Karen Cannell is president of TH Technology, a consulting firm providing Oracle technology services, lately focused on Application Express and web technology upgrades. A mechanical engineer by degree (one of them), she has analyzed, designed, developed, converted, upgraded, enhanced, and otherwise improved legacy and commercial database applications for over thirty years, concentrating on Oracle technologies since 1994. She has worked with Application Express since its beginnings, and continues to leverage the Oracle suite of tools to build quality web applications for clients in government, medical, and engineering industries. Karen is on the ODTUG Board of Directors, editor emeritus of the ODTUG Technical Journal and co-author of "Agile Oracle Application Express" and "Beginning Oracle Application Express 4."  She is an Oracle ACE. Karen be contacted at kcannell@thtechnology.com or kcannell@odtug.com.