Oracle SOA BPEL PM 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial

Ravi Saraswathi is an IT executive with more than 20 years of global professional experience. Ravi has expertise in aligning business and IT, SOA implementation, IT strategy, cloud infrastructure design, IT operations, security, architecture, and performance tuning. Ravi has a track record of over a decade of successfully delivering large scale technical projects and solutions. He is an expert in open source and vendor-based middleware products. From his experience, Ravi gained a solid understanding of the tools and technologies needed to create large scale web-based software and services.

Ravi currently heads the middleware engineering group for a highly-reputed fortune 500 financial company. Ravi has spoken at several international conferences such as Apache, WebLogic conferences, and Java user group meetings. Ravi's professional focus is on technical management, SOA, middleware architecture, and infrastructure design.

Ravi Saraswathi holds a Masters in Technology Management from George Mason University and has a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Karnataka University; Ravi holds a CIO University Certificate from Federal CIO University, General Services Administration United States. He has extensive experience in architecting and designing solutions using various Oracle fusion and open source middleware products.

Ravi is an aspiring leader and entrepreneur. Ravi has founded a successful IT professional consulting company. Ravi has trained many associates in Fusion Middleware 11g to gain the skills for developing and designing solutions using Oracle SOA Suite and Service Bus. Ravi actively contributes to the online community for open source and commercial middleware products, SOA, cloud, BPM, and infrastructure architecture technologies.

Ravi holds various IT certifications such as TOGAF, Java, ITIL, Oracle, and WebLogic. His interests include open source containers, Java, infrastructure architecture, troubleshooting methodologies, and software design. Ravi blogs at www.ravisaraswathi.com.

Jaswant Singh brings over sixteen years of experience as an executive information technologist with multiple industry verticals. Jaswant presently assists fortune 1000 CXOs in creating, implementing, and managing technology strategy and roadmapping to gain efficiencies over existing capabilities and build new capabilities economically. As CTO, he has co-founded Suchna!, a web portal linking people worldwide.

Jaswant has expertise in SOA, web applications, cloud computing, highly available and scalable architectures, team building, knowledge management, mentoring, building, leveraging cross-functional working relationships, and problem solving by data, design, and people experience for large organizations environments with team members in Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.

Jaswant has been recognized as an industry leader on emerging technologies at various professional trade conferences, companies, and educational institutes. He has been bestowed with various awards for outstanding performance, top talent, technological innovations, and technical publications. Jaswant blogs at http://techblog.baghel.com.

Jaswant received his CIO Certification from Federal CIO University, General Services Administration United States. He received his M.S. degree in Technology Management from School of Management, George Mason University, and M.S. degree in Mathematics with specialization in Operations Research and Statistics from Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has also served as the president for a cultural student body at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.