John is an Oracle ACE Director and was named Application Express Developer of the Year 2006 by Oracle Magazine. John is an extremely prolific contributor to the Oracle APEX Forums on OTN. He is the author of the best selling APEX book Pro Oracle Application Express. He is also the co-founder of APEX Evangelists (http://www.apex-evangelists.com), a company that specializes in providing training, development, and consulting specifically for the Oracle Application Express product. You can contact John at [email protected].
Prior to co-founding ClariFit Inc., Martin's career has seen him hold a range of positions within award-winning companies. Martin is also the author of the highly recognized blog, www.TalkApex.com, which boasts a multitude of posts on a wide array of APEX-focused topics. He has also presented at numerous international conferences such as ODTUG, APEXposed, and COUG.
Martin is an Oracle ACE and holds a Computer Engineering degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Prior to co-founding Sumneva, Gault was Vice President of Sumner Technologies, an Oracle APEX consulting, training, and solutions firm. Prior to that, he served as the Product Development Director for Hotsos Enterprises, during which time he was the Lead Architect/Developer and Product Manager for two commercial products written exclusively in APEX. His 21 years of Oracle experience have taken him all over the world to participate in some truly ground-breaking projects.
Gault has presented and participated in roundtable discussions at a number of conferences including Oracle OpenWorld, UKOUG, and ODTUG's APEXposed. He holds an Associate's Degree in Computer Science and an honorary Master's Degree from The School of Hard Knocks, believing there is no replacement for hard-earned experience.
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 OBUG Connect, IOUG Collaborate, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, UKOUG conference and Oracle Open World. He likes to share his experience and meet other people. In 2009 he received the Best Speaker Award at ODTUG Kaleidoscope. Dimitri is also President of the OBUG (Oracle Benelux User Group) 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. In 2009 he received the "APEX Developer of the year" award by Oracle Magazine. You can contact Dimitri at [email protected].
Working for Logica, he has acted as a technical lead on numerous projects using Designer, Developer, PL/SQL and APEX.
Roel has been a speaker at UKOUG, OOW, Collaborate, and ODTUG. He is an active participant in the Oracle APEX Forum and keeps an APEX-related blog on http://roelhartman.blogspot.com. In June 2009 Roel received an Oracle ACE award and in August 2010 he was appointed an Oracle ACE Director.
Michael remains committed and fully engaged in Oracle APEX design and development efforts. He also leads the development teams responsible for Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Developer Data Modeler, Migration Tools, the Oracle development tools for Visual Studio .NET and other data access technologies. Michael also leads APEX-driven Oracle internal system development efforts including the new Oracle online store.
Sharon has been with Oracle for over 20 years and part of the APEX team for over 10 years. Prior to APEX, she was part of Oracle Consulting responsible for delivering custom applications to the HealthCare, Navy, and Intel markets. Working life before Oracle began at Grumman Data Systems,. which is where she got handed an Oracle 5 reference manual one day and asked to "help out" on a project.
Having earned bachelor's degrees in Decision and Information Studies as well as Marketing from the University of Maryland, Raj continues to apply his knowledge of and passion for technology and business to real world issues to this day. Since leaving Oracle in 2006, Raj offers his services and training to customers in a wide range of business lines to help businesses get the most out of their Oracle environments. In recent years, Raj has been recognized by his Oracle professional colleagues as an Oracle Ace Director—an honor, indeed, to be earned among so many knowledgable colleagues.
Dan is an Oracle Application Express Certified Expert, an Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate, as well as an Oracle ACE. In addition to his "day job," he is one of the top contributors to the APEX forum, maintains his own Oracle and APEX blog, and is a regular presenter at various events and user group meetings including ODTUG Kaleidoscope and APEXposed, the New York, New England, and Suncoast Oracle User Groups. His most recent addiction, as you may have guessed, is developing plug-ins for APEX.
When not programming, Dan may be found studying languages other than those used for development, notably Spanish and Italian. He's also been sighted at various venues dancing Salsa with his wife, Sonia, and even enjoying an occasional cigar, a time when Sonia prefers not to be around.
Anton Nielsen is president of C2 Consulting, a technology solutions firm specializing in Oracle technologies. Anton is an Oracle Fusion Middleware ACE Director and has presented at ODTUG Kaleidoscope, Oracle OpenWorld, and APEXposed. Prior to founding C2 Consulting, he was a Technical Director at Oracle USA and an officer and scientist in the U.S. Air Force. Anton has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Master's from Northeastern University, where he concentrated in combinatorics, encryption, and error correction codes. He has worked with Oracle Application Express since its inception and with various aspects of software security since 1982.