Ron Hardman, OCP, is a Consulting Technical Specialist with Oracle Worldwide Technical Support. Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, he was an Oracle database developer and consultant. He is a frequent presenter on the topics of Oracle Text and Ultrasearch at Oracle User Group conferences, and teaches classes on SQL and PL/SQL. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming and has published articles with
Oracle Magazine and other online magazines on subjects related to information retrieval.
Michael McLaughlin, D. CS., is the Senior Application Upgrade Manager for Oracle Applications Release Engineering. He is currently working on the upgrade architecture for the next release of Oracle Applications. He has worked with PL/SQL since its first version in Oracle 6, and has authored customer support notes on customizing Oracle Applications with Pro*C and PL/SQL. He has taught computer science and information technology at Regis University and Colorado Technical University, including courses in database development, SQL, PL/SQL, and Java. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming.
Michael is a professor at BYU - Idaho in the Computer Information Technology Department of the Business and Communication School. He teaches courses on CIT management, databases and systems analysis and design. He is the author of Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming, Oracle Database 11g and Oracle MySQL 5.6, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition PHP Web Programming, and co-author of four other Oracle Press books.He's an Oracle ACE and speaker at Oracle User Group Meetings. He worked at Oracle Corporation for over eight years in Consulting, Development and Support, working with the database, tools and Oracle E-Business Suite. He left Oracle as the Senior Applications Upgrade Manger in E-Business Suite Release Engineering.