Brian Zimmer, Senior Architect, Orbitz

Brian Zimmer is the lead of the Architecture and Infrastructure group at Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) in Chicago, IL, USA.

Brian joined Orbitz LLC in 2002 and is responsible for directing the development of the company's distributed infrastructure, reviewing technical designs for adherence to architectural principles and overseeing the creation of domain models and service APIs.

Orbitz Worldwide includes Orbitz, CheapTickets and the Away Network in the Americas; ebookers in Europe; and HotelClub and RatestoGo, based in Sydney Australia, with operations globally.

Prior to joining Orbitz LLC, Brian was a senior software developer for divine, inc. in Chicago, IL, where he worked on MindAlign, a secure, real-time collaboration tool.

The design work included designing and implementing core infrastructure components for a Web Services Platform enabled with SOAP. Prior to divine, Brian was also a senior software developer for Ignite Sports Media and as well as Intercap Systems, both in Chicago, IL.

Prior to Intercap Systems, Brian was an Associate Director for Warburg Dillon Read (now UBS) in Chicago, IL, where he was a lead developer for their global interest rates trading system.

Brian is active in the open source community and a former maintainer of Jython (www.jython.org). He is a member of the Python Software Foundation and the recipient of its inaugural Python Software Foundation grant.

Brian is a graduate of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a B.S. in Finance. He currently resides on Bainbridge Island, WA with his wife, daughter and dog.

Presentation: "Panel Discussion: Architecting for Performance & Scalability"

Track: Solution Track: Architecting for Performance & Scalability

Time: Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Concordia

Abstract: What does it take to scale? This panel will bring together leading architects and solution providers in the area of performance, scalability, fault tolerance, & clustering; the panel will explore current & emerging architectures, practices, and solutions for achieving predictable performance & scalability

Presentation: "Orbitz World Wide: An architecture's response to growth and change"

Track: Architectures you've always wondered about

Time: Friday 16:00 - 17:00

Location: Metropolitan I

Abstract:

Orbitz.com, a brand of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW), has grown from selling primarily airline tickets to providing the consumer with a myriad of travel-related options - from hotels to vacation packages to cruises to concert tickets.

This presentation will address how the challenges of growing additional products lines, integrating with third party suppliers and building a global platform for other Orbitz Worldwide brands impacts a system's architecture. Techniques, patterns and failures for solving these problems will be discussed.

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