Erik has extensive experience in the software industry as an architect and consultant. He was involved with World Wide Web and Java technologies since their inception in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He has worked in all the areas of Java development, including constrained environments (J2ME), desktop applications (J2SE) and enterprise software (J2EE). A former employee of Symantec Corp. in Cupertino, he contributed to the VisualCafe for Java product line, before co-founding Orbeon, Inc., a company specialized in Java and XML consulting. He is currently a specialist of web applications architecture and the architect of Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS), an open source J2EE-based platform for XML-centric web applications. Erik is the co-author of several articles on J2EE and web application development. He holds a MS/CS from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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