Ted Farrell

Ted Farrell is chief architect for Tools and Middleware at Oracle. Mr. Farrell is responsible for the technical and strategic direction of Oracle's frameworks and development tools products, including Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), Oracle Metadata Services (MDS) and Oracle WebCenter Framework. He is also responsible for the architecture of Oracle Fusion Applications, the next generation of packaged applications built on the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform.

Prior to Joining Oracle, Mr. Farrell was chief technology officer (CTO) at WebGain, an application development tools solutions provider. While at WebGain, Mr. Farrell was responsible for the technical vision and acquisition strategy that included the purchase and incorporation of multiple software companies' products and technologies into a single environment. Mr. Farrell also conceived and designed WebGain's patent-pending BusinessDesigner, a product designed to capture and track business requirements for applications.

During his more than 20 years of experience architecting and building software products and companies, Mr. Farrell co-founded several small-business software companies including Night Owl Enterprises, Novasoft Systems Inc. and Tendril Software. While at Tendril Software, Mr. Farrell invented, architected and led the development team that built the patented StructureBuilder, a Java-based UML product in which the UML model and the Java source code are continually synchronized. Mr. Farrell began his technology career as a senior software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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