Harold Carr
Software Architect, Oracle

Harold Carr is a Software Architect at Oracle. He is the lead architect for web service technology at Oracle (and at Sun Microsystems before Oracle). Previous to this role he was responsible for RMI-IIOP load-balancing and fail-over in the GlassFish Application Server. He designed the core architecture used in Sun’s CORBA ORB and in Sun’s JAX-WS 2.0 implementation and the scalable socket communications architecture used in GlassFish HTTP and IIOP (i.e., Grizzly). He helped write the OMG Portable Object Adapter specification and was chairperson of the OMG Portable Interceptor specification.

Previous to Oracle and Sun, Harold worked on distributed Lisp and C++ with Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories and Schlumberger Research Laboratories, was Chief Architect of Visual Lisp technology at Autodesk, and was a logic simulation consultant for Cirrus Logic. He holds a Ph.D., in Computer Science from the University of Utah.