Richard Monson-Haefel is a Sr. Experience Architect at CSG working on multitouch applications for a variety of industries. He has been consulting in software since 1994.

Before working at CSG, Richard was a Sr. Analyst for Burton Group a technical analyst company. Richard served on the JCP Executive Committee which oversees the JSRs (specifications) developed for the J2SE and J2EE platforms. He also served on the J2EE 1.4 (JSR-151) and EJB 2.1 (JSR-153) and EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) expert groups for the Java Community Process.

Richard was a founder of the Apache J2EE Application Server Project (Geronimo) and the OpenEJB project - an open source EJB container. Richard's proudest achievement was instigating JSR-241, The Groovy Language Specification.