Annette worked for Sun Education from 12/88-8/91 before becoming an independent consultant. Upon leaving Sun Ed she continued as an instructor for both Solaris programming and system administration courses; C Shell, Bourne Shell, Korn Shell, Java, grep, sed, and awk programming. Over the years Annette has been involved in a dozen or so course development projects for different companies, including Sun Ed and SunU. Recently Annette was the technical expert responsible for the technical wording of modules, writing the module examples, lab exercises and lab solutions of Shell Programming for Systems Administrators (SA-245). She did a technical review for the re-write of Shell Programming for System Programmers (SL-120). Annette was the technical reviewer for the Solaris 9 System Administration I course, as well as the Solaris 9 System Administration Essentials course.

Annette lives in Littleton, CO.

Mary Ann Lynch has been a Unix user, administrator and programmer for over twenty years, beginning with one of the first versions of Berkeley Unix. She spent nine years teaching at the university level, and as part of that work, developed complete laboratory and lecture courses from the concept level. She has had total responsibility for the production of course syllabi, lectures, classroom notes, exam preparation materials, and laboratory exercises for over fifteen courses in science and computers, and has publications in professional journals. As a trainer for Sun Educational Services and Sun Professional Services, she continues to write materials for the classroom to supplement course materials and help students prepare for certification exams.

Mary Ann lives in Edison, NJ.

Marc worked as a software developer (C and C++) at AT&T Bell Labs, doing system-level programming on network management products.Marc has taught Sun courses since 1992 and is the only instructor certified to teach high-level courses all of the following areas: C and C++ development (with particular expertise in Network API programming), Java development (including Enterprise Java Beans), Enterprise-level administration (cluster, E10K, and SunFire 15K), and core kernel internals and core-dump analysis.

Currently, Marc is the lead course developer for the Sunfire 15K course for Sun Professional Services, as well as the technical reviewer for the Solaris 9 version of the Network Administration course.

Marc was awarded Sun's contractor-of-the-year award for the Americas (entire Western Hemisphere) for fiscal-year 2000, based both on the breadth of the courses he teaches as well as the highest scores from course evaluations. Marc was awarded a "DPMO" award in fall 2001 based on extremely high customer satisfaction on course evaluations.

Marc lives in Palo Alto, CA.