Lawrence Mandel

Lawrence is a former WTP committer and was the leader of documentation and ecosystem development until the release of WTP 1.5.2. Lawrence is a software architect and developer at the IBM Toronto Lab. He is currently the release engineering and installation lead for Rational Insight. Up until accepting his current position Lawrence worked on Java Web application development tools including WebSphere Studio Application Developer and Rational Application Developer. Throughout this time his development efforts focused on building XML and Web services tools for Eclipse. In addition, he is leading the Apache Woden project, which is developing a reference implementation of WSDL 2.0. Lawrence holds an Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Human Biology from the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto with his wife Elana and children Erica and Ben.