[{"name":"Mark Allender","about":"Mark Allender has worked in the game industry since 1994. Starting off at Parallax Software, Mark worked on Descent, Descent II and FreeSpace, doing work for both the PC and the Macintosh. After serving as lead programmer on Summoner and Summoner II, he moved to the position of studio technical director for Volition. In that role, he helped the studio management team grow the company from about 60 people to over 200 employees. Over the last three years, he has been leading the core technology group, which is responsible for building common technology and tools, and providing support for both to other game projects at the studio.","presentation":"Using Perforce 'Attributes' for Managing Game Asset Metadata","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#mallender","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/mark-allender.jpg","company":"Volition"},{"name":"David Baraff","about":"David Baraff has been a senior animation scientist at Pixar Animation Studios since 1998. His work has focused mainly on continuing the development and capabilities of cloth and hair simulation. In 2006, he received a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for his work on computer-animated clothing. Prior to joining Pixar, he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University from 1992 through 1998. While at Carnegie Mellon, he also co-founded a start-up commercial software company whose products have been used in the production of numerous feature films.","presentation":"Scaling Servers and Storage for Film Assets","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#dbaraff","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/david-baraff.jpg","company":"Pixar"},{"name":"Jeff Bates","about":"Jeff Bates co-founded Slashdot.org, one of the top technical social news sites. He then went on to serve as an advisor to ThinkGeek.com, as well as run the development and editorial operations for SourceForge.net and Freshmeat.net. He has served as a consultant to numerous start-ups, and is currently developing the ecosystem as well as the cloud initiative for Perforce.","presentation":"Perforce Development Ecosystem and Community Portal","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#jbates","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/jeff-bates.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Dan Bloch","about":"Dan Bloch has worked on software engineering and infrastructure for more than twenty years at companies including Harvard University, IBM, Nokia, and an assortment of start-ups. Dan is currently a senior site reliability engineer at Google where he has been the technical lead for Google's p4 admin team for most of the last five years. Prior to joining Google, Dan's most interesting job was working on the disaster recovery system at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.","presentation":"Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#dbloch","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/dan-bloch.jpg","company":"Google"},{"name":"Tim Brazil","about":"Tim Brazil entered the software industry as a system administrator and soon moved into quality assurance roles at leading database companies. He joined Perforce in March 2007, where his focus is performance-related issues as they apply to client/server environments. When he is not evaluating new technologies in the hardware world, he is investigating the subtleties of how unique hardware/software systems can affect Perforce performance.","presentation":"The Perforce Server Dream Machine","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#tbrazil","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/tim-brazil.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Adam Breashears","about":"As global head of release, change, configuration, automation, tools and services for NYSE Euronext, Adam Breashears' organization is a primary activity facilitator for the global exchange operator. Adam focuses on small highly skilled teams, tight information management and products that can scale globally to serve a multitude of needs. He has worked with Perforce since his first days at NYSE Euronext.","presentation":"Scalable Lifecycle Management via Perforce","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#abreashears","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/abreashears.jpg","company":"NYSE"},{"name":"Frank Compagner","about":"Frank Compagner is the lead tools programmer at Guerrilla Games. After many years of using tools to make games, he discovered that making tools to use in games production is actually more fun. These days, he spends his time doing things like convincing an unruly mob of game developers that, while it is undoubtedly very important to decide on the exact shade of brown to apply to the entire game, it is also highly desirable to keep the color of the build very green indeed.","presentation":"You're Doing It Wrong: Controlling Change for Release by Integrating in Reverse","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#fcompagner","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/frank-compagner.jpg","company":"Guerrilla"},{"name":"James Creasy","about":"After nearly seven years in engineering, James Creasy is now manager of the recently expanded product technology team under the direction of VP Laura Wingerd. When not exploring emerging technologies, studying all things SCM, or mocking up proofs-of-concept, he avoids head butts from his toddler, works on his race car, and practices the piano. He's always interested in hearing how customers are using (or dream of using) Perforce.","presentation":"Perforce Development Ecosystem and Community Portal","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#jcreasy","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/james-creasy.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Randall DeFauw","about":"Randall (\"Randy\") has over 8 years of experience in software configuration management using a variety of products in addition to Perforce. He has been a certified Perforce Consulting Partner since 2006, and a Certified Perforce Trainer since 2007. Randy is presently Technical Marketing Manager at Perforce and is part of Perforce Consulting Services. He has extensive experience with Perforce configuration, administration, and integrations. Randy also has a background in SEI/CMMI Level 5 software engineering practices.","presentation":"Perforce Remote Administration","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#rdefauw","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/randy-defauw.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Scott Estes","about":"Scott Estes currently manages the products build team at Citrix Systems. With two decades of experience developing and supporting software, Scott has been involved to varying degrees with building code and releasing products. His focus at Citrix has been to design and implement efficient build and release processes used to release the company's XenApp/XenDesktop products. Prior to joining Citrix, Scott spent 12 years at IBM and a couple of start-ups. In his free time, he enjoys bicycling and spending time with his family.","presentation":"Creating a World-Class Build System, and Getting It Right","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#sestes","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/scott-estes.jpg","company":"Citrix"},{"name":"Xavier Galvez","about":"Xavier Galvez is a senior engineer at AMD. As a Perforce administrator for the last five years, Xavier creates solutions to automate repetitive tasks and empower his users with information and applications to use Perforce productively.\n\nPrior to working at AMD, Xavier found himself writing code for DVD authoring products and debugging software that makes mass spectrometers go. Xavier has recently seen the wonders of Israel, experienced the hustle and bustle of the Shanghai Expo and caught a glimpse of North Korea. He is deciding where his travels will take him next, all while looking after his saltwater fish tank.","presentation":"Enabling the Perforce Administrator via Mobile Device","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#xgalvez","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/xavier-galvez.jpg","company":"AMD"},{"name":"Steve Greene","about":"Steve Greene is the vice president of program management and Agile tools at Salesforce.com and is responsible for R&D products & technology programs. He designed and led the \"Big Bang\" enterprise-wide transformation of Salesforce.com's technology team to their own Agile delivery methodology with dramatic results. He has held numerous senior management positions at cloud computing start-ups and large enterprise software companies, including DigitalThink, Hyperion, PeopleSoft/Oracle, SPC and AOL. He brings a wealth of expertise and experience in organizational optimization, productivity, process and product delivery.","presentation":"Agile Revolution at Salesforce.com: Successfully Scaling an Agile Innovation Culture With Perforce","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#sgreene","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/steve-greene.jpg","company":"Salesforce.com"},{"name":"Mark Harrison","about":"Mark Harrison is technical lead of the data management group at Pixar and is the primary instigator of such projects as Templar, Pixar's asset management system. He secretly wishes his co-workers would address him as \"King of All Data.\" Prior to Pixar, he was with AsiaInfo Holdings in Beijing, China, where he was the chief software architect of the China Internet.","presentation":"Don't Let a Bad Trigger Ruin Your Checkin!","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#mharrison","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/mark-harrison.jpg","company":"Pixar"},{"name":"Valerie Hendrickson","about":"As U.S. head of release management for NYSE Euronext, Valerie Hendrickson's primary activities are intertwined with the company's SDLC process for over 198 active software projects and 6,600 production releases per year. Her team of four people provides 24/7 support to the development community in source code management; branching and integrations; quality assurance in setting up metamaps to the application releases and installations; and production in creating the prod metamaps, scheduling and performing installations, building new production supporting automation, software rollbacks and application integrity.","presentation":"Scalable Lifecycle Management via Perforce","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#vhendrickson","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/vhendrickson.jpg","company":"NYSE"},{"name":"Marc Hornbeek","about":"As manager of SCM systems, Marc Hornbeek manages automation of the software build and test infrastructure at Spirent Communications. He has been the primary architect of test automation tools and the champion of test automation for multiple firms ranging from start-ups to large multi-national companies. Marc has published more than 30 articles in the field of test automation and business systems and he has been a speaker, session organizer and rapporteur for numerous events, including IEEE, ISO, ITU, ISS, NCF, NEC, Interop, Comnet, Infocom, Globecom, IWPTS and User Forums.","presentation":"Continuous Change-Driven Build Verification","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#mhornbeek","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/marc-hornbeek.jpg","company":"Spirent"},{"name":"Sungchul \"Steve\" Kim","about":"As a senior software engineer at Samsung SDS, Sungchul \"Steve\" Kim has over 17 years of experience in software development, including over a decade of experience in software development process consultancy and training. Since 2005, he has served as a project manager, supporting technical support and consulting in the area of configuration management tools and processes at Samsung Electronics. In 2010, he led a project to migrate from Clearcase UCM into Perforce and implemented a build management system in one of the divisions of Samsung Electronics.\n\nPrior to joining SDS in 2002, he provided consulting services in object-oriented analysis and design and configuration management at Rational Software in South Korea.","presentation":"Configuration and Build Management of Product Line Development with Perforce","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#skim","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/steve-kim.jpg","company":"Samsung"},{"name":"Sven Erik Knop","about":"In 2007, Sven Erik joined Perforce Software as the first senior consultant for Perforce in Europe. His role encompasses training and consulting services, as well as working alongside the support team in the UK. In his spare time, he looks after tools such as P4Python and P4Ruby. Previously, he worked as principal consultant for Versant, an object database provider. He graduated from the University of Essen with a diploma in physics. Outside of work, he spends time with his family, plays computer and board games, and occasionally plays the piano.","presentation":"Replication","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#sknop","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/sven-erik_knop.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Lou Leporace","about":"Lou Leporace joined the marketing team at Perforce in December 2010 after managing mobile, PC, and TV media delivery technology for Dolby Laboratories. Previously, Lou held the position of CTO at Auspice and prior to that he served as the vice president of Convergys; at both companies he managed infrastructure technology for the delivery of voice, video, and data over IP networks. Earlier in his career, Lou cofounded Kaseya and held senior positions at Novell where he was instrumental in the development of IP networking products. Lou holds a bachelor's of science degree in physics from the University of Pittsburgh. In his free time, he enjoys motorcycling, scuba diving, Tae Kwon Do, and camping.","presentation":"Introducing the Perforce Web Content Management System","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#lleporace","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/lou-leporace.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Stewart Lord","about":"Stewart Lord is a technical lead at Perforce's Canadian office. He began work at Perforce as a support engineer in 2004 and specialized in server performance and scalability at large sites. He is the author of Track2SQL, the Perforce Knowledge Base and—most recently—lead developer of Perforce's Web Content Management System.","presentation":"Introducing the Perforce Web Content Management System ","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#slord","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/stewart-lord.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Fred Malouf","about":"Fred Malouf is the technical director of client products at Perforce. He is responsible for the vision and development of P4V, Perforce's flagship GUI.","presentation":"Perforce JavaScript API","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#fmalouf","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/fred-malouf.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Shannon Mann","about":"Shannon Mann has been involved with automation systems development for over twenty years. He is an alumnus of University of Waterloo's independent studies program where he studied chaos, evolution and self-organizing systems. Shannon's systems experience helped him develop build and automation systems for MKS, AEA Technology and Research in Motion (RIM).\n\nFor the past four years, Shannon has taken responsibility for Perforce at RIM. With his early Perforce admin experiences, Shannon co-authored the paper \"Improving Perforce Performance by over 10X\" for the Perforce European Users Conference in 2008.","presentation":"Extending Perforce Scalability Using Job Content Synchronization","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#smann","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/shannon-mann.jpg","company":"RIM"},{"name":"Michael Mirman","about":"Michael Mirman is the principal toolsmith at The MathWorks, Inc. Michael grew up with mainframes, transitioned to Unix and Windows, and eventually fell in love with tools development. He firmly believes in removing boring repetitive processes from daily life by automating them.\n\nFor almost 20 years, he has been working with different SCM systems. At MathWorks, prior to discovering Perforce, he was one of major contributors in developing CVS-based user tools, supporting complex merges and dynamic private developers branches. He has been a Perforce administrator for the last four years, maintaining multiple servers and developing different maintenance procedures, triggers and Web interfaces.","presentation":"Perforce Administration: Optimization, Scalability, Availability and Reliability","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#mmirman","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/michael-mirman.jpg","company":"MathWorks"},{"name":"David Neto","about":"David Neto is a design engineer and senior member of technical staff at Altera Corporation. David earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Toronto. He joined Altera in 2000, working on CAD for FPGAs, and was instrumental in migrating all Altera software development to Perforce. More recently, he led Altera's software build process reengineering and unification effort.","presentation":"Compartmentalized Continuous Integration: Enabling Rapid, Flexible Collaboration for Complex Software Projects","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#dneto","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/david-neto.jpg","company":"Altera"},{"name":"Geoff Nicol","about":"Geoff Nicol has been working on Perforce's Web Content Management System for the past two years at Perforce. Prior to Perforce, Geoff spent the previous decade focused on PHP, C/C++, Windows/DOS, and embedded development with a dash of assembly, robotics, and mechanical testing.","presentation":"Perforce Object and Record Model","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#gnicol","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/g-nicol.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Jason Novecosky","about":"Jason Novecosky is the director of Perforce's Canadian office. He recently celebrated his 10-year anniversary with the company. He is also a development manager leading Perforce's Web Content Management System efforts. In the past, Jason has led and facilitated the teams responsible for Perforce's Knowledge Base, Server Log Analyzer, and Benchmark Results Database. Jason has a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture & Herbology) and is an avid distance athlete.","presentation":"Introducing the Perforce Web Content Management System","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#jnovecosky","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/jason-novecosky.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Nick Poole","about":"Nick Poole has been with Perforce since 2007. Starting in technical support, he moved to the cloud development team after being involved in a number of development projects including the Android port of P4Scout. Nick's interests are wide in scope and fairly eclectic, ranging from amateur photography to robot building.","presentation":"Versioning in the Cloud","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#npoole","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/n-poole.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Prakash Ranade","about":"Prakash Ranade is a software engineer who has been with VMware since 2006. He has worked on several Perforce projects, including Perforce Synchronizer which replicates archive files and journal bits in real time; near- live Perforce log data monitoring/mining; and Perforce checkin policy control. His most important Perforce notes are the output of \"p4 help undoc\" command.\n\nHis latest craze is using Hadoop to perform large-scale data mining on Perforce checkin messages, Bugzilla bugs, builds and test results data and show the relationship between them. Prakash has developed a portal to monitor Perforce activities, track project progress and display pretty metrics.","presentation":"SCM Dashboard: Monitoring Code Velocity at the Product/Project/Branch Level","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#pranade","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/prakash_ranade.jpg","company":"VMware"},{"name":"Hamish Reid","about":"Hamish Reid is a Java product architect and developer at Perforce with more than a decade of experience designing and developing Java applications and product lines in the Java EE and standalone Java world. His background includes Web 2.0 app development, ORDBMS application and server internal development, Unix and Linux kernel development, and hardware design and implementation.","presentation":"Perforce's Java Platform: Continuous Integration \nfor Real","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#hreid","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/hamish-reid.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Mike Saha","about":"Mike Saha is a senior manager of release engineer and development operations at Salesforce.com. His areas of responsibility include SDLC operations, development and testing environments, Perforce and SCM architecture and operations, production deployments and release engineering process for new products. He has been with the company for nearly six years. Prior to joining Salesforce, he worked in release engineering, development and systems administration at various start-ups as well multinationals.","presentation":"Agile Revolution at Salesforce.com: Successfully Scaling an Agile Innovation Culture With Perforce","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#msaha","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/placeholder.jpg","company":"Salesforce.com"},{"name":"Christopher Seiwald","about":"Christopher Seiwald founded Perforce Software in 1995 in response to unsatisfactory experiences with available Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools. As a developer, he knew the key to successful SCM was to create a system his fellow developers would want to use that still provided enough control to satisfy managers. Christopher has developed software for more than 25 years and is a respected SCM expert. He remains actively involved in the direction of the company's technology, and still finds time to make occasional contributions to the code base. Prior to founding Perforce Software, Christopher managed Network Development at Ingres Corporation, where he was responsible for developing database and development tools. He recently returned from an epic motorcyle trip winding through lesser-traveled routes of South America. Having given his lifelong fascination with motorcycles and photography free reign for a bit, he's now back at Perforce, ready to navigate our Roadmap to Innovation.","presentation":"Keynote","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#cseiwald","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/chris-seiwald.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Michael Shields","about":"Michael is the performance lab manager at Perforce Software. He has developed and supported software since 1977, specializing in server optimization for software products including Perforce, Sybase, and Ingres. His hobbies include studying the effects of solar radiation and eroded limestone on the human psyche.","presentation":"The Perforce Server Dream Machine","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#mshields","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/michael-shields.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Tony Smith","about":"Tony Smith joined Perforce in 2000. In that time, he has filled a number of roles and has been responsible for the development of several Perforce products, including P4Ruby, P4Perl, P4FTP and the P4Broker. He is currently Perforce's European technical director, responsible for the UK engineering team developing Perforce's cloud solutions, and for Perforce UK's internal IT systems.","presentation":"Versioning in the Cloud","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#tsmith","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/tony-smith.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Sam Stafford","about":"Sam Stafford is on the Server development team at Perforce, but is known better to many customers for his prior decade or so as a technical support engineer. Sam is a San Francisco native and his hobbies include gaming, music, and exploration.","presentation":"P4 Integrate, Take Three","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#sstafford","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/samstafford.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Devin Sundaram","about":"Devin Sundaram is a software engineer and senior member of technical staff at Altera Corporation. Devin earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Cornell University. He joined Altera in 1997 and has worked on many areas of software infrastructure. He is a key Perforce and software build architect in Altera, and is responsible for the continuing evolution of Altera's software build and development environment.","presentation":"Compartmentalized Continuous Integration: Enabling Rapid, Flexible Collaboration for Complex Software Projects","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#dsundaram","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/devin-sundaram.jpg","company":"Altera"},{"name":"Mike Sundy","about":"Mike Sundy is a digital asset system administrator at Pixar. He has worked in SCM for 16 years, specializing in administering Perforce for entertainment companies for 10 years. His previous stints include Electronic Arts, Ernst & Young and some dotcom start-ups.","presentation":"Scaling Servers and Storage for Film Assets","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#msundy","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/mike-sundy.jpg","company":"Pixar"},{"name":"Alan Teague","about":"Alan Teague has been designing, building, and managing software solutions for the past 25 years. He is currently the integrations and plug-ins technical director for Perforce. In this role, Alan has shepherded such projects as P4DTG, P4Eclipse, Merge Quest, and Local Private Branching.","presentation":"Perforce Unplugged: Central and Distributed Versioning","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#ateague","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/alan-teague.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Stephanie Turner","about":"Stephanie Turner is a UI programmer working on P4V at Perforce. Prior to joining Perforce, she held technical positions at Valid Logic Systems, Cadence, Synopsys, Cisco, Reuters, and Stanford. She studied math and computer science at Oberlin College and Stanford University.","presentation":"Streams in Perforce","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#sturner","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/stephanie-turner.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Hans van der Meer","about":"Hans van der Meer is a manager on the P4V development team. His professional passion is GUI programming: He has worked with X/ Motif, MFC, Java/Swing, and C+++, just to name a few. Before joining Perforce, he worked at Oracle in the JDeveloper group, and at Ingres on the Windows4GL team.","presentation":"Perforce's Rich Client Framework","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#hvandermeer","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/hans-vandermeer.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Jethro Villegas","about":"Jethro Villegas is a senior engineering manager at Adobe Systems where he is responsible for the development and deployment of the Adobe Flash Player and AIR products. He has been a professional in the interactive media industry since 1994, working on many products including games, tools, runtimes, compilers, debuggers, servers, mobile and Web applications.","presentation":"High-Performance Coding, Building and Testing for Multiple Platforms and Devices","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#jvillegas","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/jethro-villegas.jpg","company":"Adobe"},{"name":"Laura Wingerd","about":"Vice president of product technology, Laura Wingerd, conducts product technology research at Perforce. She is \nalso the author of “Practical Perforce”.","presentation":"Streams in Perforce","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#lwingerd","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/laura-wingerd.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Gabe Weiss","about":"Gabe Weiss started at Perforce in 2004 in QA. He quickly moved into development after it became clear he was fixing the bugs he found instead of filing them into the system. He started his career working in the games industry and working on game mods before coming to Perforce. Now he spends his work time developing Perforce's flagship GUI, P4V.","presentation":"Streams in Perforce","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#gweiss","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/gabe-weiss.jpg","company":"Perforce"},{"name":"Yi Zhang","about":"As SCM and release engineering manager at EMC, Yi Zhang manages a talented team of employees who are located throughout the world. He has many years of experience in SCM, release, build and quality assurance.\n\nHe was a ClearCase administrator and release engineer at Altavista Search and Avaya Communication, and a senior QA staff member at Siemens Pyramid. Yi was also previously a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and he received his Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics from SUNY at Albany.","presentation":"Branch Management and Atomic Merge in a Continuous Integration Environment","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#yzhang","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/yizhang.jpg","company":"EMC"},{"name":"Zig Zichterman","about":"Zig is a Software Engineer on the Plug-in and Integrations team at Perforce Software. He currently works on Local Private Branching. He also worked on P4V Working Offline and Folder Diff.","link":"http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2011/speakers.html#zzichterman","image":"http://www.perforce.com/images/conferences/us/2011/speakers/zzichterman.jpg","company":"Perforce"}]