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My Resume

Administrator — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

email: yaron AT goland DOT org		blog: www.goland.org	Word Version

Objective	Be part of an outstanding team building massively scalable software infrastructures where I can contribute my skills as a software architect, strategic planner and standards expert.
Work experience	04/06	Microsoft	Redmond, WA
	Director of Technology
	PM Architect responsible for direction of Live's external web services strategy. Also responsible for leading competitive responses. Drive introducing new web service technologies to Microsoft. Examples include Microsoft's control technology and third party permissioning technology.
	04/02 – 04/06	BEA Systems	Seattle, WA
	Director of Technology
	As a member of the office of the CTO, provided leadership in BEA's cross company/cross product standards and technology strategy including owning BEA's 2-4 year technology strategy & Utility Computing road maps. Leading contributor to the Web Services Business Process Execution Language 2.0 (BPEL) standard. Lead author on BEA's web service reliable messaging specification stack. Co-authored first version of BPEL for Java (BPELJ).
	2/01 – 3/02	Openwave	Bellevue, WA
	Staff Architect
	Founding member of the Liberty Alliance Project, responsible for applying technologies such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, SAML, XMLDSIG, etc. to create a set of open standards to enable using a single identity across multiple websites (single sign on). Chief Technologist for the messaging division, responsible for product strategy for e-mail & unified messaging, drove Session Initiation Protocol (SIP a.k.a. Voice over IP) and Multi-Media Messaging Service (MMS) strategies.
	2/00 – 1/01	Crossgain, Inc.	Redmond, WA
	Product Manager
	Contributed to design and prototype the programming model for a multi-machine, multi-tier network application development/deployment environment. Lead company wide effort to define corporate security policy covering physical, data center and software development security issues.
	8/96 – 2/00	Microsoft	Redmond, WA
	Program Manager
	Lead Microsoft's Universal Plug & Play (UPnP) network design team to ship UPnP in Windows Millennium Edition (ME) Lead author on WebDAV standard, coordinated delivery of WebDAV functionality across Microsoft's year 2000 product line. Provided design guidance, specifications and leadership for the WinInet team in IE 4.0 & 5.0 resulting in IE being the first HTTP/1.1 compliant commercial browser.
	10/94 – 8/96	CoreTech	Los Angeles, CA
	General Partner
	Invented the Host Routing Multicast Engine (HRME) to help build robust/scalable/affordable networks of computers for distributing data and chat over the Internet.
Education	1990 – 1995	UCLA	Los Angeles, CA
	B.S. – Computer Science and Engineering

Publications

HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) – RFC 2518
WebDAV – A network protocol for remote collaborative authoring on the Web, J. Whitehead, Y. Goland, European Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW'99)
WebDAV Book of Why
Flexible XML Processing Profile (FXPP)
Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP)
Multicast and Unicast UDP HTTP Messages (HTTP over UDP)
General Event Notification Architecture (GENA)
BPEL4WS — The Promise of Portable Business Processes – Web Services Journal
Web Service Message Data (WS-MessageData)
Web Service CallBack Protocol (WS-CallBack)
Web Service Acknowledgment Protocol (WS-Acknowledgement)
Open Source, Java and WebLogic – Beneficial coexistence rather than competition – S. Dietzen, Y. Goland, Weblogic Developer's Journal
The Race to Create Standards – The Road to Maturity – WebLogic Developer's Journal
The WebDAV Property Design, J. Whitehead, Y. Goland, Software-Practice & Experience – 2/2004
Web Services Business Process Execution Language Version 2.0, WS-BPEL 2.0.

Named Contributor/Reviewer

Requirements for WebDAV – RFC 2291
Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP – RFC 2295
XML Media Types – RFC 2376
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol – RFC 2543
An HTTP Extension Framework – RFC 2774
HTTP State Management Mechanism (a.k.a. HTTP cookies) – RFC 2965
Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols – RFC 3470
WebDAV Next-Generation Collaborative Web Authoring by Lisa Dusseault
Database Systems – An Application-Oriented Approach – Second Edition – Chapter 25 – Web Services by Michael Kifer, Arthur Bernstein & Philip M. Lewis
Program Committee – ICSOC 2004

Am I a Stopped Drain?

Administrator — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Ken Levy, the product planner/marketer, for my group blogged about a bunch of us joining the group. Mary Jo Foley (of Microsoft Watch fame) then wrote an article based on Ken's blog. This is a perfect example of what Paul Graham was talking about in his article on Corporate PR which I've linked to before. It's all just one big echo chamber. At least Ms. Foley demonstrates her integrity by clearly providing the provenance of her data.

Big Changes

Administrator — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Lately life has changed a lot. The first massive, huge, enormous, life altering change is that I'm now a daddy. More proof that there should be licenses or something required before becoming a parent. It's been several weeks since my daughter was born and life will, of course, never be like it was before but at least I can sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time. In case having a new child wasn't enough Marina and I bought a new house a few weeks ago. And, just to finish up the trifecta of stress, I quit BEA and went to work for Satan er I mean the Borg oops I mean the Dark Side, damn, no, I mean Microsoft. Let us hope the loving care I give to my daughter is enough to reclaim my immortal soul (again).

What I do for a living

Administrator — Tue, 17 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000

I'm a technical director and individual contributor who focuses on issues such as:

Corporate technical strategy (e.g. what technologies should we be investing in and when?),
Cross company technical coordination (building consensus on the direction for our technical architecture and then herding the cats to make it happen),
Standards strategy (which standards do we create/adopt/oppose and when?) and
OSS strategy (how to best contribute to and take advantage of the resources on offer).

Goland, Director Goland

Administrator — Thu, 27 May 2004 00:00:00 +0000

I just received a promotion to "Director of Technology" at BEA! Near as I can tell the biggest change the new title will bring is that it officially gives me permission to stick my nose into even more things at BEA than I usually do.

It's Official, I'm not a C Level Player

Administrator — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

I got mentioned (alas my name was misspelled it's Yaron Goland not Yaron Golan) in Cringely's column this week. I read Cringely's column every week so getting mentioned is pretty nifty. What is even nicer is that while Cringely uses my old project, UPnP, as an example of why MS screws things up (not that I can disagree with him, UPnP was a lot of the reason I ended up quiting MS, see my article on the subject) he was kind enough to mention that I don't suck. That was very cool of him.