Richard Martens is a Principal Solution Designer and Oracle ACE Director with over a decade of hands-on experience designing client/server systems and relational databases, specializing in Oracle APEX and PL/SQL. He combines deep technical craft—architecting migrations, refactoring complex PL/SQL, and automating deployment pipelines—with coaching and training experience as a Certified Scrum Master and APEX instructor. As founder of SMART4Apex and organiser of the ORCLAPEX-NL community, he’s a visible leader who cultivates practitioner networks and raises collective expertise across the Netherlands. His career spans enterprise engagements from government agencies to global brands, often shepherding Oracle Forms-to-APEX migrations and establishing software factory best practices. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs front-end skills (HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript) with robust database design to deliver maintainable, production-ready web applications.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Honors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Honors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Pauluslyceum
Business Information, Business Information at Hogeschool West Brabant
Contributions:3 releases, 17 commits, 16 pushes in 6 months
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