Bio

Phil Wilkins is an Enterprise Integration Architect with leadership, delivery and consulting experience in customer, vendor and consulting organisations in a variety of domains from real-time mission critical systems to back office retail. His current role at Capgemini is focused on consulting on integration (cloud & on-premises) and API management. He has specialist knowledge around Oracle middleware technologies and uses these skills to help contribute to the Oracle User Group as a member of the middleware & integration committee and Oracle Scene reviewer. Phil has supported the publication of a number of books; in addition to being a published author himself with a range of articles on cloud & integration, as well as book on Oracle Integration Cloud. These contributions have meant that he is recognised as a member of the Oracle Ace community. Prior to Phil joining Capgemini he was an Enterprise Architect for Specsavers looking at a wide range of technical needs across the global operations for retail, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain. This ranged from defining the global integration strategy to helping delivery teams on the best use of technologies. Prior to this he managed integration strategy and development at SeeWhy in its start up period; was the technical architect at Hi-Q for a middleware product for use by the UK armed forces. Phil's career started as a developer and team lead for EDS and GEC group on a solutions, such as mobile radar, Air Traffic Control and innovative operational displays of real-time synthetic environments. TOGAF 9 Certified. Oracle Ace Director UKOUG Middleware Committee Member Specialties: Integration Cloud, API Management, SOA, Java, J2EE, XML, JMS ESB / Application platforms Oracle iPaaS (ICS, SOA, MFT, API etc), SOA Suite, JBoss Fuse & App Svr, ActiveMQ, MQ series. Web Services (WSDL, SOAP, REST etc) Databases - Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server Software Design & Architecture (inc TOGAF) SOA, SOI, Microservices