Rolando Carrasco Author

Luis Augusto Weir is an Oracle Ace director and a principal architect for HCL technologies. In addition, he currently leads the global OFM and Oracle PaaS solutions offerings in the Modern Apps and Integration Practice (MAPI) at HCL. With several years of experience implementing IT solutions across the globe, he has successfully delivered several large and complex Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and API solutions for Fortune 500 companies. He has led SOA and other middleware capabilities for different renowned SIs, such as CSC, Cognizant, and Capgemini. He is currently focusing on creating digital solutions and strategies to key global HCL customers and helps them adopt and realize the full benefits that technologies, such as APIs, mobile frameworks, cloud integration platforms, and IoT, can bring to the business. Having had a natural talent for software, computers, and engineering in general, Luis' career in software started from an early age. Even before starting university, Luis's entrepreneurial spirit led him to start several ventures, including the very first social media website in his country of origin (Venezuela) as well as a small software development firm. Although none of these ventures turned into a multimillion corporation, the experience and knowledge gained during this period led him to develop the passion for distributed software computing, which inevitably led to SOA. Luis is very passionate about technology. He is a published author, a blogger, and also a regular speaker in major conferences and events. Being a well-known industry expert, especially when it comes to Oracle middleware technologies, he is an Oracle Technology Network (OTN)-certified SOA black belt. Andrew Bell works at CSC where he is the Lead SOA/BPM solution architect for the Oracle Global Practice. He has more than 28 years experience in the IT industry covering a wide range of software products and industry verticals. Andrew has more than 23 years experience working with Oracle products and toolsets, including 10 years working with Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM. He first started working in the SOA space 12 years ago and has successfully delivered many challenging and complex Oracle Middleware projects for large blue chip clients. Andrew is well respected for his depth of knowledge in the areas of SOA and BPM. He has strong team lead and communication skills and a deep all-round technical knowledge, which covers both the Oracle stack and Java. Rolando Carrasco is a Fusion Middleware director for S&P Solutions, a consulting firm focused in Oracle Fusion Middleware. Rolando has been working with Oracle Middleware for more than 13 years. Since the old days of Oracle AS, Oracle Interconnect, he's been working with Oracle Integration Products. Rolando is an Oracle ACE and also one of the leaders/coordinators of the Oracle Users Group—ORAMEX—in Mexico. Rolando has been implementing SOA with major companies of the telecom, finance, manufacturing, and retail industry for a long time. He has also been guiding them in governing their SOA implementation. Rolando has strong presentation skills that have helped him to present at different forums throughout Latin America. He's been a constant speaker at the Oracle Technology Tour Latin America. His blog is one of the most read in the Spanish-speaking community (http://oracleradio.blogspot.in/). He is a constant contributor in the OTN in Spanish section of Oracle.com. Together with Arturo Viveros, he is a creator of the SOA myth busters' blogs (https://soamythbusters.wordpress.com/). Rolando worked for Oracle from 2002 to 2010. From 2005 to 2010, he worked for Oracle Corporation as a part of the outbound product management team for Fusion Middleware. His background is a mix of presales, consulting, and product management. He's been working with XML, web services, SOA, and Integration technologies since 2000. During the past 2-3 years, Rolando has been focused on cloud technology and the concepts of API Management. Those are the two topics where he has found a new interest, and they are pretty much related with his strong SOA background. Arturo Viveros is an outstanding professional currently based in Mexico City with 11 years of experience in the development, design, architecture, management, and delivery of IT projects for a variety of industries, including banking, financial, telecom, insurance, government, construction, manufacture, healthcare, and retail. He is also an entrepreneur and a technology enthusiast, always looking to be in the cutting edge of technological innovation by attending multiple events and conferences worldwide, as well as by networking and collaborating constantly with some of the top IT professionals in the world. He is also adept at producing highly specialized technical articles, blogging and speaking regularly in technology-related forums, both in Mexico and abroad. Arturo has several IT certifications, including Oracle IT Architecture SOA, Java Programmer, and Web Component Developer, and has been recently recognized as an Oracle ACE. He has also obtained the SOA Architecture and Cloud Architecture Certifications by Arcitura Inc. with honors, and is a certified trainer for both, having already delivered courses both in Spanish and English in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. Arturo is also a regular contributor for SOA Magazine, Service Technology Magazine, and OTN, as well as part of the Mexican Oracle User Group's (ORAMEX) directive board. He currently works in S&P Solutions, a 100 percent Mexican company with presence in all of Latin America, which specializes in providing advanced consultancy services related to Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies.