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OPP 2009 IS PACKED WITH THE TRAINING YOU NEED TO SUCCEED! Hosted by Scott Spendolini of Sumner Technologies, this year's APEXposed conference will take your knowledge of APEX to the next level—allowing you to stay ahead of the Web-based application trends. See our expert lineup of speakers below! Speakers
	Steven Feuerstein, PL/SQL Evangelist, Quest Software OPP Conference Chair Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, having written nine books on PL/SQL (all from O'Reilly & Associates), including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices. He has received various awards over the years for his work on PL/SQL, including Oracle Magazine PL/SQL Developer of the Year in 2003 and 2006. Steven is the only ODTUG presenter to win three awards—the 2005 Best Presentation, the 2005 Editor’s Choice Award, and the 2002 Best Presentation Award. He has taught thousands of the PL/SQL developers and DBAs in seminars throughout U.S., Europe, Australia, and Latin America.
	Bryn Llewellyn PL/SQL Product Manager, Server Technologies Division, Oracle Corporation Bryn Llewellyn has worked in the software field for almost 30 years. He joined Oracle UK in 1990 at the European Development Center in the Oracle Designer team. He transferred to the Oracle Text team and then into Consulting as the Text specialist for Europe. He relocated to Redwood Shores in 1996 to join the Oracle Text Technical Marketing Group. He has been the product manager for PL/SQL since 2001. It's hard for Bryn to remember his life before Oracle. He started off doing image analysis and pattern recognition at Oxford University. He then worked in Oslo, in the public sector and in a startup. While in Norway, Bryn programmed in Simula, whose inventors were his close colleagues. This language was the inspiration for Smalltalk and C++. Back to top
	Don Bales Donald Bales is a Systems Architect, Computer Applications Consultant, and Business Analyst specializing in the analysis, design, and programming of web-based, client-server, and distributed applications, the internationalization of existing applications, systems integration, and data warehousing. Don has over twenty five years experience with Oracle as an architect, developer and a database administrator, and over ten years of experience with Java. When he is not developing applications, Don can often be found communicating with horses, playing the piano or bagpipes. Don has had several careers, and has at various times been a mechanic, a general contractor, Mr. Mom, a software developer, a CTO, consultant, and is currently an Analyst / Web Developer at Argonne National Laboratory. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois. Don currently resides in Downers Grove, Illinois. He can be contacted by email at don@donaldbales.com Back to top
	Patrick Barel AMIS Services Patrick Barel is a PL/SQL developer for AMIS Services [http://www.amis.nl/] in the Netherlands. Besides working with SQL and PL/SQL he co-developed CodeGen, (http://codegen.inside.quest.com/) and wrote different plug-ins (http://bar-solutions.com/) for PL/SQL Developer He publishes articles on the AMIS Technology blog (http://technology.amis.nl/blog) and on his own blog (http://blog.bar-solutions.com/). Back to top
	Warren Capps President, Illuminations, Inc. Warren Capps, president of Illuminations Inc, has worked with Oracle for over 22 years going back to version 5.1 in 1987. Since 1991, his principal efforts have been spent in training clients in the use of Oracle products, concentrating on database server technologies. He is a well-known presenter at user group conferences and has written numerous articles and book reviews for a variety of publications. He also ran an Oracle bookstore for 10 years. When not teaching, Warren has a myriad of activities to keep him busy. He is an avid photographer, having run photography workshops in southern New Mexico. For the last 9 years he has gone to Guatemala to photograph the people there. He plays classical guitar, collects coins, and has recently rediscovered a love for camping. Back to top
	Mary Hunsaker Gable President, Preferred Training Solutions, Inc. Mary Hunsaker Gable has been designing, administering, and developing education solutions for Oracle databases for over twenty years beginning with release 5 of the database. With no choice but to use ProPL/1 and ProC, she was excited to take advantage of PL/SQL when it was initially released. She used it along with Oracle’s Forms and Reports tools to develop her company’s custom accounting software. While watching PL/SQL grow into a robust (and sane) environment for Oracle development, Mary combined her passion for Oracle with her passion for teaching and created Preferred Training Solutions in 1993. In addition to PL/SQL, her favorite, she regularly teaches the full curriculum of Oracle database administration and application development courses worldwide for many Fortune 100 companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Fannie Mae, Northrop Grumman, various universities, and local, state, and federal government. Mary is active in the Oracle user group community and has authored and presented dozens of papers for various Oracle user groups. She founded the Hampton Roads Oracle User Group (HROUG) in 1993 and continues to serve the local user group community as a board member, frequent presenter, and IOUG representative. Back to top
	John Jeunnette, Prairie Systems Group, Limited John Jeunnette is president of Prairie Systems Group, Limited, a consulting organization specializing in application development using the Oracle toolset. He has more than 15 years of experience working with Oracle and has developed applications in a variety of industry areas for large and small clients throughout theUnited States and England. Most recently, he has focused on web-based applications using Developer, Designer, the PL/SQL Web toolkit, and Oracle E-Business Suite administration. John is a frequent presenter at the ODTUG and OAUG conferences. Back to top
	Ron Hardman Owner Academy OnDemand Ron Hardman is co-author of Oracle 10g PL/SQL Programming and Expert PL/SQL with Oracle Press, and is contributing author for O'Reilly's Oracle PL/SQL Programming 4th and 5th editions. He owns Academy OnDemand (www.AcademyOnDemand.net), an Oracle-centric software company specializing in products for K-12 schools and school districts. Ron also teaches classes on Oracle Text and Oracle Application Express at his company's training center in Colorado Springs, and onsite for clients around the world. He has worked with Oracle's globalization and search technologies for 13 years as both a developer and as an Oracle employee, is an Oracle ACE award recipient, and has authored a number of Oracle Magazine articles on the topic. Back to top
	John King Partner King Training Resources John King is a partner in King Training Resources, a U.S.-based firm providing instructor-led training since 1988 for application developers on a variety of platforms. John has worked with Oracle products and the database since release 4 and is currently serving as a board member of the Oracle Developer Tools User Group (ODTUG). John develops and presents customized courses in a variety of topics including SOA, Oracle, Fusion Middleware, Web Services, Java, XML, .NET, User Interface Design, and several other topics. He presents frequently at industry conferences including UKOUG, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, IOUG, OpenWorld, EOUG, AUSOUG, and RMOUG Training Days. Back to top
	Karen Morton Senior Principal Database Engineer Agilex Technologies Karen Morton teaches application optimization to companies around the world, in both classroom settings and shoulder-to-shoulder consulting engagements. She is a Senior Principal Database Engineer for Agilex Technologies (http://agilex.com), a Virginia company founded by Bob LaRose and Jay Nussbaum to bring together executive business expertise with the foremost database and IT knowledge. Agilex offers customers innovative thinking on leveraging advanced technologies within the healthcare, Federal, intelligence, commercial and public sectors to fully realize the value of information. For over 20 years, Karen has worked in information technology starting out as a mainframe programmer, developer, DBA, data architect and now as a researcher, educator and consultant. Having used Oracle since the early 90's, she began teaching others how to use Oracle over a decade ago. She is an author of two upcoming Oracle books from Apress, a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups, an Oracle ACE, and a member of the OakTable network (an informal association of "Oracle scientists" that are well known throughout the Oracle community). She blogs at http://karenmorton.blogspot.com. Back to top
	Finn Ellebaek Nielsen IT Architect/Developer Ellebaek Consulting ApS Finn has worked as an IT architect/developer in Denmark, Italy and England since 1987. He is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, Java, XML, and Web programming. Since 2006, he has been applying Agile methodologies in his projects and has decided to focus his attention on enhancing both automated testing and Agile development in the world of Oracle development. Back to top
	Kris Rice Oracle Corporation Kris Rice is the architect and director for Oracle SQL Developer. He joined Oracle in 1998 and has worked in various groups including consulting, Oracle Applications development, and Application Express development. He has been using Oracle database since 7.1.3 and has been a Linux user as long, starting with SuSE 4.0. He has given presentations ranging from Oracle List replication to extending SQL Developer. Back to top
	Scott Spendolini Owner Sumner Technologies Scott Spendolini is president and founder of Sumner Technologies, a small consulting firm which specializes in Oracle Application Express training and services. Scotti has assisted a number of clients from various industries with their Application Express development and training needs. Prior to founding Sumner Technologies, he worked for Oracle Corporation for almost ten years, the last three of which he was a senior product manager for Oracle Application Express. He has presented at a number of conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, ODTUG, and IOUG. Scott is co-authoring a new book, Pro Oracle Application Express, which should be published this summer. The Sumner Technologies home page can be found at http://sumnertech.com Back to top

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