Simon is a technical architect with Evolution (http://www.evolution.net), and likes to get his hands dirty writing the code after he's drawn the boxes. He's been using Java since the initial 1.0 release and has been involved with Java projects ranging from desktop clients to highly scalable, distributed systems. Outside of work, Simon has written and contributed to a number of books about the J2EE web-tier and is a frequent speaker on such topics. Simon's weblog can be found at http://www.simongbrown.com/blog/.