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Whizlabs offerings are authored by Certified Professionals of high caliber, having a passion for authoring the content for IT Certifications. Having a cumulative experience of over 225 years, they have strong technical competence to say things with authority and clarity. Their experience ranges from working in their respective technologies to communicating knowledge to others. The content developed by them is maintained at the difficulty level conforming to the exam standards in order to prepare you well before the exam. The content is written in simple and lucid manner so that it is never taxing to read and use.
Following is the domain-wise listing of Whizlabs Authors/Reviewers:
Sun
Seema Manivannan
  Seema Manivannan has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Electronics and a PG in Advanced Computing from C-DAC. Her work experience of over six years includes software development, teaching and content development in Java and related technologies. She holds SCJP, SCWCD, SCBCD, and IBM 484 (J2EE) certifications.

She has been with Whizlabs for over two years, where she has authored different exam simulators based on Sun certifications. She is an experienced corporate trainer and also conducts instructor-led, online trainings for the SCJP, SCBCD, and SCWCD exams for Whizlabs. She is also the moderator of the Whizlabs SCBCD discussion forum.
Valentin Crettaz
  Valentin Crettaz has a Masters degree in Information and Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He has worked as a software engineer with SRI International (Menlo Park, CA) and as a principal engineer in the Software Engineering Laboratory of EPFL.

Valentin is the co-founder and CTO of Condris Technologies, a company specializing in the development of software architecture solutions.

His research and development interests include aspect-oriented technologies, design and architectural patterns, web services, and software architecture. During his spare-time, Valentin moderates the SCBCD and SCDJWS forums at Javaranch.com and acts as a technical reviewer for O'Reilly's Head First series. He holds the SCJP, SCJD, SCBCD, SCWCD, and SCDJWS certifications. He has also had the opportunity to serve as a co-author for Whizlabs SCBCD Preparation Kit.
Sanjay Raghavan
  Sanjay Raghavan is a Software Consultant based in Santa Clara, CA, and has over 7 years of experience in architecting, designing, and managing the development of enterprise application development. He specializes in OOAD and has completed the 'SUN Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technologies' and the 'SUN Certified Programmer, Java 2 Platform' Certification exams. Sanjay has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and an Advanced Diploma in Systems Management.

Sanjay has spent over 4 years building software applications for the broadband communications industry. Amongst other achievements, he has architectured and built key applications for a one-of-a-kind enterprise convergent customer care and billing system addressing Order Entry and Management for the Video Entertainment and High Speed Data businesses.

Sanjay recently co-authored SCEA@Whiz, Whizlabs' exam simulator for the SCEA-J2EE certification exam. He is also the founder and moderator of SCEA_PREP, a leading eGroup for the SCEA-J2EE exam.
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Manish Hatwalne
  Manish Hatwalne is a Software Professional currently based in Pune, India. He holds a post-graduate diploma in advanced computing from the esteemed C-DAC, Pune. He has been working on Java technologies involving all 3 flavors of Java - J2SE, J2ME, and J2EE; no wonder he is an ardent coffee addict ;) Besides Java, he has also dabbled with C/C++, JavaScript, ASP, WAP, etc. He is a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 1.2 and 1.4 (SCJP 1.2 and SCJP 1.4).

He has contributed technical articles to the sites devdex.com, codeproject.com, javaranch.com besides his own site. He also loves music, writing, reading non-fiction books, and traveling to distant places on his bike.
Nazmul Huda
  Nazmul is a software professional currently based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has done B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. in Electronics and Computer Science from Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, from Bangladesh. After graduation, he was involved in software designing in financial sector. Now, he is working as an Analyst Programmer in a top Lease finance company in Bangladesh. He has hands on experience in complete development cycle of different financial products. He has extensive experience in VC++, VB, and SQL Server. Nazmul has been working with Java and related technologies since 2000 and is certified in SCJP (100%) and SCWCD.
Muhammad Ashikuzzaman
  Muhammad Ashikuzzaman is currently working as a Software Engineer in Spectrum Engineering Consortium Ltd. He is specializing in Java, XML, Web, Open Source Projects, and Process Centric Development Methodology. He has completed his M.S.S. in Economics from Dhaka University and a 2 year diploma in Software Engineering from NIIT, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has worked on projects on ERP solutions, Web solutions, WHO project on Eclampsia, and Newspaper Management System. He worked as a faculty member for one and half years and passed SCJP and SCWCD exams during that period. He is also an internationally rated chess player and a Silva graduate.
Lasse Koskela
  Lasse Koskela is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Business Component Developer working for Accenture as a software developer specializing in J2EE technologies. He is also pursuing M.Sc. in Telecommunications from Helsinki University of Technology.

He has a chronic addiction for interesting technologies. Even though this addiction has led to learning a wide variety of technologies from Flash and PHP to XML and web services, Java has always been number one. Recently he has started to focus more on agile methods and personal improvement.
Andrew Monkhouse
  Andrew Monkhouse is the Manager, Information Systems, for an international Occupational Health and Safety company and is currently re-architecting their software product in Java. Since Andrew lives in Sydney, the head office is in Melbourne, and the programming department is in China, his exposure is truly global when it comes to project execution.

Andrew has currently holds SCJP 1.2, SCJP 1.4, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD, and Part I of SCEA Certifications. He has a vast experience, which spans a good number of different types of hardware, operating systems, and network protocols.
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IBM
Bob Runstein
 

Bob Runstein is an independent software consultant specializing in the application of object technology to business information systems. He has been involved in software engineering since 1975 and OOAD since 1996. He has done work for Massachusetts Financial Services, Mellon Bank, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Digital Equipment Corp., the State of Maine, Williams Energy, SallieMae, Janus Funds, Harrahs Entertainment and Sapient Corp. Bob has earned Sun Certified Programmer, Developer, and Enterprise Architect Certifications as well as Microsoft Certified Professional status.

Hari Vignesh Padmanaban
 

Hari Vignesh is an expert in J2EE domain with SCJP 1.2, SCJP 1.4, SCWCD, SCBCD, Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML, and XML and Related Technologies certifications to his credit. He is also a MCP and is presently pursuing .NET MCAD Certification. He holds Master of Science in Information Systems from College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA and Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from University of Madras, India. Hari has single handedly developed softwares like GUI based ATM software and FTP Client in Java, LINUX based FTP Server in C++, Kitchen planner database using MySQL, and many others. He is an active participant at XML Certification forum at Javaranch.com and likes to share knowledge with like-minded professionals. He is also a member of SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and heed to social concerns.

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BEA
Dilip Karki
  Dilip Karki is a Java/J2EE Lead Consultant with more than 10 years of IT experience. Dilip has been working as consultant for well-established companies in the CA Bay Area, like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Sprint, ETrade, and Pacific Exchange. He has worked extensively with application servers like WebLogic Server, from plain J2EE application development and deployment, to advanced areas like Clustering, Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning. Dilip holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics from Bombay University and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Software Technology from NCST (Juhu, Bombay).
Rahul Mahindrakar
  Rahul Mahindrakar is a Senior Consultant based in Helsinki, Finland. He is currently working for Zensar Technologies, Pune, placed in a large Telecom company on developing their e-commerce site. His interest lies in server-side Java. In this regard, he has completed all of the Sun Java Certifications except the Sun Certified Java Enterprise Architect (Part II). He is also a BEA Certified Specialist for the BEA WebLogic Server.

Other than this, Rahul has been working as a moderator for the JavaRanch forum for the last 2 years. He currently moderates the IBM Application Servers forum.
Arun Sahni
  Arun has done BS, B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication, and MS in Computer Science with project work in IIT Delhi. He has over 15 years of experience in telecommunication and networking industry. He has led the design and implementation of software and hardware infrastructure for operation of PSTN, paging, and cellular service in India for many service providers. He has worked in MTNL RPG, Motorola, 3Com, and CISCO in India and USA. He has hands on experience in complete development cycle of different products. He has authored many technical articles in organization where he was employed. He has taken SCJP, SCWCD, and completed Enterprise Developer track of Jcert. Currently he is settled in Chicago, USA, and pursuing further career there.
Lars-Fredrik Smedberg
  Lars-Fredrik is a software consultant specializing in Java and Enterprise Java related technologies. He has done M.Sc. in Engineering Physics at Uppsala Univeristy, Sweden. He is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden, working on Java projects focusing on different E-business solutions (B2B and B2C). He also has an extensive experience in MS VC++, MS VB, MS SQLServer, and Oracle. Back in the mid 80s, he was a big fan of Atari and Amiga computers and has spent numerous hours coding 680x0 assembler.

Lars-Fredrik started working with Java in 1996 and has worked extensively with BEA WebLogic Server and IBM WebSphere since 2000 and has been certified in SCJP (1.02, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.4), SCWCD, and BEA WebLogic Certified Enterprise Developer for WebLogic Server 6 and 7 among other certifications.
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Oracle
Ravi Bhateja
  Ravi Bhateja, a graduate in Physics from Bombay University and an experienced Oracle Database Administrator and Developer (SQL and PL/SQL), has authored the content for Whizlabs OCP 1Z0-033 exam simulator. Ravi is an Oracle9i DBA Certified Professional and a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform. He has acquired great ken and expertise in the field of database administration and programming.
Sumit Amar
  Sumit Amar is MCA and MBA (IT) with 4 years of professional experience in Systems Analysis and development. He started programming in BASIC at the age of 14 in 1993. He has SCJP, SCWCD, OCP 9i DBA, and more than 177 certifications from Brainbench Inc., currently having world rank 3rd in Highest Certification Counts list. He is an independent researcher and his papers have been published in leading newspapers and science journals.

Sumit is currently working as a Sr. Programmer/Analyst with Infinite Computer Solutions, Bangalore, where he is a lead J2EE and .NET developer, having accomplished projects for companies like Verizon, Microsoft, Spear, and SMNI Corporation.
Abhay Sardesai
  Abhay Sardesai is a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering and an experienced Computer Systems Professional. He is an Oracle8i DBA Certified Professional, Oracle9i DBA Certified Professional, and also an Oracle9i PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate. His areas of expertise include Database Administration, DBA courseware development, and technical writing.

Abhay has worked as a Database Consultant, Instructor, Content Developer, and Reviewer over a span of last 5 years.
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Microsoft
Lavanya Suresh
  Lavanya Suresh is a B.Tech (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) and a certified MCSE and CNA, working as an independent IT consultant in India.

Lavanya is also a highly skilled and experienced corporate trainer, specializing in the domain of Microsoft Windows Networking. She has authored several technical contents like articles, books, and courseware for clients such as NIIT, NetG, ITT Technical Institute.
Jim Davis
 

James ‘Jim' Davis, is a .NET and Data Warehouse consultant working with a large retail company in Denver, Colorado, USA. With more than 10 years of IT/IS experience, he has developed several classic ASP web sites and has been an early adopter of .NET technology. A member of the Denver Microsoft Visual Studio SIG, Jim has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and has taken numerous Microsoft Certified programming courses. In addition, he holds the following Microsoft Certifications: MCSD, MCAD.NET, MCSD.NET, MCDBA - SQL Server 2000.

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Cisco
Seema Kannan
  Seema Kannan is a certified professional having 9 years of experience in the IT industry, and is currently running her independent IT Consultancy Company in India.

She is certified in Novell and Cisco Certifications and has been contributing in different areas of implementation, maintenance, and training on networks of Microsoft, Novell, and Cisco. She has gained a vast experience in the domains of corporate training, network administration, and content authoring and development.
D. R. Solanki
 

D. R. Solanki has done B.Sc. in math, M.Sc. in Statistics, and MS in Computer Science From USA. He has an experience of over 28 years in IT. As IT chief of IPCL, he has led teams in the design, development, and implementation of Business Information Systems. He was also responsible for identifying areas of computerization, computer infrastructure upgradation, training, and development. He has implemented Campus-wide networking project worth Rs. 1.7 crores in IPCL. He has presented many technical papers in national and international conferences. He has contributed numerous articles in popular IT magazines. As a visiting professor of computer science, he has taught computer science related subjects for many years. He has been a distinguished guest/speaker at many events organized by private and public sector organizations. He has taken CNE-5, OCP-DBA, CCNA, and CCNP Certifications. He is Director (Technology) in Comptel Network Systems, Mumbai. Besides this, he is also running his own training academy in Pune, India. Since 2000, he has been a faculty for CCNA, CCNP, and OCP-DBA Certifications.

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Novell
Seema Kannan
  Seema Kannan is a certified professional having 9 years of experience in the IT industry, and is currently running her independent IT Consultancy Company in India.

She is certified in Novell and Cisco Certifications and has been contributing in different areas of implementation, maintenance, and training on networks of Microsoft, Novell, and Cisco. She has gained a vast experience in the domains of corporate training, network administration, and content authoring and development.
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