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

Yaron Y. Goland

www.goland.org

yaron AT goland DOT org

OBJECTIVE: Be part of an outstanding team building massively scalable software infrastructures where I can contribute my skills as a software architect and strategic planner.

EMPLOYMENT

04/06-

Principal Program Manager

Microsoft

Redmond, WA

PM Architect working for the Identity and Security Division (which owns Active Directory and Forefront) on next generation cloud architectures.
PM Architect for V1 release of Windows Azure platform AppFabric Access Control Service. Worked with Yahoo and Google on redesigning OAuth 1.0a into what is now OAuth 2.0 so as to radically reduce implementation complexity and introduce support for federation.
Group PM for Microsoft's internal Cosmos service offering petabyte scale distributed data analysis for Bing.
PM Architect responsible for Live's external web services strategy. Drove designing and shipping new web service technologies at Microsoft including control technology, cross-domain channel mechanism and third party permissioning technology .

04/02-04/06

Director of Technology

BEA Systems

Seattle, WA

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 and member of the spec editing team for WS-BPEL 2.0. Represented BEA at the W3C Choreography & WSDL 2.0 WGs. Lead author on BEA's web service reliable messaging specification stack. Co-authored first version of BPELJ.

02/01-03/02

Staff Architect

Openwave

Bellevue, WA

Technical representative to the Liberty Alliance Project, responsible for applying technologies such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, SAML, XMLDSIG, etc. to create a web services architecture.
Served as Chief Technologist for the messaging division, responsible for long-term product strategy for e-mail & unified messaging, drove SIP and MMS strategies.

02/00-01/01

Product Manager

Crossgain, Inc.

Redmond, WA

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.

08/96-02/00

Program Manager

Microsoft

Redmond, WA

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.

10/94-08/96

General Partner

CoreTech

Los Angeles, CA

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 Bachelors of Science - Computer Science & Engineering, UCLA

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
The original UPnP protocol stack consisted of the Flexible XML Processing Profile ( FXPP ), Simple Service Discovery Protocol ( SSDP ), the Multicast and Unicast UDP HTTP Messages ( HTTP over UDP ) and General Event Notification Architecture ( GENA ) specifications. All four specifications where then bundled into one specification that was made the basis for the UPnP Device Architecture Version 1.0 which was standardized by the UPnP forum in ISO.
BPEL4WS -- The Promise of Portable Business Processes - Web Services Journal
Open Source, Java and WebLogic - Beneficial coexistence rather than competition - S. Dietzen, Y. Goland - Weblogic Developer's Journal
The Race to Create Standards - WebLogic Developer's Journal
The WebDAV Property Design, J. Whitehead, Y. Goland, Software-Practice & Experience - 2/2004
BPELJ: BPEL for Java technology (BPELJ)
Web Services Business Process Execution Language Version 2.0, WS-BPEL 2.0 .
OAuth Web Resource Authorization Profiles (OAuth WRAP) which is the basis for OAuth 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.