About the Co-Authors

Mark Rakhmilevich is a Director of Product Management for Mainframe Re-hosting and Modernization at Oracle. In this role he focuses on bringing together Oracle and partner solutions that help customers cut costs and modernize legacy applications by migrating mainframe applications to Oracle Database and Oracle's Tuxedo and WebLogic middleware platforms and extending them to SOA and XTP with ESB, BPM, and Business Rules solutions. Mark works with Oracle engineering to address the needs of extreme transaction processing for mainframe-class applications, and to provide mainframe extension and integration capabilities as part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. He supports marketing and sales, delivers customer seminars on Mainframe Modernization, and works closely with customers in US, Europe, and Asia. Mark has worked with platform vendors, global and regional SIs, banking and insurance ISVs, and key technology vendors to provide a complete solution that helps mainframe customers cut loose from the mainframes and/or extend their mainframe applications to SOA.

Prior to Oracle, Mark held senior engineering, management, product management and marketing roles at IBM, Compuware, Tandem, Valicert, Tumbleweed, Chordiant, and BEA. He has extensive experience in system design, software and systems architecture, program and product management, marketing and business development. Mark worked extensively with banks, insurers, payment networks, healthcare, and government organizations focusing on enterprise middleware and SOA platforms, mainframe application modernization, Web services security, financial messaging, PKI, B2B integration, and BPM-driven CRM solutions for customer servicing and selling across multiple channels. His early work at IBM on mainframe operating systems architecture for VM and MVS led to a patent award for "Logical Resource Partitioning of a Data Processing System" — the basis of the IBM LPAR technology for partitioning mainframes and UNIX servers into multiple virtual machines. He also led development and product management for several versions of IBM mainframe UNIX OSes and their clustering capabilities.

Mark has an MS in Computer Science from State University of New York at Albany, and BS in Computer Science from Lehigh University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Michael Oara is a Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Relativity Technology Inc.

Michael Oara has 28 years of experience in enterprise software and is an acknowledged expert in automation methodologies for modernization and transformation of legacy applications.

Michael has written multiple articles on the subject of legacy modernization and is the author of a number of patents. He is an active member of the Architecture Driven Modernization Task force of the Object Management Group.

Prior to Relativity Technologies, Michael was Director of Development for Seer Technologies, a pioneer in technology for building large-scale client/server systems and legacy modernization software. He has also worked for a number of banks in New York, where he has established an IT consulting company.

Michael has a MS in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1979 and pursued graduate studies at the Courant Institute of New York University. As a teenager, he received the 1st prize in the Mathematical Olympiad in Romania.

Prakash Nauduri has over 16 years experience in databases, middleware, software development, and maintaining partnerships with SI's and ISVs. Prakash possess the unique ability to work on technologies from Java EE to Oracle Warehouse Builder, and from mainframe CICS adapters to Oracle BPEL Manager. His strong technical aptitude along with customer relationship skills has helped him become very successful in his roles throughout his career.

Prakash Nauduri is currently the Technical Director of the Oracle Modernization Solutions team. He played a major role in creating initial technical relationships with Oracle's modernization SIs and tools partners (the Oracle Modernization Ecosystem). He was instrumental in defining Modernization Framework as well as promoting Oracle technology stack as the foundation for target platforms. Prakash works with strategic SIs like EDS, HP and Unisys on a regular basis to bring fruition to customer projects/POCs. Prakash is also responsible for technical architectures and project leadership to ensure the success of joint partner and customer modernization projects. He is also responsible for Oracle Modernization Workshops, modernization reference architectures and modernization best practices.

At Oracle, Prakash formerly was a Principal Technologist in Oracle's Partner Technology Group (PTS). Since joining Oracle in 1998, Prakash has engaged with hundred's of ISVs in various industry verticals like healthcare, financial services, retail, public sector, education etc enabling partner solutions on latest Oracle technology providing wide range of services including Architecture Reviews, Performance Benchmarks, Training etc.

Prakash previously worked as a Sr. Systems Analyst at auto major Hero Group in India handling system design, development, implementation roles.

Prakash holds a Bachelor of Science from India.