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Gordon Van Huizen is vice president of Sonic and Actional products for Progress Software Corporation. In this role Van Huizen is responsible for defining the vision for these product lines and guiding engineering, strategy and delivery. Van Huizen assumes this position following his post as CTO of Progress Software, where he played an instrumental role in the acquisition of Actional Corporation.
At Progress, Van Huizen has also served as CTO and vice president of product management for Sonic, where he provided a driving force in bringing the industry's first enterprise service bus Sonic ESB® (then SonicXQ®) to market and establishing the ESB product category. Prior to Progress Software, Van Huizen served as director of engineering for BEA's flagship WebLogic Server product.
Van Huizen has over 24 years of experience covering a broad range of technologies, including real-time systems, object frameworks, graphical editors, Java application servers and XML. Van Huizen has been leading the development and design of Internet applications, application servers and middleware since 1996.
A popular speaker and authority on Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Van Huizen has delivered keynote speeches at numerous application integration and Web services conferences and has been published in Network World, Business Integration Journal, Java Developer's Journal and JavaWorld, as well as Professional Java Server Programming, J2EE Edition. InfoWorld magazine also named Van Huizen one of its "2004 InfoWorld CTO 25" for his leadership in integration technology and pioneering vision for the ESB. | 