Presenter Biographies
Click on a name below to read the RMOUG 2013 Training Days presenter biography.
 Michael Abbey, Pythian |
| RMAN: Legacy Technology / Emerging Technology |
| Michael Abbey is a seasoned presenter at user group and vendor events. He cut his teeth in the early 1990s at IOUW and ECO and has been a popular and well-known resource in the Oracle space since V6. Michael has been practicing Oracle CORE DBA skills for 25 years and co-authored Oracle Press’ first offering in 1994. |
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| Karl Arao, Enkitec |
| Where Did My CPU Go? – Monitoring & Capacity Planning Adventures on a Consolidated Environment |
| A Consolidation Success Story |
| Karl Arao is an OCP-DBA, RHCE, Oracle ACE, and a proud member of the OakTable Network. 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. |
| 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 Oracle Open World Unconference, Oracle Closed World, OakTable World, Enkitec Extreme Exadata Expo, Virtathon, RMOUG, and Hotsos. In his spare time, he loves to mine the ASH and AWR and do adventure sports like underwater hockey, mountaineering, and mountain biking. |
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| Jason Armbruster, University of Colorado |
| Testable and Maintainable JQuery Composite Applications Using Oracle Service Bus and PeopleSoft |
| Jason Armbruster has 20 years of IT experience across most tiers of the enterprise application stack including system administration, database administration, web and appserver administration, and application development. He is currently focused on building Enterprise API’s for university applications. |
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| Galo Balda, Texas Health and Human Services Commission |
| Introduction to Regular Expressions in Oracle |
| Galo Balda is a talented Oracle database engineer and software developer working for the State of Texas where he specializes in the design and performance of the Medicaid applications. Galo possesses multiple Oracle certifications and a software development background on the banking and telecommunications industries, also. |
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| Glenn Berry, SQLskills |
| Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware |
| Glenn Berry is a principal consultant with SQLskills. He has worked as a SQL Server professional for many years in a variety of roles, most recently as database architect for Avalara in Parker, CO. Glenn has been a SQL Server MVP since 2007, and he has a whole collection of Microsoft certifications, including MCITP, MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, MCAD, and MCTS, which proves that he likes to take tests. His expertise includes DMVs, high availability, hardware selection and configuration, and performance tuning. |
| He is also an adjunct faculty member at University College – University of Denver, where he has been teaching since 2000. He has completed the Master Teacher Program at Denver University – University College. Glenn is heavily involved in the SQL Server community, and is a frequent speaker at user groups, SQL Saturdays, and the PASS Community Summit. He is the author of the book SQL Server Hardware, and he wrote chapters for SQL Server MVP Deep Dives and SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2 books. Glenn’s blog is at http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com/ and he can be reached by email at glenn@SQLskills.com, and on Twitter at GlennAlanBerry. |
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| Jordan Braunstein, Visual Integrator Consulting |
| Mobile Integration through Oracle Technologies |
| How to Avoid a Spaghetti Architecture with Oracle Fusion |
| 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. |
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 Bradley Brown, InteliVideo |
| CTO’s Perspective on Adding Geo-spatial and Location-Based Information to Your Data |
| Brad Brown is the CTO and founder of InteliVideo, a realtime video marketplace. Brad was a TUSC founder and is currently a board advisor for TUSC. TUSC was sold to Rolta in 2008. Brad also founded IntelliReal in 2005, which was sold to Equifax in 2011. His vast experience and expertise have earned him roles as acting chief information officer of several companies over more than 23 years at TUSC. Brad has also served on numerous company boards. |
| Brad is the author of several best selling Oracle Press books. Oracle awarded Brad the honorary title of Oracle ACE Director for Fusion Middleware. Brad taught “New Venture Creation” at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business for two years. In 2009, his alma mater Illinois State University put Brad into its first Hall of Fame for the College of Applied Science and Technology |
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| Stewart Bryson, Rittman Mead |
| Reporting against Transactional Schemas with OBIEE 11g |
| Aggregation: The BI Server versus the Oracle Optimizer |
| Stewart Bryson, an Oracle ACE award recipient, is US 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 US, UK, and Australia. |
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| Sheeri Cabral, Mozilla |
| Are You Getting the Best Out of Your MySQL Indexes? |
| Backing Up MySQL |
| Sheeri K. Cabral has a master’s degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University and a background in systems administration. Unstoppable as a volunteer and activist since age fourteen, Sheeri founded and organizes the Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MySQL User Group and is the creator and co-host of OurSQL: The MySQL Database Community Podcast, available on iTunes. |
| She was the first MySQL Oracle ACE Director, and is the founder (and current treasurer) of Technocation, a not-for-profit organization providing resources and educational grants for IT professionals. She wrote the MySQL Administrator’s Bible and has been a technical editor for high-profile O’Reilly books such as High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition and CJ Date’s SQL and Relational Theory. |
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| Karen Cannell, TH Technology |
| APEX Tabular Form Terrors and How to Overcome Them |
| Karen Cannell is president of TH Technology, a small consulting firm providing Oracle technology services, lately focused on Application Express. A mechanical engineer by degree (one of them), she has analyzed, designed, developed, converted, upgraded, enhanced, and otherwise worked on legacy and commercial database applications for over twenty-five years, concentrating on Oracle technologies since 1994. |
| She has worked with Application Express since its Web DB and HTMLDB beginnings, and continues to leverage the Oracle suite of tools to build quality web applications for clients in government, medical, and engineering industries. Karen is editor of the ODTUG Technical Journal and co-author of Agile Oracle Application Express and Beginning Oracle Application Express 4. Karen be contacted at kcannell@thtechnology.com. |
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| John Clarke, Centroid |
| Exadata Storage Indexes, Inside and Out |
| John Clarke is a senior Oracle architect who enjoys and specializes in Oracle performance engineering and large-scale Oracle architecture design implementations. John has been an Oracle DBA and infrastructure architect for nearly fifteen years. He has been interested in Exadata since its inception and launched Centroid’s Exadata Center of Excellence in 2011. Over the last several years, John has focused largely Exadata and engineered systems education, training, implementation, optimization, pre-sales and post-sales technical support for Exadata environments, and currently directs Centroid’s Infrastructure Practice. |
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| Maria Colgan, Oracle Corporation |
| Oracle Optimizer: Harnessing the Power of Optimizer Hints |
| Women in Technology Panel |
| 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. |
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| Andy Colvin, Enkitec |
| RMAN New Features in Oracle Database 12c |
| Managing Exadata with OEM 12c |
| Andy Colvin has worked with Oracle for more than ten years, spending the last six years with Enkitec. His experience includes Oracle database from version 7, and extensive time spent with Oracle RAC and Exadata, including teaching Enkitec’s course on Exadata administration. He is an Oracle Enterprise Linux Administrator Certified Associate who holds Oracle ACE status and has presented at the UK Oracle Users Group 2012, Enkitec’s E4 2012, and multiple Oracle OpenWorld conferences. Andy’s experiences with Oracle software and hardware are chronicled on his blog at http://blog.oracle-ninja.com. |
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| Bill Coulam, DB Artisans |
| Writing Sweet PL/SQL |
| 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. |
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| Randy Cunningham, SageLogix |
| Architecting High Availability for Success |
| 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 eighteen 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 an Oracle Certified Expert in Performance Tuning and an Oracle Certified Expert in RAC and Grid Administration. He also holds Oracle certifications for Oracle VM 3 and Oracle Linux. |
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| John Darrah, DBAK |
| Using Edition-Based Redefinition |
| Database Cloning Options in 11g |
| John Darrah is a technology principal and thought leader for DBAK where he brings more than thirteen years working in various Oracle environments. His background includes leadership in all aspects of Oracle administration, especially analysis, architecture, technical solutions, enterprise management, and project leadership. In driving business solutions for Oracle technology John draws on his work with Oracle Database through 11g, OPS, RAC, Data Guard, Oracle Application Server 9.0.4 and 10.1.2, Oracle SSO, OID, Portal, Oracle Applications 11.5.10 as well as Sun Solaris, Windows NT/2000, Linux, AIX, HPUX, J2EE, Client Server, and SOA. |
| He has worked in Oracle development, test, and production environments with a proven track record in all aspects of Oracle administration, modeling, development, and production. John frequently presents at key industry events including previously at RMOUG—and at Oracle OpenWorld and the Heartland OUG (HOUG). |
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| Mike Dean, Database Specialists |
| All About Oracle Auditing – Everything You Need to Know |
| Mike Dean is an Oracle Certified Professional who has been working with Oracle databases since 1996, mostly as a production DBA on classified government and commercial projects in the Washington, DC and Northern Virginia area. Since 2011, he has worked with Database Specialists, Inc. as a senior staff consultant helping customers with a wide variety of issues on their mission-critical systems. |
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| Faun deHenry, FMT Systems of Texas |
| How Mature is Your Organization? |
| Faun deHenry is president and CEO of FMT Systems of Texas. 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 is a member of the e-Learning Guild and ASTD. She is a recognized speaker and trainer on topics including business intelligence, business process innovation, sustaining competitive advantage, and strategic planning. |
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| Dominic Delmolino, Agilex Technologies |
| Fuzzy String Matching in Oracle |
| Bye-bye CONNECT BY – Using the New Recursive SQL Syntax |
| 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 US. 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. |
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| Jean-Pierre Dijcks, Oracle Corporation |
| 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. |
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| Robert Dow, Boss Software |
| Deploying 11g FMW Forms & Reports Servers with Webutil – Lessons Learned |
| Robert Dow is a senior software developer @ Boss Software. Robert formerly was with Oracle USA National Security Consulting Group. He has twenty-two years experience with Lockheed Martin Astronautics and EIS developing Oracle Systems. |
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| Mark Drake, Oracle Corporation |
| An Introduction to Oracle XML DB in the Latest Generation of Oracle Database Technology |
| 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. |
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| Jeff Eberhard, Smith Johnson Group |
| APEX – After the Wizards |
| You Can’t Do That with APEX! |
| Jeff Eberhard is a consultant with more then ten years of Oracle experience. Jeff is currently employed by Smith Johnson Group, working as an APEX developer for the Utah Department of Transportation. He is passionate about how Oracle Application Express can be used to build database-driven web applications. He has been developing web-based applications from HTMLDB 1.5 to APEX 4.1 and enjoys sharing his APEX experiences to help others. |
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| Jim Egan, Mantis Technology Group |
| Incremental Statistics for Partitioned Tables: What, Why, and How |
| Jim Egan is a DBA with twenty years of experience on multiple DBMS platforms. He has been working with Oracle for ten years. For the past six years his focus has been on design, tuning, and data movement, specifically for data warehouse implementations. He has presented and taught at past Sybase conferences. |
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| Chuck Ezell, Datavail |
| All the Leaves Aren’t Brown: Many Ways to Profile Your Application for Performance Improvements |
| Chuck Ezell has almost twenty years experience in application development. He hasworked in aerospace, defense, engineering, telecommunications, creative and media business sectors. As a senior applications tuner with Datavail, Chuck focuses his time on tuning Oracle EBS environments as well as other Open Source and COTS Java & .NET based applications. |
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| Mark Farnham, Rightsizing |
| An Alternative to Star Transformations: Spiny Starfish |
| 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 1980s 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 is often called upon when high throughput and massive migrations are involved. Mark is a frequent contributor to oracle-l, is proud to be a member of the OakTable Network (http://www.oaktable.net), and is 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 is currently serving as a board member of the IOUG. |
| 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, Kscope11, RMOUG Training Days 2012, Hotsos Symposium 2012, Collaborate 2012, and OOW 2012. |
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| Alex Fatkulin, Enkitec |
| Real World Experience Running GoldenGate on Exadata |
| Alex Fatkulin is a senior technical consultant with Enkitec. Before Enkitec Alex was working for Pythian as part of the Pythian Consulting Group. His primary interest lies with Oracle Core technologies. In his day-to-day job Alex helps customers deploy, manage, and troubleshoot complex Oracle systems running Exadata, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, and Oracle Streams. |
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| Eugene Fedorenko, CS Integra |
| Deep Dive into Oracle ADF: Advanced Techniques |
| Eugene Fedorenko is a senior analyst with extensive experience and management skills. He works for Ukrainian software company CS Integra. The company focuses on banking software and is a leader in the local market. The company has been an Oracle Platinum partner since 2010 and it was rewarded as the Best Independent Software Vendor in Eastern Europe region. |
| Eugene graduated from Kharkiv Aviation Institute in 1999 with a M.Sc. in computer science. He began his career in the company in 2000 as a developer. Currently he is a head of the largest department and run projects connected to Oracle Application Development Framework. He is an author of ADF practice blog http://adfpractice-fedor.blogspot.com/, and a member of ADF Enterprise Methodology Group. |
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| Daniel Fink, TZOD Consultancy |
| Tuning Untouchable SQL Using Profiles |
| Daniel Fink is a Senior Oracle Database Engineer and consultant, specializing in Oracle internals, optimization, troubleshooting, 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 11g. He is a member of the OakTable Network. |
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| David Fitzjarrell, Wipro/Infocrossing |
| Exadata Storage Indexes |
| David Fitzjarrell is a senior Oracle DBA at Wipro/Infocrossing. David is an Oracle Certified professional, blogger, and contributor to www.databasejournal.com. He has provided DBA services to companies such as American Airlines, the U.S. Postal Service, SiriusXM radio, 7-11, Pearson Education, and General Motors. For the last twenty-three years David has spent his time learning about Oracle and applying his knowledge to performance tuning issues, database creation and configuration, data migration, and disaster recovery. Recently he has been applying his skills to Exadata, which he enjoys immensely. |
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| John Garmany, ProxITec |
| Indexing, the Good, the Bad, the Too Many, the Wrong Type |
| 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. |
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| Patrick Gates, Datavail |
| How to Build a Personal DBA Lab to Keep Up with Ever-Changing Demands |
| Patrick Gates has more than fifteen years’ experience in database architecture, administration, performance tuning, and infrastructure management to lead the DBA teams that provide 24×7 Oracle database support to Datavail customers. Prior to joining Datavail, Patrick was a senior architect at Level 3 Communications, where he was responsible for VLDB & VMDB management of multiple 30+TB instances, database, and storage virtualization, as well as management, development support, and training for internal DBAs on Oracle RAC, query tuning, and advanced partitioning. Prior to Level 3, Patrick was lead database administrator at Etoys and Corporate Express, building and maintaining their critical OLTP, eCommerce, and DW systems. Patrick holds a bachelor’s of science degree in management information systems from the University of Oklahoma. |
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| Kathy Gibbs, Confio Software |
| Oracle RAC on VMware – Getting the Best of Both Worlds |
| Kathy Gibbs has over nineteen years of IT work experience and over thirteen 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. |
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| Tim Gorman, Evergreen Database Technologies |
| Compression and Oracle Database |
| Scaling to Infinity: Making Star Transformations Sing |
| 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, and is currently president. He has co-authored five books and technically reviewed eight others. Tim has presented at Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, Kscope, UKOUG, Hotsos Symposium, Miracle Open World, as well as local Oracle user groups in North and South America. Tim is an Oracle ACE Director and a member of the OakTable Network. |
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| Kent Graziano, Data Warrior |
| Using OBIEE and Data Vault to Virtualize Your BI Environment: An Agile Approach |
| Five Ways to Make Data Modeling Fun |
| Top 10 Cool Features in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler |
| Kent Graziano is the owner of Data Warrior in The Woodlands, Texas and a lifetime member of RMOUG and ODTUG. He is a certified Data Vault Master, Oracle ACE Director, and expert data modeler and architect with thirty years of experience, including over twenty years working using Oracle, Oracle tools, and doing data warehousing. Kent has written numerous articles and done over fifty presentations (both nationally and internationally). |
| He was the recipient of the 1999 Chris Wooldridge Award (from IOUG) for outstanding contributions to the Oracle user community. In 2003 he was presented with The Doug Faughnan Award for his dedicated service and outstanding contributions to RMOUG. In 2007, he was the recipient of the ODTUG Volunteer Award. He is a co-author of four books including Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing an Enterprise Standards Document, and Supercharge Your Data Warehouse. You can follow him on Twitter @kentgraziano. |
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| Eric Greenfeder, Visual Integrator Consulting |
| Architecting Big Data and Private Cloud Solutions Through Oracle Coherence |
| Eric Greenfeder leads the SOA and Integration Practice. He’s responsible for sales, technical vision, implementation oversight, and client relationship management. He is also heading up product management. Eric has over twenty years of experience in the IT industry. He has held enterprise architect and development management positions for several Fortune 500 companies and specializes in infrastructure architecture, application development management, SOA implementation/governance, security architecture, virtualization, utility computing, and MDM/business intelligence solutions. Eric received a bachelor of science degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and MBA from Fairleigh Dickerson University. |
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| Janis Griffin, Confio Software |
| Fine Tune Oracle Execution Plans for Performance Gains |
| Looney Tuner? No, There IS a Method to My Madness! |
| 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 real-time routing databases, OLTP business to business applications, and many financial/sales and marketing databases. As a principal architect and a senior manager, Janis mentored many other DBAs on best practices in database design and performance tuning. She has proven to be an effective collaborator providing cutting-edge Oracle solutions. |
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| Kyle Hailey, Delphix |
| Instant Database Cloning with Thin Provisioning and Virtual Databases |
| Kyle Hailey is the designer of Embarcadero Technology’s DB Optimizer and a principal designer for the Oracle Enterprise Manager performance pages. He is a member of Oracle Oak Table, the co-author of Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table, and was a technical editor of Oracle Wait Interface. He holds a patent in the area of database performance diagnosis, and has been a speaker at Hotsos, NOCOUG, RMOUG, NYCOUG, Oracle World and DB Forum. Kyle also teaches classes around the world on Oracle performance tuning. Currently Kyle works as a performance architect at Delphix along with other industry leading software, kernel, and file system designers who are taking corporate data management to a new level of agility. |
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| Craig Halle, The Bean Consulting Group |
| A Boost of Confidence with Financial Data Quality Management: Leveraging FDM to Enhance a Planning Application |
| Craig Halle is a senior consultant with The Bean Consulting Group specializing in Hyperion Planning and Oracle Essbase implementations. He has experience working closely with higher education institutions as well as pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies. |
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| Frits Hoogland, VX Company |
| Exadata and OLTP |
| About Multiblock Read |
| Advanced Profiling of Oracle Using Function Calls—A Hacking Session |
| Frits Hooglan is an IT professional specializing in Oracle database performance and internals who makes frequent Oracle technical presentations in the Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Slovenia, and the US. He actively contributes to the Oracle community, especially Oracle Forums. In 2009 he received an Oracle ACE award from the Oracle Technology Network and a year later became an Oracle ACE Director. In 2010 he joined the OakTable Network. In addition to developing his Oracle expertise, Frits works with MySQL, Postgre SQL, Oracle’s Application Server Suite, the Apache web server, and other relevant operating systems. |
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| Ann Horton, Oracle Corporation |
| Web Development Techniques from an Oracle Fusion Applications Developer |
| Women in Technology Panel |
| 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. |
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| Dan Hotka, Training Specialist |
| Introduction to PL/SQL |
| 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. |
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| Jeff Jacobs, PayPal |
| High Performance Messaging with Oracle Advanced Queuing |
| OMG! Identifying and Refactoring Common SQL Performance Anti-Patterns |
| Jeff Jacobs is an Oracle ACE and has over twenty years experience working with Oracle. He is a senior site data architect for PayPal and 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. |
| Prior to joining PayPal, he provided consulting services 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 Open World, Collaborate, ODTUG Kscope, NoCOUG, and other regional user group meetings and webinars. |
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| Ken Johnston, American Database Consulting |
| Oracle 11g Strategies for the Tuning Warrior! |
| Ken Johnston has been working with Oracle since 1998. Ken’s career started out working at Oracle as an RDBMS support engineer taking front line support calls and working with some of the very brightest minds in the database business. Ken went on to work as a consultant for such companies as TUSC, CENTECH, CommVault, Xtivia, Northrop Grumman, and FGM. |
| In 2011 Ken started his own consulting company, American Database Consulting (ADC). ADC specializes in technical training with an emphasis in ORACLE, www.americandatabaseconsulting.com. Ken has a master’s degree in management information systems and is Oracle 11g OCP certified. Also, Ken is a Certified CommVault Administrator and Comptia Security+ certified. |
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| Steve Jones, SQLServerCentral |
| Database Maintenance Essentials |
| Steve Jones has been a SQL Server DBA at a variety of large and small companies since 1991. He has worked in the utility, software, import/export, building, financial, and education industries. He is currently the editor of SQLServerCentral, a community with over a million and a half data professionals. |
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| Nabil Juwale, SQLServerCentral |
| Using the Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) Tool with Oracle EBS – AR Interface Programs |
| Nabil Juwale is an applications developer with DBAK and has worked in the IT industry since 1992. He has worked with Oracle Development products since 1998 and with Oracle Applications since 2000. Nabil has worked extensively with relational databases (Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL) designing and implementing several database applications in both Client/Server and Web-based environments. Over the years, he has developed strong data (logical and physical) and process modeling skills. |
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| Maxym Kharchenko |
| SQL Pagination Pattern: Designing Efficient Top-N and Pagination Queries |
| Maxym Kharchenko is a database kernel developer turned DBA, which gives him one of the biggest advantages out there: he knows Oracle as a C application and set his expectations accordingly. Maxym currently works as a senior DBA in Seattle, WA and enjoys exploring database technology and occasionally blogging about it at intermediatesql.com. He is also an OCM and a proud former vice president of Suncoast ORACLE users group. |
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| John King, King Training Resources |
| Oracle 12c and 11gR2 New Features for Developers: What You Need to Know |
| Oracle ADF Task Flow Beyond the 10-Minute Demo |
| Oracle ADF & JDeveloper for Forms Developers |
| 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 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. |
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| John Kohnke, BI Acuity |
| Implementing OBIEE the Hacker Way: Facebook’s Approach to Implementing Oracle Business Intelligence |
| John Kohnke is the president and a cofounder of BI Acuity where he both leads complex client engagements and directs the business. Prior to founding BI Acuity John held a variety of roles driving implementation of data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. Past clients/employers included Facebook, GE, Sun Microsystems, Johnson Controls, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Qwest Communications, Bank of America, and Dean Witter, among others. John graduated from the University of Wisconsin with degrees in management information systems and finance. |
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| Peter Koletzke, Quovera |
| WebLogic Server Application Security – Implementing the Superstition With ADF Security |
| The Arrangement of the Screens: Introduction to Layout in ADF Faces |
| Peter Koletzke is a technical director and principal instructor for Quovera in Mountain View, California. He has over twenty-nine years of industry experience and has presented at various Oracle users group conferences more than 300 times. Additionally, he has won awards such as Pinnacle Publishing’s Technical Achievement, ODTUG 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 ODTUG Volunteer of the Year. |
| Peter is an Oracle ACE Director, an Oracle Certified Master and coauthor—variously with Duncan Mills, Avrom Roy-Faderman, and Dr. Paul Dorsey—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. |
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| Christo Kutrovsky, Pythian |
| The Answer to Free Memory Swap Oracle and Everything |
| Measuring Performance in Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux |
| An Oracle ACE with a deep understanding of databases, application memory, and input/output interactions, Christo Kutrovsky is an expert at optimizing the performance of the most complex infrastructures. Methodical and efficiency-oriented, he equates the role of a Pythian Consulting Group consultant in many ways with that of a data analyst: both require a rigorous sifting-through of information to identify solutions to often large and complex problems. A dynamic speaker, Christo has delivered presentations at the Independent Oracle Users Group, the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG), the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group, Oracle Open World and other industry conferences. |
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| Simon Law, Oracle Corporation |
| How to Use Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database for Real-Time Business Intelligence |
| Application-Tier High-Performance OLTP and BI with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database |
| Simon Law is a principal product manager responsible for the Oracle In-Memory Database Cache and TimesTen In-Memory Database products at Oracle Corporation. 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. |
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| Debra Lilley, Fujitsu |
| Extending Fusion Applications: What, Who, Why, When, and HOW |
| Women in Technology Panel |
| Debra Lilley is Oracle Alliance director for Fujitsu UK. She is an ACE Director (applications), past president and current council member of UKOUG. She previously lead the IOUC product development committee which gave global input into the development of Fusion Applications. 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. |
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| Daniel Liu, Oracle Corporation |
| What’s Next for Oracle Database? |
| Daniel Liu is a principal solution architect at Oracle Corporation and co-author of Oracle Database 10g New Features by Rampant TechPress. Daniel is a recognized Oracle expert and a frequent speaker at various Oracle conferences, 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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| Dustin Marx, Raytheon Company |
| Charting Oracle Database Data with JavaFX and Groovy |
| 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. |
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| Robert Mason, Regis University |
| Oracle Text and XML DB, Indexes, and Querying Data |
| Bob Mason joined Regis University as a full-time professor and MS database 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 PhD dissertation research was focused on the resolution of the interoperability gap challenges that exist between Learning Object Repositories and Learning Management Systems using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). |
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| Kat Meadows, Xtivia |
| SQL Server Maintenace Plans |
| Kat Meadows has been working with SQL Server since 1998 starting with SQL Server 6.5 up to the latest and greatest. Over the years, Kat has worked in many different environments from manufacturing to dotcoms to military and government institutions, and is now back in the private sector. Currently, as a senior DBA at Xtivia, she is focused on monitoring SQL Server installations and troubleshooting performance issues. Kat is also the president of the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group. She possesses a bachelor’s degree in managing information systems from Colorado Technical University. |
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| Kuassi Mensah, Oracle Corporation |
| What Is in the Next Generation of Oracle Database Technology for Java Developers? |
| In-Database MapReduce: When Hadoop Meets Exadata |
| Kuassi Mensah is director of product management for Oracle database access frameworks (Net Services, DRCP, TAF), database APIs (Java, C/C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl), and In-Database MapReduce. 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. |
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| Michael Messina, Rolta |
| Partitioning and Compression for Performance and Manageability |
| Michael Messina is an Oracle consultant with Rolta Solutions, TUSC Infrastructure Services. He is an Oracle ACE and past presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, RMOUG, and Collaborate. Michael’s experience includes nearly twenty years in database, system design, and development, with sixteen plus years in a database analyst/administration role and seven plus years in a leadership capacity. Michael has demonstrated leadership in many performance improvement, maintenance, and implementation projects on large, highly available systems. |
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| Jordan Meyer, Rittman Mead |
| Social Network Analysis with Oracle Tools |
| Data Science for OBI Professionals |
| Jordan Meyer is a principal consultant with Rittman Mead, a leading consultancy focused on delivering Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence technology solutions. Specializing in information visualization and advanced analytics, Jordan has ten years of academic and professional experience with a wide variety of Business Intelligence and statistical programming software. |
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| Cary Millsap, Method R Corporation |
| Performance is a Feature: Here is the Specification |
| 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 who are well-known throughout the Oracle community. Cary blogs at http://carymillsap.blogspot.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/carymillsap. |
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| Timothy Mishek, Exelis |
| Help! Oracle Flashback to the Rescue |
| With over sixteen years of Oracle DBA and application development experience from the IT industry, Tim Mishek continues to be an active IT professional with consulting, training, and educational projects. He has experience with both database development and production support and currently works for Exelis as a database administrator. In addition, Tim is OCP certified for Oracle 11g Database Administration. |
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| Daniel Morgan, Morgan’s Library |
| Integrating ODAs with ZFS to Create a Secure Scalable High Availability Environment |
| New Features in Database 12c You Won’t Hear about from Oracle |
| Oracle ACE Director Dan Morgan is the Morgan behind Morgan’s Library (www.morganslibrary.org) on the web. In 2009 Morgan retired from the University of Washington where he developed the Oracle instruction program and had been its primary instructor since 1998. |
| In addition to his work at UW he also served as an adviser to the outreach program at the University of California Berkeley, has been a consultant to Harvard University, and has been a guest lecturer on Oracle at the University of Oslo (Norway) and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). Morgan is a member of the board of directors of the Western Washington Oracle Users Group, a member of the executive boards for the Vancouver and Victoria Oracle Users Groups in Canada and a former chair of the Washington Software Association’s Database Special Interest Group. |
| He has also been a member of UKOUG, the International Oracle zSeries SIG, the Oracle RAC SIG, and BAARF, as well as being 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 presenting at conferences including OpenWorld, Collaborate, ODTUG Kscope, IOUC International Leadership Conference, and has presented or taught Oracle in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Sweden, UK, Uruguay, and the US. |
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| Karen Morton, Enkitec |
| Understanding Optimizer Statistics for Developers: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor |
| Tuning SQL for Oracle Exadata: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly |
| Women in Technology Panel |
| For more than 25 years, Karen Morton has worked in information technology starting out as a mainframe programmer, developer, DBA, data architect, author, researcher, educator, and consultant. Having used Oracle since the early ’90s, she began teaching others how to use Oracle over a decade ago. Karen is the co-author of three books from Apress: Beginning Oracle SQL, Expert Oracle Practices: Database Administration from the Oak Table, and Pro Oracle SQL. Karen is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups, a member of the OakTable Network, and an Oracle ACE. |
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| Lynn Munsinger, Oracle Corporation |
| Complimentary Upgrade to First-Class: ADF Development Team Essentials |
| How to Migrate an Oracle Forms Application to Oracle ADF |
| Lynn Munsinger is a senior group product manager in the Java Tools Development group at Oracle Corporation. She wears many hats, focusing on enabling customers who are adopting the ADF framework. As a product manager, she works to ensure that Oracle’s internal and external customers have an easy time developing applications with ADF. As the ADF collateral manager, she leads a team devoted to conveying the many features of ADF in an approachable manner. |
| She is co-author of an in-depth book on ADF titled, Oracle Fusion Developer Guide—Building Rich Internet Applications with Oracle ADF Business Components and ADF Faces. Lynn is passionate about teaching all types of developers how to get the most out of ADF, from the Oracle/ADF neophyte to the seasoned Java EE developer. Lynn has created a myriad of sample applications to illustrate features and best practices, and she is a frequent presenter at user group and industry conferences. |
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| Tyler Muth, Oracle Corporation |
| Achieving Peak Performance on Exadata |
| Tyler Muth is the chief database engineer for Oracle Public Sector, specializing in Exadata performance. His primary focus is leading customer Proof Of Value (POV) or benchmarks on the Exadata platform. Tyler was one of the early developers to join the Application Express development team in 2000, where he worked for over five years developing a database centric development tool. He has been a technical reviewer of several of Tom Kyte’s books, served as a contributing author on asktom.oracle.com, and has managed a production database in zero-gravity. |
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| Arup Nanda, Starwood Hotels |
| Beginning Performance Tuning |
| RAC for Beginners |
| Stats with Confidence |
| Exadata for Oracle DBAs |
| Arup Nanda has been an Oracle technologist for nineteen years, touching all aspects of the database from modeling to performance issues to disaster recoveries. He has presented 500+ articles, presented 150+ sessions and coauthored four books. He won Oracle’s DBA of the Year in 2003 and Enterprise Architect of the Year in 2012. He is an Oracle ACE Director and member of the OakTable Network. |
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| Elaine Nguyen, Visual Integrator Consulting |
| GE Appliances Case Study: Automating Supply Chain, Trading Partner Integration, and Corporate Financials Through Oracle Technology |
| Elaine Nguyen leads Visual Integrators Business Operations and Solutions. She has overseen the growth of Visual Integrator from a grassroots startup in 2003 to a multi-million dollar company. She provides strategic guidance, marketing support, business operations, and financial services for the company. Elaine is a recognized thought leader in Financial Services, Sarbanes Oxley, Corporate Audit, and Financial Risk Management and Services. She has authored and executed numerous compliance methodologies for streamlining clients’ business processes. |
| Prior to Visual Integrator, Elaine led Sarbanes’ initiatives at First Data Corporation (FDC) to help them realize their compliance goals in a timely fashion. She designed and developed their templates, project plans, and documentation while leading a team of staff auditors. Prior to FDC, Elaine worked at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), where she participated in audit services as a public accountant. She was directly involved and led numerous audit engagements in the DC Metro and Denver areas for public companies such as: Discovery Channel, Microsystems, Washington Post, and ATT Broadband. Elaine began her career as an accountant at Federal Express. Elaine has a bachelor of science and master’s of accountancy from Mississippi State University. In her spare time, Elaine enjoys skiing, hiking, traveling, and celebrity gossip. |
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| Gregory Opie, ECS Team |
| Automate Your Processes with Oracle Business Process Management Suite and SOA Suite |
| Greg Opie is currently director of solutions architecture and Oracle practice lead at the ECS Team. Greg has over twenty-five years of proven success and leadership in product strategy, product management, project 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 Oracle Unified BPM Suite Implementation Specialist, and has presented on Oracle Fusion Middleware topics at Oracle OpenWorld and RMOUG Training Days. ECS is a professional services firm that delivers business value through technology and strategic services. ECS specialties include enterprise architecture, SOA, application design, software development, and integration services utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
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| Kerry Osborne, Enkitec |
| Hadoop Meets Exadata – Take II |
| Kerry Osborne began working with the first public release of Oracle (version 2) in 1982. For the past several years, he has been focused on understanding Oracle internals and solving performance problems. He is an Oracle ACE Director and is a proud member of the OakTable Network. He has also co-authored two books (Pro Oracle SQL and Expert Oracle Exadata). |
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| Chris Ostrowski, Avout |
| Bring Your iPads! (Because You’re Gonna Build a Mobile APEX App in One Hour!) |
| APEX: Building Your First Web Service |
| Chris Ostrowski is an Oracle Solution architect director for Avout 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 three books from Oracle Press, Oracle Application Server 10g Web Development, The Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook, and the upcoming Migrating to Fusion Applications, is a certified Oracle SOA Implementation Champion, and is a proud member of the Oracle ACE Program. |
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| Jigar Parsana, Vgo Software/NEOS |
| Forms to Struts 2, Spring, and Hibernate: Value & Gotcha’s |
| 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 an MS in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
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| David Peake, Oracle Corporation |
| Building Mobile Applications with Oracle Application Express |
| Oracle Database Cloud Service |
| 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). |
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| George Peck, ABLAZE Group |
| Rapid Fire BI from Oracle with Tableau 8 |
| George Peck has been working exclusively in business intelligence and databases for over sixteen years. Starting with early reporting tools in the mid 90s, George has worked with various report, query, and dashboard products, including the latest in-memory BI toolsets. He has presented at various user conferences and local chapter meetings, and was presented with Best Speaker awards at several. George was also named Training Partner of the Year by several BI vendors. George is the author of seven editions of Crystal Reports: The Complete Reference, as well as Crystal Reports Professional Results, all published by McGraw-Hill. |
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| Kellyn Pot’Vin, Enkitec |
| EM CLI, How to Make Your Job Easier with the Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface |
| Women in Technology Panel |
| Sherlock Holmes for the DBA |
| Kellyn Pot’Vin, (pronounced Pote-Vaughn) has been a database administrator for twelve 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 Enkitec, an Oracle centric partner out of Texas. |
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| Gary Propeck, Hotsos Enterprises |
| Mysteries of Oracle Blocks and Locks Revealed |
| 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 a Hotsos instructor where he primarily teaches SQL Optimization. |
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| Michael Rainey, Rittman Mead |
| GoldenGate and ODI – A Perfect Match for Real-Time Data Warehousing |
| Michael Rainey is a principal consultant with Rittman Mead, a leading consultancy focused on delivering Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence technology solutions. Specializing in Oracle Data Integrator, Michael has developed several solutions for migrating various data warehouse tools to ODI using the ODI SDK. In his work, Michael has completed various ODI and Oracle GoldenGate implementation projects, sharing his data integration knowledge along the way on the Rittman Mead blog. |
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| Nicholas Ratanasin, Oracle Corporation |
| Oracle Access Control – Beyond Database Privileges |
| Nicholas Ratanasin is a principal consultant in Oracle’s National Security Group, which caters to US customers in the Intelligence Community, DoD, US Armed Forces, federal/international law enforcement, and homeland security communities. Overall, he has been in the federal services community for about eight years, and has been an Oracle DBA for thirteen years. He specializes in the full software lifecycle of database implementations, as well as applying database security principles to ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance. |
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| Dave Rubin, Oracle Corporation |
| NoSQL and ACID Transactions – A Peaceful Coexistence |
| Dave Rubin has extensive background in big data systems. Prior to Oracle, Dave was with Cox Enterprises where he ran the infrastructure engineering organization responsible for developing big data systems in the online display advertising vertical. Previously, he ran the engineering teams at Rapt Inc., delivering price optimization and inventory forecasting solutions to online media companies. Dave started his career at Sybase where he worked on various parts of the database kernel including access methods, query optimization, resource management, and transaction management. He holds four U.S. patents in the areas of query optimization and advanced transaction models. |
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| David Ryll, DLR Consulting |
| Oracle SQL Statement Tuning Using DBMS_XPLAN |
| David Ryll is an enterprise level architect and database implementation specialist with DLR Consulting. He has over twenty five years of hands on Oracle implementation and development expertise. His work focuses on driving simplification, efficiency, speed and agility within the available technology footprint. He is experienced in planning, designing, developing, leading, and implementing new technology based initiatives and providing solution direction and technical guidance. In the past he has regularly presented seminars, presentations, and sessions at the RMOUG Training Days, OOW, IOUG, and other database related conferences, shows, and events. |
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| Peter Scott, Rittman Mead |
| Extending Oracle’s Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for a Real Time and Big Data World |
| Tuning Real Time Data Warehouses – A Guide from the Field |
| 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 US, 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 the US. |
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| Christopher Shaw, Xtivia |
| Highly Available and Disaster Recoverable with SQL Server |
| Chris Shaw started his database career in 1993. He began by working with Lotus during his time in the Marine Corps. Following his work with the Marine Corps, Chris continued working with databases for companies such as Wells Fargo, Pulte Mortgage, and Yellow Pages. He later consulted with insurance companies including Anthem Blue Shield and Admini Quest. |
| Chris has been writing and speaking about SQL Servers for over fifteen years at events such as SQL Connections, Pass, and SSWUG Ultimate conferences. Chris was the conference director for SSWUG in 2008. Chris received the Microsoft MVP award in 2009, 2010, 2011, and just received his fourth MVP award in April of 2012. He is the founding member of the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group and presently presides as the co-president. |
| Chris has many featured articles on the SSWUG website. He was a contributing author for SQL Server 2005 Bible and SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2. and SQL Server 2012 Best Practices. Blogs, information, questions, quizzes, and interviews can be found at Chris’ blog site atchrisshaw.wordpress.com. He can also be reached on twitter at @SQLShaw, or by email at Chris@sqlshaw.com. |
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| Christian Shay, Oracle Corporation |
| What’s New for Oracle and .NET |
| What’s New for Oracle Database on Windows |
| Christian Shay is a product manager at Oracle USA where he is responsible for Oracle Database on Windows as well as .NET and Visual Studio integration with Oracle. Christian presents at a variety of events including Openworld, user group conferences, and also at Microsoft events such as TechEd. Learn more about Oracle’s integration with Microsoft Windows at http://otn.oracle.com/windows. |
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| Shay Shmeltzer, Oracle Corporation |
| Oracle ADF – The No Slides Overview |
| Develop Compelling On-Device Mobile Apps – The Simpler Way |
| Shay Shmeltzer leads the outbound product management team for Oracle’s development team. He has been working with the Oracle development tools for over twenty years in various roles. Shay is a frequent presenter at industry events, has published multiple articles and blogs regularly at http://blogs.oracle.com/shay. |
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| Carlos Sierra, Oracle Corporation |
| How to Improve SQL Performance with New SQL Health Check Tool |
| How to Create in 5 Minutes a SQL Tuning Test Case Using SQLTXPLAIN |
| Carlos Sierra is the author of some popular tools for SQL Tuning: SQLTXPLAIN (SQLT), SQL Health Check (SQLHC), and Trace Analyzer (TRCANLZR) among others. He was a speaker at the 2012 OOW and has been a speaker at other Oracle performance conferences, including the recognized Hotsos Seminar. |
| Carlos currently works in the area of SQL Tuning for the Server Technologies (ST) Center of Expertise (CoE) at Oracle USA. His role includes the design and development of support tools for SQL Tuning, as well as the development and delivery of internal workshops also for SQL Tuning. In addition to these two main functions, Carlos is constantly helping peers and other professionals to diagnose SQL statements performing poorly. |
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| Jeff Smith, Oracle Corporation |
| What’s New in Oracle SQL Developer and SQL Developer Data Modeler |
| Jeff Smith is a product manager for Oracle Corporation, 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. You can get a pretty good idea of Jeff’s take on the current state of affairs in the world of Oracle and SQL Developer by reading his blog over at http://www.thatjeffsmith.com. |
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| Scott Spendolini, Enkitec |
| Building Commercial Applications with APEX |
| High Quality PDF Printing with APEX & PL/PDF |
| Scott Spendolini is executive director at Enkitec, a world-class Oracle® services, education and solutions firm founded in 2004. He has assisted a number of clients from various verticals with their Oracle APEX development and training needs. Spendolini 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. He is a recipient of the Oracle ACE Director designation and is also a co-author of the book Pro Oracle Application Express. |
| In 2009 Spendolini, along with ODTUG, was presented with the Oracle Innovation Award for his work on ODTUG’s public website, odtug.com. Spendolini is also an Oracle Certified Oracle Application Express developer. Prior to joining Enkitec, Spendolini co-founded and ran Sumneva and Sumner Technologies from 2005 through 2012, which focused on Oracle APEX services, education 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. |
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| Brian Statkevicus, ECS Team |
| Applying SOA to the Cloud |
| Brian Statkevicus is currently a senior consultant for the Oracle Practice of ECS Team, a professional services firm that delivers business value through technology and strategic services. ECS specialties include enterprise architecture, SOA, application design, software development, and integration services utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Brian has over fifteen years of experience as a “full service” architect with Integration/SOA solutions, having worked for both BEA, Oracle, and various SIs that implement Oracle solutions. He has presented at internal Oracle forums and external ones such as Technology Executives Club and SISA. |
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| Arian Stijf, Arven |
| Fun Things to Do with BI/XML-Publisher |
| Arian Stijf started work on the Oracle eBusiness Suite (Apps) with Oracle support in 1998, first doing financials and AOL online support. After this he moved to Oracle Premium Support delivering on-site eBS support, consultancy, and DBA. In 2001 Arian switched to a small consultancy company where he delivered eBS DBA, eBS Technical consultancy and training. Since 2011 Arian has worked as a free-lance eBS consultant and trainer, specializing in SOA/XML-Gateway, Workflow/Business Event System, Concurrent processing, and eBS Security. |
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| Jared Still, Pythian |
| Optimizing and Simplifying Complex SQL with Advanced Grouping |
| Jared Still is a senior DBA with the Pythian Group. His experience includes working with Oracle databases beginning with version 7.0. While Oracle has expanded to encompass many aspects of the application environment, Jared’s focus has been on the database itself. This includes primarily SQL, schema design, and performance tuning. |
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| David Stokes, Oracle Corporation |
| MySQL Basics |
| MySQL Workbench – An Introduction |
| MySQL Replication |
| Dave Stokes is a MySQL community manager for Oracle. Previously he was the MySQL certification manager for MySQL AB and Sun. He has worked for companies ranging alphabetically from the American Heart Association to Xerox. Dave has an MBA from the University of San Diego and lives in Texas. |
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| Anthony Stonaker, University of Colorado |
| Optimizing Oracle Service Bus Developer Tools and Workflow: A University of Colorado Case Study |
| Anthony Stonaker is a data integration developer at the University of Colorado. He has worked integrations development on multiple platforms, including Tuxedo/C, PHP, .Net, and Oracle Service Bus. |
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| Suzanne Strasser, Return Path |
| Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Metrics Monitoring and Management Repository Views: Tips and Tricks |
| Suzanne Strasser is an Oracle database administrator at Return Path, where she is responsible for management and performance tuning of very large Oracle databases in a 24×7 production environment. She has been working with Oracle databases since 1994, with areas of expertise in database performance tuning, monitoring, data modeling, and replication. Suzanne enjoys mentoring software engineers at Return Path on database schema design and SQL query tuning. |
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| Bryan Stroble, DBAK |
| The Cloud: Separating Myth From Reality |
| Bryan Stroble is a senior level 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. |
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| Calvin Sun, Oracle Corporation |
| Better Availability with MySQL Online Operations |
| Calvin Sun is senior engineering manager of InnoDB team at Oracle. He joined the InnoDB team in early 2008. Prior to that, Calvin was a development manager at MySQL, managing MySQL storage engines and 3rd party storage engine vendors relationships. He has over fifteen years of database development experience, mostly on various storage engines. |
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| Mike Swing, TruTek |
| Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Database Tuning for Packaged Applications |
| Mike Swing has been an Oracle Apps DBA with TruTek since 1996. He is an OCP DBA and Oracle ACE. He has been a software engineer since 1986 and has two degrees in physics. Mike has been a presenter with OOW, IOUG, OAUG, EOUG, UKOUG, EOAUG, and RMOUG since 1997. |
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| George Trujillo, Hortonworks |
| Demystifying MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers |
| Demystifying Physical and Virtual Hadoop |
| George Trujillo is an internationally recognized speaker and leader in the Cloud/Virtualization, Big Data, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, MySQL, and Open Source Software user communities. Industry recognitions include: Oracle Double ACE in Oracle Fusion Middleware and MySQL, Sun Ambassador for Sun Microsystem’s Application Middleware Platform, VMware Certified Instructor, and MySQL Certified DBA. |
| Achievements include serving on the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) Board of Directors, Oracle Fusion Council, and Oracle Beta Leadership Council. George has been selected as one of the IOUG’s “Oracles of Oracle” as well as a Master Presenter for the IOUG’s Master Series presentations. |
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| Tim Vlamis, Vlamis Software Solutions |
| Using Maps and Geo Spatial Analytics in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g |
| An expert in the visualization of data and the design of business intelligence dashboards, Tim Vlamis combines a strong background in the application of business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data mining with extensive experience in business modeling and valuation analysis, new product forecasting, and new business development processes and scenario analyses. Tim has assisted several high tech start ups, led partnership formations and dissolutions in Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, and Canada, and negotiated acquisitions in Mexico and Canada. He earned his Professional Certified Marketer (PCM) designation from the American Marketing Association and is an active speaker on BI and data visualization topics as well as marketing and business development. |
| In addition to a life-long study of business processes, systems, and theories, Tim is a passionate student of complexity theory, the history of mathematics, and the principles of design. Tim earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a BA in economics from Yale University. As an adjunct professor of business, Tim teaches in Benedictine College’s traditional and executive MBA programs. |
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| Sunil Wadhwa, Trymaran |
| Provision, Deploy, and Clone Oracle Fusion Middleware and Database in a Highly Virtualized Environment |
| Sunil Wadhwa is the founder of Trymaran, an enterprise software consulting firm that specializes in Oracle database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and VMware’s cloud technologies. Sunil’s mission is to provide the best consulting experience for your Oracle and/or VMware technology needs. Prior to founding Trymaran in 2011, Sunil worked at Oracle Corporation for over twelve years, where he led numerous product development and adoption efforts in the prestigious Oracle Server Technologies division. |
| As senior platform products manager in the Platform Technology Solutions group, Sunil was responsible for helping Oracle’s strategic partners architect their solutions by leveraging the entire Oracle technology stack. Sunil received an Executive MBA degree from the University of Denver – Daniels College of Business, and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota. Sunil enjoys living in Colorado, where he can be found working on his golf handicap and spending time with his family. |
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| Martin Widlake, ORA600 |
| The First Five Things to Know About Exadata |
| Martin Widlake is an independent consultant specializing in Oracle performance and architecture. He’s been working with Oracle technology since the start of the 90′s, when he joined Oracle UK almost by accident. For most of the last 20 years he has been self-employed and, more through luck than judgment, has tended to work on systems that were classified as VLDBs at the time, doing database design, performance and development work. He did return to being a real employee for 6 years to be the database services manager for the UK side of the Human Genome project, so he could indulge in combining his IT skills with his college background in genetics. Given a chance he will talk about it endlessly. Martin is a strong advocate of sharing knowledge and as such presents when he can, tries to keep a blog going and is an active member of the UK Oracle User Group, where he has chaired the odd SIG. Martin is an Oracle ACE and a proud member of the OakTable Network. |
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| Jeremiah Wilton, Blue Gecko / Datavail |
| Demystifying the Cloud: Choosing between Amazon RDS and EC2 for Your Oracle Database Service |
| Database Death Match: Oracle vs. SQL Server |
| 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. |
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| Ken Wolff, Lockheed Martin |
| Using Oracle Fusion Middleware for TNSnames Resolution |
| Ken Wolff has been employed by Lockheed Martin (formerly Martin Marietta) since 1984, and is currently serving as senior staff database administrator supporting Oracle, SQL Server, and Sybase. His certifications include: OCP (10g & 11g) for Oracle, and MCTS and MCP DBA for SQL Server. |
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| Susan Wong, Dell |
| Empowering Your Data Sharing Architecture for Continuous Availability |
| Susan Wong is principal systems architect at Dell. She has been a systems architect supporting business continuity and Oracle performance management and tuning for many years. Susan has performed numerous consulting and configurations including reporting, migration, and availability, and has been ensuring companies meet their Oracle database availability since Oracle 7x. Prior to Quest Software, Susan worked as a mechanical engineer at Fluor Daniel where she managed the CAD solutions and database teams. Susan has a BS in mechanical engineering from UCLA. |
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| Benjamin Wood, Oracle Corporation |
| MySQL for 11g Shops – How and Why |
| Benjamin Wood is a field engineer with the MySQL group of Oracle. Benjamin’s database experience includes over a decade as a hands-on Oracle DBA supporting ERP and various production systems from Oracle 7.3 onward. He has been with the MySQL organization for five years and has assisted many Oracle 11g shops in adoption and utilization of MySQL. Benjamin gave a highly attended and well-received presentation MySQL for the Oracle DBA at 2011 RMOUG Training Days. |
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