Malcolm Coxall

Malcolm Coxall, the author, is a business and IT systems analyst and consultant with more than 30 years freelance experience in Europe and the Middle East. Malcolm has worked in Oracle systems design and development for the last 25 years as a developer, business analyst, database designer, DBA, systems administrator, team lead and project manager. With experience working for many of the world's largest corporate and institutional players, as well as for several government and international agencies, Malcolm has extensive hands-on experience in designing and building large-scale Oracle systems in many diverse vertical markets such as banking, oil, defence, telecoms, manufacturing, mining, food, agriculture, aerospace, and engineering. Malcolm also writes and publishes books, papers and articles on human system design, sociology, environmental economics, sustainable technology and technology in environmental protection and food production. Malcolm's company designed and built the Oracle systems known as BioTrack and EcoBase. BioTrack is an integrated agriculture and food production control and traceability system designed specifically for organic and other specially controlled food production industries. EcoBase is an environmental research database for bringing together environmental data with complex statistical analysis techniques. Both of these systems were designed and developed in Oracle 10g and are commercialised as cloud-based systems directly available to end-users. Malcolm lives in southern Spain from where he continues his free-lance Oracle consultancy and his writing, whilst managing the family's organic farm.