Emad Benjamin has been in the IT industry for the past 20 years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Wollongong. Early in his career, he was a C++ software engineer. Then, in 1997, he took on his first major project using Java and has focused on Java ever since. For the past 10 years, his main concentration has been Java on VMware vSphere. Emad is a featured speaker at VMworld, Spring-One, UberConf, NFJS, and various other Java user groups around the world. Currently, Emad is a principal application virtualization architect and a CTO ambassador at VMware concentrating on large deals, designing and implementing complex high transaction platforms, and training field engineers on advanced platform engineering concepts.