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Bruno | Burleson | Callan | Callaway | Caviness | Charlebois | Closson | Cook | Coulam | Cunningham |
Darrah | Dijcks | Dorsey | Fernandez | Fink |
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Freeman, R. |Garmany | Garrison | Golden | Gorman |
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Harper | Hay | Horton |
Hotka | Hughes | Iveslatt | Johnson | Katsaris |
Kellner | King | Koletzke | Kuhn | Kutrovsky | Kyte | Lai | Laird | Lemme | Lilley | Lipowitz | Liu | Lowenthal | Marx | Mills | Millsap l Mishek | Morgan | Morton | Munsinger | Needham | Nørgaard |
Osborn | Ostrowski | Poder | Renner | Rice | Rosenblum | Scalzo | Senegacnik | Sengupta | Sewtz | Shallahamer | Shamsudeen | Sprowls | Straub | Swing | Trichler |Vaidyanatha | Vansant | Wilton | Wimsatt | Wood
| Tamara Aires, Verizon Business | Presentation |
Tamara is currently an Oracle systems analyst with Verizon Business in Colorado Springs. She has nearly fifteen years experience working with Oracle systems. Before becoming a systems analyst, she was first a database administrator, then a database systems architect, then a forms and reports developer, and has even done a little bit of Web development. Tamara has presented several times at RMOUG Training Days.
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| Mike Ault, Texas Memory Systems | Presentation |
Mike Ault is an industry recognized expert in the areas of Oracle database installation, tuning, and maintenance. Mike has worked with Oracle since 1990 and has been certified on major versions of Oracle since Oracle 6. Mike has written more than twenty books on Oracle and is a popular speaker at local, regional, national, and international Oracle conferences. Mike is currently the Oracle Guru for Texas Memory Sytems, a provider of solid state SAN systems.
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Hermann Baer heads product management for Oracle Data Warehousing's core functionality. Hermann has presented numerous technical sessions at Oracle OpenWorld and other conferences. He has worked with Oracle Database since Version 5 and joined Oracle in 1992.
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Rama Balaji is a senior Oracle consultant with more than sixteen years of Oracle experience in maintaining and troubleshooting very critical production databases. She has worked as an Oracle consultant in finance, telecommunication and government agencies. She specializes on RAC, ASM, RMAN, Data Guard, and Oracle Tuning. She is an Oracle Certified Professional, currently employed with TUSC.
Frank has more than twenty years of Oracle-based experience, which covers the Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, Oracle Application Server, and Oracle's development tools. The range of experiences has given him a broad-based and comprehensive view of technologies. These experiences span all practical usages of Oracle technologies and related components, such as operating systems and disk I/O subsystems. Industries include: pharmaceutical, internet, insurance, telecom, financial services. Travel versions of the database include: 5.1 through 11g Versions of E-Business Suite include: 9.4.2 through R12 Versions of the Application Server: 9.0 through 10g
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Bradley D. Brown is chief technology Officer of TUSC. Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President Oracle Server Technologies Division, says, "Brad is among the foremost experts on Oracle's technology in the world." For Brad, Web development isn't a job, it's his passion. He is the Oracle source who technologists around the world turn to when they seek expertise and experience in that discipline. Oracle Application Server, Oracle Application Express, Web Services, and the service oriented architecture are only a few of the technologies he has mastered over a career that spans more than twenty five years.
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Ben Bruno, a UCLA graduate with an MS in computer science, began his career with Hewlett-Packard before founding STR Software in 1986. In the company's first four years, Ben produced three software products for the HPe3000, many of which are still used by customers today. Ben speaks at trade shows and has authored numerous articles published in major magazines and has earned "Best Paper Award." Since 1988, he has focused the company on developing, marketing, and supporting directly-integrated automated document delivery software solutions under the AventX trade name. STR Software has invested heavily in Oracle R&D and joined the Oracle Partner Network in 2004 as a Certified Partner. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, STR Software boasts a ninety-two percent customer retention rate with AventX implemented in fourty-seven states and seventeen countries.
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Donald K. Burleson is one of the world’s most well-known Oracle authors. A full-time DBA for more than twenty-five years and a retired adjunct professor emeritus, he has authored more than thirty books on Oracle database management, published hundreds of articles in national magazines, and is a popular lecturer at international database conferences. As a corporate database consultant, Don has worked with numerous Fortune 500 corporations creating robust database architectures for mission-critical systems. Don serves as CTO of Burleson Consulting (www.dba-oracle.com) and offers a popular remote DBA service (www.remote-dba.net).
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Steve Callan is the author of more than one hundred articles published at DatabaseJournal.com. He works as a DBA in the Denver area and as a part-time consultant for Burleson Consulting. His Oracle background includes database administration and development, with products including the RDBMS, E-Business Suite, Application Server, Forms & Reports, Warehouse Builder, and BI Publisher.
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Since 2005 Charlie Callaway has been an Oracle production database administrator at DaVita, Inc. He owns and operates over 1300 kidney dialysis centers in forty-three states, serving approximately 107,000 patients. From 2000 to 2005 Charlie worked as a consultant providing production DBA support to commercial and military clients. His career is focused on troubleshooting databases that do not meet user performance expectations, and improving inefficient code and business processes.
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Jay Caviness has been an Oracle DBA for almost twenty years starting back on V5.1. He spent several years working for Oracle as a consultant and technical specialist for RDBMS support in Colorado Springs before moving on to consult for several Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Pepsi, and Wells Fargo. Jay is now a senior systems engineer for McKesson Provider Technologies and SME/architect for Oracle RAC and ASM. Jay has presented at several conferences, including RMOUG, and gave two presentations at Oracle OpenWorld in 2008.
Patty Charlebois is senior DBA and supervisor of the Database Administration Team at Green Shield Canada. She has been an Oracle DBA for sixteen years and now plays a key role in the development, administration, and performance tuning of several large Oracle databases that support the benefit administration systems at Green Shield. Patty is a past presenter at Oracle conferences including Collaborate, SEMOP, and UKOUG and has contributed articles to several publications including IOUG’s Oracle Technology Best Practices Guide, and ODTUG's Technical Journal.
Kevin is a performance architect in Oracle Corporation's Server Technology Group working on the Oracle Exadata Storage Server. His nineteen-year career has included engineering, competitive benchmarking support, and application development on Oracle SMP and clustered platforms. His work prior to Oracle at HP/PolyServe, Veritas, IBM/Sequent, Altos was focused on scalability and availability of the Oracle server. His Oracle port-level work at Sequent led to his US patents in SMP/NUMA locking and database caching methods. Kevin speaks frequently at Oracle conferences and is a member of the OakTable Network. Kevin is also an Oracle ACE. In addition to book collaborations, his written works have appeared in Oracle Magazine, Oracle Internals Magazine, IBM Redbooks and SELECT. Kevin maintains a very popular blog at kevinclosson.wordpress.com.
Dave has presented white papers on performance management around the world. He has been employed by Oracle for eleven years, with over twenty years working with Oracle and other RDBMS products. He has managed performance management in many large corporations, and is currently employed as a technical manager in the system performance and architecture consulting team at Oracle. He lives in eastern Utah with his wife and four children.
Bill currently works as a senior database engineer helping his church create tighter and faster systems. He has spent thirteen years working with Oracle in the telecommunications and energy sectors, focusing on PL/SQL development, tuning, data modeling, and design for performance. Bill has presented at several conferences including RMOUG, IOUG, and UTOUG.
Randy Cunningham is principal solutions architect for SageLogix. He was previously with IBM Global Services in Denver. He has worked with Oracle since version 4, and has been consulting to Oracle clients exclusively for more than fifteen years. His primary consulting focus is on architecture, security, availability, and performance optimization of large, business-critical databases.
John Darrah has been working with Oracle Technologies since 1995 and has worked as an Oracle DBA since 1998. John is currently employed as the director of technology at DBA Knowledge. When not working John enjoys skiing and hiking.
Jean-Pierre Dijcks manages the product management team for Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle's data integration, data quality, and metadata management tool. After earning a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Jean-Pierre joined Oracle Netherlands as a data warehouse consultant working on data warehouse implementations throughout Europe. In late 2000, he moved to Oracle product development as a product manager for Oracle Warehouse Builder. Building on his field experience Jean-Pierre is a key contributer within Oracle's data warehouse development group.
Paul Dorsey, PhD is president of Dulcian, Inc. an Oracle consulting firm specializing in business rules and Web-based application development and is chief architect of Dulcian's BRIM® tool. Paul co-authored seven Oracle Press books on JDeveloper, UML Modeling, and Oracle sdatabase tools as well as PL/SQL For Dummies. He is an Oracle ACE Director, SELECT associate editor, ODTUG Symposium chairperson, past IOUG and ODTUG volunteer of the year, ODTUG 2007 Speaker of the Year (topic and content) and an Oracle 9i Certified Master. Paul's submission of a survey generator built to collect data for the Preeclampsia Foundation was the winner of the 2007 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer Challenge and Oracle selected him as the 2007 PL/SQL Developer of the Year.
Iggy Fernandez is an Oracle DBA with Database Specialists and has more than ten years of experience in Oracle database administration. He is the editor of the quarterly Journal of the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) and the author of Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration, published by Apress.
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Daniel Fink is a senior Oracle database engineer and consultant, specializing in Oracle optimization, troubleshooting, internals, and data recovery. He started as a DBA on Oracle 7.0.16 running Parallel Server on OpenVMS and has experience, on major Unix platforms and releases up to 10g. He is a member of the OakTable Network and maintains a library of his research at www.optimaldba.com.
Charlie Freeman, senior customer support manager from Oracle Global Customer Services has been working for Oracle for nearly eleven years. The customer support management team exists to help customers maximize their support investment and leverage the support tools and resources available. As a member of the CSM team, Charlie assists in representing the support organization for more than six hundred products and more than forty acquisitions for all customers and internal lines of business.
John Garmany is a graduate of West Point and a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel with more than twenty years of IT experience. John is an OCP certified Oracle DBA with a master’s degree in information systems, a graduate certificate in software engineering, and a BS degree in electrical engineering. John is the author of the Oracle 10g Application Server Administration Handbook from Oracle Press. He has also authored or co-authored The Oracle Replication Handbook, Easy Oracle SQL, Easy Oracle PL/SQL, and Logical Database Design.
Tony has more than ten years of Oracle-based experience which includes database, E-Business Suite, and many of the Oracle development tools including BPEL, JDeveloper, and APEX. His extensive Oracle experience has been utilized at various employer and client sites in a broad spectrum of industries including education, financial/insurance, hospitality, government, environmental, and software development. His most recent experiences have required extensive use of Oracle technologies including Oracle Application Express, Oracle SOA Suite, and Oracle 10g database.
Tim Gorman has worked in IT on relational databases since 1984, as an Oracle application developer since 1990, and as an Oracle DBA since 1993. Tim is an independent consultant (http://www.EvDBT.com) specializing in performance tuning, database administration (particularly availability), PL/SQL development, and data warehousing. He has been an active member of RMOUG since 1992 and has been a board member since 1995, holding most of the positions including president. He has co-authored three books, Oracle8i Data Warehousing, Essential Oracle8i Data Warehousing (both from John Wiley & Sons) and Oracle Insights: Tales of the OakTable (from Apress). Tim has presented at Oracle Open World, Collaborate, UKOUG, Miracle Database Forum, and Master Classes, as well as local Oracle user groups in North America and the Caribbean.
Tom holds a BS in computer science from Regis University. He has been an Oracle DBA for eight years within a classified environment maintaining and upgrading databases as large as eighteen terabytes. He continues to gain valuable experience as an Oracle problem researcher. In his spare time he challenges himself through Oracle OTR and Metalink to research and learn more about Oracle Security Middleware.
Stephan Haisley originally joined the UK Oracle worldwide support group in 1996 and has since worked in various technical support groups within Oracle. Stephan spent a seven year period in the Center Of Expertise, a small group within Oracle Support Services that specializes in complex problem resolution and internals of the database kernel. Recently he moved into the Maximum Availability Architecture group within the Backup and Recovery Development organization where he focuses on High Availability (HA) best practices and enhancing the HA product set.
Sue Harper is a product manager for Oracle SQL Developer in the Database Development Tools group, based in London. Sue has been at Oracle since 1992 and has a regular column in Oracle Magazine. Sue speaks at many conferences around the world and maintains a technical blog
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In the information industry since the days of punch cards, paper tape, and teletype machines, David Hay has been producing data models to support strategic and requirements planning for more than twenty years. He has worked in a variety of industries, including banking, clinical pharmaceutical research, and all aspects of oil production and processing. He recently joined Capgemini Financial Services USA as Manager, Information Strategy and Architecture. He brings to this job sixteen years experience as the founder and president of Essential Strategies, Inc., a firm dedicated to helping clients define corporate information architecture, identify requirements, and plan strategies for the implementation of new systems. David is the author of the book, <i>Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought and Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture.</i> His new book <i>Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map</i> is a comprehensive schema of metadata from many different perspectives. He has spoken at numerous international and local DAMA conferences, Oracle user group conferences, and many others.
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Ann Horton currently works for Oracle Corporation in Denver in the Oracle Fusion Application Development team focusing on procurement applications. She is currently developing a new SpendAnalyzer product using Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle Essbase, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). Previously Ann was a senior principal consultant with Oracle’s Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Fusion Middleware Group. In that role she worked with JDeveloper, Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), Oracle Enterprise Manager, SOA, and Application Express. Ann has over twenty years of experience applying Oracle technologies to solve enterprise business problems. She is a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform. Ann has helped numerous organizations apply Oracle technologies, and has taught graduate level university courses in Java, object-oriented technology, and database technologies. She is co-author of the book Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL, and XML. Ann is a frequent presenter at RMOUG, ODTUG, and IOUG-A. Ann is internationally known for her expertise in data modeling, database design, business modeling, and Oracle’s Designer product.
Dan Hotka is a training specialist who has more than twenty-nine years in the computer industry and more than twenty-four years of experience with Oracle products. He is an internationally recognized Oracle expert with Oracle experience dating back to the Oracle V4.0 days. Dan’s latest book is the SQL Developer Handbook by Oracle Press. He is also the author of Oracle9i Development By Example and Oracle8i from Scratch by Que and has co-authored seven other popular books including the Database Oracle10g Linux Administration by Oracle Press. He is frequently published in Oracle trade journals, and regularly speaks at Oracle conferences and user groups around the world. Visit his Web site at www.DanHotka.com. Dan can be reached at dhotka@earthlink.net.
Ralph Hughes, MA, PMP, CSM has been a developer and architect for data warehousing projects since 1984, with organizations such as Stanford Medical Center, AT&T, Lockheed, and Eli Lilly. He is certified in both traditional and iconoclastic IT project management methods. He has authored numerous articles on data modeling and ETL for magazines such as DM Review and Applied Clinical Trials, and has recently released his first book, Agile Data Warehousing, available through Amazon.com.
Niklas Iveslatt began his career in 1992 programming C++ and Assembler on the Intel Platform. In 1995 he became involved in a database performance tuning project and has been working on various Oracle projects in Europe and the United States ever since. Niklas specializes in database and systems performance tuning, high availability, security, and fusion middleware solutions. Niklas is a co-founder of Arisant, a Colorado company and Oracle partner, that provides business solutions through Oracle technology.
Julie Johnson is an IT instructor with over ten years of teaching experience in both the United States and Japan. She serves as the president of Firebox Training (www.fireboxtraining.com), located in Golden, Colorado. She is passionate about teaching web technologies including Java EE, Perl, PHP, Ajax, Web Services, Oracle database administration (including RAC), and Oracle Apex.
Andreas Katsaris is a co-founder of Arisant, a consulting company specializing in business solutions using Oracle technologies. He is an Oracle Certified Professional with fourteen years of experience. His career has focused on evaluating technology requirements and implementing high performance Oracle-based solutions. His experience includes implementing large, complex database systems in the telecom, utilities, and finance industries. He has worked in Europe and the United States. as a consultant with domestic and international companies.
Kurt is an accomplished chief technical architect with fifteen years of hands-on experience designing, delivering, and implementing large scale applications. Kurt began his career at American Management Systems as the lead architect on numerous GUI applications for large scale customer care and billing platforms. He was instrumental to the success of numerous projects for GUI including AirTouch and US WEST Wireless. After a brief time at JD Edwards working on the OneWorld application, Kurt joined ECommerce Systems as their chief technical architect and partner in 2000. Kurt is a 1992 graduate of Metropolitan State College in Denver.
John King is a partner in King Training Resources, a firm providing instructor-led training since 1988 across the United States and internationally. John specializes in application development on a variety of platforms. He has worked with Oracle products since Oracle Version 4. John develops and presents customized courses on many topics including SOA, Oracle, DB2/UDB, Java, XML, and .NET. He presents frequently at various industry conferences.
Christo leads a team focused on highly-available clustered Oracle environments. He is an active and highly technical blogger, and an enthusiastic participant on the Oracle users' conference scene. A dynamic presenter, Christo captivates his audiences with his detailed technical content and humourous style. Christo is an expert in performance tuning at the database, operating system, and disk subsystem level. His expertise includes clustered configurations of Oracle RAC and ASM.
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Tom Kyte is a senior technical architect in Oracle's Server Technology Division. Before starting at Oracle, Tom worked as a systems integrator building large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications, mostly for military and government customers. He spends a great deal of time working with the Oracle database and, more specifically, working with people who are working with the Oracle database. In addition, he is the Tom behind the AskTom column in Oracle Magazine, answering people's questions about the Oracle database and its tools (http://asktom.oracle.com/). Tom is also the author of Expert Oracle Database Architecture (Apress, 2005), Expert One on One Oracle (Wrox Press, 2001/Apress 2004), Beginning Oracle Programming (Wrox press, 2002/Apress 2004), and Effective Oracle by Design (Oracle Press, 2003). These are books about the general use of the database and how to develop successful Oracle applications.
Peter Laird is the managing architect for the WebCenter/Portals product team at Oracle Corporation. Peter joined Oracle via the acquistion of BEA Systems, for which he was a member of the WebLogic Portal product team for eight years.
Steve Lemme is a director of product management at CA for database management solutions. Steve joined CA upon its acquisition of Platinum Technology International. Previously he held positions in product management, marketing, research and development, IT data center operations and support at Allied Signal, Apple Computer, GTE, and Motorola in roles where downtime was in excess of $150k/hour. Steve is author of the book Implementing and Managing Oracle Databases, is an accomplished systems architect, and Oracle Master DBA, with more than sixteen years experience in distributed database architecture. He serves as a director on the Independent Oracle Users Group board and has been the keynote and featured speaker at Oracle user groups worldwide.
Debra Lilley is a principal consultant with Fujitsu, responsible for Oracle BI capability. She is an Oracle OCP (Applications) and Oracle Master (IT Professional), ACE Director (Applications), deputy chair UKOUG, and leader of IOUC product development committee. Debra was the winner of Oracle Magazine 2008 User Group Evangelist of the Year award.
David Lipowitz has been an Oracle database administrator since early 2000 and recently formed Tuning Knife Consulting to provide independent database administration services. He holds a master's degree in sociology from Colorado State University, where David focused his studies on quantitative research methodologies. After completing his coursework, he became a market research assistant, but later taught himself SQL and turned to report development. David switched to database administration after his curiosity about "the other side of the database" got the better of him.
Daniel Liu is a principal solution architect at Oracle Corporation and co-author of Oracle Database 10g New Features by Rampant TechPress. A recognized Oracle expert and a frequent speaker at various Oracle conferences, Daniel has published articles with DBAzine, Oracle Internals, Oracle Technology Network, and SELECT. Daniel received the SELECT Editorial Award for Best Article in 2001, and was named Architect of the Week by the OTN in 2004. Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, he worked as a senior technical manager at First American, managing one of the largest and most complex database environments in the world.
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Russ Lowenthal is part of Oracle's Protected Enterprise group, concentrating in system management, security and corporate compliance. Russ is based in Denver and has been with Oracle for more then nine years. Leveraging more than eighteen years of experience in IT including database, UNIX systems, and network administration, he now advises Oracle's customers on secure implementations of information systems technology as part of the Protected Enterprise division. Russ' certifications include Certified Information System Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Oracle Certified Master, Oracle Certified Professional for Oracle Database 7.3,8.0, 8i, 9i, and 10g; Oracle Certified Administrator for Oracle Application Server, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and Certified Technical Trainer.
Dustin Marx is a principal software engineer at Raytheon Company. He has been a member of RMOUG since 2000, when he attended his first Training Days conference. Dustin has spoken annually at Training Days since Training Days 2002. He spoke at Training Days 2008, at Collaborate08, and at Colorado Software Summit 2008. Dustin maintains a blog focusing on software development topics at http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/.
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Cary Millsap is widely known in the Oracle community as a speaker, educator, consultant, and writer. He is the founder and president of Method R Corporation (http://method-r.com), a company devoted to genuinely satisfying software performance. He is the author (with Jeff Holt) of Optimizing Oracle Performance, for which he and Jeff were named Oracle Magazine's 2004 Authors of the Year. He is also a contributor to Oracle Insights: Tales of the OakTable. Cary is the former vice president of Oracle's System Performance Group, and a co-founder of Hotsos. He is also an Oracle ACE Director and a founding partner of the OakTable Network, an informal association of Oracle scientists that are well known throughout the Oracle community. Cary blogs at http://carymillsap.blogspot.com.
With more than twelve years of Oracle DBA and application development experience from MCI, Channelpoint, DMCare, SAIC, and ITT, Tim Mishek continues to be an active IT professional. He has experience with database development, production support, and system implementations. Currently, Tim is employed by ITT as an Oracle database administrator.
Daniel Morgan is the Morgan of Morgan's Library on the Web, an Oracle Ace Director and the education chairman of PSOUG. Daniel developes curricula and teaches the Oracle Basics and Advanced Oracle Application Development programs at the University of Washington. He is a member of UKOUG, the British American Chamber of Commerce, and former leader of the Washington Software Alliance's Database Special Interest Group. A regular contributor at monthly PSOUG meetings, Daniel has spoken at Open World, UKOUG's annual conference, and at user group events in Canada, California, Oregon, and Minnesota. He has represented Oracle on speaking engagements at NASA in Washington, D.C. and in Hawaii and Washington with the U.S. Navy.
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Jeff Needham currently works for Red Hat Software and is responsible for Oracle RDBMS, and GFS/RAC certifications. This includes tending the relationship between RHEL Engineering, Oracle Linux Engineering and Server Technologies. Having founded Scale Abilities with James Morle in 1989, Jeff was one of the early members of Oak Table and pioneered high performance NFS for Oracle at Yahoo! using Netapp and AMD technologies. Jeff worked on performance and scalability for Oracle7 and Oracle8 during his tenure in the Redwood Shores kernel group. When not at work, he attempts fatherhood, collects Opteron servers and tries to maintain a vintage electronic music studio.
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Jim works as a senior systems architect for SageLogix, a local Oracle certified partner company. Jim engages SageLogix clients regarding a wide range of issues including RAC implementations, identity management, virtualization, migrations, upgrades, performance tuning, and disaster recovery planning. He has Oracle 10g OCP certification and a master's degree in computer information systems from Regis University. Previously he worked with databases and systems at several locations including MCI/Worldcom/Verizon, HP, and the US Air Force Academy.
Chris Ostrowski is a technical management consultant for TUSC in Lakewood, Colorado. He has worked with Oracle technologies for almost twenty years as a developer, DBA, project manager, and system architect. Recently, Chris has focused his efforts on the Oracle Application Server and service oriented architecture technologies including Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring. He is the author of two books from Oracle Press: Oracle Application Server 10g Web Development and The Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook.
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Tanel Poder is an experienced consultant with deep expertise in Oracle database internals, advanced performance tuning, and end-to-end troubleshooting. His specialty is solving problems spanning multiple infrastructure layers such as UNIX, Oracle, application servers, and storage. He is one of the first Oracle Certified Masters in the world, passing the OCM DBA exam in 2002; he is also a proud member of the OakTable Network. In addition to speaking at major Oracle conferences worldwide, he publishes his work at his Oracle internals blog: http://blog.tanelpoder.com.
Kris Rice is the architect and director for Oracle SQL Developer. He joined Oracle Corporation in 1998 and has worked in various groups including consulting, Oracle Applications development, and Application Express development. He has been using Oracle database since 7.1.3 and has been a Linux user as long, starting with SuSE 4.0. He has given presentations ranging from Oracle List replication to extending SQL Developer.
Bert Scalzo is a database domain expert for Quest Software and a member of the TOAD team. He has worked with Oracle databases for over two decades, including time spent working at both Oracle Education and Oracle Consulting. Bert holds several Oracle Master certifications, plus has an extensive academic background including a BS, MS, and PhD in computer science, an MBA, and several insurance industry designations. He is an accomplished speaker and has presented at numerous Oracle conferences, including OOW, ODTUG, IOUGA, OAUG, RMOUG, Hotsos and many others. Bert's key areas of DBA interest are Data Modeling, Database Benchmarking, Database Tuning and Optimization, "Star Schema" Data Warehouses, Linux, and VMware. He has also written many articles, papers, and blogs, including for Oracle Technology Network (OTN), Oracle Magazine, Oracle Informant, PC Week (eWeek), Dell Power Solutions Magazine, The LINUX Journal, linux.com, Oracle FAQ and Toad World. He has written six books: Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemas, TOAD Handbook, TOAD Pocket Reference (2nd Edition), Database Benchmarking: Practical Methods for Oracle & SQL Server, Advanced Oracle Utilities: The Definitive Reference and Oracle on VMware: Expert Tips for Database Virtualization. Bert can be reached via e-mail at bert.scalzo@quest.com or bert.scalzo@yahoo.com.
Joze Senegacnik has eighteen years in working with Oracle products. He started in 1988 working with Oracle version 4. Joze is an international speaker, DBA, and performance tuning specialist. He is a member of the Oak Table Network and vice president of the board of Slovenian Oracle Users Group (SIOUG). Joze is a regular speaker at the most important Oracle user group conferences worldwide.
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Craig is a researcher, writer, and teacher for thousands of DBAs. He began his string of publishing more than twenty-three technical papers and authored the book Forecasting Oracle Performance. He is the author and creator of the popular Oracle Performance Firefighting and Oracle Forecasting & Predictive Analysis courses. After nine years with Oracle Corporation during which he co-founded the Core Technologies and the System Performance Groups, in 1998 he left Oracle to start OraPub. He is a passionate educator, a pinnacle of Oracle knowledge, and an engaging instructor. His entertaining presentation style combines with his depth of Oracle experiences to make each class unique. He has taught thousands of DBAs on six continents in twenty-tree countries!
Jason Straub has been working for Oracle since October 2000 and is a developer on the Application Express team. He has primarily worked on Application Express since the days when it was an internal tool used to build a calendaring system. Jason’s primary development responsibilities include installation and upgrade as well as integration features such as support for consuming Web services. Jason is currently working on features in the next major release of Application Express including assisting on an information sharing feature for end users.
Mike Swing has been an Oracle Apps DBA with TruTek since 1996, an Oracle DBA since 1993, and a DBA with Informix, Ingres, and Sybase from 1988 to 1993. He has been a software engineer since 1986 and has two degrees in physics from the University of Utah. Mike has been a presenter with IOUG, OAUG, EOUG, and EOAUG since 1997.
Todd Trichler is an Oracle veteran of over ten years, having worked in alliances, product management, and marketing. As senior principal product manager for OTN, he has been working closely with development to drive Oracle's engagements with JUGs, LUGs, PUGs and other members of the Java, Linux, and PHP technical communities. http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/installfest_confidential.html
John is a veteran of Java Enterprise Development with 24 years of software architecture and development experience. As a Systems Engineer at Oracle, John helps Oracle customers in the rocky mountain area understand how to best utilized Oracle products to solve their business problems.
He has been an important contributor to the success of several industry-leading enterprise companies including Oracle, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, Qwest Communications, Tektronix, and Texas Instruments. John has a BS from the University of Colorado in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MS from CU Denver in Computer Science.
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Jeremiah Wilton is has over fifteen years of Oracle database administration and systems architecture experience. As Amazon.com’s first database administrator, he helped lead Amazon.com’s database group from the pre-IPO period through the company’s years of exponential growth. Since 2004, he has been the owner and principal consultant of ORA-600 Consulting, a premier independent provider of ex-Amazon Oracle engineering expertise and services to companies and organizations worldwide. Jeremiah is a recognized expert in scalability, high availability, stability, and complex recoveries. He also teaches the Oracle Certificate Program at the University of Washington and independent seminars on a variety of Oracle subjects. In 2001 at Oracle Openworld, Oracle Education honored Jeremiah as one of the first eight Oracle Certified Masters in the world. Jeremiah is a member of the OakTable Network, has presented at numerous conferences and user group meetings including Oracle Openworld and UKOUG, and is the author of a variety of technical whitepapers and articles. His publications are available at www.ora-600.net.
Graham Wood has been working with the Oracle database for more than twenty years. During this time he has worked with many of Oracle Corporation’s largest customers on performance and building scalable systems. Graham was the creator of Statspack and more recently was responsible for the ASH, AWR, and ADDM in Oracle 10g.