Donald Smith is a Technology Director at Oracle Corporation. Donald Smith has been Product Manager for the industry leading TopLink Persistence Architecture product. Donald spent several years as consultant for WebGain (formerly The Object People) focusing on persistence projects including object-relational and OO Database architectures. Aside from product management and consulting he has also instructed at all skill levels on several popular database related products including TopLink, Object Extender, GemStone and JDBC. Donald brings together the experiences of dozens of customers and projects from around the world, and includes small "dot-com" through Fortune 50 companies.