David Peake joined Oracle in Australia in 1993. He spent the first 13 years in Oracle Consulting, working on various assignments across Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. During this time David concentrated on custom development projects of varying sizes, initially using Oracle Designer and Oracle Forms and later Project Marvel, which when it became an official Oracle product was called HTML DB, before being renamed to Oracle Application Express (APEX). In 2006, he transferred to development within Server Technologies—Database Tools as the Product Manager for Oracle Application Express. David liaises between the APEX development team and the many APEX customers and has presented at numerous conferences around the world. He also contributed on Beginning Oracle Application Express by Rick Greenwald (WROX Publishing).
Dimitri Gielis was born in 1978. Together with his family he lives in Leuven, Belgium.
Already at an early age, Dimitri started with computers (Apple II, IBM XT) and he quickly knew he would like to work with computers and especially with databases all his life.
In 2000 Dimitri began his career working as a consultant for Oracle Belgium where he got in touch with almost every Oracle product. His main expertise was in the database area, but at that time he was also exposed to HTML DB which was renamed Oracle Application Express later on. From the very start he liked the Oracle database and APEX so much he never stopped working with it. Dimitri then switched to another company to create an Oracle team and do pre-sales, to later create and manage an Oracle Business Unit.
In 2007 Dimitri co-founded APEX Evangelists (http://www.apex-evangelists.com), together with John Scott. APEX Evangelists is a company which specializes in providing training, development, and consulting specifically for the Oracle Application Express product.
On his blog (http://dgielis.blogspot.com) he shares his thoughts and experience about Oracle and especially Oracle Application Express.
Dimitri is a frequent presenter at IOUG Collaborate, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, UKOUG conference, and Oracle Open World. He likes to share his experience and meet other people. He's also the Vice President of the IOUG APEX SIG.
In 2008 Dimitri became an Oracle ACE Director. Oracle ACE Directors are known for their strong credentials as Oracle community enthusiasts and advocates.
You can contact Dimitri at <[email protected]>.
Louis-Guillaume Carrier-Bédard has been working for the past three years with Oracle Application Express. The APEX community benefits from his blog and tutorials regarding jQuery integration. Developments for the private and public sectors have contributed to build him a solid background. Many projects, from the simple proof of concept to mission critical application, have contributed to Louis-Guillaume's deep knowledge of APEX.
Louis-Guillaume recently joined SIE-Solutions to build systems for SMEs/SMBs. They organize seminars and they launched www.apexquebec.com, a web site dedicated to Quebec's Apex community. SIE-Solutions is offering a framework for Oracle APEX.