Luis Augusto Weir is HCL's Director for Oracle Fusion Middleware solutionsin the EMEA, ASIA Pacific regions. With more than 11 years of experience inimplementing IT solutions across the globe, Luis has successfully delivered severallarge and complex Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions for Fortune 500companies. He has led SOA and middleware capabilities for different renownedSIs such as CSC, Cognizant, and Capgemini. Luis is focused on assisting customersleverage the full range of Fusion Middleware offerings to resolve integrationproblems, improve their businesses, and establish effective technology roadmaps.Key to this success has always been Luis's special focus around governance (people,processes, and tools) and also in always having a structured and agile delivery.Luis is an expert in SOA and also is a thought leader in this field. Having alwayshad a natural talent for software, computers, and engineering in general, Luis'scareer in software started from an early age. Even before starting university, Luis'sentrepreneurial spirit led him to start several ventures including the very first socialmedia website in his country of origin (Venezuela) as well as a small softwaredevelopment firm. Although none of these ventures turned into a multi-millioncorporation, the experience and knowledge gained during this period led him todevelop the passion for distributed software computing which inevitably led to SOA.Luis is widely considered as a leader in the SOA/BPM field. In an effort to sharehis real-life experiences when implementing complex SOA solutions, Luis haswritten his first book, Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation, published byPackt Publishing. Andrew Bell has more than 26 years of experience in the IT industry covering awide range of software products and industry verticals. He has more than 21 years ofexperience working with Oracle products including 6 years of solid experience withOracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM. Andrew first started working in the SOA space10 years ago and has successfully delivered many Oracle Middleware projects forlarge and blue chip clients. He currently works at CSC, where he is employed as aBPM/SOA Solution Architect for the Oracle Global Practice.Andrew is well respected for his in-depth SOA and BPM knowledge. He has a strongteam lead and communication skills, and a deep technical knowledge covering bothOracle and Java.
