Scott Spendolini

Scott Spendolini

Scott Spendolini

Vice President

Viscosity North America

Biography

Scott Spendolini is Vice President of the APEX+ Practice of Viscosity, NA, where he manages a team of highly-skilled Oracle APEX developers. He is also responsible for developing and delivering Oracle APEX-related curriculum, as well as managing the development of several APEX-based products. Throughout his professional career, he has assisted various clients with their Oracle APEX development and training needs. Spendolini is a long-time and regular presenter at many Oracle-related conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, KScope, and RMOUG. His presentation at KScope 2014 - APEX Security Primer - was selected as one of the top presentations at the conference. He is a recipient of the Oracle Ace Director designation, author of Expert Oracle Application Express Security and co-author of Pro Oracle Application Express. Spendolini is also an Oracle Certified Oracle Application Express developer. Prior to reigniting and running Sumner Technologies from 2015 to 2018, Spendolini was an APEX Practice director at Accenture and Enkitec from June 2012 through April 2015. Before joining Enkitec as part of an acquisition, he co-founded and ran Sumneva and Sumner Technologies from 2005 through 2012, which focused on Oracle APEX services, education & solutions. Spendolini started his professional career at Oracle Corporation, where he worked with Oracle eBusiness Suite for almost seven years and was a Senior Product Manager for Oracle APEX for just over three years. He holds a dual bachelors degree from Syracuse University in Management Information Systems and Telecommunications Management and currently resides in Ashburn, Virginia with his wife and two children.

Papers

The Best Things In Life Are Free: Free Oracle Cloud Offerings

Event: 2020 Webinar Series
Stream: Apex, Development/Middleware, Integrations, Security , Tools

At OpenWorld 2019, Oracle announced a new cloud-free tier. This free tier offers quite a generous amount of resources-2 autonomous databases with 20 GB each, 2 VMs, and a load balancer. This session will walk through how to request the Oracle Cloud-free tier. It will then walk through configuring 2 databases-one ATP and one ADW-and how to connect to them via SQL Developer and APEX. It will conclude by configuring the network parameters.

APEX Security Checklist

Event: 2020 Webinar Series
Stream: Apex, Development/Middleware, Integrations, Security , Tools

Security is more important than ever before – particularly for the application developer. APEX is no exception to this rule, as there are plenty of things that can be either misconfigured or set incorrectly, resulting in a less secure application. This session will go through a checklist of what you as an APEX developer need to complete before promoting any APEX application to production. Note: this session is best with given 90 minutes, as it can incorporate more demonstrations.