Savoir Technologies is a diverse consulting, training, and support company that brings the top talent into the organization. Savoir Technologies embraces a team of the best technologists that enables Savoir to offer ‘best in breed’ solutions to your organization. Our team consists of some well known and respected leaders in the SOA and open source communities.
Jeff Genender – Principal and Founder
Jeff Genender is a Java Champion, Apache Member, and Java Open Source consultant specializing in SOA and enterprise service implementation. Jeff has over 23 years of software architecture, team lead, and development experience in multiple industries. He is a frequent speaker at such events as TheServerSide Symposium, JavaZone, Java In Action, JavaOne, JFokus, and numerous Java User Groups on topics pertaining to Enterprise Service Bus (ESBs), Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), and application servers.
Jeff is an active committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member for Apache Camel, ServiceMix, CXF, Geronimo, a committer on ActiveMQ and ActiveMQ Artemis, TomEE/OpenEJB, and Mina, and author of several very popular Mojo (Maven plugins). He is the author of Enterprise Java Servlets (Addison Wesley Longman, 2001), co – author of Professional Apache Geronimo (2006, Wiley), and co-author of Professional Apache Tomcat (2007, Wiley). Jeff also serves as a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) expert group for JSR-366 (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) Specification).
Jeff is an open source evangelist and has successfully brought open source development efforts, initiatives, and success stories into a number of Global 2000 companies, saving these organizations millions in licensing costs.
Jamie Goodyear – Computer Systems Analyst
Jamie Goodyear is an Apache Software Foundation Member, open source evangelist, and computer systems analyst; he has designed, critiqued, and supported architectures for large organizations worldwide.
Jamie has worked in systems administration, software quality assurance, and senior software developer roles for businesses from ranging from small start-ups to international corporations. He has attained committer status on Apache Karaf, ActiveMQ/Artemis, Servicemix, and Felix, and is a Project Management Committee member on Apache Karaf. He is co-author of Instant OSGi Starter (Packt Publishing, 2013), co-author of Learning Apache Karaf (Packt Publishing, 2013), and co-author of Apache Karaf Cookbook (Packt Publishing, 2014).
Currently he divides his time between providing high-level reviews of architectures,mentoring developers and administrators with SOA deployments, and helping to grow the Apache community.