A self-professed geek with more than 30 years of programming experience, Stu co-founded Gorilla Logic in 2002 to deliver world-class consulting services around internet and enterprise applications. Prior to co-founding Gorilla Logic, Stu was founding VP of the Sun Java Center, Sun Microsystems’ global Java professional services organization. Among other accomplishments, the Sun Java Center created the highly influential Core J2EE Patterns catalog and book. Before that, Stu was VP of Equity Trading Systems Technology at PaineWebber (now UBS), and was a member of the original Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol steering committee. Stu holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Rochester.