.0. She mentors several MS and Ph.D. students. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University. Umit is a co-author of the new book "Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA". Contributions