Maxence Button started to work with Java in 2000. He has worked as a developer, architect, and more recently as a consultant for BEA, then Oracle. This position allowed him to specialize in the WebLogic and AquaLogic lines of products, then in the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack.
After three years working as a principal consultant on Oracle | BEA technology, he started his own company in March, 2010 and now advises his clients, in the pure spirit of independence.
Niall Commiskey works as a Senior Principal Technologist with Oracle Corporation. He is part of the PTS group within Oracle, which assists Oracle partners in getting the most out of Oracle technologies. In his previous role within the organization, Niall worked for Oracle Consulting Services in Germany. He has over 20 years of IT development experience, ranging from mainframe assembler to SOA developer. He works for Oracle, which is the world's largest enterprise software company.
Balamurali Kothandaraman [Bala] has over 14 years of experience in IT Architecture, including full Blue-print of Reference and Enterprise Architecture. He has been involved in product development, design, consultation, project mentoring, product readiness, technology mentoring, solution design, and architecture on various technologies like Java, Java EE, C, C++, and so on, including SOA-based application frameworks. He is currently working as a Principal Instructor with Oracle Corporation involved in assisting customers with implementing their Enterprise Architecture using Oracle Fusion Middleware product suites. He worked for more than seven years with BEA Systems Inc. as a Senior Delivery Technologist involved in assisting various customers with designing and implementing Service-Oriented Architecture for their enterprise using the BEA WebLogic and AquaLogic Product suites. Prior to BEA, he worked for many consulting houses, such as 3i Infotech, and Technosoft, HCL Technologies where he designed, developed, and implemented Enterprise Solutions for various organizations.
Bala is a globally recognized speaker and workshop modulator on various major events covering hot topics such as SOA, Event-Driven Architecture, and Enterprise Architecture Principles and Methodologies. He has presented at JavaOne, BEAWorld conferences, BEA Support Webinars, and WebLogic User Groups. Bala also published technical articles with various journals and web sites, such as WebLogic Developers Journal, BEA Dev2Dev, and so on. Bala constantly blogs about WebLogic Server at http://weblogicserver.blogspot.com.
Frank Nimphius is a Senior Principal Product Manager for Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) within the Oracle Application Development Tool Product Management group. In his current job role, Frank actively presents the Oracle development team at Oracle and non-Oracle conferences around the world and recently co-authored the Oracle Press book: Oracle Fusion Developer Guide: Building Rich Internet Applications with Oracle ADF Business Components and Oracle ADF Faces.