Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group
2011-2012 Board of Directors

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Board Members: Tim Gorman - President
Carolyn Fryc - Vice President/Director of Programs Brad Blake - Treasurer/Director of SIGS
Tom Green - Secretary/Director of Scholarship/Education
Ron Bich - Director of IS Pat Van Buskirk - Director of Newsletter
John Jeunnette - Director of Training Days Kellyn Pot'Vin - Director of Membership/Vendor Relations
Peggy King - Past President Kathy Robb - Board Member Emeritus
Ann Horton - Oracle Liaison Heidi Kuhn - RMOUG Administrative Assistant



Tim Gorman - President

Tim Gorman

Email: President@rmoug.org


Tim Gorman began his IT career in 1984 as a programmer on UNIX and VMS systems, working on medical and financial systems as an application developer, systems programmer, and systems administrator. He joined Oracle in 1990, became a technical manager in Oracle Consulting, then founded EvDBT.com in 1998. Mr. Gorman is co-author (with fellow RMOUG member Gary Dodge) of Essential Oracle8i Data Warehousing (2000) and Oracle8 Data Warehousing (1998) from John Wiley & Sons, co-author (3 others) of Beginning Oracle SQL (2010) from Apress, and co-author (with the Oak Table Network) of Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table (2004) and Expert Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table (2009), and he has served as technical reviewer for eight other published books.

Tim first joined RMOUG in 1993, presenting at the Training Days conference that year and at every Training Days conference since. He has presented numerous times at quarterly membership meetings, and contributed numerous articles for SQL_Update, the RMOUG newsletter. He has also presented at dozens of other Oracle Users Groups in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Tim joined the board of directors of RMOUG in 1995 as the first Oracle Corporation liaison, became programs director from 1997-2000 and 2001-2002, membership director 2000-2001, education director 2002-2003, president from 2003 to 2005, and Training Days director in 2006-2007.


Carolyn Fryc - Vice President/Director of Programs
  Carolyn Fryc, is a managing partner for Tantivy Enterprise Services, Inc., in Denver, CO. She has been a volunteer for over 3 years with RMOUG, as well as participated in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 RMOUG Training Days.
She has 7 + years of experience in designing business solutions, providing staffing services and overall working with customers to help achieve a greater value from their IT investments. She has a deep desire to help her customers improve their business processes, as well as streamline their operations, whether it's through software, staffing or solution design. She is the consummate customer advocate and works to ensure that they are getting their needs met, as well as being informed as to all potential solutions available to them. She is an independent, and is not tied to any solution or brand, as each customer is unique and should be treated as such. She prides herself on her commitment to her customers and her loyalty to them is unparalleled, as is her honesty and integrity that she brings to each business relationship she engages in.

The diversity of her solutions background is also a key component of her success, as she has a vast experience in applications, web development, infrastructure and managed services to draw from, so she is able to quickly identify opportunities for solving IT related business issues, being much more agile in responding to these scenarios than the majority of folks out there.
Carolyn Fryc

Office: 720-221-4432
E-mail:  ProgramsDir@rmoug.org 

Brad Blake - Treasurer/Director of SIGS
Brad Blake
Brad Blake
E-mail:
treasurer@rmoug.org
SIGSDir@rmoug.org

Brad Blake has been an RMOUG member since 2000, and served on the Board in 2009. He received his Bachelor Degree from Colorado State University in 1995, and went on to pursue an MSCIT degree from Regis University, with an emphasis in Database Technologies. He has been an Oracle DBA for over 10 years, most of which has been in the Biotech industry. He currently works for Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical company that focuses on oncology and hematology. He is also an Affiliate Faculty member for Regis University, teaching online courses in the graduate program since 2001, in the Database Technologies area. In 2006, he was awarded with the "Excellence in Teaching" award from Regis.

Tom Green - Secretary/Director of Scholarship/Education

 


Tom has been an Oracle DBA with the Department of Defense for 8 years. Their system includes 6 clustered databases. Over the years some of his duties have been to create and run scripts against the database, to partition tables, upgrade indexes, and remove test data from tables. He knows how to recover a database using the control file. He is very familiar with the uses of RMAN. He continually inspect redo logs to keep from losing critical data. In this way he keeps the database up and running at top performance. This allows his customers access to the information they need without maintenance delays and unscheduled downtime.

He has been a member of RMOUG since 2003, a Board member since 2010, and an RMOUG Training Days speaker contributor in 2009. Tom remembers 10 years ago when he attended his first Oracle Training Days, he met Stan Yellott, and Stan's love for Oracle rubbed off on Tom. Stan did not care what Tom knew, but he was just happy Tom was there and he wanted to share with Tom his wonderful Oracle world. Tom now feels that he has learned enough about Oracle to want to help continue Stan's work. For the last 7 years Tom has volunteered as room monitor at RMOUG Training Days. This was a good way to help people feel welcome to the Oracle fellowship. He is an objective thinker and a problem solver. He believes these skills will continue to make a valuable contribution to RMOUG.

Tom Green

Email: ScholarShipDir@rmoug.org

Ron Bich - Director of IS
 

Ron's IT career began in 1990 within the IBM mainframe world, looking back he finds it amazing to see how the world as evolved with an ever increasing presence of technology. After getting initiated into Oracle at his job in 1995, he was provided with incentive to become involved with RMOUG in various volunteer roles of which many of those roles have been on the Board of Directors. His early involvement put me in direct contact with two very talented individuals, Doug Faughnan and Stan Yellott. Their support for this organization went beyond their knowledge about Oracle and in that same spirit Ron's support has contributed improvements beyond his Oracle knowledge. This has been Ron's way of paying tribute to both of those individuals, by supporting RMOUG in improving membership benefits beyond his Oracle knowledge!

Ron Bich
Ron Bich, SofTec Solutions, Inc.
Phone:  303-838-5269
E-mail:  IsDir@rmoug.org
Pat Van Buskirk - Director of Newsletter
Director of Newsletter
Pat VanBuskirk
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Voice: 303-243-0737
Email:  NewsletterDir@rmoug.org

Pat Van Buskirk is an Oracle DBA and has been a mainframe programmer and Oracle Forms developer. She has acted as project manager for applications in manufacturing, insurance, education, research and education. Her hobby is horses and she is currently the Web Chair for the Elizabeth Stampede and Rodeo. She has recently joined RE/MAX Accord Home & Ranch in Elizabeth, CO.

John Jeunnette - Director of Training Days
  John has worked as an application architect and developer in a variety of industries ranging from government agencies to transit companies to pharmaceutical companies to non-profit organizations for longer than he cares to admit.

John has volunteered at RMOUG Training Days, ODTUG conferences, and International Oracle Usergroup Community (IOUC) activities in whatever roles required some help ranging from registration volunteer to conference chair. In 2006 he created the Conference Abstract Administration Tool used by over fifty conferences worldwide to process presentation submissions and registration.

John Jeunnette
E-mail:  TrainingDaysDir@rmoug.org

Kellyn Pot'Vin - Director of Membership/Vendor Relations
  Kellyn is a talented and accomplished multi-platform database administrator with 11 years of extensive experience in Oracle and SQL Server, numerous years experience in MySQL, Sybase and other database administration, database group management and technical project management. She has the proven ability to implement large-scale database servers for enterprise level environments, repeatable success in high-end environment performance tuning, migrations, disaster recovery and implementation. Kellyn is fluent as a liaison between technical and non-technical users and able to build trust through proven reliability and initiative.

Kellyn specializes in performance tuning, backup/recovery, monitoring, scripting, trouble-shooting, migrating/upgrading and managing of multi-platform database environments. Has presented at RMOUG, written database articles for multiple technical publications and maintains a popular blog on database performance techniques called DBA Kevlar, (dbakevlar.com).
Membership Director
Kellyn Pot'Vin
Email:  MembershipDir@rmoug.org
Peggy King - Past President
Past President
Peggy King, King Training
Business:      (303) 798-5727
Business:      (800) 252-0652
Email: PastPresident@rmoug.org
Peggy King has been managing Partner of King Training Resources since 1992. Her previous background includes securities, banking, and paralegal. Peggy has volunteered in several roles. They include: Training Days Director for 2004 and 2005; RMOUG Training Days; IOUG-A Live!; and, several years at other conferences serving on the Finance and Web committees for IOUG.
Kathy Robb - Board Member Emeritus
Membership Director
Kathy Robb
Arisant, LLC

Email: BoardMemberEmeritus@rmoug.org

Kathy Robb has been involved in Oracle technology since Oracle RDBMS 5, serving in a variety of capacities, including database support and administration, management, consulting and technical training. With over 20 years of Oracle-based experience, Kathy has worked with multiple Oracle technologies, particularly with Oracle Applications and Oracle Database, Kathy has a wide-ranging knowledge of technologies and support her customers in all areas of architecture, implementation and support.

Kathy is a co-founder of Arisant, LLC a Colorado company and Oracle Partner.

Ann Horton - Oracle Liaison
Oracle Liaison
Ann Horton
Oracle Liaison
Oracle Corporation

E-mail:  OracleLiaison@rmoug.org
Business: 303-334-7115

Ann Horton works for Oracle Corporation in Denver, and is the Oracle Liaison to RMOUG. Ann is currently a Sr. Applications Engineer developing Oracle Fusion Procurement Applications using Oracle ADF, 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 Fusion Middleware Group working with JDeveloper and ADF, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SOA, and Application Express.

Ann has over 30 years of experience applying Oracle technologies to solve enterprise business problems for numerous organizations. For over 10 years, Ann provided Oracle consulting services through her Denver-based consulting firm. Concurrently Ann taught evening graduate level university courses in Java, object-oriented technology, and database technologies as an Affiliate Professor for Regis University. In the early1990's Ann worked for Oracle Corporation as Manager of U.S. CASE Education, and is internationally known for her data modeling, database design, and Oracle Designer expertise. 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 and ODTUG, and a former ODTUG Board Member.

Heidi Kuhn - RMOUG Administrative Assistant

Heidi Kuhn, RMOUG Admin
Voice Mail: (303) 948-1786
E-mail: Admin@rmoug.org and heidikuhn@rmoug.org

Heidi Kuhn began working for the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group in 1997. Her main duties include maintaining membership records, sending group emails, bookkeeping, and helping the Board of Directors as needed. She especially enjoys corresponding with the members and meeting with them during Training Days and Quarterly Educational Workshops. If you need to reach her, email heidikuhn@rmoug.org" or call (303) 948-1786.