Gabriel Oancea has more than 16 years of experience in software development, mostly in object-oriented analysis and design. He has designed and developed medium- and large-scale distributed applications in a number of languages, including C++, Visual Basic, and Java. Recently, he has focused on distributed systems architecture as a chief architect at ONTOS, Inc. He is the author of a number of patents and publications, including Visual Basic 6 from Scratch, Que, 1999 (with Bob).