Perforce Software Inc.

Laura Wingerd is vice president of product technology at Perforce Software. She joined Perforce in 1997, just as the company was moving out of the Seiwalds' garage. Her foundation of software configuration management knowledge was laid at Ingres and Sybase, where she worked on various porting, testing, build, and infrastructure projects. She now divides her time between promoting product direction within Perforce and promoting Perforce within the software development industry. Wingerd will discuss The Flow of Change.

Jeff Bowles is a Perforce Consulting Partner and Perforce Certified Trainer. He is the principal consultant for Piccolo Engineering, and has held positions at large companies and start-ups. Jeff Bowles and Stephen Vance are working on a class that focuses on Perforce scripting and triggers. Bowles will present Writing Triggers with Perforce with Vance, and Scripting with Perforce, a paper he co-authored with Vance.

Stephen Vance is owner and principal consultant of Stellar Advances, a Michigan-based software development and enterprise configuration management consultancy. He has been a Perforce Consulting Partner since 1998 and a Perforce Certified Trainer since 2003. He has a broad experience in SCM systems and development contexts. For non-work fun, Vance most prominently likes traveling, scuba diving, bicycling, kayaking and rock climbing. Vance will be covering Writing Triggers with Perforce and is the co-author of the paper, Scripting with Perforce, being presented by Jeff Bowles.

James Creasy is a software engineer at Perforce Software. He started working with computers in 1976. After writing scientific and instructional software at Cornell University, he moved to California and built legacy re-engineering tools at Mozart Systems Corporation and SEEC for twelve years. In 2001, he joined Gene Network Sciences to work in the new field of In Silico Biology and drug discovery, writing the award-winning VisualCell tool. When not working on P4V, Time-lapse View, and leftover cookies, he likes to race cars and teach classical piano. Creasy is presenting Analyzing File Content History with Michael Bishop.

Jeff Anton is a software developer at Perforce Software where he works on the Perforce Server. Anton implemented the Perforce Proxy, I18N support and the B-tree storage methods. He has worked on database internals for more than 15 years at U.C. Berkeley, Ingres, Illustra, Informix and other companies. Anton is presenting Changes to P4 integrate in 2004.2.

Lloyd Cha is a Senior Verification Engineer at Montalvo Systems in Santa Clara, California. His responsibilities include release flow automation, regression test systems, and simulation environments used in the verification of integrated circuits. Prior to joining Montalvo, he held CAD and Verification Engineering positions at Azul Systems, Redback Networks, Advanced Micro Devices, and Rockwell International. Cha is presenting Improving Perforce Performance at Remote Sites with Vishnu Mohan.

Michael Shields is currently a senior technical support engineer at Perforce Software. He has developed and supported software since 1977. He has specialized in server optimization for software products including Perforce, Sybase and Ingres. He is the author of p4loga (a Perforce log analyzer) and p4jrep (Perforce metadata replication). His hobbies include wine and cigars. Shields will present Performance Update with Richard Baum.

Richard is a Senior Technical Support Engineer at Perforce, joining the company in 2000. He has been working with computers since his father brought home a box from Heathkit in 1978. Since then, he has worked with too many operating systems and platforms to count, in various consulting and support roles. These included time at Ingres and Lucent Technologies. When he is not assisting customers, Richard likes to travel the world with his wife and children. Baum is presenting Demystifying Perforce Backups and Near Real-Time Replication.

Sam Stafford has been a technical support engineer at Perforce Software since 1999. He is responsible for the development of Revision Graph as well as a handful of open source utilities in the Perforce Public Depot. His hobbies include gaming and useful cynicism. Stafford is presenting What's this flag? Integrating around Deleted Revisions with Stephanie Turner.

Stanton Stevens has been configuration management architect at Adobe for the past two years. His prior CM experience includes two years as the Perforce administrator with Dotcast, and five years as a ClearCase administrator in various consulting and full-time positions. Before it became obvious to him that CM was the missing piece in most development efforts, Stevens was a C/C++ software engineer involved in medical and broadcast video animation. Stevens is presenting Large Perforce Installation Details: Perforce at Adobe with Dave Foglesong.

Stephanie Turner is a UI programmer working on P4V at Perforce Software. Prior to joining Perforce, she held technical positions for Valid Logic Systems, Cadence, Synopsys, Cisco, Reuters and Stanford University. Turner is presenting What's this flag? Integrating around Deleted Revisions with Sam Stafford.

Steven Lysohir is a systems analyst at National Instruments. His primary focus is on managing, supporting, and automating six Perforce servers in five different countries, with over 1000 developers worldwide. While new to this field, he has played a key role in the global development of NI's SCM solution. When not in the office, Lysohir can be found at the local watering hole enjoying the band of the night, or at the local swimming hole chasing down his two dogs. Lysohir will cover Perforce Backup Architecture and Disaster Recovery at National Instruments.

Tony Vinayak is currently engaged in technical marketing with Perforce Software, as a principal product consultant. He has been in the software product and consulting business for over 17 years. He has consulted with customers around the world in wide-ranging technologies like web development, databases and Voice over IP. He has held positions ranging from project manager and product manager to director of consulting. Vinayak will cover Distributed Development with Perforce.

Vishnu Mohan is a Design Engineer at Montalvo Systems. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 2005. Vishnu published two papers in IEEE Transactions on Electron Device Journal on Semiconductor Device Physics while pursuing the MS degree. Prior to working at Montalvo Systems, Vishnu worked at Tejas Networks, Bangalore, India. His areas of interest include digital system design and verification, test methodology and automation. Mohan is presenting Improving Perforce Performance at Remote Sites with Lloyd Cha.