Shel Finkelstein joined SAP, in 2006 where he has been Vice President,
Applied Research Fellow and Chief Technology Architect, working on
data management and applications. Prior to SAP, Shel was at Sun
Microsystems, where he managed architecture and partnership
relationships for Enterprise Java (J2EE, now JEE) when it was created,
and was a Technical Director in Sun's CTO office, leading several
technology initiatives. Shel also was a Research Staff Member on
database and distributed systems at IBM Almaden Research, was a senior
developer on the Transaction Management Facility at Tandem Computers,
and had senior positions at two database startups.