Michael Oliver

Mr. Oliver has been involved in the computer industry since his college days at Arizona State University and wrote his first program on punched paper tape in 1970. Since then he has been a Fighter Pilot in the USAF and Air National Guard and upon leaving active Duty in the USAF has worked for various companies in the computer industry including Xerox, Sun Microsystems, Sperry, SAIC and OpenText . Some of the titles he has held range from Systems Analyst and Senior Software Engineer, to Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer.

He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Corent Technology where he is leading the development of the SaaS-Suite™, a Platform as a Service product line aimed squarely at the Software as a Service industry with a Service Oriented Architecture of Loosely Coupled Meta Model Driven Components.

He has been an active participant in software industry standards bodies like IETF, WfMC , AIIM and Open Source Software Technologies as a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation. He has been active in various professional societies such as CTO for the Knowledge Management Professional Society and serves as Vice President of the Software Process Improvement Network sponsored by LinkedIn and Carnegie Melon University’s Software Engineering Institute. Mr. Oliver is a published author including various articles and a tutorial series on IBM Developer Works and most recently “The Essential Guide to CS4 Flash with ActionScript” from Friends of Ed books.