About the Reviewers

Scott Battaglia holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University and is finishing his MBA from Rutgers and MPH from the University of Medicine and Dentistry's School of Public Health. He has been a software developer for Rutgers for the past six years, initially with the Architecture and Engineering team working on business applications, architecture, and development processes, and now with the Identity Management team, working on open source projects such as Spring Security, CAS and OpenRegistry, as well as participating in the IDM re-architecture initiative at Rutgers. Scott has spoken at various conferences, including Jasig and Educause, on a variety of topics including Spring Security, development best practices, CAS, IDM, and Java development. He has served on the program committee for Internet2's ACAMP and the Jasig Conferences. Scott currently serves as the chairperson of the Jasig CAS Steering Committee, and as the project's lead architect. In his spare time, Scott enjoys running marathons, hiking, photography, learning new libraries and tools, and volunteering for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey.

Carlos Sanchez has been involved in open source for nearly ten years. He has specialized in solving business challenges in a wide variety of industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and software development. He is a member of the Apache Maven Project Management Committee (PMC), the Apache software Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, and a committer in the Spring Security project among others and he is currently the Sr. Solutions Architect at G2iX in Los Angeles.

Carlos completed his Computer Engineering degree at the University of Coruña, Spain, and enjoys traveling and discovering new places.

Carlos has coauthored "Better Builds with Maven"—the first book about Maven 2, and reviewed other books about the project.