Derek Ferguson

Derek Ferguson graduated with honors from Chicago's DePaul University and worked with a local ISP to deliver one of the world's first commercial DSL deployments. Out of that effort, he was recruited into book writing and conference speaking, serving as Editor-in-Chief of a major software development magazine, authoring best-selling software development books such as "Broadband Internet Access for Dummies" and speaking at events ranging from Sun's Java One to Java Dev Con. In 2008, he joined JP Morgan Chase and led the effort to integrate Bear Stearns' institutional trading system for retail use. He is presently Head of Engineering for Chase's Commercial Bank.