Hugo Toledo is director of engineering at DaVinci Software in Chicago. His previous roles include vice president of IT planning at HALO Industries and principal in Navigant Consulting's IT strategy practice (the former Saraswati Systems Corporation), where he advised Global 500 firms on best practices in information technology. Hugo has worked extensively with Oracle's connectivity technologies since 1989 and has designed and developed distributed software solutions since 1980. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, he is also the author of Oracle Networking, published by Oracle Press in 1996. An alumnus of Duke University and the University of South Florida, Hugo and his family reside in Oak Park, Illinois.