David Hecksel is a Senior SOA and Business Integration architect at Sun Microsystems, having recently joined the organization that was formerly known as SeeBeyond Software. David has been with Sun Microsystems for six years, five of them in the Sun Java Center. David's interests revolve around the areas that turn software development teams into effective software development teams.

Particular areas of interest include:

• Application Architecture
• Agile Software Development
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Patterns

David has given ten presentations at JavaOne over the years 1997 to 2005, on topics including Swing development, Application Architecture, J2EE Deployment, Agile Development, and a J2EE Interactive Voice Response reference architecture. In addition, David has spoken at SDExpo 2005, and participated in the Pattern Language Of Practice 2004 conference, where he had 5 of his 28 patterns on IT Effectiveness workshopped.

Prior to Sun, David was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Axtive Software in Dallas (1996 - 2000), where he invented, architected, and co-developed the e.Monogram Web Personalization One to One Marketing Server. Prior to being acquired, e.Monogram was nominated as a finalist for "Best Internet Debut" product by the Software Publishers Association. Prior to Axtive Software, David spent 11 years at IBM Corporation, doing commercial software development on various networking software and storage management products.

David has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.