Dimitris Andreadis studied Computer Science at Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland. Dimitris served in the Navy for 2 years and the Telecoms software industry for another 7 years while working for Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. He joined JBoss in 2004 in the midst of the J2EE 1.4 certification frenzy to become a core developer focusing on (and around) the JBoss microkernel. His main interest is in the core application server platform and the management aspect of it. He has worked extensively with JMX and CORBA technologies and represents JBoss on JSR-284. He is currently the project lead for the JBoss Application Server, in the JBoss Division of Red Hat, Inc.