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Danny Thornton
Danny's Blog
Danny Thornton
Co-Founder, J2EE Enterprise IT Consultant, Service Oriented Architecture

Danny Thornton enjoys putting the latest in distributed computing technologies to work. Danny's professional experience includes ten years of distributed computing for satellite communication systems and another eight years developing distributed web applications.

Danny's background is in software architecture, project planning, and software development. He has led several teams of software engineers at companies like GTE Government Systems, TRW, Lockheed Martin, and startup companies in the development of distributed software systems. This broad background with large and small companies has given Danny the opportunity to apply many software technologies and software life-cycle methodology practices.

Danny started developing software at the age of fifteen creating graphics applications and building his own operating system for a bulletin board system when 300 baud modems were the in thing.

Danny is a member of the OASIS SOA Technical Committee and one of the editors of the OASIS SOA Reference Architecture, a follow on from the OASIS SOA Reference Model standard. Danny and Adam are currently self funding a project that is a realization of the OASIS SOA Reference Architecture.

Adam Humphrey
Adam Humphrey
Co-Founder, Content Management System Consultant, User Interface Design

Adam founded and now successfully operates Adammer LLC, an IT consulting services company which specializes in Content Management Systems, User Interface Design, and SharePoint Development.

Adam's background includes work at large companies like Hewlett Packard as well as a handful of small start-ups. Adam possesses an exceptional ability to analyze and translate needs and challenges into software and user interface design solutions. Both artist and engineer, Adam has that extremely rare ability to meld complex technical systems and user interface designs into cohesive, intuitive, and elegant solutions.

Scalable Architectures LLC expands Adammer LLC and provides full enterprise software consulting and development capabilities.

Michael Stiefel
Michael's Blog
Michael Stiefel
.NET Consultant, Service Oriented Architecture

Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software Inc., lends twenty years of consulting experience in support of Scalable Architectures LLC.

Michael has publications which include "Building Applications With Windows Workflow Foundation" and "Application Development Using C# and .NET". Michael has a Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering, Political Science, and History of Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michael is currently a member of the OASIS Technical Committee developing a core SOA Reference Model and related Reference Architectures.

See more of Michael's bio at http://www.reliablesoftware.com/bio.html.