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Will
Provost
Will Provost
brings over 10 years of experience in object-oriented and
distributed systems development to
his teaching. He has participated as
analyst, architectural consultant,
technologist, programmer, mentor and
technical leader in the successful creation
and deployment of many
large-scale business applications.
In 1993, Mr.
Provost developed a framework of C++ classes and templates to
facilitate COM development --
essentially a home-grown ActiveX Template
Library -- pursuant to the development of
the Analyst Workstation tool for
State Street Bank. He began working with
JavaŽ and CORBA in 1996, creating
the JavaŽ code generator for Riverton's HOW
development tool, along with a
portable toolkit to facilitate object
persistence. He has designed and
built JavaŽ implementations of several CORBA
services for various clients,
including an Externalization service
framework for NetGenics, Inc. This
specification allows for multiple
serialization formats, and an XML
vocabulary was developed as an alternative
to the CORBA Externalization
standard format. More recently, Mr. Provost
has been active in consulting
for web application development, focusing on
effective XML schema design,
object externalization, and transformation
strategies.
Mr. Provost
began teaching JavaŽ topics at Sun Microsystems in 1997, and has
since been writing and presenting
educational materials in topics in JavaŽ,
J2EE, CORBA, and XML. He acts as the
coordinator for JavaŽ and XML
curricula at Object Innovations, Inc., and
is the primary author of OI's
XML curriculum.
Other
consulting and training clients have included Siemens Corporate
Research, Fidelity Investments,
Quintus, Cayman Systems, L&S
Hochfrequenztechnik, RequestHealth, Inc.,
and Kepner-Tregoe. Mr. Provost
holds an A.B. in Biophysics from Harvard
College.
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