Dan Kern

Security and Application Monitoring Practice Manager

Dan Kern joined Prolifics as a Senior WebSphere Administrator, but later transitioned to Solution Director for the New England region and now to Security and Application Monitoring Practice Manager. He participates in solution design, architecture and deployment of solutions for WebSphere and Tivoli product lines. He has held positions as a Senior Application Engineer with Genuity and Ardais Corporation, a biotech startup company.

Kadeer Beg

SOA Practice Manager

Kadeer has over 15 years of experience in delivering and architecting large scale systems across multiple platforms. He has authored numerous whitepaper on SOA, EAI and integration technologies. He is an active speaker at technology conferences on best practices and serves on the IBM's MQSeries UG committee, also previously a lecturer at Seneca College. Kadeer was the Founder and Managing Director of EAI-Corp, a product and services company, where he invented WebSphere Message Broker integration with TIBCO RV. In addition to providing consulting services to Fortune 500 clients, Kadeer worked in senior management roles both in the US and Canada for Société Générale, New Era of Networks, Sapient, Bell Canada, Cendant and IBM. He is currently heading up the SOA Technology Practice at Prolifics.

Robert Backofen

Portal Practice Manager

Robert Backofen is responsible for new business development and architecting portal business solutions for Prolifics' clients. From proof-of-concept to project deployment, he is heavily involved with key accounts where he assists the IBM and Prolifics teams in best shaping the optimal portal solutions for customers. Mr. Backofen also manages numerous active relationships with clients throughout the United States, and has developed consulting relationships with JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Bay Networks, United Nations, and NationsBank. Mr. Backofen has over 20 years of experience designing, developing and deploying transactional, client/server systems, and currently focuses on application development and deployment upon portal architectures. Prior to joining Prolifics, Mr. Backofen was Project Manager, Team Leader and Lead Developer at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology.