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"Our commitment: to simplify the Workflow development !" Miguel Valdes Faura
Miguel Valdes Faura
Project Lead
Learn more about the great developers that are or has been part of the Bonita Community. We are a fully international team of members from throughout the world but all committed to simplify the workflow development.

Miguel Valdes Faura

Miguel Valdes Faura Location: Grenoble, France
Main work area: All of Bonita. Bonita co-founder
Status: Active
eMail: miguel.valdes-faura at bull.net

Miguel Valdes Faura is the Bonita Project Lead. Miguel joined INRIA, the French Research Institute in Computer Sciences, on February 2001 and co-founded the Bonita Workflow System. Presently, Miguel is the BPM Manager for Bull SAS and member of the College of Architects of ObjectWeb Consortium. He is a regular speaker at international conferences including JavaOne and JavaPolis.
Marc Blachon

Marc Blachon Location: Grenoble, France
Main work area: Bonita API, ldap and xpdl support
Status: Active
eMail: marc.blachon at bull.com

Marc has been a contributor to the Bonita projects since 2005. He contributes more specifically on adding advanced features in Bonita engine such role mappers, performer assignments, ldap and xpdl support. He has also worked on the Bonita Workflow Console (incuded in Bonita v3) as well as the xForm Editor application. He is currently working on the Nova Bonita version (Bonita v4)
François Charoy

François Charoy Location: Nancy, France
Main work area: Bonita design and architecture
Status: Active
eMail: charoy at loria.fr

François Charoy is Senior Lecture at the Nancy University since 1993 where he teaches Distributed Systems and Software Design. He is part of the INRIA Research Project ECOO lead by Prof. Claude Godart. His main research interest are Cooperative Work, Transactional processes and Workflow Support for Cooperative Activities. This research was at the origin of the Bonita WFMS which he has designed and developed in collaboration with Miguel.
Rodrigue Le Gall

Rodrigue Le Gall Location: Grenoble, France
Main work area:eXo WebOS
Status: Active
eMail: rodrigue.le-gall at bull.net

Rodrigue is the leader of the portal projects : eXo-Bonita (which consists in merging a Business Process Engine and a Portal), Nova Bonita process console and Nova Orchestra process console. He has a significant experience on portal and content management technologies. He has also good skills on Telecom technologies.
Guillaume Porcher

Guillaume Porcher Location: Grenoble, France
Main work area:Persistence and services
Status: Active
eMail: guillaume.porcher at bull.net

Guillaume has joined the Bonita team in July 2007. He is currently working on the persistance services of the Process Virtual Machine and the Nova Bonita extension. He has significant experience on persistence and web service orchestration.
Pierre Vigneras

Pierre Vigneras Location: Grenoble, France
Main work area:Asynchronous services
Status: Active
eMail: pierre.vigneras at bull.net

Pierre has joined the Bonita team in september 2007. He is currently working on the security and identity services of The Process Virtual Machine. He will be responsible as well of the asynchronous services (Timer, Notifications, email...) of Bonita. He has significant experience on asynchronous architectures.
Hélène Joanin

Helene Joanin Location: Grenoble, France
Main work area:Tests
Status: Active
eMail: helene.joanin at bull.net

Hélène is leading the test and validation team for both Bonita and Orchestra BPM projects. She has been working in Bonita test plan and reports since Bonita v2. She will be responsible as well for the validation and test of Bonita v4
Oscar Barrios

Oscar Barrios Location: Nancy, France
Main work area:Human Tasks
Status: Active
eMail: oscar.barriostorrero at loria.fr

Oscar has joined the Bonita team in January 2007. He was first dedicated to the Bonita v3 clustering over JOnAS application server. Since September 2007 he is working at INRIA labs in some Bonita advanced features such: an external human task module or a distributed user worklist.
Doug Parisek

Jordi Anguela Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Main work area: Bonita API, FormGenerator
Status: Active
eMail: doug.parisek at bull.com

Doug Parisek has been a contributor to the Bonita project since 2005. Doug primarily contributes to the areas of Bonita and the formGenerator that interface directly with the Bonita Workflow Console developed by Bull and included in Bonita v3 as a user-friendly portal for managing workflow processes.
Jordi Anguela

Jordi Anguela Location: Nice, France
Main work area: Bonita Iterations, Bonita workflow patterns and BonitaV3 prototype
Status: Non-Active
eMail: jordi.anguela at gmail.com

Jordi Anguela Rosell was a Bonita developer. He worked in Bonita's project during the first semester of 2006 improving the iteration functionality. After that he developed a prototype of BonitaV3 using EJB3 technology. Nowadays he is working for a multinational company in warmer coast lands in the south of France, developing J2EE e-commerce applications.
Brice Revenant

Brice Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Main work area: eXo Platform integration and JBoss support
Status: Non-Active
eMail: brice.revenant at bull.net

Brice was the leader of the eXo-Bonita project, which consists in merging a Business Process Engine and a Portal. He was also supervising the migration of Bonita toward JBoss Application Server when working for Bull. Brice move to eXo Platform SAS mid 2007 and he is now leading the R&D lab of eXo WebOS in Hanoi (Vietnam)
Patrick Silani

Patrick Silani Location: Grenoble, France
Main work area: eXo Platform integration
Status: Non-Active
eMail: patrick.silani at gmail.com

Patrick Silani is graduated from Grenoble University, he worked on eXo-Bonita integration during his Master Degree in 2006. He mostly worked on workflow's information storage into eXo JCR and everything related. Patrick is now working in Lyon for an international compagny.
Josep Cester Bofarull

Josep Cester Bofarull Location: Tarragona, Spain
Main work area: Bonita's XForm integration
Status: Non- Active
eMail: chestertgn at gmail.com

Josep Cester Bofarull graduated in computer sciences in 2005 at URV. He developed learning automation and tutor tools both for university and comercial use, and took part of Recent Research Developments in Learning Technologies 2005 Vol. II. Josep evaluated and implementated Bonita's XForm integration inside BSOA Workflow project at BULL Echirolles. He has experience with all kind of J2EE applications and currently is working on anti-money laundering applications

Fouad Allaoui

Fouad Allaoui Location: Nice, France
Main work area: eXo Platform integration
Status: Non-Active
eMail: allfou at gmail.com

Fouad Allaoui took part in exo-Bonita project directed by Brice Revenant. He worked on workflow's information storage from the exo platform (JCR service). This contribution took place in the BSOA Workflow project at BULL Echirolles from January to September 2006. Fouad is now working as a software engineer in the SmartTools Eclipse project at the INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (south of France).