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Gregory Shah, Founder and CEO

Greg is Golden Code Development's CEO and one of its founders. His early career was spent at IBM. He started in the U.S. Marketing Division in the Atlanta Manufacturing and Distribution Branch Office and focused on manufacturing application systems for large enterprise customers such as Georgia-Pacific and SouthWire. In working with these customers, he gained experience in a wide variety of systems including mainframe (S/370 and S/390), midrange (System 36, System 38, AS/400), UNIX (AIX on RS/6000 and Power) and PC/LAN systems (OS/2, PS/2, client/server middleware). He was also deeply involved with working on a variety of network types (e.g. token-ring, ethernet, frame-relay) and protocols (e.g. NetBIOS, TCP/IP, IPX, 802.2 LLC, SNA). From there, Greg shifted into a technical marketing role focused on PC technologies and Local Area Network (LAN) systems/software. In this role, he worked with a wide range of enterprise customers including The Coca-Cola Company, Scientific-Atlanta and Lithonia Lighting. Greg left IBM to found Golden Code, where he led the Systems Development practice. This group blended systems and network engineering with software development to create highly managed systems for large enterprise clients. Greg led the team in a 6+ year engagement for the development and management of mission critical, networked, banking center infrastructure for Bank of America. In that engagement, a small Golden Code team was largely responsible for the design and development of the software stack for 4,300 branch servers and 80,000 remote booted PC clients (no local software on the PC). These systems were centrally managed in a lights-out manner. Golden Code created and/or integrated much of the infrastructure and the tools/processes to secure, deploy, inspect and support these systems. Greg understands the unique problems of large enterprises, as they relate to the development, deployment and management of information technology. He takes an "end to end" view of all systems which he designs, eliminating flaws in the design stage, while they are still relatively inexpensive to fix. This is enabled by his deep expertise in network engineering (in particular, LAN design/protocols), systems engineering/integration (building highly managed PC/LAN systems for client and server environments), security and system software development (development of boot loaders, device drivers, operating system kernel design/implementation, middleware, compilers and virtual machines). He is an expert level software developer in Java, C, C++, ANTLR, Javascript, Intel x86 Assembly and REXX. In 2001, Golden Code shifted its efforts to focus primarily on writing infrastructure-level software systems. Greg led the Golden Code project to port the Sun Microsystems J2SE 1.4.1 from Windows to OS/2. From a development task perspective, he was half of the 2 person team that ported the Hotspot JVM (including both the client and server compilers). He also worked on significant portions of the J2SE libraries (both graphical and non-graphical support). Since 2004, Greg has focused exclusively on the design and development of FWD, a fully automated solution to convert Progress ABL applications into drop-in replacements written in Java. He leads the FWD team and has designed and written much of the system as it exists today. He has been published in a variety of trade magazines, on the web and in the IBM “Redbook” WorkSpace On-Demand Early Customer Experiences (SG24-5107-00, October 1998). Greg has provided a wide range of seminars and presentations at industry conferences and user groups. At the University of Virginia, Greg earned a B.A. with Distinction in Cultural Economics (an Interdisciplinary Major comprised of History, Economics and Anthropology). He holds an M.B.A. from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.