Calen Martin D. Legaspi, SCEA: Chief Executive Officer

Calen Legaspi is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the J2EE platform, Certified Web Component Developer and a Certified Java Programmer. He co-founded PinoyJUG (the Association of Filipino Java Developers). Calen has taken units for a Masters in Computer Science as well as Business Administration in the University of the Philippines.

Calen’s career in software development started in Ayala Systems where he did research in code-generators for XSLT and smart card technology. Later on, he did research and development on an ebXML implementation using SOAP for Supply Chain Networks, a startup. For a time, Calen was a freelance consultant and trainor. One of his stints was with the Small Business Guarantee and Finance Corporation (SBGFC). Other companies Calen worked in includes Cevera Technologies and Enterworks Philippines. Most of his work for them involved Java and C++.

In his spare time, he enjoys training in the martial arts, particularly Freestyle Wrestling, Muai Thai and Boxing.

Butch R. Landingin: Chief Technology Officer

Butch Landingin has been developing software for roughly eighteen years, nine years of which he spent in the US, at Silicon Valley, mainly developing applications for the retail industry. One of the companies he worked for was Intrepid Systems, which was eventually acquired by Peoplesoft Corporation (which was later acquired by Oracle). He has been using Java and Linux even before their respective 1.0 releases. He even attended the very first JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

Butch is the author of an open source application called Squishdot. Written inPython and Zope, Squishdot is a news and publishing application and one of the first of its kind. It is currently being used by KDE for their news site.

Locally, the projects he has worked on prior to joining Orange & Bronze include the web-based business name registration website for the Department of Trade and Industry and consulting work for MAPFRE-Asian Insurance Corporation.

Joel Tanangonan: Head, Consulting Services

Joel has been an IT professional since 1990. He started his career as a systems developer. He worked on projects of various sizes in the PC, mid-range, and mainframe environments using programming languages & tools such as COBOL/CICS, PLI, CSP/DB2, RPG/400, COBOL/400, Oracle Designer, & Visual Basic.
Moving to the insurance industry, Joel spent the last ten years involved in the various aspects of IT management. Primarily responsible for supporting strategic corporate initiatives, his duties included setup of the IT organization, delivery of IT projects, provision of IT services, and the continuous operation and availability of IT systems and facilities.