Welcome to the WebSphere® author spotlight page. Here you can meet and get to know our
popular WebSphere authors who write all those great technical articles and tutorials. Who are these authors? What are their interests? What's on their reading list? What are they currently working on? Meet our authors.
Geoff Hambrick
is an IBM® Distinguished Engineer, member of the IBM Academy of Technology,
and the technical lead of the
IBM Software Services for WebSphere Enablement Team.
He currently spends his time creating and disseminating best practices for applications hosted
on IBM WebSphere-related technologies and products. Geoff is a frequent conference speaker and
authors a regular series in the developerWorks WebSphere Developer Technical Journal called
The EJB Advocate, which is as much about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and model driven development
(MDD) as it is about EJB best practices.
Rachel Reinitz is a Senior Consulting IT Specialist with
IBM Software Services for
WebSphere,
focusing on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services enablement.
She consults with clients and ISVs to help them achieve their business and technical
objectives using SOA, enterprise service bus, and Web services. Rachel is a frequent conference presenter and co-author of the popular 8-part developerWorks series article,
Building an Enterprise Service Bus with WebSphere Application Server V6.
Stefan Hepper
is the Software Architect for WebSphere Portal, Workplace Client and
Server programming model, and public APIs. He co-led the Java™ Portlet Specification
Version 1.0 (JSR 168) and is now leading Version 2.0 (JSR 286). Stefan also started the Pluto
project at Apache that provided the reference implementation for JSR 168. Stefan has
delivered a number of lectures at international conferences, like JavaOne, and published
various papers. He is a co-author of Pervasive Computing
and Portlets and Apache Portals.
![Photo: [Stefan Hepper]](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/i/p-spot-shepper.jpg)
