Who is behind JavaBlackBelt

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You

JavaBlackBelt is run by the Community. The core idea of JavaBlackBelt revolves around this concept: everybody can author a new question.
The question goes through a moderator screening (to improve clarity, spelling, avoid duplicates, etc.), then goes into the question repository.
When a developer passes a question during a test, he sees the author profile (with eventual photo, logo, etc.).

Founders

Founders

JavaBlackBelt is an initiative of John Rizzo and Nicolas Brasseur. They have given the necessary impulse (idea, architecture, public relations, money).
Now they are mostly active defining the functional requirements for the development, and leading the content creation.
Founders' bios

Communication

communication

Stephan Janssens, Floyd Marinescu & Rick Ross

Thanks to the kind support of Stephan Janssens (BeJug boss and JavaPolis organizer), Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ), Rick Ross (the man behind Javalobby.org)and Nithin Bharti - Joseph Ottinger (The serveurSide.com)
we could reach the Java community.

Content - Moderators

Jeanne Our fabulous moderators work hard to improve question's quality and make coherent exams/certifs.
They are lead by Jeanne Boyarsky a terrific Newyorker. Note that the moderators are volunteers.
See the separate page that list them

Developers

developpers

Aymeric Levaux

Aymeric is the architect behind JavaBlackBelt.
In 2004 Aymeric started programming JavaBlackBelt, with John's help for the architecture.
Now, Aymeric masters every aspect of the development/operations. He leads programmers for developing the platform further.
 
 

Nadege Palut

Nadege is a core developer of JavaBlackBelt.com. She has been working on all aspect of the application especially since version 2 with Aymeric and Lionel.

Lionel Bartel

Lionel Bartel

Lionel is a core developer of JavaBlackBelt.com. He has been working on all aspect of the application especially since version 2 with Nadege and Aymeric.

Graphic Designer

Florence Benoit

Florence is the graphic designer improving the site layout and making our world famous flash animations.
Christian  Mongongu

Christian Mongongu

Christian has implemented the SkillScan application (Corporate Edition) with Fabrice. It is a complex adaptive questionning system for scanning the knowlege as fast as possible.
Fabrice Claes

Fabrice Claes

Fabrice has implemented the SkillScan application (Corporate Edition) with Christian. It is a complex adaptive questionning system for scanning the knowlege as fast as possible.
Jean-Charles Duchaussee

Jean-Charles Duchaussee

Jean-Charles has developped the collaborative e-learning system, including a new low level wiki infrastructure.
 

Jean-Philippe Lesire

Jean-Philippe helped Jean-Charles to develop the new low level wiki infrastructure.
Julien Gysen

Julien Gysen

Julien has built the competition functionnality with Jérôme, available end 2006. It includes registrations and synchronization between competitors.
Richard Lefebvre

Richard Lefebvre

Richard has developped the programing tasks functionnlity with Xavier, including the integration with multiple choice questions facilities (votes, versioning, comments,...), the front-end, storage and ... compilation/execution of the user's code on a separate secured recoverable system.
Xavier Jamin

Xavier Jamin

Xavier has developped the programing tasks functionnlity with Richard, including the integration with multiple choice questions facilities (votes, versioning, comments,...), the front-end, storage and ... compilation/execution of the user's code on a separate secured recoverable system.
J?©r?¥me Faucon

Jérôme Faucon

Jérôme has built the competition functionnality with Julien, available end 2006. In includes registrations and synchronization between competitors.

Others contributing developers include

 
Bruno Dusausoy, Chris Cooper, Christopher Eeckhout, Gilles Moreau, Ibrahim Sghiouar, Isabelle Lecroart, Jeanne Boyarsky,
Jean-Marc Leyman, Jean-Philippe Baerts, Julien Heck, Olivier Delausnay, Pierre-Patrick Hennau & Serge Michiels.