ODTUG Speakers - The Cream of the Crop The presentations are available on the Schedule Builder.
David Allan, Oracle Corporation
David Allan has almost twenty years of experience in software development and over ten years of experience in data warehouse tooling. In his current role, he is one of the architects responsible for Oracle’s data integration portfolio, and as such, he takes a leading role in working with Oracle Warehouse Builder. David is well-known for his blog on Oracle Warehouse Builder where he provides users with real world examples and in-depth product knowledge.
Philip Antoniades, Oracle/MySQL
Philip Antoniades has over ten years of Web and database development experience, and has been a MySQL employee since 2003. He currently heads the MySQL pre-sales consulting teams for the Americas and APAC at Oracle.
Todd Arave, Intermountain Healthcare
Todd Arave has worked as a software engineer for the past fourteen years, including the last thirteen with Oracle technologies. He has designed, developed, and supported many custom extensions to Oracle's E-Business Suite. Most recently, Todd has embraced Application Express (APEX). He has been the lead developer on several APEX applications developed at Intermountain Healthcare.
Dietmar Aust, Opal-Consulting
Dietmar Aust is working as a freelance consultant in Germany, focusing on Oracle Application Express and Oracle XE. Starting in 1997, he worked for three years as a consultant for Oracle in Germany. Since then, he helped numerous leading companies in Germany to successfully deliver Web-based applications based on the Oracle product stack, especially the Internet application server - Oracle Portal and Reports. He is a regular presenter at different Oracle conferences (ODTUG, OOW, DOAG), conducts training classes on APEX, and recently published a book on APEX in German.
Andrejus Baranovskis, Red Samurai Consulting
Andrejus Baranovskis is Oracle ACE Director and he works as an independent Oracle Consultant with focus on Oracle Fusion Middleware and SOA technologies. His primary goal is to show customers how they will benefit from Oracle Fusion by providing technical consulting and training. He is responsible for architecture development, technical management, mentoring and leading developers in Oracle ADF projects. Andrejus' primary goal in Oracle projects is to drive conversion to Oracle Fusion and SOA. He has experience presenting Oracle technology during Oracle events to various audiences - architects, developers and managers. Andrejus shares detailed, clear and up-to-date information with the community using his blog and have developed Oracle Fusion Middleware sample applications.
Christopher Barbieri, Ranzal & Associates
After joining Hyperion consulting in 1999, Chris Barbieri helped launch Hyperion's Financial Management (HFM) product and has become a global expert on HFM application design and performance tuning. He served as senior product issues manager for HFM, Smart View, DRM, and Shared Services for over four years before joining Ranzal & Associates in 2007. Chris currently manages one of the largest HFM/FDM consulting practices and remains an active member of the product review team.
Charles Berger, Oracle Corporation
Charlie Berger has over twenty five years of experience in leading edge technologies and entrepreneurial software environments at Thinking Machines, Oracle, and several other companies. He is currently the senior director of product management, data mining technologies at Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for product management and direction for the Oracle Databases' data mining and predictive analytics technology including Oracle Data Mining, text mining, and statistical functions. Previously, he was the vice president of marketing at Thinking Machines prior to its acquisition by Oracle in 1999. Charlie is a leader, evangelist, and frequent speaker in the field of applied data mining. He is a founder of the Oracle BIWA SIG and currently serves as BIWA’s Oracle Advisory Council. Charlie holds an MS in engineering and an MBA, both from Boston University.
Ronald Bradford, 42SQL
Ronald Bradford is a RDBMS industry expert with two decades experience using MySQL, Oracle, and Ingres. He presently provides MySQL and Drizzle consulting in the U.S. and Europe for companies requiring assistance in performance analysis and tuning, Web scalability, higher availability, and for database architecture and design. Ronald has presented at many MySQL events including a number of presentations for Oracle resources. More information is available at http://mysql4oracledba.com. Ronald is co-author of "Expert PHP and MySQL."
Paul Broughton, Sumneva
Paul Broughton is a university student working as an intern for Sumneva. Having learned APEX and Oracle at university, followed by a crash course with the Sumneva, he is keen to share his knowledge and enthusiasm with the Oracle universe.
Stewart Bryson, Rittman Mead
Stewart Bryson is the technical director for the U.S. at Rittman Mead, and a past presenter at various user groups, including ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 and the UKOUG Conference & Exhibition 2008. He has thirteen years of experience designing, building, and supporting complex database systems and data warehouses. Based in Atlanta, GA, Stewart has an expert-level understanding of the Oracle Database and BI stacks, and has delivered projects of varying sizes across multiple verticals, including logistics, supply chain, hospitality, municipal government, and utilities.
Sheeri K. Cabral, The Pythian Group
Sheeri K. Cabral has a master’s degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University. She has a background as a systems administrator and has worked with Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Solaris, RedHat/Fedora, AIX, and HP-UX. Unstoppable as a volunteer and activist since age fourteen, Sheeri founded and organizes the Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MySQL User group, and wrote the MySQL Administrator’s Bible (www.tinyurl.com/mysqlbible).
Laine Campbell, PalominoDB, Inc Laine Campbell has been working in senior and principal roles as a production database administrator and architect since 1999, where she began the process of building up Travelocity's global database support team. She is currently the founder and principal consultant of PalominoDB, Inc., a boutique MySQL and Oracle consultancy specializing in design, performance, tuning and support of highly available and scalable database infrastructures. PalominoDB has honed their expertise while providing support for such companies as Technorati, Viacom Networks, Fidelity, LiveJournal.com and Zappos.com.
Karen Cannell, TH Technologies
Karen Cannell is the owner of TH Technologies. She has analyzed, designed, developed, converted, enhanced, and otherwise tweaked database applications for more than twenty-three years, focusing on Oracle since 1994. Recent concentrations include design and development of ETL processes, Oracle Business Intelligence, Application Express, and migration of legacy apps to Web technologies, leveraging the Oracle 10g/11g suite of tools. She supports user groups as a speaker, reviewer, and as editor of the ODTUG Technical Journal.
Warren Capps, Illuminations Inc.
Warren Capps, president of Illuminations Inc, has worked with Oracle for over twenty two years going back to version 5.1 in 1987. Since 1991, his principal efforts have been spent in training clients in the use of Oracle products, concentrating on database server technologies. He is a well-known presenter at user group conferences and has written numerous articles and book reviews for a variety of publications. He also ran an Oracle bookstore for ten years.
Flavio Casetta, Yocoya.com
Flavio Casetta is an early Oracle APEX adopter and developer since early 2004 with over twenty five years in IT and over eleven years working on Oracle. Flavio was a presenter at Kaleidoscope 2009 and OOW 2008. He is also the founder of Yocoya.com, a company specializing in Oracle and APEX applications and is the editor of the oraclequirks blog.
Tony Catalano, Rolta TUSC
Tony Catalano is a senior vice president with TUSC. He has been developing Oracle applications utilizing Oracle development tools for over seventeen years. Tony is a frequent presenter at user groups including Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, MOUG, and ODTUG. Tony was the recipient of the Best Speaker Award at ODTUG 2005. You can reach Tony at 630.960.2909 or e-mail tony@tusc.com.
Neela Chaudhari, Oracle Corporation
Neela Chaudhari is a group product manager with Oracle Corporation. She has been with Oracle/Hyperion for the last seven years and has been primarily focused around BI and EPM, both in a sales capacity and product management. Her experience has centered around working with customers and making them successful.
Ashley Chen, Oracle Corporation
Ashley Chen is a product manager for Oracle SQL Developer in the Database Development Tools group. She has worked with Oracle Warehouse Builder before joining the SQL Developer team. Ashley has been at Oracle since 2000 and is currently based in Seattle.
Charles Chew, U.S. Forest Service
Charles Chew has been working with Essbase for the past five years and has become the lead developer for the U.S. Forest Service. He has developed various budget and performance management applications and Web analysis reports based off these applications. When Charles is not working, he enjoys being a father of a two year old.
Palaniappan Chidambaram, Oracle Corporation
Palaniappan Chidambaram has more than six years of experience in BI and DWH, working for the last for years with Oracle Fusion BI. He has worked on daily business intelligence for HCM and Fusion intelligence HCM. He has vast experience on OBIEE 11g, Informatica, ODI, OWB, and Discoverer.
Christina Cho, Oracle Corporation
Christina Cho has been working for Oracle since 1998 and is a developer on the Application Express team. She worked on Application Express since the days when it was used only for internal tool. Christina’s primary development responsibilities include Interactive report, Websheet, SQL Workshop, Data Load and Flash Charts.
Buland Chowdhury, Oracle Corporation
Buland Chowdhury is currently a senior director of EPM and BI delivery practice at Oracle. Prior to Oracle, he was a Senior Principal consultant at Hyperion Solutions. He has more than 12 years of IT experience in OLAP, ETL, Design and Development. He has experience in Data modeling including warehouse. Skill set includes Essbase, Essbase integration server and Web analysis.
Patrick Cimolini, Independent APEX Consultant
Patrick Cimolini is an independent Oracle Application Express consultant. A long career in engineering, project management, and computer programming includes five years leading an APEX team that has delivered well-received APEX programs to a diverse group of clients.
Maria Colgan, Oracle Corporation
Maria Colgan is a principal product manager at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.3 was released in 1996. Maria's core responsibilities are data warehouse best practices and the Oracle Optimizer. Based on Maria's extensive experience in Oracle's Server Technology Performance Group - where she conducted competitive customer benchmarks and tuning sessions - Maria creates and lectures on data warehouse best practices. As such, Maria is a well-known presenter and typically gets a full house for her OpenWorld sessions on best practices and the optimizer.
Dave Collins, Oracle Corporation
Dave Collins began his career some twenty-five years ago at Arthur Andersen & Company, as a Program Manager for the worldwide budgeting application. The application was hosted via Comshare, a timesharing and software provider. Dave joined Comshare, working as a consultant, instructor and sales engineer. The move to Comshare also provided an introduction to Essbase. Before joining Hyperion, Dave worked at several partners specializing in Essbase implementations and education. Today, as a Director, Analytics at Oracle, Dave is responsible for assisting in strategic opportunities and sales readiness globally.
Gary Crisci, Morgan Stanley
Gary Crisci is a business intelligence professional with over fourteen years of finance and systems experience. Gary's current role is vice president of Financial Systems Development for Morgan Stanley. He is an Oracle ACE and the current president of the ODTUG Hyperion SIG. Gary is extremely active in the online user community and has presented in previous years at Kaleidoscope.
Lewis Cunningham, Database Architect
Lewis Cunningham is an Oracle ACE, a published author, a frequent conference speaker, and a database architect. Lewis's specialties revolve around databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, and most anything having to do with databases. Lewis has two decades of multi-vendor and open source database experience in a variety of industries and capacities. You can read Lewis's blog at http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/.
Marc de Oliveira, Simplify Systems
Marc de Oliveira is a system analyst, an information modeler and an enterprise architect. He is currently working as a freelance analyst and is the manager of the podcast portal podhead.net as well as a director on the ODTUG board. He possesses a master's in computer science from the University of Copenhagen from 1992 and has been working as a system analyst, information modeler, system developer and system architect for the past twenty years primarily in Oracle environments. He is a regular presenter at conferences in Denmark and abroad and has written many technical articles for both the ODTUG Technical Journal and OracleEkspert Magazine. He has also co-authored "Oracle8 Developer's Guide" published by IDG Books. Marc is also podcasting (Danish) videos about enterprise architecture, methodology, systems analysis etc: http://podcast.SimplifySys.dk
Natalie Delemar, ISA
Natalie Delemar is the financial systems manager at Randstad US in Atlanta, GA. Natalie is responsible for Oracle Essbase and Oracle Hyperion Planning development and support at Randstad US. She has been working with Essbase over ten years and with Planning over four years. She has worked with a variety of companies and in several industries in the support of Essbase/Planning and BI.
Jean-Pierre Dijcks, Oracle Corporation
Jean-Pierre Dijcks is a senior principal product manager in Oracle’s data warehousing group. After earning a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Jean-Pierre joined Oracle Netherlands as a data warehouse consultant working on data warehouse implementations throughout Europe. In late 2000, he moved to Oracle product development as a product manager for Oracle Warehouse Builder. Leveraging his experience in data warehousing, data integration, and data quality, Jean-Pierre is currently one of the product managers for Oracle’s data warehouse portfolio, including Oracle Database Machine – Oracle’s offering in the space of extreme performance, large-scale data warehouses.
Lonneke Dikmans, Approach Alliance
Lonneke Dikmans is managing partner at Approach Alliance and is responsible for SOA. Areas of focus are (Enterprise) architecture, user experience, BPM, and SOA Governance. Lonneke speaks regularly at conferences in Europe and the United States and publishes frequently on the internet and in magazines. She is an Oracle ACE Director in the area of SOA and Fusion Middleware and was awarded the title Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer of the year 2007 by Oracle Magazine.
Dr. Paul Dorsey, Dulcian, Inc.
Paul Dorsey is president of Dulcian, Inc., an Oracle consulting firm specializing in business rules and Web-based application development, and chief architect of Dulcian's BRIM® tool. Paul co-authored seven Oracle Press books on JDeveloper, UML Modeling, and Oracle database tools as well as PL/SQL For Dummies. He is an Oracle ACE Director, SELECT associate editor, ODTUG symposium chairperson, past IOUG and ODTUG volunteer of the year, and an Oracle 9i Certified Master. Paul’s submission of a survey generator, built to collect data for the Preeclampsia Foundation, was the winner of the 2007 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer Challenge and Oracle selected him as the 2007 PL/SQL Developer of the Year.
Martin D'Souza, Cognera Corp.
Martin D’Souza is a PL/SQL developer at Cognera, which is an SaaS organization specializing in commercial and industrial billing. He has been developing applications with PL/SQL and Oracle Application Express over the past four years.
Susan Duncan, Oracle Corporation Susan is a principal product manager in the Java Tools Development group at Oracle, specializing in Web services, ADF, and team development. She joined Oracle UK Consulting in 1997 and worked on various projects worldwide designing and implementing Oracle Designer and Forms Server applications. Susan also worked on developing Oracle Designer training courses and in 2001 joined Product Management focusing on Oracle Designer and UML in JDeveloper. Since 2002 Susan has been closely involved in the development of JDeveloper's support for Web services and SOA, and more recently has focused her attention and skills on JDeveloper's support for database modeling, source control, and XML.
Philip DuPre', Ranzal & Associates, Inc. Philip DuPre is a Project Leader with Ranzal. He has been working with Essbase for 9+ years. In the past 4 years working with Ranzal he has upgraded Planning clients to 9.3.1 and 11.1.1.3 as well as developing applications in Planning 4.0, 9.3.1, and 11.1.1.3.
Mike Durran, Oracle Corporation
Mike Durran has worked for Oracle since 1996, initially in BI consulting and later in product management roles for Oracle BI products including Discoverer and Oracle BI Delivers. Mike is based in the United Kingdom, holds a PhD in computational chemistry, and plays the bass when he can.
Jullin Egbuji, Shopzilla Inc.
Jullin Egbuji is a manager of business intelligence at Shopzilla Inc. Their applications include Hyperion Essbase and Oracle Business Intelligence - OBIEE. Jullin has over seven years of experience in Hyperion Essbase and three years of experience in OBIEE. Shopzilla's implementation is mainly aggregate storage cubes on Linux OS and deployment using Perl modules. At Shopzilla, Jullin manages the entire Hyperion Essbase and OBIEE applications. Jullin also manages existing and new project initiatives for business intelligence including planning, hardware requirements and procurement, design architecture, application installation, deployment, and production support. Jullin previously worked for Walt Disney Studios as senior programmer where the Essbase implementation was block storage cubes for planning, accounting, and inventory management. In addition to working with Hyperion Essbase, Jullin has also worked with Peoplesoft Receivables, Informatica, and Microstrategy.
Dave Farnsworth, Solutions Experts, Inc.
Dave Farnsworth began his professional career in IT supporting back office systems. In the late 80’s, he was introduced to multi-dimensional databases beginning with Comshare’s System W and then Essbase. He has been a consultant focused on OLAP based reporting and budgeting systems since 1989.
Steven Feuerstein, Quest Software
Steven Feuerstein is considered to be one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, having written ten books on PL/SQL, including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices (all published by O'Reilly Media). Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle (1987-1992), and has served as PL/SQL Evangelist for Quest Software since January 2001. He is an Oracle ACE Director and writes regularly for Oracle Magazine, which named him the PL/SQL Developer of the Year in both 2002 and 2006. He is also the first recipient of ODTUG's Lifetime Achievement Award (2009). Since 2005, he has focused his attention on improving the testing of PL/SQL programs, primarily through the creation of Quest Code Tester for Oracle, which automates PL/SQL code testing. Steven's online PL/SQL cyberhome is located at www.ToadWorld.com/SF; but you can also find out more about Steven at http://www.StevenFeuerstein.com.
Holger Friedrich, sumIT AG
Dr. Holger Friedrich serves as Chief Technology Officer of sumIT AG. sumIT is a Swiss consulting company, focused on the area of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence employing Oracle technology. After obtaining a computer science diploma and a doctoral degree in robotics, machine learning, and data mining Dr. Friedrich worked for several years in industrial research, before co-founding sumIT AG. He has more than a decade of experience in Oracle DWH projects and has used OWB in numerous projects since 2001.
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Alan Fuller, Oracle Corporation
Alan Fuller is a director of product management, business intelligence. He is responsible for the Oracle BI Server. He has more than fifteen years of experience in the business intelligence arena.
Patrick Galbraith, Northscale
Patrick Galbraith is a software engineer at Northscale, a leading provider of scale-out infrastructure software for Web applications. Highly active in open source since 1993, he has contributed to MySQL, federated storage engine, Drizzle, and the Narada Search Engine. Patrick is the maintainer of DBD::mysql, DBD::drizzle and the Memcached UDF Functions for MySQL. He is author of “Developing Web Applications using Perl, Memcached, MySQL, and Apache” and co author of "Expert PHP and MySQL." Patrick lives up in the sticks of New Hampshire with his wife Ruth and son Kiran, and for a hobby, is part owner of a local wireless broadband company Radius North.
Doug Gault, Sumneva
Doug Gault has been working with Oracle since 1988 starting with version 5.1B, SQL*Forms 2.0, and RPT/RPF. Since then he has focused his career on Oracle's development technologies, spending the last decade on Web-based technologies, and the last five years specifically on HTML DB/APEX. Prior to joining Sumneva, Doug was the product development director for Hotsos Enterprises, during which time he was the lead architect/developer and product manager for two commercial products written in exclusively in APEX. His twenty one years of Oracle experience have taken him all over the world and involved him in some truly ground-breaking projects. Doug has presented and participated in round table discussions at a number of conferences including Oracle OpenWorld, UKOUG, and ODTUG's APEXposed. He holds an associate’s degree in computer science, and an honorary MA from the School of Hard Knocks, believing there is no replacement for hard earned experience.
Robert Gideon, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
Robert Gideon serves as a member of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage's financial systems department. Robert leads Essbase development efforts and assists with supporting the Essbase user community. In addition to his Essbase development and administration responsibilities, Robert has become the Excel automation guru within finance at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.
Dimitri Gielis, Sumneva
Dimitri Gielis is a director of Sumneva, a company specializing in Oracle Application Express. Dimitri is a frequent presenter at all the major Oracle conferences (OOW, ODTUG, IOUG, UKOUG, etc.), an Oracle ACE Director, and was named Oracle APEX Developer of the Year 2009.
Marco Gralike, AMIS Services BV
Marco Gralike, working for AMIS Services BV as a principal Oracle database consultant in the Netherlands, has experience as a DBA since 1994 (Oracle 6). Marco is also eager and skillful in other fields, like operating system administration and application servers, mainly to find working, performing solutions. Marco has been specializing in Oracle XMLDB since 2003, focusing on his old love--database administration and performance. He has been an Oracle XMLDB enthusiast ever since. He is also a dedicated contributor of the Oracle User Group community, helping people with their steep XMLDB learning curve. To this purpose, Marco also devoted his personal blog site to XMLDB and other Oracle issues. Marco has presented several times in Holland, UKOUG (2007, 2008), and Oracle OpenWorld (2008, 2009). He has been awarded the Oracle ACE title for his work in the Oracle XMLDB area (2007) and has been a member of the OakTable Network since 2009.
Laura Gregor, Pearson Education
Laura Gregor is responsible for developing and implementing a financial systems platform to increase transparency, reduce manual intervention, and improve processes throughout the group. Laura’s goals are (1) to enable finance users to reduce costs and errors, (2) to provide business managers with better information for decision-making, and (3) to give senior management increased visibility.
Al Gutierrez, Textron
Al Gutierrez is a senior developer who has been supporting Hyperion applications for Textron Information Services for fourteen years. He has a BS in electronic engineering, Universidad Anahuac, Mexico City. As a native of Mexico, Al is fluent in Spanish, but his first language is rumored to have been Visual Basic.
Sue Harper, Oracle Corporation
Sue Harper is a product manager for Oracle SQL Developer and SQL Developer Data Modeler in the Database Development Tools group. She has been at Oracle since 1992 and is currently based in London. Sue is a regular contributor to magazines, maintains a technical blog, and speaks at many conferences around the world.
Roel Hartman, Logica
Roel is a very experienced Oracle software architect. He started about twenty years ago using Oracle RDBMS 5, Oracle Forms 2.3, RPT/RPF, and Oracle*Case 4.5. Since then he has used all versions of these products. Within the last few years, he focuses mainly on Oracle Application Express. He has acted as a (technical) lead in numerous projects using Designer, Developer, PL/SQL, and APEX for different types of companies including government, publishing, and retail in diverse areas like fulfillment and logistics. Roel has been a speaker on UKOUG2007, 2008 and 2009, OOW2008 and 2009, and ODTUG 2009. He is an active participant of the Oracle APEX Forum and keeps an APEX-related blog on http://roelhartman.blogspot.com. In June 2009, Roel was awarded with the Oracle ACE membership.
Eric Helmer, Linium
Oracle ACE Director Eric Helmer is a Vice President of Infrastructure Services with the Linium. He has over 10 years experience with large complex Hyperion installations, configurations, design, and architecture. He combines complex conceptual architecture and design of corporate computing environments with hands-on technical configuration of enterprise software specializing in well performing, Highly Available IT configuration and management.
Matthew Holt, Kroger Co.
Matthew Holt is a CPA and financial services manager at Kroger with over ten years of experience in all aspects of Oracle Essbase application development and deployment. Matthew and his team of developers create and manage dozens of databases, along with their primary user interface, Dodeca from AppliedOLAP, to provide their users with reporting, budgeting, and forecasting solutions across multiple departments within the organization. He has also given numerous in-house training sessions on Essbase and Dodeca.
Jeff Jacobs, Jeffrey Jacobs & Associates
Jeff Jacobs is the founder of Jeffrey Jacobs and Associates. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant, data architect, and modeler, specializing in Oracle. He has served as president and conference chair of ODTUG. He trained over 3,000 students in data modeling, design, and Oracle.
Ash Jain, AdvancedEPM Consulting Inc.
Ash is a “hands-on” Hyperion Planning and Essbase design lead/architect who has provided superior Hyperion implementation services for the past ten years. He is a certified Hyperion Planning and Essbase consultant.
Lucas Jellema, AMIS
Lucas Jellema (Oracle ACE Director) started as an Oracle consultant in 1994. He is expertise manager for AMIS in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Lucas is a frequent blogger on Oracle technology (at http://technology.amis.nl), an author of many articles (including in the OTN, Java Developer Journal, ODTUG Technical Journal, and several Dutch Oracle and Java magazines), and a presenter at conferences (Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, and various international user groups including ODTUG) and workshops. His presentations are full of information, presented with a lot of enthusiasm, embellished with war stories and anecdotal evidence, and illustrated with many demonstrations and the odd absurdist observation. Lucas is senior technical consultant on Oracle and Java projects and currently focuses on SOA, mainly through Oracle SOA Suite. At this moment, he is authoring “The Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook” (Oracle Press, Spring 2010). He devotes serious time to find interesting ways of using the Oracle products for application development challenges. He also regularly participates in beta programs for various Oracle products.
Jason Jones, The Kroger Company
Jason Jones is the senior financial services developer for the Kroger Company, leading business intelligence development with Essbase across the enterprise.
Matjaz B. Juric, SOA Competency Centre, BPELmentor
Matjaz B. Juric, Ph.D. is the head of the SOA Competency Centre and a professor at the University of Maribor. He has authored several books and articles on SOA. The BPEL Cookbook has been awarded as the best SOA book in 2007 by SOA World Magazine. He has been involved in several large-scale SOA/BPM projects. Matjaz is an Oracle ACE Director.
Joel Kallman, Oracle Corporation Joel Kallman is a software development manager for Oracle USA, Inc. His background over the past eighteen years has centered on database and content management, from SGML databases and publishing systems to unstructured content and document management. He is a contributing author of several books on Oracle technology, including Expert One on One Oracle, Beginning Oracle Programming, and Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions.
John King, King Training Resources
John King is a partner in King Training Resources, a firm providing instructor-led training since 1988 across the U.S. and internationally. John specializes in application development software on a variety of platforms including Oracle, DB2/UDB, SOA, Oracle, Middleware, Web Services, ADF, Java, XML, and .NET. John has worked with Oracle products and the database since Version 4 and presents frequently at industry conferences.
Peter Koletzke, Quovera
Peter Koletzke is a technical director and principal instructor for Quovera. He is an Oracle Certified Master, Oracle ACE Director, and has presented more than 210 times at Oracle conferences. Peter has won awards such as Pinnacle Publishing's Technical Achievement, ODTUG Editor's Choice, the ECO/SEOUC Oracle Designer Award, ODTUG Volunteer Award, and NYOUG Editor's Choice. He is the co-author, with Paul Dorsey, Avrom Roy-Faderman, and Duncan Mills, of seven books about Designer, Forms and Reports, and JDeveloper.
Anjo Kolk, Miracle Benelux
Anjo Kolk started as a trainee at Oracle. A job was offered and he worked for Oracle for the next sixteen years. He worked mostly with the RDBMS Performance and Oracle Parallel Server. In those sixteen years, he lived in the Netherlands, Ireland, Japan, and the U.S. During his time with the Oracle Server Performance Group, Anjo worked with many big companies that are specialized in making or selling software (Baan, SAP, Amdocs, etc.). He also worked for customers all over the world (like NTT, Docomo, etc.) to help them improve the performance of their systems as well as implementing new systems. While he was working on these performance issues, he developed a tuning method called YAPP (Yet Another Performance Profiling Method) to tune Oracle systems based on response times. He is recognized as the father of the YAPP-methodology which was first documented in the YAPP white paper in 1998 and publicly used in his Web site oraperf.com. This method can also be used on non-Oracle SQL systems. He taught at many internal Oracle classes throughout the world. He is the author of the well-known and often quoted, "Oracle7 Wait Events and Enqueues" white paper, the owner and inventor of the http://www.oraperf.com Web site, and one of the founders of the OakTable Network. After Oracle, he worked for Precise Software Solutions for two years as an Oracle technologist, and worked for Veritas Software Application Performance Management (APM) for two years as an Oracle Technologist where he developed performance prototype software. In September 2006, he founded Miracle Benelux.
Cameron Lackpour, Independent Consultant
Cameron Lackpour first worked with OLAP technology in the dinosaur days of System W and saw the Essbase light in 1993. He’s been in the consulting business since 1996, creating solutions for customers using Essbase, Planning, and anything else that ties to those two products. Cameron is active on OTN’s and Network54’s Essbase board – sharing knowledge makes his day interesting.
Alan Lee, Oracle Corporation
Alan Lee is director of product management at Oracle. Alan is responsible for the Oracle Essbase product line and previously held product management responsibility roles for the Oracle BI EE product line. Alan has over fourteen years of experience in business intelligence and data warehousing. Alan joined Oracle from the Siebel aquisition.
Jonathan Lewis, JL Computer Consultancy
Jonathan Lewis is an independent consultant with more than twenty years of experience designing and trouble-shooting Oracle database systems. He is the author of two books (Practical Oracle 8i, and Cost Based Oracle - Fundamentals) and has contributed to three other books, as well as writing many articles for magazines and Web sites around the world. Jonathan is well-known on the Oracle speaker circuit, has given presentations on Oracle at various user groups around the world, and has presented in the "Celebrity Seminar" series for Oracle University. As a result, he has worked or presented in more than forty countries worldwide and a dozen or so of the American states.
Bryn Llewellyn, Oracle Corporation
Bryn has worked in the software field for thirty years. He joined Oracle UK in 1990 to work in the Oracle Designer development team. He transferred to the Oracle Text team and then into consulting as the text specialist for Europe. He relocated to Redwood Shores in 1996 to join the Text Technical Marketing Group. He has been the product manager for PL/SQL since 2001. In 2005, he took on responsibility for online application upgrade.
Mike Malwitz, Oracle Corporation
Mike Malwitz is responsible for the product strategy of Oracle’s Hyperion Financial Consolidation and Reporting Products (formerly Hyperion). He has over twenty years background in accounting and finance, and degrees from Florida State University and New York University in business and accounting. He delivers many seminars throughout the world on financial reporting topics.
Russ Markovich, Apollo Group
Russ Markovich is currently with Apollo Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix, as a senior SOA administrator/software developer. He's been developing applications using Oracle products since 1998. He is also an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP).
Brian Marshall, US Analytics Solutions Group
Brian Marshall is a senior consultant with US Analytics Solutions Group. He has more than nine years of experience providing information technology solutions to drive business and revenue inside a variety of organizations and extensive knowledge of the Business Intelligence product suite offered by Oracle/Hyperion.
Scot Martin, Cash America
Scot Martin graduated from Rice University in 1995 with a degree in computer science and managerial studies. He immediately began work in IT with RadioShack Corporation and stayed until May 2007 when he joined the Hyperion Development team at Cash America where he was promoted to manager in January of 2008. Scot has been working with Hyperion extensively since 2002 and has experience across multiple versions using a wide array of applications in analysis, reporting, and planning.
Raj Mattamal, Niantic Systems, LLC
Raj Mattamal is a co-president of Niantic Systems, LLC (www.nianticsystems.com). Before forming Niantic Systems, Raj had been with Oracle for over ten years working on all things Application Express. Raj's main career focus has been Web application development using PL/SQL, Oracle Application Express, and associated Web technologies. Beyond speaking, training, and customer engagements, Raj has developed numerous Web systems for use internally at Oracle as well as by customers in various lines of business.
Dan McGhan, SkillBuilders
Dan McGhan is a senior APEX developer and instructor with SkillBuilders. In addition to his "day job," Dan enjoys helping others learn via the APEX forum, speaking at various Oracle user group events, and maintaining his Oracle and APEX blog.
Rory McLean, Aderas
Rory McLean has twenty six years of experience in the IT arena, specializing in Oracle Database and Oracle E-Business Suite. As the solutions manager for Aderas, Rory has the cross-functional responsibility to ensure the design and technology meets the client’s needs.
Tracy McMullen, interRel Consulting
Tracy McMullen, Oracle ACE Director, has been leading the development of enterprise performance management and data warehousing applications for over ten years. Roles on projects have ranged from developer, to architect and project manager on technologies from Hyperion and business objects to Cognos and Oracle. Tracy started her career at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting on a project programming in RPG. Thankfully, her next project introduced her to the world of multidimensional databases with a Cognos PowerPlay implementation for an oil and gas client (many years ago Tracy was certified in Cognos PowerPlay and Impromptu). Next, she helped clients from various industries revolutionize their information delivery with Hyperion and other technologies. After years of successful business intelligence implementations, a few shredded documents changed her career path from future partner to eliminating cancer. Tracy next joined the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center where she lead the charge in implementing budget and planning solutions utilizing Hyperion Planning. Fate stepped in once again with relocation to the South Texas Coast, and Tracy found her new home with interRel Consulting as director of special projects. Tracy is a Hyperion certified consultant for Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion certified solutions architect for Hyperion Planning, and a certified project management professional (PMP). Tracy has been a regular instructor at interRel, Hyperion’s user conferences, and other professional seminars since 2000, on topics including information delivery, business intelligence, data warehousing, and Hyperion implementations. Her strong technical background is complimented by comprehensive practical experience in project management, a skill important not only on the job, but at home as well where she manages her kids on a daily basis (ok, she attempts to manage with moderate success).
Francis Mignault, Insum Solutions Inc.
Francis Mignault, co-founder of Insum Solutions, has been working with Oracle databases for over twenty years. With his experience in the past five years as an Oracle Application Express (APEX) specialist, he is a key contributor in the development of the company’s SAAS products. Francis also leads the APEX consulting team at Insum Solutions.
Matt Milella, Oracle Corporation
Matt Milella has been working for or using business intelligence for the past twelve years and has worn many hats; consultant; channel (partner) sales, development, and most relevant end user. As one of the co-creators of Smart View, among other products, he is passionate about how BI can truly be delivered to average users. http://essbaselabs.blogspot.com/
Duncan Mills, Oracle Corporation Duncan Mills is director of product management for Oracle's Application Development Tools including Oracle JDeveloper, Forms, and the ADF Framework. Duncan is currently responsible for product direction, evangelism, and courseware development around the development tools products. He has been working with Oracle in a variety of application development and DBA roles since 1988. For the past fourteen years he has been working at Oracle in both support and product development, spending the last eight years in product management. Duncan is the co-author of the Oracle Press book Oracle JDeveloper 10g for Forms and PL/SQL Developers: A Guide to Web Development with Oracle ADF.
Cary Millsap, Method R Corporation
Cary Millsap is the founder and president of Method R Corporation (http://method-r.com). He is widely known in the Oracle community as a speaker, educator, consultant, and writer. He wrote Optimizing Oracle Performance (O'Reilly) with Jeff Holt, and he is a contributor to Oracle Insights: Tales of the OakTable (Apress). He blogs at http://carymillsap.blogspot.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/cary_millsap.
Ron Moore, MTG
Ron is president of MTG, one of the oldest Essbase consulting firms. He has about fifteen years of Essbase experience and is one of the first certified Essbase consultants.
Karen Morton, Agilex Technologies
Karen Morton is a senior principal database engineer for Agilex Technologies with nearly twenty years of Oracle experience. She works with companies around the world teaching application optimization in both classroom settings and shoulder-to-shoulder consulting engagements. She is an author of two upcoming Oracle books from Apress, a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups, an Oracle ACE, and a member of the OakTable network. She blogs at http://karenmorton.blogspot.com.
Peter Moskovits, Oracle Corporation
Peter is a Senior Principal Product Manager for Oracle WebCenter, and leads the product management efforts for Web 2.0 and social networking application development. He played an active role in architecting and building the Oracle WebCenter product. Peter focuses on the overall strategy of the Oracle WebCenter development experience and custom application development, as well as portlet development tools and technologies. Peter is the co-author of the Oracle WebCenter 11g Handbook and is a frequent speaker at conferences, such as Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle User Group meetings, and JavaOne.
Chris Muir, SAGE Computing Services
Chris Muir is an Oracle ACE Director and a senior Oracle systems developer and trainer for SAGE Computing Services in Australia. With over ten years working in traditional Oracle development, he has more recently earned battle scars working with, training with, and promoting JDeveloper, ADF, Web services, and Fusion Middleware.
Mike Nader, Oracle Corporation Mike Nader has been working in the BI and EPM space for more than a decade, starting in logistics and distribution in the client sector and moving to Hyperion in Connecticut in spring of 2000. He has worked with Essbase for the last nine years in a variety of roles that span both Hyperion Solutions and Oracle. Mike has also had the opportunity to work on a number of filed services engagements with Essbase and surrounding technologies. Additionally, Mike has been certified in Essbase since version 5 and has been on the committees to write the certification exams since version 7.x. Mike is also a recognized expert on Oracle's Smart View Office integration. Currently, he is the global domain expert for Essbase and Analytics with Oracles Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence team.
Mauricio Naranjo, One It World Corp.
Mauricio Naranjo is an Oracle ACE Fusion Middleware Director, specializing in IT governance and enterprise architecture. He is an ITIL v3 certified professional and Oracle SOA architect certified expert. He is the co-author of the book, Oracle 9i Java Programming (Peer Information). Over the past twelve years, he has architected, designed, and implemented enterprise solutions and business transformation plans for more than sixty banks, financial institutions, and government agencies. Mauricio is a frequent presenter at different Oracle seminars including ODTUG, New York Oracle Users Group, Chilean Oracle Users Group, Peru Oracle Users Group, and Independent Oracle Users Group.
Shyam Nath, IBM
Shyam Nath is a business intelligence architect at IBM with nineteen years of industry experience. His focus areas are BI, DW, and EPM. He is an Oracle certified professional since 1998. He is founder of Oracle BIWA SIG and Exadata SIG and was awarded IOUG Oracle Contribution Award in 2007 for the same. He is a regular speaker at Oracle OpenWorld, Kaleidoscope, Collaborate, and regional user groups. He has an MBA and MS in computer science.
Jan Navratil, CampusIT
Jan Navratil is a CTO at CampusIT – a company delivering unique student experience management systems to universities and professional development organizations. He has more than ten years of IT experience in various sectors including on-line banking at GE Capital Bank. Jan is a frequent presenter on major technical events like Oracle OpenWorld, UKOUG, and ODTUG.
Francois-Xavier Nicolas, Oracle Corporation
François-Xavier "FX" Nicolas is a technology expert with twelve years in the field of integration. Currently product manager at Oracle Fusion Middleware Group, FX Nicolas develops the Oracle Data Integration product portfolio.
Hajo Normann, HP Enterprise Services
Hajo Normann creates SOA and BPM solutions for German customers in Government and Telcos, e.g. he was SOA architect of one of the most mature SOA solutions at Kabel Deutschland. He co-leads the interest group DOAG SIG SOA, is a regular speaker at large conferences, writer of a fourteen-part series of SOA articles in the German “JavaMagazine,” and contributor to Thomas Erl’s bestseller “SOA Design Patterns.”
Chad Norton, American Family
Chad Norton is a renowned expert in Hyperion. He has been working in the world of EPM for over seven years and is currently a senior financial analyst at American Family Insurance in Madison, WI.
Sarah Novotny, Blue Gecko
I’m a founding partner of Blue Gecko; I manage and am a senior administrator in the Open Databases/ LAMP practice. We do remote administration and management of databases around the world on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server. I additionally run the Seattle meetups for LinuxChix, MySQL, and one focused on Opensource and general geeky socializing.
Alex Nuijten, AMIS Services
Alex Nuijten is a senior Oracle consultant for AMIS Services BV in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Besides his consultancy work, he also conducts training classes and authors articles for a Dutch Oracle magazine, called “Optimize.” He also does presentations at national and international conferences, and is a frequent contributor at the Oracle Technology Network forum for SQL and PL/SQL. At regular intervals, he writes about Oracle technology on the AMIS technology blog and his own blog which can be found at Nuijten.blogspot.com.
Brian O'Donnell, Kerdock Consulting
Brian O’Donnell has been working with the Hyperion toolset since 2004. He started working directly for Hyperion and now is with Kerdock Consulting. His primary area of expertise is Essbase which he has worked with since version 6. He is a Hyperion certified consultant for both Essbase and Planning. Brian splits his time between training students and consulting for clients in multiple countries.
Padraig O'Sullivan, Akiba Technologies Inc.
Padraig O’Sullivan is a software engineer at Akiba Technologies Inc. He is working on the core Akiba Orthogonal Architecture as well as contributing to the open source community. He has been hacking on Drizzle since February 2009 and participated in Google’s Summer of Code working on Drizzle. Contributions to various other open source projects happen when he has the time. He has a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Maryland. Originally from Killarney, Ireland, he now lives and works in Boston.
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Daniel Paske, Utah Department of Transportation
Dan Paske is a senior IT analyst/developer for the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT). He has been working with Oracle development tools for over sixteen years. Dan received his Internet Application Developer OCP in 2000. He is currently developing an application using Application Express for the materials testing division of UDOT.
Chandu Patel, Deloitte Consulting
Chandu Patel is an Oracle certified DBA with over sixteen years of experience in the IT field. Chandu is a past speaker at IOUG Collaborate conferences in 2009, 2008, 2007; UKOUG conference 2008; and BIWA Summit at Oracle HQ 2008. Chandu is a current reviewer for IOUG SELECT magazine articles. Chandu has extensive experience in using Oracle technologies and tools including Designer, SQL Developer, OEM, OWB, Developer suite on versions 8i, 9i, 10g, and most recently 11g.
David Peake, Oracle Corporation
After thirteen years within Oracle consulting in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, David Peake joined the product development team as the Oracle Application Express (APEX) product manager in 2006. David regularly presents at many Oracle conferences around the world and often contributes Oracle Magazine articles as well as maintaining a popular blog (http://dpeake.blogspot.com).
Doug Pearce, Analysis Team, Inc.
Co-presentation between Doug Pearce and George Cooper. Doug Pearce has over twenty years of deep technical experience developing enterprise software applications. He has proven and certified Hyperion Essbase expertise across many business verticals, and well-proven problem solving, architectural, and design skills. George Cooper, Gap Inc., has even more.
Jay Pipes, Rackspace Cloud Jay is a software engineer working on the Drizzle database microkernel. Previously, he was a software engineer at Sun Microsystems and the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL. Co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), Jay has also written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly assists software developers in identifying how to make the most effective use of MySQL. He has given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, ZendCon, php-tek, OSCON, and Ohio LinuxFest, amongst others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Julie, and his three dogs.
Mark Prichard, Oracle Corporation
Senior Principal Product Manager for Oracle's Java Platform Group, responsible for Oracle WebLogic Suite: WebLogic Server, JRockit, EclipseLink, Coherence and Enterprise Manager. An experienced architect and product manager with 20+ years experience of the enterprise middleware sector, I spent 10 years at BEA Systems before joining Oracle in 2008.
Pete Puskas, US Analytics Solutions Group Pete Puskas is a technically and professionally adept consultant with more 13 years of experience in the IT industry. He has extensive experience with Hyperion product suites, Windows, Unix, Linux with several certifications and official training in VMware and Sun Solaris. His management experience includes leading a bi-coastal team of 20 systems engineers and individual project teams, as well as mentoring junior consultants.
Jon Rambeau has over twenty years of experience selling, managing, and delivering Oracle and Hyperion performance management applications, and bridging business and information technology needs in a wide-range of corporations. He has experience in best practices in financial and process management domains, and across the aerospace, energy, manufacturing, media, publishing, retail, technology, and telecommunications industries.
Blaise Ribet, Oracle Corporation
Blaise Ribet is a principal product manager for JDeveloper and ADF, working at Oracle headquarters in California. As an inbound product manager she manages requirements and defines features for ADF business components, ADF databinding, and ADF controller; runs the team that ensures UI consistency across the JDeveloper platform; and gives advice and help to internal and external developers who are building ADF applications.
Kris Rice, Oracle Corporation
Kris Rice is the architect and director of development for Oracle SQL Developer. He joined Oracle in 1998 in Oracle Consulting with a focus on Web development. Later he moved to the Oracle applications development group where he was part of the architecture team. When the database tools group was formed, he helped with Application Express development which he left to start SQL Developer. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a systems administrator and DBA on Oracle 7.1.3 and worked in a Microsoft ISV delivering Web applications. Kris presents at events, is a regular contributor on the forum, and maintains a blog.
Mark Rittman, Rittman Mead
Mark Rittman is an Oracle ACE Director, co-founder of Rittman Mead, and an ODTUG board member. Mark has worked for many years with Oracle's BI and DW tools, writes regularly for the ODTUG Technical Journal, Oracle Magazine, and OTN, and consults and trains companies around the world in Oracle's BI tools.
Michael Rosenblum, Dulcian, Inc.
Michael Rosenblum is a development DBA at Dulcian, Inc. He is responsible for system tuning and application architecture. He supports Dulcian developers by writing complex PL/SQL routines and researching new features. Michael is the co-author of PL/SQL for Dummies (Wiley Press, 2006). Michael is a frequent presenter at various regional and national Oracle user group conferences. In his native Ukraine, he received the scholarship of the President of Ukraine, a MS in information systems, and a diploma with honors from the Kiev National University of Economics.
Edward Roske, interRel Consulting
Edward Roske, an Oracle ACE Director, has demonstrated time and again his vast knowledge and experience to the Oracle user community. His willingness to share his expertise and experience through the years has led to hundreds of speaking engagements across the country. Since 1995, he has delivered Hyperion-centric presentations to Oracle and Hyperion sponsored conferences both in the U.S. and abroad as well as Hyperion user groups from coast to coast. In addition, Edward also hosts several of interRel Consulting’s free weekly Webcasts on various Oracle Hyperion topics ranging from offering users tips and tricks on optimizing their current Hyperion products, to gaining information on new products or versions. Edward’s “Look Smarter Than You Are” blog offers the Oracle user community insight (with a dose of humor) into his wisdom and commentary on the past, present, and future of Oracle’s Hyperion products.
Juan Camilo Ruiz, Oracle Corporation Juan Camilo Ruiz is the senior product manager for Oracle Development Tools specialized in JDeveloper/ADF, JEE and Rich Internet Application Development. He works as a Development tools Evangelist within the Oracle Developer Community and is a frequent speaker in technology conferences, development events and user groups conferences. Juan has a blog on ADF and JDeveloper and is a contributor on the largest Spanish Oracle On-line Communities on the development tools related topics. Juan was born in Colombia and is graduated from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota.
David Schleis, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
David Schleis is a systems architect at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene where he has worked with Oracle and Designer for over a decade. Insights gained while attending his first ODTUG conference, lead him to develop a VB framework based on the Designer Repository, which was the subject of the first of many presentations. His 2006 paper received the coveted ODTUG Editor’s Choice Award. David has also presented at IOUG and OOW.
Guido Schmutz, Trivadis
Guido Schmutz has more than twenty years of technology experience ranging from mainframes, integration, and SOA technologies in financial services, government, and vendor environments. He works for the Swiss Oracle Advantage Partner Trivadis in the technologies division, where he is responsible for SOA, application integration, and open source-based development. He has long-time experience as developer, coach, trainer, and architect in the area of building complex Java EE and SOA-based applications. Currently he is focusing on SOA and application integration projects using the Oracle SOA Suite. He is an Oracle ACE Director for Fusion Middleware and SOA. Guido Schmutz is co-author of the books "Spring 2.0 im Einsatz," "Architecture Blueprints," and "Integration Architecture Blueprints."
Glenn Schwartzberg, interRel Consulting
Glenn Schwartzberg has been an IT professional for twenty five years as a developer and DBA. His emphasis has been on BI for the last twelve years, specifically utilization of Essbase to solve business problems. He has worked in a broad range of industries including retail, banking, health care, semi-conductor, and manufacturing to help clients create solutions to their analysis, forecasting, and reporting needs. He teaches Essbase classes and is always willing to help people solve their problems. Toward this end he is a frequent contributor to the Oracle forum and the Network 54 forum. He works as a technical consultant for interRel Consulting.
John Scott, Sumneva
John Edward Scott has been using Oracle since version 7 (around 1993), and has used pretty much every release since then. He has had the good fortune to work on a wide range of projects for a varied group of clients. He was lucky enough to start working with Oracle Application Express when it was first publicly released, and has worked with it nearly every day since (and loves it). John is an Oracle ACE Director and was named Application Express Developer of the Year 2006 by Oracle Magazine and author of the best-selling book, Pro Oracle Application Express. He is also the co-founder of Sumneva (http://www.apex-evangelists.com), which specializes in providing training, development, and consulting specifically for the Oracle Application Express product. You can contact John at john.scott@apex-evangelists.com.
Marc Sewtz, Oracle Corporation Marc Sewtz is a software development manager for Oracle Application Express (APEX) in the Database Tools Group, part of Oracle Server Technologies. Marc has fourteen years of industry experience, including roles in consulting, sales, and development and joined Oracle in 1998. Marc manages a global team of APEX developers and product managers and is responsible for product features such as Oracle Forms to APEX conversion, the APEX reporting engine, tabular forms, PDF printing and the integration with Oracle BI Publisher. Marc has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences in Wedel, Germany.
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Dossy Shiobara, Panoptic.com
Dossy Shiobara is a software development professional with sixteen years of experience. Dossy has worked with Oracle since Oracle 8 and MySQL since MySQL 3, building applications used for e-commerce, data warehousing, social networking applications, and more.
Mark Simpson, Griffiths Waite
Oracle ACE Director Mark Simpson has been specializing in Oracle technology for fifteen years, ten of these with Griffiths Waite, where he leads the SOA practice. An active member of Europe’s SOA and BPM community, Mark was presented with an award for outstanding contribution in 2009. He is a prolific presenter on the Oracle and SOA conference circuits, particularly with Butler Group and Gartner, and has had multiple articles published on SOA, EDA, and BPM.
Josh Sled is a Senior Software Engineer with the MySQL Enterprise Tools team, working from the MySQL Enterprise Monitor server forward to the user. While working primarily with Java, Josh is also interested in python, modern web development technology and RESTful systems.
Brian Spendolini, Jsa2
Brian Spendolini currently is the Director of Development Services at JSA2 Solutions, LLC. Here he is concentrating on user experience and front-end application design using Application Express . Previously, Brian was at Oracle for ten years in a variety of position and organizations.
Scott Spendolini, Sumneva
Scott Spendolini is president and founder of Sumneva, a small business founded in October 2005, which specializes in Oracle Application Express training and consulting services. He has assisted a number of clients from various verticals with their Application Express development and training needs. He has presented at a number of conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, ODTUG, and IOUG and is a regular contributor to the APEX Forums on OTN. He is a recent recipient of the Oracle ACE Director designation and is also a co-author of the recently released book Pro Oracle Application Express. Before founding Sumneva, Scott worked for Oracle Corporation for almost ten years; the last three of which he was a senior product manager for Oracle Application Express. He holds a dual BS from Syracuse University in management information systems and telecommunications management and currently resides in Ashburn, Virginia with his wife and two children.
Tim St. Hilaire, BAE Systems
Tim St. Hilaire works for BAE Systems, a leading aerospace and defense company. Working with various software development tools for the past twelve years, Tim became involved with his company’s ERP implementation in June 2000, and was first exposed to Oracle technology. Following the implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite, Tim focused on a wide variety of system integration tools with a particular focus on Oracle software. Currently he leads a team of developers that are focused on managing complex, cross-functional implementations of applications, in which Oracle Application Express is a major component, to provide value to the BAE Systems business.
Greg Stachnick, Oracle Corporation
Greg Stachnick is a senior director of product management at Oracle. He currently covers Oracle's Eclipse development tools strategy as well as Oracle's Eclipse-based IDEs: Workshop for Weblogic and the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. Greg has been involved in Eclipse tools development since 2000.
Dirk Staehler, OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH
Dirk Staehler is one of the leading Oracle and ARIS experts in Europe. After working for Helbling Management Consulting and Jagenberg Inc. in the U.S., he joined OPITZ CONSULTING in 2000. As divisional director he is responsible for the development of innovative EA, BPM, and SOA methodologies for OPITZ CONSULTING. Within the scope of his duties he develops methods to combine business and IT modeling. He is a frequent author of business and technical publications and was intensively engaged in building up EA, BPM, and SOA systems for major international operating companies like METRO, MunichRe, and Bank of America.
Jason Straub, Oracle Corporation
Jason Straub has been working for Oracle since October 2000 and is a developer on the Application Express team. He has primarily worked on Application Express since the days when it was an internal tool used to build a calendaring system. Jason’s primary development responsibilities include installation and upgrade as well as integration features such as support for consuming Web services. Jason is currently working on features in the next major release of Application Express including assisting on an information sharing feature for end users.
Craig Sylvester is a Principal Sales Consultant for Oracle Corporation currently supporting MySQL in Federal accounts and the Southeast US region. He brings over 18 years technical experience supporting sales into the Federal market. His extensive database experience comes from 8 years at Informix software as a consultant and pre-sales engineer and at Netezza as a support/sales engineer. Prior to getting into sales, Craig spent 6 years as a software developer supporting Federal and commercial accounts.
Maggie Tompkins, USMC
Maggie Tompkins is a development branch head leading several dozen developers on major Web applications for the USMC. She has been using Oracle databases and tools for eighteen years and this is her fourteenth consecutive ODTUG conference. She won best speaker honors for presentations in 2000 and 2006 and the prestigious volunteer award in 2008. She served on the ODTUG Board of Directors for six years and was editor-in-chief of the ODTUG Technical Journal for many years. She is an expert in database design and data modeling with SQL Developer. She may be reached at Margaret.Tompkins@comcast.net.
Tim Tow, Applied OLAP, Inc
Tim Tow is the Founder and President of Applied OLAP, Inc and the visionary for its flagship product, Dodeca. He has also done scores of presentations on the technical aspects of Essbase, is a frequent contributor to the Network 54 board and the OTN forums, is responsible for maintenance of the OlapUnderground tools used by thousands of Essbase professionals and has served on the ODTUG Board of Directors. For his efforts, he was the first person from the Hyperion community recognized by Oracle as an Oracle ACE and later became the first Oracle ACE Director from the Hyperion community.
Jake Turrell, US-Analytics
Jake Turrell is a technical architect with US-Analytics with over twelve years of experience implementing Hyperion Essbase and Planning solutions for a wide variety of clients.
Gauthier Vasseur, Google
Gauthier Vasseur is a renowned expert in Hyperion. He has been working in the world of EPM for over ten years and is currently an employee of Google in Mountain View, CA.
Sten Vesterli, Scott/Tiger A/S
Sten Vesterli is an Oracle ACE Director and a highly regarded expert on Oracle development. He is a frequent speaker at Oracle conferences and has written more than fifty articles and conference papers on Oracle development as well as the book, Oracle Web Applications 101. Sten works as a consultant, developer, and trainer and lives in Denmark, where he is a partner in Scott/Tiger, an Oracle-focused consultancy.
Shankar Viswanathan, Oracle Corporation
Shankar Viswanathan is a senior principal product manager within Oracle's EPM group, brings in over three years of product management experience at Hyperion, and currently manages the Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance products. He has over fifteen years of experience in product management, strategy, consulting, and corporate finance. He is highly experienced in enterprise performance management, having worked in corporate finance and with EPM tools such as Peoplesoft EPM, Cognos-TM1, and SAP-BP&C (Outlooksoft). He is a finance professional by training, is a CPA, and holds a master’s in finance and economics.
Toufic Wakim, Oracle Corporation
Toufic Wakim is a ten year veteran of Oracle/Hyperion. He is responsible for the development of Smart View, Classic Essbase add-in, and the Oracle BI Office add-in.
John Weimar, Kerdock Consulting
John Weimar is a senior principal consultant for Kerdock Consulting in Houston, Texas. He has fourteen years of experience delivering business solutions using Hyperion technologies. John as managed in both information management and finance, implementing and using solutions in areas of financial consolidations, planning, reporting, and analysis.
Christian Wetterwald, Oracle Corporation
Christian Wetterwald a director, financial close systems at Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management Global Business Unit, has a degree in computer science and more than fifteen years of experience with business intelligence, financial consolidation, and reporting. Christian is working with Oracle’s consolidation product - Hyperion Financial Management - since version 1.0 was launched nine years ago. He developed a broad expertise in it—to use its technology to solve consolidation problems worldwide.
Torsten Winterberg, OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH
Torsten Winterberg works as director strategy and innovation and head of Competence Center SOA at OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH. He is an Oracle ACE Director and has extensive experience in building Java EE applications as a trainer, project coach, and architect. His special interest is the design and development of complex IT systems with consideration of BPM, BPEL, ESB, and service-oriented architectures in general.
Patrick Wolf, Oracle Corporation
Patrick Wolf is working as an Oracle competence center manager at Sphinx IT Consulting, a Vienna, Austria-based Oracle specialist. As an Oracle ACE Director he is a frequent contributor to the Oracle APEX forum and is running the blog http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/. Patrick is the 2007 winner of the Oracle APEX developer of the year award of Oracle Magazine.
Matt Yonkovit, Percona Matt has worked for MySQL, Sun, and now Percona. He is a database expert with over 12 years of experience working with MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and a ton of other relational databases. Matt has worked with top ranked websites and fortune 500 companies around the world.
Christopher Barbieri, Ranzal & Associates
Ronald Bradford, 42SQL