Ken Rimple heads Chariot Solutions' training and mentoring programs, and has developed and/or delivered courseware and seminars in a variety of technologies such as Maven, OSGi, Groovy, Grails and Spring. Throughout his career, Ken has always made it a priority to teach others what he has learned. Ken has served as the technical co-chair of both the Fall Forecast 2008 Cloud Computing Conference and the 2009 - 2012 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conferences. He hosts a popular podcast, the Chariot TechCast, and has led or participated in projects written in Java since Java 1.0.2. Ken taught the first Philadelphia-area Sun Introduction to Java course in the late 1990s. He is the co-author (along with Srini Penchikala) of Spring Roo in Action for Manning Publications. He is also an avid photographer and jazz drummer. Ken is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 30 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile