Position: Red Hat Director of Standards and Engineering Director

Dr. Mark Little

Position: Red Hat Director of Standards and Engineering Director

Bio:Dr Mark Little is Technical Development Manager for Red Hat's SOA Platform and Director ofStandards. Before joining Red Hat, Mark has been responsible for the development and management ofthe JBossESB and JBoss Transactions products. He joined JBoss in a partial acquisition of technology

from Arjuna Technologies, where he as Chief Architect, Co-Founder and Director. Before startingArjuna Technologies, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where he ran thetransactions teams and was responsible for the world's first Web Services transactions product.

Over the years Mark has been heavily involved in standards. This includes activities in the OMG,where he was a collaborator on the Object Transaction Service (OTS) specifications since 1991 andchair of the Additional Structuring Mechanisms for the OTS standard. He has been involved with

OASIS since 2000, where he was HP’s representative on the Business Transactions TechnicalCommittee. He's also been involved with various other OASIS committees, such as WS-CAF, WS-TX,WS-RX, SOA-RM and WS-RF, working closely with colleagues from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, BEA

and other companies. Since it began, Dr. Little has been involved with the W3C WS-Addressingworking group and is also on the WS-Policy and WS-CDL committees. He is also active in the JavaCommunity Process, as Red Hat's representative on the JCP and in several JSRs.

Dr. Little has been the lead developer and manager on a number of important products for companiesincluding Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat. These include the first fully compliant OTS implementation aswell as the world's first pure Java transaction service. He has extensive experience in the areas of faulttolerance, reliability, transactions, Web Services and SOA.

Mark has published extensively over the past 20 years at workshops, conferences, trade magazines etc.

He is a co-author on 4 books, covering topics from distributed transactions to enterprise SOA. He hasover 50 publications to his name and has presented at over 40 events. He is co-author on several WebServices specifications before they entered a standards body, including WS-Context, WS-

MessageDelivery, WS-Coordination and WS-TX. He has also worked on papers and articles withcolleagues/friends from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, IONA Technologies and others.

Mark is a member of the OpenCSA steering committee at present, where he has helped some of the fledgling TCs over the past year. One of his main roles has been in evangelising and encouraging the dissemination of information outside OASIS. He has driven the creation of a presenters database, which contains information of which OASIS TCs (and which members) can be called on to talk about OpenCSA work at events such as conferences and workshops. As part of this work he was also the lead in writing the JavaOne 2008 panel session around OpenCSA; this session was accepted for presentation. He has also worked closely with OASIS staff to turn a number of TC presentations into webinars to help improve the reach of the OpenCSA effort.