Ivan Vasquez is an M.Sc. candidate at the LSDIS Lab, working under the direction of Dr. John Miller. He joined the program in Fall 2002, while working at the Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) of the University of Georgia. Given his industry experience with relational databases and middleware, his research has been focused on conducting transactions on Service Oriented Computing environments. The product of his research resulted in OpenWS-Transaction, a METEOR-S module that can be easily adopted by existing applications to deliver reliable Web service transactions. Along with Kunal Verma, Dr. John Miller and Dr. Amit Sheth, he presented a prototype of this framework at ICSOC 2005, held in Amsterdam last December.

At ITOS, he works as database administrator and lead software engineer, helping in the development of information systems for the public sector. He has more than seven years of industry experience in software engineering.