The Advisory Board for the RHQ project is comprised of software executives and architects from both Hyperic and Red Hat who are responsible for managing the charter of the RHQ Project itself. These individuals collaborate to establish the governing policies, organization, architecture and roadmap of the RHQ Project itself. Their abilities, experience and knowledge were selected for how they complement the RHQ project and the respective products from their companies that will benefit directly from the RHQ Project efforts.
Current Project Advisors include (in alphabetical order):
Greg Hinkle is the architect of the JBoss Operations Network and leads systems management platform development at Red Hat. He founded and developed several open source projects including MC4J for middleware application monitoring and has 8 years of experience in J2EE. He has a BS in computer engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Doug MacEachern is co-founder and chief technology officer of Hyperic. Prior to co-founding Hyperic, MacEachern was a senior software engineer at Covalent where, with Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero, he shaped the development of the product that would eventually become Hyperic HQ. He is a recognized leader within the open source community, having designed, implemented and maintained both generations of the mod_perl project and has contributed to other projects including Apache httpd/apr, Perl and PHP. MacEachern has also given several talks at open source conferences and co-authored the book "Writing Apache Modules in Perl and C", published by O'Reilly in 1999.
He has more than 10 years of open source and commercial development experience, and in addition to Covalent, has held senior software engineering positions at Backflip.com, Critical Path and the Open Software Foundation.
MacEachern received his BA in Communications from the University of Maine.
Katrinka McCallum is the Business Unit Vice President of the newly formed Management Solutions business unit at Red Hat, Inc. Her role is to drive the systems management and security management software business, which is providing best of breed functionality when managing and securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss middleware environments. Ms. McCallum joined Red Hat as Vice President of Investor Relations in March 2007. Prior to joining Red Hat, Ms. McCallum was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE, acquired by IBM), a leading provider of real-time fault management and service assurance software. Prior to Micromuse, Ms. McCallum served as General Manager and Senior Vice President of Operations at Aprisma Management Technologies Inc., a network management software company a subsidiary being spun off from Cabletron Systems, Inc. Ms. McCallum received an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and a BA in Economics from Wellesley College.
Paul Melmon is senior vice president of engineering for Hyperic. Prior to joining Hyperic, Melmon was vice president of corporate and business development at Wily, a provider of application management solutions, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of all technology partnerships and M&A activity. While at Wily, Melmon also served as vice president of research and development, overseeing all design, development, delivery of products, including a major product release every six to nine months. Prior to Wily, Melmon was CIO at Pets.com, and was instrumental in defining and developing the company's technology and operations infrastructure. Melmon also worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and has held engineering and management positions at Wallop Software, Scopus Technology, Sybase and Hewlett-Packard.
Melmon has more than 20 years of experience in strategic technical and business alignment, growing technology partnerships, product development, and developing mission critical operations for web based activities.
Melmon received his BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of California at Davis.
Andy Miller, vice president of engineering, JBoss, a division of Red Hat. As vice president of engineering, Andy Miller manages JBoss’ expanding number of open source projects, development talent, and enterprise platform products. He brings 22 years of experience and extensive, hands-on technical expertise working with open source and JBoss technologies. Previously, Andy was vice president of technical architecture at Corporate Express, where he led the company to move its information systems to open source to improve reliability, performance and drive down costs, including the strategic decision to make JBoss the platform for mission critical corporate applications.
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