Higgins Team

Current Committers

  • Paula Austel, IBM, (pka at us.ibm.com) Paula works on the RP services
  • Duane Buss, Novell, (dbuss at novell.com) Duane is responsible for the JavaScript Policy and In Memory Policy Context Providers
  • Anthony Bussani, IBM, (bus at zurich.ibm.com) Anthony is responsible for the Eclipse-based Identity Selector
  • Greg Byrd, North Carolina State University, IBM (gbyrd at ncsu.edu) Greg is responsible for the configuration component
  • Andy Dale, ooTao, (andy.dale at ootao.com) Andy's focus is on integrating XRI and XDI technology into Higgins
  • Tom Doman, Novell, (tdoman at novell.com) Tom is responsible for the LDAP Context Provider for the Identity Attribute Service
  • Andrew Hodgkinson, Novell, (ahodgkinson at Novell.com) Andy is responsible for the GTK and Cocoa-based Selector Solution
  • Jeesmon Jacob, Parity, (jjacob at parityinc.net) Jeesmon has been working on the Higgins Selectors
  • Peter Kimlach Parity, (pkimlach at parityinc.net) Peter is responsible for the builds.
  • Valery Kokhan, Parity, (valery at parityinc.net) Valery is responsible for the I-Card Registry, I-Card Selector Service and I-Card Providers
  • Maxim Kopeyka, Parity, (maxim at parityinc.net) Maxim is responsble for the Higgins Browser Extenstion and related capabilities
  • Tie Li, IBM, (litie at cn.ibm.com) Tie Li works on the RCP-based Selector Solution
  • Sergey Lyakhov, Parity, (slyakhov at parityinc.net) Sergey is responsible for the I-Card Provider and the Jena Context Provider
  • Michael McIntosh, IBM, (mikemci at us.ibm.com) Mike is responsible for the Token Service
  • Mary Ruddy, Meristic, (mary at socialphysics.org) Mary is a Higgins Project co-lead
  • Markus Sabadello, Parity, (msabadello at parityinc.net) Markus is responsible for the SAML2 IdP
  • Daniel Sanders, Novel, (dsanders at novell.com) Daniel is responsible for the XML Context Provider
  • Jim Sermersheim, Novell, (jimse at novell.com) Jim is responsible for the Identity Attribute Service
  • Paul Trevithick, Parity, (paul at socialphysics.org) Paul is a Higgins Project co-lead

Additional Supporting Organizations

    Both IBM and Novell have announced support for the Higgins Project. These initiatives are championed by

  • Tony Nadalin, IBM (drsecure at us.ibm.com)
    Tony is the Chief Security Architect, IBM Software Group, and a Distinguished Engineer. As a Distinguished Engineer, he is responsible for security infrastructure design and development. He serves as the primary security liaison to Sun Microsystems JavaSoft Division for Java security design and development collaboration. Also Anthony serves as the primary security liaison in development of Web Services security specifications to Microsoft. In his 23-year career with IBM, he has held the following positions, Lead Security architect for VM/SP, and Security architect for AS/400, Security architect for OS/2. He has also authored and co-authored over forty technical journal and conference articles and published several books on Java Security and the Internet. Anthony is also the co-author and editor of various Web Services security and Web Services specifications.
  • Dale Olds, Novell (dolds at novell.com)
    Dale Olds is a Distinguished Engineer in Novell's Identity Products Group. This highly coveted title is bestowed on individuals whose creative work adds extraordinary value to Novell. Dale was the lead designer and implementor of Novell Directory Services (NDS) and Novell eDirectory from 1990 to 2000. Dale is currently working on the evolution of identity services and is an architect for identity-enabled and Open Source technologies. He is listed as an inventor on 10 patents and has received Novell's Edison, President's, and Inventor Hall of Fame awards. His recent industry experience focused on Linux and Internet content delivery services. Dale has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Project Co-leads

  • Paul Trevithick, SocialPhysics (paul at socialphysics.org)
    Paul serves as the Technology lead for the Higgins project and wrote most of the code for the initial project submission into Eclipse in 2004. He is interested in creating software and services that will give people more control over their personal information. Paul, co-founder of Higgins, SocialPhysics.org, IdentityGang.org, and IdentitySchemas.org is currently CEO of Parity Communications. He is a steward of Identity Commons. Previously he was president of Bitstream (NASDAQ:BITS) and co-founder of Archetype, Inc. and Lightspeed Computers before that.
  • Mary Ruddy, SocialPhysics (mary at socialphysics.org)
    Mary serves as the Ecosystem-operations lead for the Higgins project. Through her work in business development and software for CRM, e-commerce and PLM she has come to see the need for open, user-centric systems that enable people to manage their own profile and relationship information; and is assembling the organizations and individuals to bring this vision to reality. Currently Mary is President of Meristic and co-founder of socialphysics.org. Previously she was a VP with Parity Communications. Prior to that, Mary was VP Strategic Marketing at PTC and VP Advanced Products at Pegasystems. Mary has a degree in Mathematics from Smith College and a MSM from MIT.

Past Committers

  • Dmitry Bakuntsev, (dbakuntsev at intertechnogroup.com)
  • Scott Lewis, (slewis at composent.com)
  • Peter Nehrer, (pnehrer at freeshell.org)
  • Abhi Shelat
  • Sergey Yakovlev