Who We Are

This page will introduce the main contributors to the WorkThru project.

John Tibbetts
John Tibbetts invented the WorkThru framework after "solving the same problem over and over" for his enterprise clients. He has specialized throughout his career in applying object insights to transactional systems, and became convinced early-on of the presence of an undiscovered middle-tier object (now called a WIP).
He implemented earlier versions of the WorkThru technology as Chief Technology Officer of TreasuryX, a company building a Web-based operations system for large corporate treasuries, and as a founder and Chief Technologist of the on-line collaborative commerce start-up ePropose, Inc. His consulting clients have included IBM, Netscape, DTE Energy, BEA, Bank of America, MCI, Sprint, Burlington Northern Railroad, and many others. He provides architectural consulting, leads development teams, and teaches developers to look at software organization with fresh eyes. Throughout most of the 1990s, he and Barbara Bernstein co-wrote the popular "Developments" column for InformationWeek magazine. He is a Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium.

Barbara Bernstein
Barbara Bernstein has been WorkThru's "User Zero" for the past three years. Though a complete non-programmer, she built all of the WipSpecs provided in the samples file and discussed in the documentation, including all Jython rules (okay, not the scripts).
She wrote the WorkThru manual and designed this Web site. She has managed Kinexis since its founding in 1987, and was Director of Technical Publications at ePropose.