Contributors 209
Ernani Marques da Silva, MBA, PMP, PgMP
(Mairipora, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Ernani Marques has over 19 years of broad-based and successful experience
in project management, program management, and portfolio management
within the IT, banking, and services industries. He has led and managed
project/program management offices (PMOs), as well as multiple projects
and teams.
His experience within the IT industry includes managing projects and pro-
grams in the areas of application development, product management, and
system integration utilizing full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
processes and project management methodologies.Alex Miller (Ballwin, Missouri, U.S.)
Alex Miller is a tech lead and engineer at Terracotta, Inc., the makers of the
open source Java clustering product Terracotta. Prior to Terracotta, Alex
worked at BEA Systems on the AquaLogic product line and was chief architect
at MetaMatrix. His interests include Java, concurrency, distributed systems,
query languages, and software design.
Alex enjoys writing his blog at http://tech.puredanger.com. He is a contrib-
uting author to the 2008 release The Definitive Guide to Terracotta (Apress),
along with the rest of the Terracotta team. Alex is a frequent speaker at
Java user group meetings, the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, and conferences like
JavaOne.William j. Mills (Castro valley, California, U.S.)
William J. Mills is currently a Technical Yahoo! working primarily on soft-
ware and product security at Yahoo!. Prior to that, he worked at Invisible
Worlds (now defunct); at Wells Fargo, running firewalls and working on its
first Internet banking release; at various contracting gigs; and for a while at
the County of San Diego Superior Court.gennady Mironov, CPM (Toronto, ontario, Canada)
Gennady Mironov was born in 1967. He served two years in the Soviet
Army and graduated from Power Engineering Technical University in Mos-
cow in 1992 with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. He received his
post-grad education in psychology and business in 2001.