Mike Blackmore, Enterprise Architect at British Telecom, is responsible for leading the high-level technical relationship between BT and Oracle, engaging with BT and Oracle teams to make successful product and technology decisions.
Hamza Jahangir is a director of Enterprise Architecture at Oracle, and is co-author of Applied Oracle Security: Developing Secure Database and Middleware Environments (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media).
Basheer Khan is an Oracle ACE Director and President and Founder of Irvine, California-based Innowave Technology. Basheer was named Oracle Magazine's Integration Architect of the Year 2006 and Oracle Application Users Group (OAUG) Member of the Year in 2003.
Matjaz B. Juric holds a Ph.D. in computer and information science. He is the author/co-author of several SOA books, including Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL, Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (English and French editions), BPEL Cookbook, and SOA Approach to Integration. He has consulted on several large SOA projects. Matjaz's latest book on WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g is due out later in the summer.
Sandeep Banerjie is Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware. His responsibilities include developing and executing Fusion Middleware products and go-to-market strategies for Oracle and non-Oracle applications across all industries. Sandeep has IT experience of more than 17 years and is a frequent speaker on ERP, CRM, SCM, SOA, BPM, and Cloud Computing.
Srikant Subramaniam is a product manager for Oracle Fusion Middleware. He is responsible for enhancing and evangelizing best practices for the middleware platform as it relates to Oracle applications.
Nikhilesh Chitnis is Senior Sales Consultant for Oracle Fusion Middleware. He is responsible for positioning and demonstrating the value of Oracle's Middleware Suite of products to global customers. Nikhilesh has extensive expertise in the design, development, and implementation of software solutions across multiple industry domains.
Kiran Dattani is Director of Architecture Finance and Procurement for a major pharmaceutical company, where he is responsible for Global Architecture and Enterprise Integration projects. An accomplished speaker, he is a recognized expert in enterprise integration and supply chains in the life sciences and manufacturing industries.
Milind Pandit is an SOA Architect with Oracle Consulting Services, where he assists customers in deploying service-oriented architectures. He has 11 years' experience in software design, development, and implementation involving Enterprise Application Integration, J2EE, and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design.
Mark Farabaugh is a VP of IT at DJO in Vista, CA, leading DJO's multi-year program to consolidate all legacy ERP applications to a global single instance of Oracle EBS R12. Mark has more than 20 years of experience as an IT professional, and has focused on implementing Oracle enterprise applications such as ERP, BI, CRM, and FP&A for large multi-national corporations.
Sri Ayyeppen is the co-founder and CTO at Keste, an Oracle Platinum Technology Partner, where he is responsible for leading teams that deliver complex solutions with Oracle Applications, Technology, and Infrastructure. Sri was recently recognized as one of Oracle's Deputy CTOs for the year 2010.
Ross Sharman is the Technical Director for Knowledge Global, where his work on architecting and building the EMMA sustainability solution helped him to win the 2009 Green IT Architect Award from Oracle Magazine. Ross has an extensive background in technology and in electrical and electronic engineering, and has worked in large integration and Business Intelligence projects in Australia, the US, and Europe.
Juliana Button is Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware. Since 1992, Juliana has held various technical and management positions in Oracle Corporation in Australia and at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores. Her responsibilities include showcasing worldwide customer success with Oracle Application Grid products, as part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategic Customer Program.
Matt Miller is Applications Director for Europe, Middle East, and Africa at GroupM. At the time of writing, he was Head of Business Analysts and Testing at Motability Operations and was also responsible for delivery of the Vehicle Remarketing technology project detailed in this book. Throughout his career Matt has worked in a wide variety or technical roles with several large media companies, including IPC Media, Associated Newspapers, and EMI Music.
Mark Simpson is an Oracle ACE Director specializing in SOA and Middleware. He leads the SOA technology practice for Griffiths Waite and is Solution Architect on Motability Operations Vehicle Remarketing SOA initiative. Mark has been an advisor on the deployment of SOA solutions at a host of leading organizations in the UK, and has led implementations based on Oracle Technology, including the first production Oracle SOA implementation in the UK and the first production Oracle Business Activity Monitoring implementation in the world.
Nam Doan-Huy is a Senior Manager in IT at Wind River Systems, a world leader in embedded and mobile software. In his role, Nam has responsibility for Oracle E-Business Suite architecture, Fusion Middleware including SOA, portals, Business Intelligence, and enterprise databases, supporting a wide range of business units. Prior to joining Wind River, Nam worked for a number of years in consulting as a technical lead for ERP implementations.
Yihong Xu, Wind River's Web Architect, has been with Wind River for 10 years. She started her career as a quality engineer and later switched to working with web technologies in 2003. As Web Architect, Yihong is responsible for developing web strategy, including translating business requirements into use cases, identifying and evaluating tools, selecting hardware and software platforms, and ensuring coherency across IT's heterogeneous web systems. Yihong has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering.
Narshimha Rao Kondapaka is a Project Manager in IT and has been with Wind River for four years. Rao has more than 11 years of experience working with Oracle technologies and applications. He began his career as an Oracle Applications technical developer and switched to become an expert functional Business Analyst. Rao was recently promoted to Project Manager and played a key role in implementing the Online Support portal. Rao has a Master's degree in Computer Applications.
Melody Wood is a member of the Fusion Middleware Platform Product Management team, where she focuses on SOA and Web 2.0 customer deployment patterns. Melody joined Oracle in 1996, originally holding various partner management roles, where her increasing technical focus on Oracle product integrations across the database and middleware product stacks eventually led to her current role.
John Chung is Arcturus Realty Corporation's VP of IT and has over 10 years' experience in the real-estate industry, with diversified knowledge in technology and programming covering a broad range of languages and environments.
Rex Thexton is a managing director, and is a key leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Security and IdM practice in Oracle environments. Rex is an experienced IT professional with over 18 years of application development and IT management expertise. He has a proven track record for implementing strategic projects through a combination of effective relationship building with business leaders and technological aptitude. He was named and recognized as one of Oracle's Deputy CTOs, a select group of practitioners in North America.
Nishidhdha Shah works as senior consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has 10 years of experience in security and identity management. He holds CISSP and CISA credentials since 2006. He won ISC2 Cyber Security Awareness contest 2007 for his presentation on "Approach to security". Besides Schneider National, he also did a couple of large-scale OIM and ORM implementation in banking and retail.