Patrick Linskey has been involved in object/relational mapping for 5+ years. As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drives the technical direction of the company. He has been one of the leaders on the EJB 3 specification team, a luminary on JDOcentral, the primary evangelist for O/R mapping, and member of the JAOO 2005 Conference Program Committee. Patrick co–authored the popular Bitter EJB book (Manning). Patrick holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.