Filippo Bosi (Twitter @filippobosi) is currently employed at Imola Informatica (www.imolinfo.it), an Italian consulting company where he works as Senior Advisor, managing important projects for banking and insurance companies.
He has been working for more than 25 years in the computer programming field. He started his career as a freelance consultant and writer for some Italian computer magazines, while at the same time offering freelance consultancies in the first years that banking and insurance companies were starting to move away from mainframes in order to implement their business.
In the last four years, he's been involved in redesigning from scratch the entire information system of a banking institution in an SOA fashion, in studying ways to apply Semantic Web technologies to address Enterprise Architecture and Knowledge Management problems for some Italian large banking and insurance companies, and an European project (Cloud4SOA – www.cloud4soa.eu) that attempts, through the use of semantics, to address the portability of applications and data between different PaaS providers.
He is currently interested in Agile and Lean Management (applied), design of SOA Architectures, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, and Semantic Web.
He can be contacted at <[email protected]>.
Frank Nimphius is a Senior Principal Product Manager in the Oracle Application Development Tools group at Oracle Corporation, specializing in Oracle JDeveloper and the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF).
In his current position, Frank represents and evangelizes the Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF product worldwide as a speaker at user group and technology conferences, as well as in various publications. Frank runs the ADF Code Corner website, the OTN Forum Harvest blog, and is the co-author of the Oracle Fusion Developer Guide book published in 2009 by McGraw Hill.
Federico Tomassetti is a software engineer and a PhD student in computer engineering. He is interested mainly in model-driven development and domain specific languages. He has experience as a technical writer, teacher, and consultant about these technologies.
He is studying at the Politecnico di Torino. He spent a semester in the Universität Karlsruhe and one at Fortiss, an Institut of the Technische Universität München.
Phil Wilkins has spent nearly 25 years in the software industry working with both multinationals and software startups. He started out as a developer and has worked his way up through technical and development management roles. The last 12 years have been primarily in Java based environments. He now works as an architect with an enterprise wide technical remit within the IT group for a global optical healthcare manufacturer and retailer.
Outside of his work commitments, he has contributed his technical capabilities to supporting others in a wide range of activities from the development of community websites to providing input and support to people authoring books, and developing software ideas and businesses.
When not immersed in work and technology, he spends his down time pursing his passion for music and time with his wife and two boys.