With over 20 years of industry experience, Dale Wick has a wide range of experience with app deployment in the cloud.  He was a pioneer of the large deployment with several hand rolled Debian, Red Hat and Ubuntu distributions as elements of distributed systems for customers such as Best Buy, Kodak, Fuji Film and Sears.  An advocate of industry advancement through standards adoption he has participated in several standards initiatives including the IETF standard for the Internet Printing Protocol.  Today he works on the open source BOSH project for Pivotal, which greatly simplifies reliable, scaleable, software deployment orchestration.

Dale has spoken regularly on a variety of programming and operations techniques including BOSH, system architecture and Java techniques at Cloud Foundry Summit, the Toronto Programmer SIG, mobile user interface design at Canadian Computing show, game design at Toronto Skill Swap and user experience and programming deep dives at AdamCon.