Steve Skrabacz  Adjunct Assistant Professor

This Spring ('04) I'm scheduled to teach Object Structures in Groton.

A few bullets about myself:

• I started out as a mechanical engineer and a Naval Officer
• Since '91, I've been in the software business, mostly in projects related to some kind of submarine thing.
• In '97 I steered my career wholly toward Java at Electric Boat Corp., and have been involved in everything from Java Rings which run cryptographic algorithms on one's finger, to 16-chip webservers running J2EE and talking to mainframe DB2 / Oracle.   Probably my favorite assignment is right in the middle of those extremes:  developing client-side applications which do fairly complex engineering analyses and data exchange with full blown CAD platforms, saving on iterative design costs.
• Since '00, my group at EB have been asking how XML might help with all this good stuff.  This has given me a breadth of Apache skills, and I feel comfortable with stuff like Tomcat, Catalina, JSP Taglib, Xerces, Xalan, Batik/SVG and Cocoon.