Ben Alex is Interface21's Regional Director, Australasia, and has over 12 years' experience architecting, developing and managing enterprise application solutions. During his career, Ben has been extensively involved in all aspects of software development using both Java and Microsoft platforms, and his experience covers a range of sectors, ranging from small startups through to large Government and corporate environments.

Ben has been a user and core contributor to the Spring Framework since mid-2003. In addition, Ben is founder and lead developer of the Spring Security (also known as Acegi Security) project. He is a developer on the Spring Rich Client project, and has also authored several Spring training modules and books, including the security chapter of "Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework". Ben is also an active participant on the Spring forums, having answered over 2,000 questions from Spring users. He regularly speaks at international conferences and user group meetings about security and application architecture topics, and has delivered Interface21 training courses throughout Australasia, UK and USA.

In addition to his extensive experience developing highly scalable enterprise applications, Ben has also gained significant experience successfully managing projects, operations and commercial functions within a variety of companies. You can read Ben's blog at http://blog.interface21.com/main/author/bena/.