David Cleary has been with Progress for 23 years. The first 21 of them was as a developer in the Server Tools and Technologies group, and the last 2 have been as manager. Over his career, David has been involved in a number of Open Source and Open Standards activities. These include bringing in one of the first Open Source technologies into Progress OpenEdge, the IBM Xerces-C XML parser. David was also active in the W3C, delivering the XML Schema and XForms Recommendations. Over the past 20 years, he has spoken at numerous industry and Progress user conferences. Recently, David has been product owner and manager of the development team responsible for the Progress Application Server, which is built on top of Tomcat, Spring, and a number of other Open Source technologies.