Steve Millidge is the director and founder of C2B2 Consulting Limited, he has used Java extensively since pre1.0 and has been a field based professional service consultant for over 10 years. Through C2B2 he now focuses on the configuration of JEE and SOA infrastructure for maximum Scalability, Performance, Availability, Recoverability, Manageability and Security. Having worked for and on behalf of Oracle, BEA and Red Hat professional services he has extensive experience of deploying large scale production systems. Steve has spoken at a number of events including Java One, Jax London, UK Oracle User Group Conference, The Server SOA, Cloud & Service Technology Symposium, JBoss World; he is the main organiser of the London JBoss User Group and regularly presents brown bag technical sessions for C2B2's customer base.