April Wells has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences and an MBA from West Texas A&M. She is a database administrator, currently working as an Oracle DBA and an Oracle Apps DBA. April has more than seven years of IT experience in COBOL and Visual Basic programming and has worked as a SQL Server DBA, webmaster, and Linux system administrator. She is the author or coauthor of a number of books, including Oracle E-Business Suite 11i From the Front Lines (CRC Press), Grid Database Design (CRC Press), Grid System Application Design (CRC Press), and Exam Cram2 Oracle 9i Fundamentals 1 (Wiley). April has also served as a guest lecturer on Database Administration and Introduction to Information Systems at West Texas A&M University. April has also been a presenter at the International Oracle Users Group conference, Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days, and the TriState Oracle Users Group (of which she is the founder and current president).