Karen Tegan Padir

Who is Karen Tegan Padir?

As Vice President of Sun's Enterprise Java Platforms group, Karen Tegan

Padir leads a global organization which is focused on the delivery of

the Java Enterprise System core products, platforms and technologies.

This includes the Java Enterprise Edition Platform. Identity Management

Suite, Application Platform Suite and Web Infrastructure Suite and all

of their component products. The Sun Java Enterprise System is a

revolutionary approach to infrastructure software delivering the

largest free, open, pre-tested and pre-integrated middleware software

on the planet.Karen rejoined Sun after spending a year at Red Hat Inc.,

where she was Vice President of Engineering for Infrastructure

Technologies responsible for Red Hat Identity Management products

including Directory and Certificate server products, as well as Quality

and Release Engineering of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux bundle.As one

of the founding members of the J2EE organization at Sun, Karen managed

the creation of specifications, compatibility test suites, blueprints

and guided implementations of Java in the enterprise. Under her

leadership, J2EE captured over 96 percent market share in the

application server market, which represents the fastest Java technology

adoption in its history.Karen has been with Sun for 12 years, prior to

that she was with Stratus Computer Inc. She holds a Masters Degree in

Business Administration and a Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer

Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.