He has been an object-oriented developer, consultant, and architect for more than a decade, working on a wide variety of projects, large and small. Prior to joining OTI he designed and implemented the component architecture of "People, Places, and Things," Taligent's task centered user interface metaphor. Dr. Weinand was previously at UBILAB, the research laboratory of UBS. He is one of the principal designers and implementors of ET++, the first portable C++ class library and application framework.