Karl Arao is an OCP-DBA, RHCE, and Oracle ACE. He works for Enkitec as a senior technical consultant where he currently spends most of his time exploring on Exadata capacity planning and performance. Prior to that, Karl went to work for SQL*Wizard as a solutions architect and an R&D guy where he had his five years of solid DBA experience including proactive database maintenance, database installation and configuration for high availability and disaster recovery, migration and upgrades, backup and recovery, database hardening, capacity planning, and performance tuning. He shares his experiences, adventures, and discoveries in his blog (karlarao.wordpress.com), he tweets at @karlarao, and owns a Wiki site (karlarao.tiddlyspot.com) where he shares his quick guides and documentations on technologies. He presents at local Oracle Events and DBA round tables, and has also presented at the Oracle OpenWorld Unconference, Oracle Closed World, Virtathon, and Hotsos. He is also a proud member of the Philippine Software Industry Association Technology Council. In his spare time, he loves to mine the ASH and AWR and do adventure sports like underwater hockey, mountaineering, mountain biking, aquathlon, and sprint distance triathlon.
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 Systems, a provider of solid state SAN systems.
Ronald Bradford has over twenty years of experience in database architecture, administration, and system management covering MySQL, Oracle, and Ingres. He is an Oracle ACE Director, all-time top MySQL blogger, published author (Wrox & Oracle Press), and MySQL speaker at Oracle User Groups worldwide.
Jordan Braunstein is an Oracle ACE and ACE Director and leads the Middleware and Oracle Fusion practice at Visual Integrator, a strategic advisory and systems integration firm specializing in Oracle Fusion, SOA, Cloud, and Architecture Strategy. Jordan focuses on delivering tangible results and support to customers through consulting, education, and advisory services, to ensure clients achieve positive returns throughout their Middleware, SOA, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Legacy Modernization, and BPM initiatives. Previously, Jordan started and managed BearingPoint’s public services Middleware practice, focusing on deriving value and hard-line results for defense and civilian government agencies, state and local governments, and higher education institutions. Prior to BearingPoint, Jordan managed a consulting practice at webMethods/Active Software where he was responsible for starting the professional services practice helping lead SOA engagements. Jordan is a PMP, CSM, and holds an MS in decision and information sciences and a BS in accounting from the University of Florida.
Gary Brewington has spent the last fifteen years supporting mission critical defense systems that rely on Oracle. Recently he helped launch Duetix Designs to provide database and security services.
Chip Briggs began his professional career as an MVS systems programmer taking care of complex mainframe computers so other people could do their work. Chip has been using Oracle since 1995 (version 6). His Oracle experience started with providing application support for a vendor product and grew to include production database administration on Unix and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. Along the way, Chip became an Oracle Certified Professional DBA for Oracle 7.3, 8, 8i, 9i, and 10g, an Oracle Certified SQL Expert, and has presented at several Oracle user groups.
C.T. Brinkman is the associate practice director of Oracle EPM Infrastructure Services in the Enterprise Performance Management Practice for Rolta. With over fifteen years of consulting experience, C.T. assists clients on ensuring best practices in Enterprise Performance Management, Performance Engineering, Hyperion Infrastructure, and Managed Services. In addition to managing and technically implementing these solutions, C.T. assists organizations in establishing Strategic Architectures in Performance Engineering and Business Intelligence.
Stewart Bryson, an Oracle ACE award recipient, is U.S. managing director for Rittman Mead, and since 1996, has been designing and building complex database systems and data warehouses. Although his primary focus is on delivering business intelligence and data warehouse solutions, he is also capable with OLTP systems and E-Commerce solutions. Stewart has an expert-level understanding of the Oracle Database and BI stacks, and is capable of leading a project from initial scope to final delivery. Based in Atlanta, GA, Stewart has delivered projects of varying sizes across multiple verticals, including logistics, supply chain, hospitality, municipal government, utilities, and click-stream. A well-known speaker and writer, Stewart has presented at user groups in the U.S., U.K., and Australia.
Karen Cannell is director of TH Technology, an Oracle services consulting firm. She has analyzed, designed, developed, converted, enhanced, and otherwise tweaked database applications for more than twenty-five years, focusing on Oracle since 1994. Recent projects include design and development of APEX web applications for quality control, ETL and migration of legacy apps to Web technologies, leveraging the Oracle 10g/11g suite of tools. Karen is co-author of "Beginning Oracle Application Express" and "Agile Application Express." She supports user groups as a speaker, volunteer, and as editor of the ODTUG Technical Journal.
Anne Carlson is a senior director for Oracle E-Business Suite Product Strategy at Oracle, with a focus on cross-product launch and adoption strategies. Anne frequently writes and speaks about Release 12.1 upgrade planning, sharing best practices and lessons learned from customers. Previously, Anne led product management and information development for the Oracle Applications Technology Group, which is responsible for ensuring that the E-Business Suite effectively leverages Oracle’s systems technologies. Anne received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Maria Colgan is a senior principal product manager at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.3 was released in 1996. Maria's core responsibility is the Oracle Optimizer. Based on Maria's extensive experience in Oracle's Server Technology Performance Group, where she conducted competitive customer benchmarks and tuning sessions, Maria creates and lectures on the Oracle Optimizer and the statistics that feed it. She is also a frequent contributor to the Oracle Optimizer blog http://blogs.oracle.com/optimizer.
Bill Coulam currently works as a senior database engineer helping his church create tighter and faster systems. He has enjoyed sixteen years working with Oracle in the telecommunications, energy, and non-profit sectors, focusing on PL/SQL development, tuning, data modeling, and design for performance. Bill has presented many times at RMOUG, IOUG, and UTOUG, always to help other PL/SQL developers and architects design and build solid systems in a reliable, repeatable, and rapid fashion.
Kevin Courtney is vice president of Business Solutions of Teleran Technologies. He brings over thirty years of senior and executive information technology experience in business management, technology strategy, design and deployment, program and project management, product development, and marketing.
At Teleran, his focus is sales, account management, and the development of customer-oriented analysis and Business Intelligence analytic solutions based upon customer usage of enterprise data warehouses, data marts, and operational data stores.
Randy Cunningham is principal solutions architect for SageLogix, a Colorado consulting firm focused in the Oracle solutions space with clients worldwide. Following successful careers as a developer and database administrator, Randy has devoted the past sixteen years exclusively to consulting with Oracle customers in applications as diverse as GIS, finance, ERP, imaging, business analytics, and data warehousing. He holds OCP DBA certifications for Oracle8i, Oracle9i, Oracle Database 10g, and Oracle Database 11g. He is also an Oracle Linux certified implementation specialist.
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.
Faun deHenry is president and CEO of FMT Systems of Texas Inc. Faun has worked for twenty years operating regional and national consulting organizations. Faun is an officer in Oracle Business Intelligence Special Interest Group, past training chair for OAUG Connection Point 2003-5, and a member of the e-Learning Guild and ASTD. She is a recognized speaker and trainer on topics including managing and sustaining virtual teams, best practices for virtual organizations, sustaining competitive advantage, and business intelligence.
Dominic Delmolino is the lead Oracle and database technologist for Agilex Technologies, a consulting firm specializing in assisting government and private enterprises to realize the value of their information. Dominic has more than twenty-four years of database experience, including more than twenty years as an Oracle Database engineering and development professional. He is a member of the OakTable Network and regularly presents at conferences, seminars, and user group meetings in Europe and the U.S. He also maintains OracleMusings.com, a site focused on database coding and design practices related to database application development. Dominic holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Cornell University.
Tim Dexter has worked at Oracle since the heady days of 10.6 character EBS, moving to the states from the UK in 1999. Specializing in reporting, he became an apps architect and then went on to become the product manager for BI Publisher (formerly XML Publisher.) In 2006, he moved to Colorado and joined the Public Sector Business Intelligence Specialist team. Tim can be found roaming the country helping new and old customers with BI and its related technologies with a specialty in BI Publisher and integration.
Jean-Pierre Dijcks is a senior principal product manager in Oracle’s Data Warehousing group focusing on big data. 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. Since 2008, Jean-Pierre has been a database product manager focusing on parallel computing, Hadoop, and Big Data.
Andy Donovan is the VP of sales and product strategy at EiS Technologies, a long standing solutions provider for the Oracle E-Business. Andy is a qualified accountant and brings over seventeen years of Oracle Applications experience with him, thanks to nine years at Oracle, five years at Noetix, and three at EiS.
Mark Drake has over twenty years' experience in the information technology industry, having worked as programmer, analyst, and database administrator, before moving into consulting and product management. He has been at Oracle Corporation for the last ten years working in the areas of application development tools and content management before taking on responsibility for the XML Infrastructure products in Oracle's Server Technology division, including the XML DB feature of Oracle Database 10g Release 2. Mark currently manages the product management team that owns Oracle's core XML technology; he is also responsible for helping organizations understand how Oracle's XML capabilities can be applied to emerging business trends such as XBRL. Mark is a member of the British Computer Society and holds a BSc in applied computing.
Chuck Ezell brings more than fifteen years of experience to Datavail Corporation as a senior applications tuner based in Atlanta, GA. Throughout his career, he has worked in the development field with Microsoft, Oracle, and Open Source technologies. In the most recent five years of his career, Chuck has been immersed in Java development, debugging, and implementation. Chuck currently contributes his tenure of experience to multi-faceted tuning problems in Oracle Applications Stacks.
Oracle ACE Mark W. Farnham is a native of Dunkirk, NY where he attended public schools and enjoyed the rich musical and farming heritage of Chautauqua County. After graduating with a dual major in physics and biology from Dartmouth College in 1977, Mark became interested in computer science and database technology. Mark began using Oracle at DTSS in the late 1980’s and helped Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse move from DTSS to Unix and Oracle from 1989 to 1994. Mark was one of the founders of the OAUG and participated in Oracle’s VLDB group and MOSES. In 1994, Mark co-founded Rightsizing, Inc. with Jerry Ireland where Mark continues as president to this day. Rightsizing helps businesses make smart use of Oracle technology and Mark often is called upon when high throughput and massive migrations are involved. Mark is a frequent contributor to oracle-l and is proud to be a member of the OakTable Network (http://www.oaktable.net) and co-founder of the APPSPERF consortium (http://www.appsperf.org ). Mark continues his service to the OAUG as a board member of the OAUG DBSIG and was awarded the OAUG Lifetime Service Award in 2010. Mark’s handle on Twitter and YouTube is pudge1954, and he is pudge on OTN. Mark's written papers on performance began in 1981 when he developed a pruning algorithm to solve best fits of piecewise linear regressions by excluding large ranges of the potential solution space early. (Respiration Physiology Volume 47 Issue 1, January 1982, pp 97-106). Mark's public speaking on Oracle performance began at the 1990 IOUW in Anaheim, CA, speaking on managing many databases on many disk drives. Most recently, Mark presented at MOTS, OOW 2010, and RMOUG Training Days 2011, Hotsos Symposium 2011, Collaborate 2011, KSCOPE11, and he’ll be speaking three times a OOW 2011 God willin’ and the creek don’t rise.
Lucy Feng is a consultant at DBAK specializing in Oracle Database technology. She has more than ten years of database experience, including eight years in supporting Oracle E-Business Suite. She is an Oracle Certified Professional and holds an MS in computer information systems from the University of Denver.
Marc Fielding is senior consultant with Pythian's advanced technology group, where he specializes in high availability, scalability, and performance tuning. He has worked with Oracle database products over the past ten years, from version 7.3 up to 11gR2. His experience across the entire enterprise application stack allows him to provide reliable, scalable, fast, creative, and cost-effective solutions to Pythian's diverse client base.
Mike Garcia has close to fifteen years of development experience and has worked as a developer and consultant with various customers in the U.S. and Europe on large J2SE/JEE projects. He is interested in several areas including functional programming, business rule systems, and rich Internet applications along with finding solutions to complex IT problems. He now works with McGraw-Hill creating high performance data warehouse solutions. He holds a BS in civil engineering from CU-Boulder.
John Garmany is a graduate of West Point and a retired Army LTC with more than twenty years of IT experience. John is an OCP certified Oracle DBA with an MS in information systems, a graduate certificate in software engineering, and a BS degree (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."
Gary Garrison is an Oracle DBA/business intelligence developer with Arisant. Gary has worked for twelve years as a developer and DBA in both production and development environments. He has earned the 9i/10g/11g OCP and CISSP certifications.
Patrick Gates brings more than fourteen years of experience to Datavail as an Oracle Database Administrator. Throughout his career, he has worked to provide IT solutions, Business Intelligence, and managing database, storage, and application infrastructures for IT environments. He has built and supported OLTP, Data Warehouse, ERP, Financial, Telecommunications, and e-Commerce database.
Doug Gault (Oracle ACE) is a director and co-founder at Sumneva™, a world-class Oracle® Application Express (APEX) consulting, training, and solutions firm founded in 2010. He has been working with Oracle since 1988 starting with version 5.1B, SQL*Forms 2.0, and RPT/RPF. Since then he has focused his career on Oracle's development technologies, spending the last decade on Web-based technologies, and the last five years specifically on APEX. Prior to co-founding Sumneva, Doug was vice president of Sumner Technologies, which also focused on Oracle APEX consulting, training, and solutions. Before that he served as the product development director for Hotsos Enterprises, during which time he was the lead architect/developer and product manager for two commercial products written in exclusively in APEX. His twenty-one years of Oracle experience has taken him all over the world and involved him in some truly ground-breaking projects. Doug has presented and participated in round table discussions at a number of conferences including Oracle OpenWorld, UKOUG, and ODTUG's APEXposed. He holds an associates degree in computer science, and an honorary master's degree from The School of Hard Knocks, believing there is no replacement for hard earned experience.
Kathy Gibbs has over eighteen years of IT work experience and over twelve years of DBA experience including architecting, design, development, implementation, monitoring, and disaster recovery of databases. Before starting with Confio, Kathy worked in the financial, retail, and telecom industries working with critical OLTP and OLAP databases. Kathy excels in being a liaison between technical and the end-users or management teams to provide solutions.
Few DBAs are as well-equipped as Alex Gorbachev to handle any kind of database scenario. Alex has architected and designed numerous successful database solutions addressing challenging business requirements. Alex is a respected figure in the Oracle world and a sought-after leader and speaker at Oracle conferences around the globe. He regularly publishes articles on the Pythian blog and runs online Webinars. Alex is a member of the OakTable Network and an Oracle ACE Director. Today, Alex is working at The Pythian Group as chief technology officer, continuing to bridge the gap between business and technology. The search for the perfect fit between technology, engineering talents, and business processes is what keeps him up at night.
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 five books, "Oracle8i Data Warehousing," "Essential Oracle8i Data Warehousing," (both from John Wiley & Sons) and "Oracle Insights: Tales of the OakTable," "Beginning Oracle SQL," and "Expert Oracle Practices: Database Administration from the OakTable" (all from Apress). Tim has presented at Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, UKOUG, Miracle Database Forum, and Master Classes, as well as local Oracle user groups in North and South America.
Marco Gralike, working for AMIS Services BV as a principal Oracle database consultant in the Netherlands, has experience as a DBA since 1994 (Oracle 6). Marco is also eager and skillful in other fields, like operating system administration and application servers, mainly to find working, performing solutions. Marco has been specializing in Oracle XMLDB since 2003, focusing on his old love--database administration and performance. He has been an Oracle XMLDB enthusiast ever since. He is also a dedicated contributor of the Oracle User Group community, helping people with their steep XMLDB learning curve. To this purpose, Marco also devoted his personal blog site to XMLDB and other Oracle issues. Marco has presented among others in Holland, UKOUG, Oracle OpenWorld, Hotsos, MOW, and ODTUG Kaleidoscope. He has been awarded the Oracle ACE and ACE Director title for his work in the Oracle XMLDB area and has been a member of the OakTable Network since 2009. Currently he is also an Oracle Advisory Board member for XMLDB functionality in the next Oracle release.
Janis Griffin has over twenty-five years of Oracle DBA experience including design, development, and implementation of many critical database applications. Before coming to Confio, Janis held DBA positions primarily in the telecom industry (fifteen years), working with both real-time network routing databases and OLTP business to business applications. Janis has also been a principal architect and senior manager, mentoring other DBAs on best practices in database design and performance tuning. During her career, she has been responsible for managing all aspects of the Voice Network databases including short and long-term technical planning and strategic alliances. As a highly successful liaison between management and technical staff, Janis has proven to be an effective collaborator implementing cutting-edge Oracle solutions.
Esley Gustafson is a senior licensing strategist for DBAK and a well-respected Oracle expert in the Rocky Mountain region. He has been working with Oracle products and technology for nearly fourteen years, and providing Oracle technical solutions and licensing expertise to organizations in Colorado for more than eleven years including several years working for TUSC, DBDoctor, and Oracle Corporation. Esley holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in business management from CU.
Daya H. Haddock is a passionate and proven executive with over twenty years of experience building successful technical and creative client-focused businesses. Since 2001, she has been leading and growing TIA, Inc., a professional services company providing custom training, online learning, and documentation programs. Her most recent expertise is providing end user support solutions from interactive simulations to classroom events to online information portals for clients implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP). She drives value and is able to understand the focus is on supporting clients by reducing their risk, furthering their business objectives, measuring the business metrics, and ensuring an ROI. Clients who have chosen TIA’s services include Molson Coors, Encana, Las Vegas Sands Entertainment, and OshKosh. At the end of the day – TIA’s focus is ensuring employees have access to the right information at the right time - in thirty seconds or three clicks. She is a frequent speaker on knowledge management, e-learning, and risk mitigation with effective documentation programs at local and national conferences, such as CIO Forum, On-Line Learning, and Oracle OpenWorld. Daya is the author of a section on E-Learning in a newly published book – "Business Driven Information Technology: 100 Answers That Every Manager Needs," published by Stanford Press.
Guy Harrison is an Oracle ACE and a senior director of Research and Development at Quest Software. Guy is the author of "Oracle Performance Survival Guide" (Prentice Hall, 2009) and "MySQL Stored Procedure Programming" (OReilly with Steven Feuerstein) as well as other books, articles, and presentations on database technology. He also writes a monthly column for "Database Trends and Applications" (www.dbta.com). Guy can be found on the Internet at www.guyharrison.net, on e-mail at guy.harrison@quest.com, and is @guyharrison on Twitter.
Heli Helskyaho is the CEO for Kantamestarit Oy and Miracle Oy. She is also the president of Oracle User Group Finland and the Ambassador for EMEA Oracle User Groups Community. Heli is also an Oracle ACE. Heli has worked with Oracle products in several positions since 1993, but her key interest lies with databases.
With twenty years of Oracle Database experience, both in government and private industry, Don Henderson has seen it all. He was one of the first developers to build a commercial application using PL/SQL and the Oracle application server.
With about fifteen years of Apps DBA experience, Eric Hernandez has become very well versed and knowledgeable in Oracle Applications E-Business Suite (EBS) and Oracle Database technologies for large-scale enterprises as well as the SMB marketplace. Being with a previous managed services employer that had over fifty EBS customers, Eric was exposed to different ways EBS can be setup and configured. The opportunity to experience a simple EBS setup to the most advanced and complex EBS configuration allowed him to solidify his proficiency in Oracle Apps. He currently holds Oracle Certified Professional certification status in both Oracle Database Administration (v. 8.0, 8i, 9i, 10g, and 11g) and Oracle Applications Database Administration (v. 11i and R12). He excels at Oracle implementations, upgrades, and migrations for both the EBS applications and database technologies, drawing on years of experience and training from various industries including manufacturing, defense, transportation, and consulting services. Eric has been a presenter in several Oracle Users Groups conferences. In addition, he excels at performance tuning, backup and recovery, and enterprise-wide solutions and statistics gathering for analysis, providing customized service based on the workload and client needs.
Ann Horton works for Oracle Corporation in Denver, and serves as the Oracle liaison to RMOUG. She is currently a Fusion Applications developer building Procurement Applications using ADF and the Oracle Fusion technology stack. Previously, Ann worked as a consultant with Oracle's Advanced Technology Services Group specializing in Fusion Middleware, JDeveloper, ADF, SOA, and Oracle Enterprise Manager. Ann has applied Oracle technologies to solve enterprise business problems for over twenty-five years. Ann provided Oracle consulting services for many years through her Denver-based consulting firm, and taught graduate-level university courses in Java, software engineering, and database management as an affiliate professor for Regis University. Ann is a frequent presenter at RMOUG and ODTUG, and a former ODTUG board member.
Dan Hotka is a training specialist and an Oracle ACE Director who has over thirty-two years in the computer industry, over twenty-seven years of experience with Oracle products. His experience with the Oracle RDBMS dates back to the Oracle V4.0 days. Dan’s latest book is the "TOAD Handbook" by Pearson. He is also the author of "SQL Developer Handbook" by Oracle Press, "Oracle9i Development By Example," and "Oracle8i from Scratch" by Que. He has also 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.
Joe Huang is the senior principal product manager for Oracle's Mobile Application Development Framework (ADF Mobile), which is part of Oracle's Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Application platform. Joe has more than twenty years of experience in the high technology field, and has been in the enterprise mobile application field for the last ten years. Joe joined Oracle through the Siebel acquisition in 2006, where he was part of Siebel's platform product management team. Prior to Siebel, Joe was with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), leading various development teams in creating innovative solutions for leading companies of the world. Joe received an MS and BS degree in industrial engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1990's, and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jerry Ireland has been developing software and consulting for more than thirty years and has been working with Oracle for more than twenty-five of those years. As one of the founders of Rightsizing, a small consulting firm, he has developed a reputation for high quality in the Oracle development community. Jerry has been a long-time supporter of ODTUG and was honored in 2006 with the Volunteer of the Year Award. Jerry returned to the ODTUG board to serve as treasurer and vice president. He is a regular presenter at ODTUG, OAUG, and Oracle OpenWorld.
Bill Jackson has been a professional software developer for the last thirteen years. He has a master's degree from the University of Colorado at Denver and a bachelor's degree from Colorado State University, both in computer science. Bill has previously presented at RMOUG Training Days on topics ranging from J2EE to software security.
Jeff Jacobs has over twenty years' experience working with Oracle. He is currently a member of the IOUG Oracle Exadata SIG board of directors. He served on the board of ODTUG for fifteen years, including stints as president and conference chair. He has consulted to numerous Fortune 500 companies and trained over 3000 students in various aspects of Oracle products, database design, modeling, and methodology, both as an independent consultant and as an Oracle instructor. He has presented at Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, NoCOUG, and other regional user group meetings and Webinars.
Julie Johnson is the founder and CEO of Firebox Training. With more than fourteen years of teaching experience, she brings her passion about education to every course offered by Firebox Training. Not only is Julie is a seasoned senior Oracle DBA, she has also earned OCP, Java, and Zend PHP certifications. Julie is the author of more than fifteen courseware manuals, and has produced SQL Server, PHP, and Oracle training videos for CBT Nuggets. Her leadership and commitment to education guide all her hiring decisions, ensuring that only the top real-world-experienced instructors join the Firebox team.
Alex Keh is a principal product manager at Oracle. He focuses on Oracle data access and database integration with .NET and Windows. He's spoken previously at many Microsoft and Oracle events, including Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, VSLive!, and Oracle Develop and OpenWorld.
John King is a partner in King Training Resources, a US-based firm providing instructor-led training since 1988 for application developers on a variety of platforms. John has worked with Oracle products and the database since Version 4 and is currently serving as a board member of the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG). John develops and presents customized courses in a variety of topics including SOA, Oracle, Middleware, Web Services, Java, XML, .NET, User Interface Design, and several other topics. John presents frequently at industry conferences including UKOUG, ODTUG, IOUG, OpenWorld, EOUG, AUSOUG, and the RMOUG Training Days.
Peter Koletzke is a technical director and principal instructor for Quovera in Moutain View, California. He has over twenty-seven years of industry experience and has presented at various Oracle user group conferences more than 300 times. Additionally, he has won awards such as Pinnacle Publishing's Technical Achievement, Oracle Development Tools User Group Editor's Choice (twice), ODTUG Best Speaker, NY Oracle Users Group Editor's Choice (three times), East Coast Oracle/Southeastern Oracle Users Conference Oracle Designer Award, and the Oracle Development Tools User Group Volunteer of the Year. Peter is an Oracle ACE Director, an Oracle Certified Master and co-author—variously with Duncan Mills, Dr. Paul Dorsey, and Avrom Roy-Faderman—of the Oracle Press (McGraw-Hill Professional) books: "Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook," "Oracle JDeveloper 10g for Forms & PL/SQL Developers," "Oracle JDeveloper 10g Handbook," "Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook," "Oracle JDeveloper 3 Handbook," "Oracle Developer Advanced Forms and Reports," "Oracle Designer Handbook, 2nd Edition," and "The Oracle Designer/2000 Handbook."
Bob Larsen is an Oracle DBA and a data architect with DBAK. Bob has over twenty-five years of experience working with Oracle databases and developing data warehouse and transactional database solutions. Bob has a Master's Degree in computer science from the University of Central Florida where he was also an instructor. Over the years, he has instructed Oracle Database Administration courses for the entire Oracle DBA certification curriculum including as an instructor for Oracle University.
Keith Larson is a MySQL community manager at Oracle. After thirteen years of developing and maintaining high-tech industry Web sites, open source technology remains a passion of Keith’s. His experience covers a range of sites including brochure, e-commerce, intranet, business intelligence, and corporate process Web sites. Keith’s primary development, administration, and leadership experience is with Perl, PHP on a Linux system with Apache, Lighttpd, and an InnoDB relayed replication MySQL database.
Simon Law is a principal product manager responsible for the Oracle In-Memory Database Cache and TimesTen In-Memory Database products at Oracle. Simon has been with Oracle for over ten years, working first in the support services division and then as a product manager at the Oracle Database Server Globalization team. He joined the TimesTen division of Oracle in 2006. He is responsible for driving new requirements, promoting TimesTen features, and working as the communication channel between customers and development.
Jonathan Lewis is a well-known figure in the Oracle world with more than twenty-three years' experience using the software. He has published three books about Oracle (the most recent one “Oracle Core” just three months ago), and contributed to three others. He runs a couple of Web sites and contributes fairly regularly to newsgroups, forums, and User Group magazines and events around the world. Jonathan has been self-employed for most of his time in the IT industry. For the last seventeen years, he has specialized in short-term assignments, typically of a design, review, or trouble-shooting nature - often spending no more than two or three days on a client site to address problems. He runs seminars all over the world about using Oracle, and has visited fifty different countries (and a dozen US states) to talk about, or trouble-shoot, Oracle systems.
Debra Lilley is Oracle Alliance director for Fujitsu UK. She is an ACE Director (applications), president of UKOUG, and leader of IOUC product development committee. Debra was the winner of the Oracle Magazine 2008 User Group Evangelist of the Year Award and has presented at user group events all around the world.
George Linehan has worked in the IT field for twenty-seven years, mostly with EDS and HP. His experience includes leadership, database administration, system development, UNIX system administration, production support, customer support, and quality assurance. He has worked on projects for several different industries including automotive, travel, agricultural, insurance, securities, banking, high-tech industries, media, and state and federal government. Most recently he is working as an Application DBA supporting Oracle E-Business Suite. George received his Master’s Degree with honors in computer information systems database technologies from Regis University. George is also adjunct faculty for the School of Computer and Information Sciences at Regis University and the College of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Phoenix.
John Malone is a Certified Public Accountant and Six Sigma Black Belt, bringing more than twenty years leading ERP, Oracle, and custom IT development projects. A leader with expertise in aligning requirements to strategic business objectives, planning, budget preparation, and team management/development, John has worked across a broad spectrum of industries including public sector, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and distribution. John has provided leadership on projects ranging from technical upgrades, integrations, and implementations in roles that include solution architect, functional lead, implementer, technical lead, and project manager. John is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).
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, at Collaborate08, and at Colorado Software Summit 2008. Dustin has written multiple articles for JavaWorld and Oracle Technology Network.
Dr. Bob Mason joined Regis University as a full-time professor and DB program coordinator in January 2011. Prior to accepting this position with Regis University, he was employed by various Fortune 500 companies for twenty-five years as a DBA and software engineer. He was also an affiliate faculty at Regis for ten years. His Ph.D. dissertation research was focused on the resolution of the interoperability gap challenges that exist between Learning Object Repositories & Learning Management Systems using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Tim McKenzie serves as a solutions architect for Ceregenics, the first company to adapt agile techniques to the challenges of data warehousing. He currently provides application designs to match business and non-functional requirements, and has built data marts for biotech, finance, and payroll departments in Fortune 500 companies. A certified scrum master, he has taught over 300 masters candidate students at Regis University in project management.
Kuassi Mensah is director of product management for Oracle database access frameworks (Net Services, DRCP, TAF) and database programming APIs (Java, C/C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl). Kuassi holds an MS in computer sciences from the Programming Institute of University of Paris VI. He has published several articles and a book at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555583296. He is a frequent speaker at Oracle and IT events and maintains a blog at http://db360.blogspot.com, as well as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter (http://twitter.com/kmensah) pages.
Samuel Meriweather has eleven years of experience in application development with a background in Web development, database programming, and full system life cycle development process. Key strengths include extensive expertise in Unix Programming, Oracle PL/SQL, PERL, and Korn Shell. Additional strengths include, Certified DYNIX/ptx (unix) system administrator with two years of experience in Operating System set-up, disk management, system/kernel configuration, and tuning and performance.
Michael Messina is an Oracle consultant with TUSC Infrastructure Services. He is an Oracle ACE and past presenter at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 and 2010, RMOUG 2010 and 2011, and Collaborate 2010. Michael's experience includes sixteen plus years in database, system design, and development, with fourteen plus years in a database analyst/administration role and five plus years in a leadership capacity. Michael has demonstrated leadership in many performance improvement, maintenance, and implementation projects on large, highly available systems.
Aaron Miller has over fifteen years of experience in GIS, with ten years in the emergency services industry. In addition to being a U.S. patent author, Aaron is a GIS systems architect focusing on the Oracle Database and Oracle’s Spatial Engine as well as a variety of other platforms and systems. Aaron holds a BS from the University of Northern Colorado. He is a private pilot and is a volunteer for Civil Air Patrol, an Auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
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 that helps DBAs and application developers make Oracle systems faster. 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 and former co-owner of Hotsos. He is 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 and tweets at http://twitter.com/cary_millsap.
Oracle ACE Director Dan Morgan is the Morgan behind Morgan's Library on the Web. Dan has retired from the University of Washington where he was the primary Oracle instructor from 1998 through 2009. Dan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Western Washington Oracle Users Group, a member of UKOUG, the International Oracle zSeries SIG, the Oracle RAC SIG, and BAARF. He is also the former chair of the Washington Software Association's Database Special Interest Group. Dan is a regular contributor at Oracle conferences and forums around the world and in 2009, presented at OpenWorld, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, NoCOUG, RMOUG, and WWOUG, in addition to presentations in Canada, Chile, Finland, Norway, and the UK. In 2010, he co-founded the Vancouver (Canada) Oracle Users Group and spoke at ten Oracle conferences in the U.S., UK, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and at the EMEA Harmony Conference in Tallinn Estonia. He also participated in the IOUC's international leadership conference in Redwood Shores and in 2011, he spoke at conferences on four continents.
James Morle has been an IT professional since the early 1980s, moving into very large scale Oracle-based systems from the early 90s and onwards. He is the founder of Scale Abilities Ltd, co-founder of the OakTable Network, and an Oracle ACE Director. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book "Scaling Oracle8i" and a co-author of "Oracle Insights." His passion is on getting deep understanding of all the components in the stack, applying that knowledge in solving complex customer problems, and communicating findings in an honest, lucid, and candid way. He plays lead guitar in a Metal band, but does not have long hair or tattoos.
Lynn Munsinger is a senior principal product manager for the Java Tools development group at Oracle, specializing in JDeveloper and ADF. Her career at Oracle began in 1998, and she has been responsible for the support, education, and technical evangelism of Oracle's application development tools ever since. Lynn is the primary developer of the Fusion Order Demo sample application for Fusion Middleware, and is a frequent presenter at user group and industry conferences. Her most recent contribution to the world of ADF is co-authoring an in-depth book titled, "Oracle Fusion Developer Guide - Building Rich Internet Applications with Oracle ADF Business Components and ADF Faces," available from McGraw-Hill publishing.
Shyam Nath has twenty years of industry experience with focus on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. He is OCP since 1998 and is a Certified Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Implementer. As president of Oracle BIWA SIG and Exadata SIG, Shyam is regular speaker at Oracle OpenWorld, RMOUG, IOUG Collaborate, and similar conferences.
Greg Opie is currently director of Solutions Architecture and Oracle practice lead for the ECS Team, a professional services organization focused on enterprise architecture, SOA, application design, software development, and integration services utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware. He has over twenty-four years of proven success and leadership in product strategy, product management, business analysis, and new application development. Greg enjoys applying a strategic understanding of how technology affects business to provide effective solutions to real business problems. He is a Certified Oracle SOA Implementation Expert and has presented on Oracle Fusion Middleware topics at Oracle OpenWorld and RMOUG Training Days.
Tammy Osborn has been a software engineer with a focus in the UI technologies for over twenty years. She is currently working at Comcast in the Interactive Data Services organization. In the past, she has worked for various companies including the Air Force Academy, Verizon, Oracle, and Ciber. In her current position, she is using ADF and APEX to convert legacy Oracle applications as well as doing a migration to Oracle Forms 11g.
Kerry Osborne began working with Oracle (version 2) in 1982. The early part of his career was primarily spent as a developer using OCI Fortran, Pro-FORTRAN, PRO-C, PRO-COBOL, Oracle Forms, etc. Eventually he saw the light and started calling himself a DBA. For the past several years, he has been focused on understanding Oracle internals and solving performance problems. He is an OakTable member and is the author of an upcoming Apress book on Exadata. Kerry is also a co-founder of Enkitec, an Oracle-focused consulting company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Chris Ostrowski is an Oracle solution architect director for Fujitsu America in Colorado. He has worked with Oracle technologies for over twenty years as a developer, DBA, project manager, and enterprise architect. Recently, Chris has focused his efforts on Service Oriented Architecture technologies including Oracle JDeveloper, the Oracle SOA Suite, and Enterprise Technologies including Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle's Application Integration Architecture. He is the author of two books from Oracle Press, "Oracle Application Server 10g Web Development" and "The Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook," is a certified Oracle SOA Implementation Champion and is a proud member of the Oracle ACE program.
Jigar Parsana has been developing and implementing Web applications using Java technologies for over a decade. As a software architect, he is responsible for leading the technical aspects of modernization projects at NEOS, where he leverages that experience to modernize clients' Oracle Forms, Powerbuilder, and .Net-based systems to Web and SOA-based application architectures. Jigar combines theoretical knowledge with practical, real-world, development experience to design and deliver world-class JEE applications. Jigar holds a Master's in Science degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
After thirteen years within Oracle consulting in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, David Peake joined the product development team as the Oracle Application Express (APEX) product manager in 2006. David regularly presents at many Oracle conferences around the world and often contributes "Oracle Magazine" articles as well as maintaining a popular blog (http://dpeake.blogspot.com).
Jim Plummer is vice president of delivery for DBAK. Jim has more than twenty years of experience in delivering solution-based professional services to clients around the world. His experience with Oracle databases and delivering solutions for clients began in 1985. Jim’s experience in Web-based architecture, data conversion, process engineering, and project management provides a broad basis that enables him to successfully work with clients to develop solutions and to provide and manage the right teams to enable client success. Prior to joining DBAK, Jim was the senior director of Internet technology for Dex Media and RH Donnelley, a principal consultant with Statera, vice president of Worldwide Services for Webb Interactive, and the director of U.S. services for SHL/MCI Systemhouse.
Kellyn Pot'vin, (pronounced Poet-Vaughn) has been a database administrator for eleven years, specializing in large database performance tuning. In the last year, she's been working with large SSD databases and Exadata, taking advantage of the newest technology and performance tuning features. Kellyn is known for her technical blog, dbakevlar.com, and is the director of membership and vendors for Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group, (RMOUG). She's performed numerous presentations on performance tuning and written articles for various technical newsletters and Web sites, starting out as an active participant on the Oracle-L list. She currently contributes to several technical sites and publications. Kellyn lives with her three children in Broomfield, CO, and currently is honing her technical skills at I-behavior, a marketing firm in Louisville, CO.
Marshall Presser has been a long-time presenter at Training Days from his time at Oracle. He has moved to EMC, but would like to present at Training Days again, this time on Hadoop and NO-SQL. Marshall is the Field CTO for the Federal Group for the Data Computing (Greenplum) Division at EMC.
Kerry Prielipp is a product specialist for Noetix Corporation with more than seventeen years of extensive Oracle technology experience. His past professional background includes positions as an Oracle end user, independent Oracle implementation consultant, Oracle sales consultant, and small business owner. Kerry majored in business management at Purdue University with an emphasis in accounting and finance.
Gary Propeck has worked with the Oracle Database since 1990, first as a developer, then DBA. Gary joined Oracle in 1995 and worked as an instructor for all the DBA courses offered by Oracle. After leaving Oracle, Gary worked as a DBA for two-and-a-half years at Corporate Exspress. In 2004, Gary began teaching again as a contract instructor. This eventually led to his current position as an Hotsos instructor where he primarily teaches SQL Optimization.
Milan Rahman is an Oracle Applications DBA with over fifteen years of experience in supporting EBS implementation, upgrades, and day-to-day support and issue resolution. Milan is a consultant with Information Associates, Inc. and has presented at OAUG, RMOUG, and COAUG.
Ken Ramey started his experience with Oracle products while serving in the U.S. Air Force in 1997. Since that time, he has had the opportunity to work along side some of the best Oracle consultants in the country on a variety of projects, ranging from military applications to hospital patient tracking systems. He now works as a senior consultant for Centroid Systems and has previously presented at RMOUG Training Days and IOUG Collaborate.
Chris Reigrut is the Chief Technology Officer for SquareTwo Financial, a leader in the $100 billion asset recovery and management industry. Chris has more than twenty-five years of experience in IT, having worked with/for companies such as Accenture, Deloitte & Touche Consulting, IBM, Ralston Purina, KeyBank, and the New York Attorney General. Chris has been a presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, the Denver Java Users Group, and the Boulder Java Users Group, as well as a variety of corporate and internal events.
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.
Dean Richards is a senior DBA for Confio Software and has helped hundreds of companies solve database performance issues. Dean has over twenty years of experience in both development and database administration, and has focused his entire career on performance tuning of Oracle environments. Most recently, Dean has focused on the trend to virtualize databases while still achieving good performance.
Mark Rittman is an Oracle ACE Director, ODTUG Director, regular writer for "Oracle Magazine," the ODTUG "Technical Journal," and other publications, is author of the Oracle Press "OBIEE Developers' Guide," and is technical director at Rittman Mead.
Edward Roske is the CEO and co-founder of interRel Consulting, one of the five largest Oracle EPM consulting firms in the world. As an Oracle ACE Director and author of seven books, Edward has spoken on four continents evangelizing everything Oracle Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management, and Hyperion. Edward is continuously recruited to host various Hyperion presentations at user groups around the world as he uses his fifteen plus years of expertise on over 500 implementations in the Hyperion arena to provide insight on the future of Hyperion within Oracle. Edward also offers an Oracle EPM blog, Looksmarter.blogspot.com, which offers a unique perspective inside the world of Oracle EPM, including information on upcoming releases, colorful commentary on Edward’s ideas on hot topics in the industry, and much more. Recently, Edward was just made a certified Oracle Fusion Applications Advocate, a title Oracle has only bestowed on seven people.
Peter Scott has been developing, designing, tuning, and playing with multi-terabyte data warehouses since the end of the last century. Peter is now a principal consultant with Rittman Mead, a leading BI consultancy with offices in the USA, Europe, India, and Australia. When not working on client engagements, he writes on data warehousing and data quality for the Rittman Mead blog and presents at conferences and user group meeting both in Europe and USA.
Don Seiler is an Oracle Database administrator with over ten years of experience. Since 2008, he has been with Pythian, providing database support to clients in a variety of industries, including financial, health care, telecommunications, and publishing. Don works with a variety of mission-critical Oracle Databases on a variety of platforms using technologies such as Oracle Data Guard, ASM, RAC, and GoldenGate. He is also a proponent of the Battle Against Any Automatic Memory Management (B.A.A.A.M.M.) movement. He has been working primarily in Oracle 11g R1 and R2 for over a year, having performed upgrades for multiple databases with multiple clients.
Riyaj Shamsudeen is an OakTable Network member, Oracle ACE Director, and has nineteen years of experience using Oracle products. He has spent more than eighteen years as an Oracle DBA/Oracle APPS DBA. He is certified in DBA versions 7.0,7.3,8,8i,9i, and 10g. Riyaj specializes in performance tuning, internals, RAC, and E-Business Suite. He has co-authored three books with esteemed colleagues.
Gwen Shapira is a senior consultant at Pythian, Oracle ACE, and a member of the OakTable Network. Gwen studied computer science, statistics, and operations research at the University of Tel Aviv, and then went on to spend the next fifteen years in different technical positions in the IT industry. She specializes in scalability and high-availability solutions such as RAC and Streams and is Pythian's Hadoop and NoSQL expert. She has presented at various conferences including Hotsos Symposium 2009, HotSos Symposium 2011, and RMOUG 2010. Gwen blogs for the popular Pythian blog: http://www.pythian.com/news/author/shapira/.
Pete Sharman is a prinicpal product manager for Enterprise Manager with Oracle Corporation. He is also a member of the OakTable, and has presented at earlier RMOUG Training Days, Hotsos Symposia, Oracle OpenWorld conferences, and other user group events.
Jeff Smith has worked for independent software vendors since 1999, and rarely steps into the ‘real world.’ When he does, he quickly runs away scared and determined to remain where he is. Developers coding in production, end users saving critical data to Excel, SQL statements starting with ‘SELECT *’ all give Jeff plenty of material for his sermons/blog posts on ThatJeffSmith.com. Jeff is currently a product manager for Oracle, working on the SQL Developer team. His true passion lies in helping people maximize their productivity and retain sanity while working with database development and administration tools. Jeff has a dry sense of humor. If you can’t tell if he is joking or not, then assume he is joking. I’m currently a Product Manager for Oracle, working on the SQL Developer team. My true passion lies in help people maximize their productivity and retain sanity while working with database development and administration tools. I have a dry sense of humor. If you can’t tell if I am joking or not, then assume I am joking.
Scott Spendolini is a director and co-founder at Sumneva™, a world-class Oracle® Application Express (APEX) consulting, training, and solutions firm founded in 2010. He has assisted a number of clients from various verticals with their Oracle APEX development and training needs. Scott has presented at a number of Oracle-related conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, ODTUG, and IOUG and is a regular contributor to the Oracle APEX Forums on OTN. Scott is also the host and conference chair of APEXposed, an APEX-specific annual conference. He is a recent recipient of the Oracle ACE Director designation and is also a co-author of the book "Pro Oracle Application Express." In 2009, Scott along with ODTUG, was presented with the Oracle Innovation Award for his work on ODTUG’s public Web site, odtug.com. Previous to co-founding Sumneva, Scott founded and ran Sumner Technologies from 2005 through 2009, which also focused on Oracle APEX consulting, training, and solutions. Before that, he was employed by Oracle Corporation for almost ten years, the last three of which he was a senior product manager for Oracle APEX. He holds a dual bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in management information systems and telecommunications management and currently resides in Ashburn, Virginia with his wife and two children.
Borkur Steingrimsson has been dabbling in Oracle technology for over fifteen years, with focus on DW and BI. Regularly presenting at various Oracle-related events such as ODTUG, IOUG, Oracle OpenWorld, and UKOUG, Borkur primarily concentrates on talking about OBIEE, OWB, ODI, and the newly introduced Oracle Golden Gate.
Bryan Stroble is an enterprise architect with DBAK with over twenty years of experience in IT leadership, software development, systems management, and systems engineering. He has recently been leading Tri-State Generation and Transmission in the development of their Enterprise Data Dictionary. Bryan has extensive experience with database-driven applications development and support. Bryan recently functioned as a strategic leader for Dex Media, driving forward technical change to help catapult the company into the digital age.
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 OOW, IOUG, OAUG, EOUG, UKOUG, and EOAUG since 1997.
George Thrower has been president of GRT Consulting, Inc. since 1992. His Oracle experience includes Oracle 5.1 thru Oracle11 and his additional experience includes system design and development, UNIX/Linux system administrator, and project manager. George earned his BS in computer science from UAB in 1984.
Todd Trichler is an Oracle veteran of over fourteen 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.
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha is the CEO and founder of DBPerfMan LLC (http://www.dbperfman.com), a world-class consulting firm based in Orange County, CA, specializing in technical and strategic management of Oracle systems in the areas of System Performance, High Availability & Disaster Recovery, Data Consolidation, Information Lifecycle Management, and Cloud Computing. He has worked with Oracle systems for over nineteen years and has provided technical product management direction for companies such as Veritas Corporation, Oracle Corporation, and Quest Software. Gaja is the co-author of "Oracle Performance Tuning 101 and Oracle Insights: Tales of the OakTable." He is a frequent speaker at national and international Oracle circuit. His claim to fame is the invention of the term “Compulsive Tuning Disorder” in the year 2000. Gaja is a member of the OakTable Network and can be reached at gaja@dbperfman.com.
Steve Wales is a senior technical consultant with AddOns, Inc. (http://www.addonsinc.com). He has eleven years of experience as an Oracle DBA on Multiple Unix Platforms and Windows (versions 7+) and four years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
Steve Wille, author of "Colorful Leadership," is a senior applications manager at Great-West Life and Annuity. He has over twenty-five years of experience in corporate information technology management. Steve is a PMP and has developed multiple large information technology systems from the ground up. Steve's MBA degree is from Regis University in Denver, and his BSBA degree is from the University of Denver.
Daniel Williams helps medium and large companies to design, improve, and implement business practices through intelligent use of existing software. Daniel is specialized in the construction and engineering industries which use Primavera for scheduling, and resource and contract management. He helps to reduce redundancy and streamline processes by tying project management with financials such as Timberline, Lawson, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Oracle.
Jeremiah Wilton 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. He now directs education programs and emergency support services for Blue Gecko, a leader in remote database administration, and managed hosting for Oracle, Oracle Applications, and MySQL. 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. At Oracle OpenWorld in 2001, Oracle Education honored Jeremiah as one of the first eight Oracle Certified Masters in the world. Jeremiah is a member of the OakTable, 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.bluegecko.net.
Graham Wood has been working with the Oracle Database for twenty-five years. He is currently a product manager for the Oracle RDBMS based in Redwood Shores, CA. He has architected and tuned some of the largest Oracle databases and has presented around the world on Oracle performance related topics.
Karl Arao, Enkitec
Ronald Bradford, Effective MySQL
Kerry Osborne, Enkitec