Vladimir Vivien is a software engineer living in the United States. Past and current experience include development in Java and .Net for industries including publishing, financial, and healthcare. He has worked with a varied number of technologies including user-facing GUI frontends and backend middleware. Vladimir enjoys taking part in open source projects. He is the author of JmxBuilder a Groovy DSL for instrumentation and management that is now part of the core Groovy project. Vladimir has presented some of his ideas at JavaOne, NFJS Software Symposium, and local Java user groups.
Besides JavaFX, he has a wide range of technology interests including Java, OSGi, Scala, BugLabs, Arduino, SunSPOT, and any other interesting projects running on the JVM. You can follow Vladimir through his blog: http://blog.vladimirvivien.com/, Twitter: http://twitter.com/vladimirvivien, and LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vvivien.