The creation of the content for this book has been very much a team effort, with many contributions from the great team at Rubicon Red. In particular I would like to thank James Goddard, Adrian Lewis, Brett Lomas, ShuXuan Nie, and Geoff Trench, each one of whom contributed ideas and recipes to the book.
James Goddard is a software developer with 10 years of experience in IT, initially within the telecommunication and utility industries in Melbourne, Australia. He specialised in system integration design and development using Oracle Middleware before joining Rubicon Red as a Consulting Architect in 2010. As a member of an energetic and innovative team of Oracle experts, James was able to advise and contribute to SOA initiatives at a variety of organisations around Australia.
He currently holds a position within Amazon Kindle, building highly scalable web services for Amazon's digital product offerings in Seattle, WA.
Adrian Lewis is an SOA & Integration Solution Architect for Rubicon Red in Australia. He is currently responsible for delivering a BPM and SOA solution for a Victorian state government office using an implementation of Rubicon Red's FMW reference architecture. Adrian spent the previous 5 years working as a Principal Consultant for Red Rock, delivering SOA, Human Workflow, and integration solutions in Victoria and Queensland. Adrian holds a BEng(Hons) in Cybernetics and Control Engineering from the University of Reading in England.
Brett Lomas has been working in the IT industry for over 10 years in an ever varying capacity. He is known for his passion for IT and how it can transform businesses when used effectively. In his spare time he likes to use his pilot’s license to explore Australia.
Brett has recently worked for Oracle in the capacity of a Solution Architect , helping partners gain the most value out of Oracle's Middleware stack. Most recently Brett is employed as an SOA and BPM practitioner for Rubicon Red working with key customers throughout Australia and New Zealand.
ShuXuan Nie has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry that includes SOA technologies such as BPEL, ESB, SOAP, XML, and Enterprise Java technologies, Eclipse plug-ins, and other areas such as C++ cross-platform development.
Since 2010, she has been working in Rubicon Red and helping customers resolve integration issues. Prior to Rubicon Red, she has worked for Oracle Global Customer Support team, IBM China Software Development Lab, and the Australia Bureau of Meteorology Research Center where she was responsible for the implementation of an Automated Thunderstorm Interactive Forecast System for Aviation and Defence. ShuXuan holds an MS in Computer Science from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Geoff Trench has been playing with computers since the days of the Atari 800XL, and working with them professionally for over 15 years, building solutions for a wide range of industries with too many languages and tools to count.