Tom Marrs (email)

Tom Marrs, a 20 year veteran in the software industry, is the Principal and Senior Software Architect at Vertical Slice, a consulting firm that designs and implements mission-critical business applications using the latest J2EE and Open Source technologies, along with providing architecture evaluation and developer training and mentoring services. Tom teaches Java/J2EE/JBoss training classes, speaks regularly at software conferences such as No Fluff Just Stuff, and is a blogger on java.net and ONJava. An active participant in the local technical community, Tom is the President of the Denver JBoss User Group and has served as President of the Denver Java Users Group.

Scott Davis (email)

Scott Davis is a senior software engineer at OpenLogic. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project).

In addition to co-authoring JBoss At Work, he is also responsible for an in-depth article on the Google Maps API and the forthcoming book Pragmatic GIS. For more information on his mapping endeavors, see MapMap.org.

Scott is a frequent presenter at national conferences (such as No Fluff, Just Stuff) and local user groups. He was the president of the Denver Java Users Group in 2003 when it was voted one of the top-ten JUGs in North America. After a quick move north, he is currently active in the leadership of the Boulder Java Users Group. Keep up with him at http://www.davisworld.org.