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My name is Rama Balaji. Although "pastel painting" is my favorite hobby, I am most likely to seek an oracle book for relaxation.
I love presenting at RMOUG, because it gives me a great opportunity to observe audience expectations and questions, to submit it again for Oracle Open World conference. It also gives me an opportunity to interact with my ex-colleagues and share real world best practices and easy tricks I learn while supporting my clients.
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TopLink is new to what we have been doing for 10 years. Welcome TopLink, because I need Oracle to respect SQL that breaks relational rules, but works great for machine reasoners and inference engines. We crawl w3c ontology domain knowledge maps. They are finally close to seeing the light.
Hobbies - INPUT - The Great Courses and The Bowers Pyramid!
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My hobbies include: spending time with my family, snowboarding, mountain biking, following Gator sports through many national championships, and preaching the SOA gospel throughout this small universe of ours.
I present to RMOUG so that I can share my real life customer experiences—the good, the bad, and the ugly so that the broader community has leading practices and patterns to follow. My specialties are enterprise architecture, SOA, frameworks, and ensuring positive returns on IT investments through sound architecture and governance. Viva SOA (see, it’s not dead!), Go Gators, and drive safely!
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My favorite sports to do are water skiing, snow skiing, motocross and snowmobiling …all things that Colorado is great for!
Thanks to RMOUG for inspiring me to move to Colorado in 1994 after speaking at RMOUG in April of 1994. I’ve been active and presenting at RMOUG ever since – I’m hooked!
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I love to travel and spend time with my kids.
I want to contribute to RMOUG community after being a member for 10 years.
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I’m really looking forward to speaking at RMOUG this year. Early in my “Oracle life”, I attended my first RMOUG Training Days and found it to be a valuable Oracle networking resource as well as a place to absorb vast amounts of knowledge in a rapid amount of time. I am honored to be able to contribute this year.
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Movies, books and Football (the European kind!) are those three things that get me real excited. Apart from that, we have a 2 1/2 year old, so I'm lucky if I get to read anything other than Dr Seuss... RMOUG is one these fun conferences where the attendees are fun and we all get to learn something about Oracle.
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My name is Iggy Fernandez and I’m the author of Beginning Oracle Database 11g Database Administration and the editor of the NoCOUG Journal.
I like presenting at RMOUG Training Days because it is a technical conference, not a trade show. My presentations are not “customer success stories” or sales pitches; they’re technical presentations on technical topics that matter to database administrators and developers.
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I am very excited about the opportunity to present at RMOUG TD 2010 – for the first time! I have heard for years that this is one of the best Oracle training conferences, but was frustrated year after year by scheduling conflicts, making it impossible for me to attend. While at RMOUG, I plan to share my obsessive exploration of the PL/SQL language with attendees, and hopefully infect some of them with a similar level of interest in this outstanding language.
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I am excited to get the opportunity to speak at RMOUG 2010 this coming February. I have attended and spoken at the event the past few years. It is a great opportunity to share our experiences with Oracle products and learn from the incredible user base in the Rocky Mountain region."
- - Anthony Golden
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With his in-depth technical knowledge and passion for the community, Alex Gorbachev is a sought-after presenter at Oracle conferences world-wide. RMOUG Training Days is a world-class event with an awesome line-up of speakers and besides contributing his own presentation, Alex is keen to learn new tricks and strengthen his knowledge of Oracle products.
Having spent the last year in Australia, Alex can't wait to get back on the slopes of Rocky Mountains and coming to the RMOUG Training Days is a sure way for his skiing dreams to come true."
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I have a rock crawling Jeep Cherokee so that is my big summer hobby, and love spending time with family hanging out at home. I also play drums, checkout youtube.com/COJeepin
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Guy Harrison lives in Melbourne, Australia with his family. His interests are family, computing, geek culture and crocodile wrestling. I loved my first visit to Denver for Collaborate 08. I’ve heard such good things about the RMOUG training days and I’m excited by the opportunity to get together with other Oracle technologists in such a cool (no pun intended) location.
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Playing music, bicycling, hiking and nature photography are what I like to spend my spare time doing.
As a long time member of the RMOUG I have built a career around my membership, friends and professional associates at the RMOUG, now it is my turn to give something back.
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I’m interested in following sports, from the pros on down to my grade schoolers. I also enjoy coaching them.
I’ve learned how to do a SOA high availability installation, which isn’t exactly straight forward, and would like to share what I’ve learned with others.
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In addition to creating the TURBO Enterprise software, I founded and own an IT consulting company, Concept Solutions, recently named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list, and I recently started a new beer company called Holy Brew Brewing Company - Liquid Confession (www.HolyBrew.com).
I'm an avid snowboarder and will be carving some fresh powder in the Rockies either before or after the RMOUG conference. Hopefully we'll meet some other people at the conference who want to hit the mountains!
P.S. When I'm not working on one of my three companies, I coach my son's and daughter's soccer teams and their All-Star soccer teams.
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My first computer was a TRS-80, and I love that computers keep getting better, faster and cheaper; something that software projects always aim for, but only get to pick two.
Every year, I look forward to RMOUG. The price is right, and the location is the best! A time to spend learning and enjoying time with colleagues. This year I get to present and hopefully everyone will enjoy themselves and possibly learn something new. I know I will!
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VP of UKOUG and Principal Consultant Fujitsu. Hobbies outside of User groups and Stanley (wtfistheacevest.com) are strictly limited but include walking, swimming and dressmaking but mainly spending time with my daughter.
I want to present at RMOUG because the audience stretches my own understanding.
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RMOUG Training Days is a world-class event in a great city. I am looking forward to coming back every year, and learn from my fellow Oracle professionals.
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I enjoy a variety of activities such as hanging out with my newborn daughter and trail running along the James River here in Richmond, VA (although I'm not allowed to do both at the same time.) I'm excited to speak at RMOUG because I enjoy being able to contribute. Having attended many conferences, I have learned a lot from presenters that have helped me in my position; I hope to be able to share information that will be useful for others in their positions.
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I first attended RMOUG Training Days in 2000 as developer new to Oracle databases (8i at the time) and even to SQL. I have attended RMOUG Training Days every year since that first time (this will be my eleventh opportunity to attend) and have learned much from my annual attendance.
I have been presenting at RMOUG Training Days since Training Days 2002 because I enjoy learning more about my topics as I prepare the presentations and because I enjoy presenting topics that are a little out of the mainstream for Training Days.
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Cary Millsap runs a business, makes software, travels, cuts wood, plays baseball, and writes about the things he loves to think about -- http://carymillsap .blogspot.com.
I like coming to RMOUG because it's one of those events where I can count on finding my friends, and where I can meet lots of new people who are interested in Oracle performance.
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I have been into IT stuff for last 18 years and have worked as a (part-time) developer, sysadmin and DBA for over 16 years, since I was 15 years old. So my main interest and hobby is... technology :-)
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When not fooling around with Oracle, I spend my time helping out in a local non-profit organization, ride my bike or walk my daughter's dog through the park, sing off key in the shower, and read novels well into the night.
Why I want to present at RMOUG? I've spoken at RMOUG Training Days in the past and have always found the attendees to be an inquisitive and interactive bunch. In addition I get to go to other interesting sessions and learn things about our products from the perspective of real users with real problems.
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My interests include football (soccer), current affairs and traveling, and spending time with the family. I'm looking forward to getting back to Denver, hopefully doing a bit of ski-ing and getting the word out to DBAs about Warehouse Builder!
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My favorite hobby is flying with my old Piper Cherokee for business and fun. I fly by myself all business trips in Europe with exception of few during the winter time when the weather conditions are not good enough. Other hobbies are: cooking, baking bread and pizzas, singing and building wood fired brick ovens.
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I have been working with Oracle DBA and performance DBA for the past 16 years or so. I specialize in Performance issues, advanced RAC configuration and performance issues. I also deal with E-business suite 11i configuration issues. I am presenting on two topics 1) Why optimizer does not like my SQL? 2) Advanced RAC troubleshooting.
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Chen (Gwen) Shapira enjoys high adrenalin activities such as mountain biking, skiing, speaking in conferences and being a production DBA.
I want to present at RMOUG training days because in past years I’ve noticed that many of my favorite presenters appear in RMOUG every single year, so it must be an amazing conference.
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My name is Scott Spendolini, and when I'm not wrapped up in running Sumner Technologies or tinkering with Oracle APEX, I enjoy spending time with my wife & kids, watching football and college basketball, or sneaking in a round of golf with friends. I am excited to present at RMOUG, as this will not only be my first time presenting there, but also my first time in Denver outside of Concourse B. I am also excited to see the number of Oracle APEX users steadily increase over time.
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My name is Mike Swing and I live in Park City, Utah. I've been a DBA since 1989 and a ski bum since I was 4. Kayaking is another favorite sport with especially great scenery in southern Utah.
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