Jim LoVerde is a Senior Consultant for Strategic Technology Resources (STR), an object technology consulting firm based in Chicago. He designs and develops distributed object-oriented systems utilizing a variety of technologies including Java, CORBA, and object databases. His experience spans several diverse industries including telecommunications, travel, banking, distribution, and health care.

Keith Garner is a Consultant at Strategic Technology Resources (STR), an object technology consulting firm based in Chicago. He designs and develops distributed object-oriented systems utilizing a variety of technologies including Java, CORBA, and object databases. While attending the Univerity of Illinois, Keith was the chairperson of the Linux Users' Group and a member of the ACM Exec Board.