With a passion for system and application integration, Rolando Carrasco has spent most of his professional career working with customers to solve a common long-time problem: application integration. He started working with Hewlett Packard (Mexico) back in 2001, when he was in college. Even though his tenure with HP was short, as he realized very early that his professional career should be focused on Applications Integration. He started to implement integration solutions with JAVA, XML, Web Services, and EAI. He graduated with honors and was the best student of his batch (1997-2001). He studied in Mexico at Universidad Iberoamericana. The HP and Compaq fusion initiated a lot of changes in HP, so Rolando moved to Oracle, and that changed his professional career. At Oracle, he was always focused on the integration technology that Oracle had at that time; it was not as many products as today, but it was something to start with.
Then the Collaxa acquisition by Oracle happened, and that was the first step in this journey that turned Rolando into one of the most respected professionals in the Oracle SOA space for the Latin-American market. Rolando started to work with Oracle BPEL PM and had the opportunity to join the Oracle Product Management Team. He was the first PM for LAD in those days, covering Mexico to Brazil.
From 2005 to 2010, he was a Principal Product Manager for the Latin-American region and was the in charge the whole Fusion Middleware stack. Oracle acquired most of the components that are the foundation of the current Middleware offering: BEA, Thor, SUN, Oblix, Tangosol, and so on, at that time. Rolando had to be proficient in the whole stack, which was great challenge because of the extension of every product. All this kept Rolando very busy in the whole region and gave him the opportunity to work with the most important customers of the region. From Mexico to Argentina, Rolando collaborated with the different Oracle subsidiaries to promote the usage of Fusion Middleware.
Then in 2010 he joined S&P Solutions as an associate. S&P Solutions is one of the most important Oracle partners in the Latin-American region. In S&P, Rolando has had the opportunity to implement most of the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack, with the top companies in Mexico (telcos, financial institutions, retailers, manufacturing, and construction). Rolando is an Oracle ACE and is also one of the leaders of the ORAMEX Oracle Users Group in Mexico. He has a lot of articles and posts published on his blog, (http://oracleradio.blogspot.com/) as well as in the Oracle Technology Network for the Spanish speaking community.
Rolando wrote, back in 2015, the Oracle API Management 12c implementation book together with some other friends and colleagues, and this has been one of the greatest achievements in his career.
I would like to thank, first and foremost, my savior and lord Jesus Christ. Everything I do is to thank him and for him. I also thank my wife, Cristina, and my daughter, Constanza, as well as my parents, Rolando and Mercedes, and my brother, Manuel, for being my support. I would also like to thank my company, S&P Solutions, and my friends, in particular Paola, Erick, Ricardo, and Leonardo. I would also like to thank Robert van Mölken and Phil Wilkins, who are the authors of this book. I want to thank them for allowing me to be the technical reviewer. It was a very interesting and fun time to be reviewing all the chapters and sharing my thoughts with such a great Oracle professionals.