Event Date: Sometime this summer is currently projected Marc Sewtz Marc Sewtz is a Senior Software Development Manager in Oracle’s Server Technologies division at Oracle America, Inc. He is responsible for managing the development and delivery of Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle’s premiere low-code development platform. Marc has been at Oracle since 1998. After working for Oracle Consulting in Germany and North America, he joined the APEX development team in 2002. Marc and his team have contributed several core components to the product over the years, including the reporting engine, tabular forms, charts, support for mobile user interfaces and extensive work on user interface themes. Marc and his family live in New York City. Marc holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Wedel, Germany. Previous Dates: November 12, 2019 Bo English-Wiczling Title: Director, Oracle APEX Bo English-Wiczling is Director of Product and Program Management for Oracle Application Express (APEX). Prior to Oracle, she spent several years at Amazon building the first anti-money laundering product and extending fraud platforms for marketplace sellers, as well as scaling Amazon’s Video product for Prime members. Bo has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology and began her IT career as a web developer. She also has more than 15 years of experience in Retail, holding roles at companies such as Target and Best Buy where she built the first mobile phone activation and fraud platforms. She is a certified Agile Scrum Master and Agile Coach. September 10, 2019 Fahd Saeed Fahd Saeed is a data architect during the day and artist / comedian / slumlord in the off hours. Currently working on the data lake initiative at Mentor, a Siemens company and just got back from Burning Man. Dale MacDonald Dale MacDonald is a Data and Systems Engineering nerd with over a decade of data design, tuning, and esoterica experience. Mr. MacDonald worked in industries as varied as healthcare, construction, and apparel; designed an application used in an Oracle keynote; taught database theory; and uses his experience to save companies large amounts of money. Presently committed to helping Bookbyte.com, the second largest renter on Amazon, as a Data Solutions Architect. In his free time he is concentrated on study and building new designs. Mr. MacDonald is currently halfway through getting all of the AWS certifications. Also, He is currently brushing up on reinforcement learning in preparation for DeepRacer League. Andy Weiss Andy Weiss is the Oracle DBA for the PageWide Web Press Big Data team within HP Inc. This group specializes in analysing telemetry data from commercial printing presses to solve complex engineering problems. He has bored countless friends explaining the inner workings of the database and loves to figure out how things work, primarily by making a mess of it. May 14, 2019 Tammy Bednar Tammy has worked in the computer industry for more than 30 years. She started out coding applications in ADA and decided a change was needed. Oracle hired her in the Database Support Organization 23 years ago and she has been involved with database releases since version 6.0.36. Tammy started her product management career on the database High Availability team with Recovery Manager (RMAN), database backup and recovery, and Database Security development team, focusing on auditing, Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Firewall, Oracle Database Appliance and now Database Cloud Services. Gurmeet Goindi Gurmeet Goindi is a master product manager at Oracle Database’s Systems Technology org. Gurmeet is currently the product manager for Exadata Database Machine, hardware and software. Gurmeet is also an evangelist for innovations Oracle is bringing in application aware storage, flash and memory technologies. Gurmeet has been working in Silicon Valley for last 19 years in various engineering, management and product management roles. Gurmeet has a Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and an MBA from University of Chicago - Booth School of Business. November 13, 2018 Andy Colvin Andy Colvin has worked with Oracle for nearly 15 years, and has been with the Accenture Enkitec Groups for the past 12 years. 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 holds Oracle ACE status and has presented at Oracle OpenWorld, Enkitec E4, and at various Oracle user groups worldwide. Andy's experiences with Oracle software and hardware are chronicled on his blog at http://blog.oracle-ninja.com. Event Date: September 2018 Carlos is known by the Oracle community for his invention of some widely used tools such as SQLTXPLAIN (a.k.a. SQLT), and more recently eDB360 (now part of SQLdb360). He has 22 years of experience in Oracle technologies, and has been a speaker on users groups such as: OOW, HOTSOS, RMOUG, IOUG, etc. Carlos currently works for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team, where he helps to improve databases services supporting internal OCI operations. Carlos has instrumented the automation of SQL Plan Management, Resource Manager, Maintenance Windows, Space defragmentation, and Sessions management at OCI. He also assists on frequent cases of SQL Tuning. Recognized for his numerous presentations at Oracle conferences like RMOUG, Hotsos, IOUG and more, Jared Still is well-known within the Oracle community. His colleagues and peers describe him as meticulous, as he values the importance of detailed, organized documentation in order to provide full transparency and clarity to his clients. Jared’s dedication to identify the root causes of issues strengthens his ability to troubleshoot intractable problems. When he isn’t relishing in low-level, in-depth technical projects, Jared can be found auto racing, which has been a passion of his for many years. Jared has been an Oracle DBA in health insurance and manufacturing environments since 1994 (and version 7.0.13 of Oracle). He first began dabbling with Perl in 1993 and it was love at first sight. Perl became an integral part of his Oracle toolkit when it was used to rapidly prototype and implement complex reporting based on data in Oracle databases. Jared has been working with databases of various ilks since 1988, and along the way has also worked as a Unix system administrator. When not riding herd on the databases at the OK Corral, he likes to spend time tinkering on his car, fly fishing, or sitting on the deck in the backyard at his home doing absolutely nothing. He can be reached at jkstill@cybcon.com. He is a member of the Oracle Oak Table and has made many more contributions to Oracle and Information Systems that he chooses to remember. Event Date: May 7,8, 2018 Charles Kim is a co-founder and President of Viscosity North America, an Oracle ACE Director, and a VMware vExpert. Charles is an Oracle Certified DBA, a Certified RAC Expert and a Certified Exadata Implementation Specialist. Charles specializes in Cloud, Exadata, RAC, and Virtualization (VMware and Oracle VM) and authored 10 books: Oracle Database 11g New Features for DBA Developers Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook Virtualizing Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC Oracle Exadata Exadata’s Handbook Hadoop As A Service Oracle ASM 12c Pocket Reference Guide Oracle Cloud Pocket Solutions Guide PDB Me to Oracle Cloud Charles holds certifications in Oracle, VMware, Red Hat Linux, and Microsoft and has over 24 years of Oracle experience. Charles sat on the panel of oracle experts at VM World and Oracle OpenWorld for virtualization and Linux. Charles was one of the founding members of the virtualization SIG that launched in 2011 at Oracle OpenWorld. Charles is currently the President of the Cloud Computing SIG for the IOUG. Rich Niemiec is the current Chief Innovation Officer of Viscosity North America. Rich is an Oracle Ace Director, a world renowned IT Expert, and was a co-founder and the CEO of TUSC, a Chicago-based systems integrator of Oracle-based business solutions started in 1988. Rich has served as President of Rolta TUSC and Rolta EICT. Rich is the past President of the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and the current President of the Midwest Oracle Users Group (MOUG). Rich has architected and tuned many Fortune 500 systems over the past 25 years. His experience in data processing ranges from teaching to consulting, with emphasis in database administration, performance tuning, project management and technical education. Rich is one of six originally honored worldwide Oracle Certified Masters and advised Oracle development from time to time. In 2017, he authored the Oracle “Oracle12c Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques,” an update of his previous 4 Oracle best sellers on Oracle8i, 9i, 10g, and 11i Performance Tuning. Rich was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 1998. Event Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 Maria Colgan Maria Colgan is a master product manager at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.3 was released in 1996. Maria’s core responsibility is creating material and lectures on the Oracle Database and the best practices for incorporating it into your environments. She is also responsible for getting the feedback from our customers and partners incorporated into future releases of the product Prior to this role; she was the product manager for Oracle Database In-Memory and the Oracle Database query optimizer. Maria is the primary author of the SQLMaria blog https://sqlmaria.com and a contributing author to the Oracle Optimizer blog http://blogs.oracle.com/optimizer. Previous Tuesday, September 12, 2017 Liron Amitzi Liron Amitzi is an Oracle ACE and a senior Oracle DBA with over 18 years of experience. During these years, Liron worked as a senior consultant with a large number of companies in various fields and managed an Oracle professional services team. He is currently in Vancouver, BC, founding the Canadian branch of his Israeli Company, Brillix-DBAces. He mainly specializes in high-availability solutions, performance, backup and recovery, and other infrastructure and application database areas. He is also a well-known senior instructor and lectures in Oracle courses, events, and forums. Liron holds a BS in computer science and is the president of BCOUG. Jared Still, Oracle ACE Recognized for his numerous presentations at Oracle conferences like RMOUG, Hotsos, IOUG and more, Jared Still is well-known within the Oracle community. His colleagues and peers describe him as meticulous, as he values the importance of detailed, organized documentation in order to provide full transparency and clarity to his clients. Jared’s dedication to identify the root causes of issues strengthens his ability to troubleshoot intractable problems. When he isn’t relishing in low-level, in-depth technical projects, Jared can be found auto racing, which has been a passion of his for many years. Jared has been an Oracle DBA in health insurance and manufacturing environments since 1994 (and version 7.0.13 of Oracle). He first began dabbling with Perl in 1993 and it was love at first sight. Perl became an integral part of his Oracle toolkit when it was used to rapidly prototype and implement complex reporting based on data in Oracle databases. Jared has been working with databases of various ilks since 1988, and along the way has also worked as a Unix system administrator. When not riding herd on the databases at the OK Corral, he likes to spend time tinkering on his car, fly fishing, or sitting on the deck in the backyard at his home doing absolutely nothing. He can be reached at jkstill@cybcon.com. He is a member of the Oracle Oak Table and has made many more contributions to Oracle and Information Systems that he chooses to remember. Tuesday, May 9, and Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Biju Thomas Biju Thomas is Oracle ACE Director, Oracle Certified Professional and Certified Oracle Database SQL Expert. He is Principal Solutions Architect at OneNeck IT Solutions. Biju has been developing and administering Oracle databases since 1993 and Oracle EBS since 2006. He spends time mentoring DBAs, performance tuning, and architecting Oracle solutions. He is a frequent presenter at Oracle conferences and writes articles for Oracle technical journals. He has authored Oracle certification books published by Sybex since Oracle8i, all versions including Oracle Database 12c OCA. Biju blogs at http://www.bijoos.com/oraclenotes and you can follow him on Twitter (@biju_thomas) or Facebook (oraclenotes) for daily Oracle Tidbits Russell Tuttle Senior Solutions Architect, Quest Russ lives in Colorado and has been a Sales Engineer specializing in Quest's database products for over 15 years. He enjoys playing hockey, cycling, hiking in the Colorado Rockies and Colorado's great craft beer scene. Before Quest, Russ worked as a DBA and Developer for Oracle. Past Event Dates: February 14-15, 2017 William J. Slocumb Bill Slocumb, Oracle, is a database security specialist and has conducted several dozen database risk assessments over the last couple of years throughout North America. He’s presenting “Database Risk Assessments Lessons-Learned” to show you common elements and weaknesses common to most of the customers he’s evaluated. Bill will explain database security concepts, common customer shortfalls and remediation for common database security issues. Concepts he discusses are applicable to any data store whether Oracle or not. John Jay King Mr. King, Partner, King Training Resources, tailoring and conducting training since 1988 (www.kingtraining.com). John customizes courses in topics including Oracle, MAF, and ADF. John presents frequently at conferences including Oracle Open World, RMOUG, IOUG, UTOUG, AUSOUG, and UKOUG; he is an Oracle Ace Director, member of the Oak Table Network, and serves on the AZORA board. Clay Jackson Clay Jackson is a Database Systems Consultant for Quest, specializing in Database Performance Management and Replication Tools. Prior to joining Quest, Jackson was the DBA Manager at Darigold. He also spent over 10 years managing Oracle, SQLServer and DB2 databases and DBAs at Washington Mutual. While at WaMu, Jackson was the Enterprise Database Compliance Officer, with responsibility for Database Security and Disaster Recovery. He also worked at Microsoft and Starbucks, is a CISM, and has a Masters in Software Engineering from Seattle University. Event Dates: Tuesday, November 8, and Wednesday, November 9, 2015 Jared Still, Recognized for his numerous presentations at Oracle conferences like RMOUG, Hotsos, IOUG and more, Jared Still is well-known within the Oracle community. His colleagues and peers describe him as meticulous, as he values the importance of detailed, organized documentation in order to provide full transparency and clarity to his clients. Jared’s dedication to identify the root causes of issues strengthens his ability to troubleshoot intractable problems. When he isn’t relishing in low-level, in-depth technical projects, Jared can be found auto racing, which has been a passion of his for many years. Jared has been an Oracle DBA in health insurance and manufacturing environments since 1994 (and version 7.0.13 of Oracle). He first began dabbling with Perl in 1993 and it was love at first sight. Perl became an integral part of his Oracle toolkit when it was used to rapidly prototype and implement complex reporting based on data in Oracle databases. Jared has been working with databases of various ilks since 1988, and along the way has also worked as a Unix system administrator. When not riding herd on the databases at the OK Corral, he likes to spend time tinkering on his car, fly fishing, or sitting on the deck in the backyard at his home doing absolutely nothing. He can be reached at jkstill@cybcon.com. He is a member of the Oracle Oak Table and has made many more contributions to Oracle and Information Systems that he chooses to remember. Tim Gorman   Tim Gorman has worked in IT with relational databases since 1984, as an Oracle PRO*C and PL/SQL application developer since 1990, as an Oracle DBA since 1993, and managing/designing very large data warehouses on Oracle since 1994. He is an independent contractor (www.EvDBT.com) specializing in performance tuning, database administration (particularly performance and availability), and data warehousing. Tim Gorman is an active member of the Rocky Mtn Oracle Users Group since 1993, has co-authored five (six) books (three with the Oak Table Press), performed technical review on six more books, is an Oracle ACE Director, a member of the Oak Table Network since 2002, and has presented at Oracle Open World, Collaborate, and Oracle users groups in lots of wonderful places around the world. In real life, Tim lives in Westminster in colorful Colorado with his partner, Kellyn Pot'vin-Gorman, who is herself an extremely talented multi-platform database administrator on Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL and she blogs as DBAKevlar. He has two children, son Peter and daughter Marika who are out in the world on their own, and he lives with Kellyn and her son Sam, her daughter Caitlyn, and her son Joshua. He snowboards the steeps and deeps, bicycles (road) long distances, and plays squash when he can find someone of like mind. Event Date: Tuesday, November 10, and Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Phill Rizzo, Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition, Golden Gate, New Features, and capabilities in ODIEE, as well as data migrations solutions in the multi-legacy system enterprise. Tom Atwood, Senior Principal Product Director Oracle Systems Product Marketing Group Tom Atwood is a Senior Principal Product Director in Oracle's Systems Product Marketing Group. Mr. Atwood joined Oracle in early 2010 when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems. Mr. Atwood's focus is on Oracle's SPARC servers. For the 15 years prior to the Oracle acquisition of Sun Mr. Atwood was part of Sun's SPARC server marketing team. He has written papers and spoken on server topics such as server consolidation, vertical and horizontal computing and improving system utilization. Mr. Atwood joined Sun in 1996. Prior to Sun Mr. Atwood worked for Cray Research, Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Sohio Petroleum and the U.S. Geological Survey. He has a B.S. in Geology and an M.S. in Geophysics both from Stanford University. Steve Yraceburn, Sales Manager, Dell Performance Monitoring Solutions Clay Jackson, Technical Expert, Dell Software Dell Performance Solutions have lead the market , acquired from Quest, for ages. See how things have evolved and Dell has perfected their products . Event Date: Tuesday May 12, and Wednesday May 13, 2015 Lynn Harig Global Disaster Recovery Manager Xerox Corporation Lynn was acquired into Xerox as part of the Tektronix acquisition in 2000. She started out her career at Tektronix as an Oracle DBA in 1996. In 2000, Lynn moved into a newly created team to configure and set up middleware and websites for the Wilsonville campus. In 2008, she joined the Oracle Systems Engineering team responsible for the introduction of Oracle SOA and later Fusion Middleware platforms. In 2013, Lynn joined the Global Disaster Recovery Team. We are responsible for defining the Xerox Disaster Recovery policy and ensuring coherence to it. James G. Correll, A principal of Oliver Wight since 1984 Jim served eight years as chairman of Oliver Wight Americas and co-chairman of Oliver Wight International. As a consultant, he has assisted more than 20 companies attain Class A performance. These companies include numerous Caterpillar Divisions, Imperial Tobacco, General Dynamics Land Systems, Martin Marietta Astronautics, Boeing Portland, and Tektronix, Inc., to name a few. Event Date: Tuesday August 12, and Wednesday August 13, 2014 Clay Jackson Quest/Dell Enterprise Architect specializing in Performance Clay has over 30 years experience as an Oracle DBA and manager of Oracle, SQLServer and DB2 DBAs. Clay is currently a systems Consultant for Dell specializing in Database and Application Performance Monitoring. Prior to joining Dell, Clay was BA Manager for Darigold and Washington Mutual, and worked as a DBA at Starbucks and US West. While at US West, Clay participated in the Oracle Version 7 Alpha Program, and was a member of Oracle's Very Large Database customer focus group. Clay authored a paper on Database Performance Monitoring that was presented at Oracle OpenWorld in 1995. Event Date: Tuesday February 18, and Wednesday February 19, 2014 Jared Still, Portland only (Book: Pro Oracle SQL - an invaluable source of SQL know how.) Jared has been an Oracle DBA in health insurance and manufacturing environments since 1994 (and version 7.0.13 of Oracle). He first began dabbling with Perl in 1993 and it was love at first sight. Perl became an integral part of his Oracle toolkit when it was used to rapidly prototype and implement complex reporting based on data in Oracle databases. Jared has been working with databases of various ilks since 1988, and along the way has also worked as a Unix system administrator. When not riding herd on the databases at the OK Corral, he likes to spend time tinkering on his car, fly fishing, or sitting on the deck in the backyard at his home doing absolutely nothing. He can be reached at jkstill@cybcon.com. He is a member of the Oracle Oak Table and has made many more contributions to Oracle and Information Systems that he chooses to remember. Bill Brunt Bill started working with Oracle in 1988, presenting 4 previous times at OOW and it's predecessor. He has worked with SharePlex for both Dell and as a customer. He has helped hundreds of customers increase the availability and deploy scalable infrastructures. His experience with Oracle includes database administration, architecture, data warehousing, Oracle EBS and application development. Hands on experience with replication technology includes change data capture, messaging queues, block level disk writes, enterprise application integration, extract transformation and load Roger Freixa Vidal Roger Freixa is Senior Principal Product Manager on the Cloud Application Foundation team in Oracle HQ worldwide since middle 2011. Before this, he was CAF Product Manager in Europe. He is responsible for Cloud Application Foundation, specifically in charge of WebLogic Server, Tuxedo and Virtual Assembly Builder. Roger has been in the software industry for over twenty years in various capacities, from developer to project manager to product manager. Roger held various positions at HP, EDS and Bea Systems and joined Oracle through the acquisition of Bea. Roger's fields of expertise include Java & JEE standards, WebLogic Server, Cloud and Interoperability. Martin D'Souza Portland only Is the CTO and cofounder at ClariFit, a consulting firm that specializes in APEX and PL/SQL development and training. He is also a volunteer director for ODTUG. Martin’s career has seen him hold a range of positions within award-winning companies. His experience in the technology industry has been focused on developing database-centric web applications using the Oracle technology stack. Martin is the author of the popular blog www.TalkApex.com, a designated Oracle ACE Director, coauthored and authored various APEX books, and is an active participant in various open source projects, such as Logger. He has also presented at numerous international conferences, such as APEXposed!, COUG, Oracle OpenWorld, and ODTUG Kscope, for which he won the Presenter of the Year award in 2011. Martin holds a computer engineering degree from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. You can contact Martin via email at martin@clarifit.com or by Twitter @martindsouza. Event Date: Tuesday August 13 and Wednesday August 15, 2013 Arup Nanda Arup Nanda has been working exclusively as an Oracle DBA for last 15 years covering everything from performance tuning to disaster recovery. He is the global head of database architecture for a New York area multinational company. He has co-authored 4 books on Oracle database, written 300+ articles in many publications including Oracle Magazine and OTN, presented 150+ sessions at conferences like Oracle Open World and IOUG Collaborate, publishes a blog (arup.blogpsot.com), conducts training sessions and builds tools for effective database administration. He is an Oracle ACE Director, a member of the Oak Table Network, an editor for SELECT Journal - the publication of IOUG, a member of the Board of Directors of Exadata SIG. In 2003, he was awarded the DBA of the Year by Oracle. (quoted from Amazon) Glenn Fawcett Glenn Fawcett started working with SUN Microsystems as an Oracle performance engineer. He has been running Oracle benchmarks on everything from Sequent gear, Sun Sparc servers, and Exadata. He is a staff engineer at Oracle and is the newest member of the OakTable Network. SPEAKERS LIST: May 14-15, 2013 Phillip Rizzo, Oracle, Regional Sales Manager, Data Integration Solutions, Oracle Active Data Guard and GoldenGate, Oracle Data Integrator. David Segleau, PORTLAND only Director of Product Management Oracle Corporation Technical Director for the Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle Database Mobile Server products David Segleau is the former VP of Engineering for Sleepycat Software (makers of Berkeley DB) and is now the Director of Product Management for several products at Oracle, including Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle NoSQL Database. He has over 30 years of industry experience, leading and managing technical product teams. He has worked extensively with database technology as both a customer and a vendor. David has held management positions at many technology companies, including Britton-Lee, ShareBase, Teradata, Illustra, Informix, ANTs Software, Sleepycat Software and now Oracle. As Director of Product Management, David coordinates and communicates technical product features and functionality, both inbound to Engineering and outbound to Oracle Sales, Partners and Customers. He has broad experience with many NoSQL and Big Data use cases and application design challenges. Clay Jackson Quest/Dell Systems Consultant specializing in Performance Clay has over 30 years experience as an Oracle DBA and manager of Oracle, SQLServer and DB2 DBAs. Clay is currently a systems Consultant for Dell specializing in Database and Application Performance Monitoring. Prior to joining Dell, Clay was BA Manager for Darigold and Washington Mutual, and worked as a DBA at Starbucks and US West. While at US West, Clay participated in the Oracle Version 7 Alpha Program, and was a member of Oracle's Very Large Database customer focus group. Clay authored a paper on Database Performance Monitoring that was presented at Oracle OpenWorld in 1995. SPEAKERS LIST: FEBRUARY 12-13, 2013 David Segleau, Bellevue only Director of Product Management Oracle Corporation Technical Director for the Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle Database Mobile Server products David Segleau is the former VP of Engineering for Sleepycat Software (makers of Berkeley DB) and is now the Director of Product Management for several products at Oracle, including Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle NoSQL Database. He has over 30 years of industry experience, leading and managing technical product teams. He has worked extensively with database technology as both a customer and a vendor. David has held management positions at many technology companies, including Britton-Lee, ShareBase, Teradata, Illustra, Informix, ANTs Software, Sleepycat Software and now Oracle. As Director of Product Management, David coordinates and communicates technical product features and functionality, both inbound to Engineering and outbound to Oracle Sales, Partners and Customers. He has broad experience with many NoSQL and Big Data use cases and application design challenges. Gary Fox, Portland only DBA Team Lead at Xerox in Wilsonville, OR. Over the past thirty years he has worked with Oracle database versions 5 through 11g. He has experience with eBusiness, Data Guard, Portal, Discoverer, and various other Oracle applications. Gary is an OCP certified Oracle DBA and taught OCP and many other classes, oracle as well as unix, math, and folk dancing. Mark Atkinson, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux - Oracle VM Mark Atkinson is a Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle on the Linux & Virtualization team. Mr. Atkinson has over 16 years Linux experience holding positions which include Linux System Administration, IT Manager, Enterprise Architect, Open Source Practice Manager and Sales. Mr. Atkinson has worked for several startup companies and Fortune 50 such as IBM, Unisys and Oracle. Jeff Frix, Business Development Manager, Oracle Corporation David Crandall, Oracle Corporation SPEAKERS LIST: AUGUST 14-15, 2012 Roger Freixa Vidal, Sr. Director Oracle Corporation Roger Freixa has spoken throughout the world on Fusion Middleware Technologies . His focus is on Java, Oracle’s Application Servers, and how to apply them to Oracle Applications, and Databases. Jared Still, Portland only Jared Still has been an Oracle DBA in health insurance and manufacturing environments since 1994 (and version 7.0.13 of Oracle). He first began dabbling with Perl in 1993 and it was love at first sight. Perl became an integral part of his Oracle toolkit when it was used to rapidly prototype and implement complex reporting based on data in Oracle databases. Jared has been working with databases of various ilks since 1988, and along the way has also worked as a Unix system administrator. When not riding herd on the databases at the OK Corral, he likes to spend time tinkering on his car, fly fishing, or sitting on the deck in the backyard at his home doing absolutely nothing. He can be reached at jkstill@cybcon.com. He is a member of the Oracle Oak Table and has made many more contributions to Oracle and Information Systems that he chooses to remember. Jeremiah Wilton, Bellevue only Jeremiah Wilton has over eighteen years of Oracle administration and architecture experience. As Amazon.com’s first DBA, he helped lead Amazon.com’s database group from pre-IPO times through the years of exponential growth. He is now a principal with Blue Gecko, a subsidiary of DataAvail, leaders in remote database administration for Oracle, Oracle Applications, SQL Server, MySQL and Postgres. Jeremiah is a recognized expert in scalability, high availability, stability and complex recoveries. He also teaches the Oracle Certificate Program at the University of Washington and independent seminars on a variety of Oracle subjects. In 2001 at Oracle Openworld, Oracle Education honored Jeremiah as one of the first eight Oracle Certified Masters in the world. Jeremiah is a member of the Oak Table, and has presented at numerous conferences including Oracle Openworld, Collaborate and UKOUG. He is the author of a variety of technical whitepapers and articles available at www.bluegecko.net. David Segleau, Bellevue only Director of Product Management Oracle Corporation Technical Director for the Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle Database Mobile Server products David Segleau is the former VP of Engineering for Sleepycat Software (makers of Berkeley DB) and is now the Director of Product Management for several products at Oracle, including Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle NoSQL Database. He has over 30 years of industry experience, leading and managing technical product teams. He has worked extensively with database technology as both a customer and a vendor. David has held management positions at many technology companies, including Britton-Lee, ShareBase, Teradata, Illustra, Informix, ANTs Software, Sleepycat Software and now Oracle. As Director of Product Management, David coordinates and communicates technical product features and functionality, both inbound to Engineering and outbound to Oracle Sales, Partners and Customers. He has broad experience with many NoSQL and Big Data use cases and application design challenges. SPEAKERS LIST: May 8-9, 2012 Craig Shallahamer, Leading expert on Oracle Database Performance Orapub.com One of the most sought after speakers in the world. Accomplished Oracle author. Leading Oracle Performance technologist. More than 20 years of experience with and at Oracle. Craig Shallahamer is a researcher, author, and teacher for 1000s of Oracle professionals. For over 20 years his focus has been Oracle performance analysis including firefighting and capacity planning. He is the founder and President of OraPub, an Oracle ACE Director, and regularly posts his newest research on his blog, A Wider View. He can be reached at orapub.craig@gmail.com. Theresa Merenkov, Senior Director Oracle Corporation Theresa has been in the IT industry for 28 years. She has a background in Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Systems Design, Technical Consulting; Middleware, Testing and Performance Management, Database Management, Custom Development, and Project Management. Her work in Project Management, technical implementations, custom software development led to a focus on software development processes including work with standards like PMI’s PMBOK, IIBA’s BABOK, UML and the Unified Process (UP). Theresa has been a part of Oracle’s Global Methods organization for 13 years. She is the OUM Technology Discipline Leader. She has led the development of the Technology Full lifecycle project content, and supplemental guidance for Performance Management, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Fusion Middleware, Enterprise 2.0, and Enterprise Security in OUM. In addition, she leads the development of the Enterprise level material in the Envision focus area of OUM. Theresa is the OUM Method Release Director and has managed each release and development of Oracle's Unified Method (OUM) which supports Oracle’s acquisition strategy and provides support for the implementation of all of Oracle's products. Theresa is a PMI Certified Project Management Professional and a Certified ScrumMaster. OUM combines best practices from Oracle's legacy methodologies and field experience with an industry standard framework that includes the latest thinking around the industry's moved toward agile implementation approaches. Linda Peel, Senior Director Oracle Corporation Linda Peel has spent over 25 years in the Consumer Products industry working at and consulting to several leading Consumer Products companies from the shop floor up to leading all of major functional areas for major manufacturers selling into through multiple channels. Linda has spent the last 15+ years consulting at the top global consulting firms focused on assisting Consumer Products companies in the areas of Sales, Promotion and Marketing Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Planning and Supply Operations Planning including integration Financial Budgeting and Targeting. Linda is an industry leader working with Gartner and key Sales and Demand Associations to define core metrics to be used by various go to market Consumer channels. She has assisted organizations select and has personally deployed many of the known Trade Promotion and Predictive Optimization solutions combined with S&OP and Supply Chain Planning solutions. Linda currently works in Oracle’s North American Application Solution Group and leads the Consumer Products Industry for Oracle’s Value Chain Planning solutions (Sales, Trade, S&OP, and Advanced Supply Chain Planning). Linda’s team assists organizations evaluate their business needs, identify and quantify business value / benefit cases, and collaborate internally to define roadmaps to success. John Mervis, Senior Director Oracle Corporation John Mervis works in the Application Solution Group specializing in the Value Chain Planning application. John runs the Edge Solution Center where Oracle showcases such processes as Integrated Business Planning, Enterprise Quality Management, Logistic Network Optimization and Enterprise Logistic Orchestrations. He works very closely with partners like Oliver Wight to provide IBP and S&OP education at the Edge Solution Center. John was previously at CAS, where John severed as the Senior Solution Architect. John helped customer and prospect to develop their business processes for trade promotion and retail execution. John was involved in such customers as The Coca-Cola Company, Kellogg, RJR and more. Prior to CAS John was at Procuri (a SAAS vendor management solution) where he ran the Global Pre-Sales Department. John had an extended stay at PeopleSoft, where he served as a Solution Consulting Manager for Solution Architects Group. A fun fact John was the first store manager of the first Home Depot Store. When John is not working you can find him at the river or ocean flyfishing! SPEAKERS LIST: FEBRUARY 13-14, 2012 Steven Pierson CPIM Oracle Corporation 25 years of manufacturing / planning and execution systems and process management. Andy Sherman: Sales Consultant for the value chain suite from Oracle. Gwen Shapira is a Senior Database Consultant at Pythian (www.pythian.com). Gwen studied computer science, statistics, and operations research at the University of Tel Aviv, and then went on to spend the next ten years in different technical positions in the IT industry. Working as a developer, project manager, system administrator, storage administrator and database administrator for HP, before joining Pythian at 2010. Gwen is an OakTable member, Oracle ACE and Oracle Certified Professional. She specializes in scalability and high-availability solutions such as RAC,Streams,Golden Gate and Exadata and has presented at various conferences including Hotsos Symposium 2009,RMOUG 2010 and Collaborate 2011. Gwen Shapira also blogs for the Pythian blog on Oracle and Big Data topics: http://www.pythian.com/news/author/shapira/ Ed Whalen is an Oracle ACE and the Chief Technologist at Performance Tuning Corporation (www.perftuning.com), a consulting company specializing in database performance, administration, virtualization and disaster recovery solutions with over 20+ years of experience. He has extensive experience in system architectural design for optimal performance. His career has consisted of hardware, OS, database and virtualization projects for many different companies. Edward Whalen has written six books on Oracle products and five books on MS SQL Server and is currently working on the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Deep Dive book for Oracle Press. He has also worked on numerous benchmarks and performance tuning projects with both Oracle and MS SQL Server. Edward Whalen has extensive architectural experience consisting of all layers of the cloud/application stack from storage and hardware to hypervisor and OS and to the database. This experience and skills has provided the foundation for the system architecture work that he has done in the past. Phillip Rizzo has over 22 years of experience in the information technology industry (fourteen years specifically with Oracle). He is an accomplished professional, skilled in technical team leadership, sales process management, and strategic customer relationship building at the technical and executive management levels. Phill has been instrumental in managing sales, pre-sales and consulting teams throughout the United States and Canada. He has served as a primary management sponsor for executive-level communications within key accounts and drove solution proposals encompassing all aspects of the Oracle technology stack. Earned a master’s in Information Systems Management from Seattle Pacific University and bachelor’s degree in Communications from Washington State University. Bill Slocumb 22+ years with Oracle Corporation. Senior Pre-sales Engineer in the Strategic Accounts group. Bill has assisted Oracle customers and has experience in many or most database configurations. Currently Bill provides support for Oracle customers implementing their new Exadata servers.

Oregon and Southern Washington Oracle Users Group

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Event Date:

Sometime this summer is currently projected

Marc Sewtz

Marc Sewtz is a Senior Software Development Manager in Oracle’s Server Technologies division at Oracle America, Inc. He is responsible for managing the development and delivery of Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle’s premiere low-code development platform. Marc has been at Oracle since 1998. After working for Oracle Consulting in Germany and North America, he joined the APEX development team in 2002. Marc and his team have contributed several core components to the product over the years, including the reporting engine, tabular forms, charts, support for mobile user interfaces and extensive work on user interface themes. Marc and his family live in New York City. Marc holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Wedel, Germany.

Previous Dates:

November 12, 2019

Bo English-Wiczling

Title: Director, Oracle APEX

Bo English-Wiczling is Director of Product and Program Management for Oracle Application Express (APEX). Prior to Oracle, she spent several years at Amazon building the first anti-money laundering product and extending fraud platforms for marketplace sellers, as well as scaling Amazon’s Video product for Prime members. Bo has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology and began her IT career as a web developer. She also has more than 15 years of experience in Retail, holding roles at companies such as Target and Best Buy where she built the first mobile phone activation and fraud platforms. She is a certified Agile Scrum Master and Agile Coach.

September 10, 2019

Fahd Saeed

Fahd Saeed is a data architect during the day and artist / comedian / slumlord in the off hours. Currently working on the data lake initiative at Mentor, a Siemens company and just got back from Burning Man.

Dale MacDonald

Dale MacDonald is a Data and Systems Engineering nerd with over a decade of data design, tuning, and esoterica experience. Mr. MacDonald worked in industries as varied as healthcare, construction, and apparel; designed an application used in an Oracle keynote; taught database theory; and uses his experience to save companies large amounts of money. Presently committed to helping Bookbyte.com, the second largest renter on Amazon, as a Data Solutions Architect. In his free time he is concentrated on study and building new designs. Mr. MacDonald is currently halfway through getting all of the AWS certifications. Also, He is currently brushing up on reinforcement learning in preparation for DeepRacer League.

Andy Weiss

Andy Weiss is the Oracle DBA for the PageWide Web Press Big Data team within HP Inc. This group specializes in analysing telemetry data from commercial printing presses to solve complex engineering problems. He has bored countless friends explaining the inner workings of the database and loves to figure out how things work, primarily by making a mess of it.

May 14, 2019

Tammy Bednar

Tammy has worked in the computer industry for more than 30 years. She started out coding applications in ADA and decided a change was needed. Oracle hired her in the Database Support Organization 23 years ago and she has been involved with database releases since version 6.0.36. Tammy started her product management career on the database High Availability team with Recovery Manager (RMAN), database backup and recovery, and Database Security development team, focusing on auditing, Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Firewall, Oracle Database Appliance and now Database Cloud Services.

Gurmeet Goindi

Gurmeet Goindi is a master product manager at Oracle Database’s Systems Technology org. Gurmeet is currently the product manager for Exadata Database Machine, hardware and software. Gurmeet is also an evangelist for innovations Oracle is bringing in application aware storage, flash and memory technologies. Gurmeet has been working in Silicon Valley for last 19 years in various engineering, management and product management roles. Gurmeet has a Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and an MBA from University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.

November 13, 2018

Andy Colvin

Andy Colvin has worked with Oracle for nearly 15 years, and has been with the Accenture Enkitec Groups for the past 12 years. 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 holds Oracle ACE status and has presented at Oracle OpenWorld, Enkitec E4, and at various Oracle user groups worldwide. Andy's experiences with Oracle software and hardware are chronicled on his blog at http://blog.oracle-ninja.com.

Event Date:

September 2018

Carlos is known by the Oracle community for his invention of some widely used tools such as SQLTXPLAIN (a.k.a. SQLT), and more recently eDB360 (now part of SQLdb360). He has 22 years of experience in Oracle technologies, and has been a speaker on users groups such as: OOW, HOTSOS, RMOUG, IOUG, etc.

Carlos currently works for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team, where he helps to improve databases services supporting internal OCI operations. Carlos has instrumented the automation of SQL Plan Management, Resource Manager, Maintenance Windows, Space defragmentation, and Sessions management at OCI. He also assists on frequent cases of SQL Tuning.

Recognized for his numerous presentations at Oracle conferences like RMOUG, Hotsos, IOUG and more, Jared Still is well-known within the Oracle community. His colleagues and peers describe him as meticulous, as he values the importance of detailed, organized documentation in order to provide full transparency and clarity to his clients. Jared’s dedication to identify the root causes of issues strengthens his ability to troubleshoot intractable problems. When he isn’t relishing in low-level, in-depth technical projects, Jared can be found auto racing, which has been a passion of his for many years.

Jared has been an Oracle DBA in health insurance and manufacturing environments since 1994 (and version 7.0.13 of Oracle). He first began dabbling with Perl in 1993 and it was love at first sight. Perl became an integral part of his Oracle toolkit when it was used to rapidly prototype and implement complex reporting based on data in Oracle databases. Jared has been working with databases of various ilks since 1988, and along the way has also worked as a Unix system administrator. When not riding herd on the databases at the OK Corral, he likes to spend time tinkering on his car, fly fishing, or sitting on the deck in the backyard at his home doing absolutely nothing. He can be reached at jkstill@cybcon.com. He is a member of the Oracle Oak Table and has made many more contributions to Oracle and Information Systems that he chooses to remember.

Event Date:

May 7,8, 2018

Charles Kim is a co-founder and President of Viscosity North America, an Oracle ACE Director, and a VMware vExpert. Charles is an Oracle Certified DBA, a Certified RAC Expert and a Certified Exadata Implementation Specialist. Charles specializes in Cloud, Exadata, RAC, and Virtualization (VMware and Oracle VM) and authored 10 books:

1Oracle Database 11g New Features for DBA Developers
2Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs
3Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs
4Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook
5Virtualizing Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC
6Oracle Exadata Exadata’s Handbook
7Hadoop As A Service
8Oracle ASM 12c Pocket Reference Guide
9Oracle Cloud Pocket Solutions Guide
10PDB Me to Oracle Cloud

Charles holds certifications in Oracle, VMware, Red Hat Linux, and Microsoft and has over 24 years of Oracle experience. Charles sat on the panel of oracle experts at VM World and Oracle OpenWorld for virtualization and Linux. Charles was one of the founding members of the virtualization SIG that launched in 2011 at Oracle OpenWorld. Charles is currently the President of the Cloud Computing SIG for the IOUG.

Rich Niemiec is the current Chief Innovation Officer of Viscosity North America. Rich is an Oracle Ace Director, a world renowned IT Expert, and was a co-founder and the CEO of TUSC, a Chicago-based systems integrator of Oracle-based business solutions started in 1988. Rich has served as President of Rolta TUSC and Rolta EICT.

Rich is the past President of the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and the current President of the Midwest Oracle Users Group (MOUG). Rich has architected and tuned many Fortune 500 systems over the past 25 years.

His experience in data processing ranges from teaching to consulting, with emphasis in database administration, performance tuning, project management and technical education. Rich is one of six originally honored worldwide Oracle Certified Masters and advised Oracle development from time to time. In 2017, he authored the Oracle “Oracle12c Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques,” an update of his previous 4 Oracle best sellers on Oracle8i, 9i, 10g, and 11i Performance Tuning. Rich was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 1998.

Event Date:

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Maria Colgan

Maria Colgan is a master product manager at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.3 was released in 1996. Maria’s core responsibility is creating material and lectures on the Oracle Database and the best practices for incorporating it into your environments. She is also responsible for getting the feedback from our customers and partners incorporated into future releases of the product

Prior to this role; she was the product manager for Oracle Database In-Memory and the Oracle Database query optimizer. Maria is the primary author of the SQLMaria blog https://sqlmaria.com and a contributing author to the Oracle Optimizer blog http://blogs.oracle.com/optimizer.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Liron Amitzi

Liron Amitzi is an Oracle ACE and a senior Oracle DBA with over 18 years of experience. During these years, Liron worked as a senior consultant with a large number of companies in various fields and managed an Oracle professional services team. He is currently in Vancouver, BC, founding the Canadian branch of his Israeli Company, Brillix-DBAces.

He mainly specializes in high-availability solutions, performance, backup and recovery, and other infrastructure and application database areas. He is also a well-known senior instructor and lectures in Oracle courses, events, and forums. Liron holds a BS in computer science and is the president of BCOUG.

Jared Still,

Oracle ACE

Tuesday, May 9, and Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Biju Thomas

Biju Thomas is Oracle ACE Director, Oracle Certified Professional and Certified Oracle Database SQL Expert. He is Principal Solutions Architect at OneNeck IT Solutions. Biju has been developing and administering Oracle databases since 1993 and Oracle EBS since 2006. He spends time mentoring DBAs, performance tuning, and architecting Oracle solutions. He is a frequent presenter at Oracle conferences and writes articles for Oracle technical journals. He has authored Oracle certification books published by Sybex since Oracle8i, all versions including Oracle Database 12c OCA. Biju blogs at http://www.bijoos.com/oraclenotes and you can follow him on Twitter (@biju_thomas) or Facebook (oraclenotes) for daily Oracle Tidbits

Russell Tuttle

Senior Solutions Architect, Quest

Russ lives in Colorado and has been a Sales Engineer specializing in Quest's database products for over 15 years. He enjoys playing hockey, cycling, hiking in the Colorado Rockies and Colorado's great craft beer scene. Before Quest, Russ worked as a DBA and Developer for Oracle.

Past Event Dates: February 14-15, 2017

William J. Slocumb

Bill Slocumb, Oracle, is a database security specialist and has conducted several dozen database risk assessments over the last couple of years throughout North America. He’s presenting “Database Risk Assessments Lessons-Learned” to show you common elements and weaknesses common to most of the customers he’s evaluated. Bill will explain database security concepts, common customer shortfalls and remediation for common database security issues. Concepts he discusses are applicable to any data store whether Oracle or not.

John Jay King

Mr. King, Partner, King Training Resources, tailoring and conducting training since 1988 (www.kingtraining.com). John customizes courses in topics including Oracle, MAF, and ADF. John presents frequently at conferences including Oracle Open World, RMOUG, IOUG, UTOUG, AUSOUG, and UKOUG; he is an Oracle Ace Director, member of the Oak Table Network, and serves on the AZORA board.

Clay Jackson

Clay Jackson is a Database Systems Consultant for Quest, specializing in Database Performance Management and Replication Tools. Prior to joining Quest, Jackson was the DBA Manager at Darigold. He also spent over 10 years managing Oracle, SQLServer and DB2 databases and DBAs at Washington Mutual. While at WaMu, Jackson was the Enterprise Database Compliance Officer, with responsibility for Database Security and Disaster Recovery. He also worked at Microsoft and Starbucks, is a CISM, and has a Masters in Software Engineering from Seattle University.

Event Dates: Tuesday, November 8, and Wednesday, November 9, 2015

Jared Still,

Tim Gorman

Tim Gorman has worked in IT with relational databases since 1984, as an Oracle PRO*C and PL/SQL application developer since 1990, as an Oracle DBA since 1993, and managing/designing very large data warehouses on Oracle since 1994. He is an independent contractor (www.EvDBT.com) specializing in performance tuning, database administration (particularly performance and availability), and data warehousing.

Tim Gorman is an active member of the Rocky Mtn Oracle Users Group since 1993, has co-authored five (six) books (three with the Oak Table Press), performed technical review on six more books, is an Oracle ACE Director, a member of the Oak Table Network since 2002, and has presented at Oracle Open World, Collaborate, and Oracle users groups in lots of wonderful places around the world.

In real life, Tim lives in Westminster in colorful Colorado with his partner, Kellyn Pot'vin-Gorman, who is herself an extremely talented multi-platform database administrator on Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL and she blogs as DBAKevlar. He has two children, son Peter and daughter Marika who are out in the world on their own, and he lives with Kellyn and her son Sam, her daughter Caitlyn, and her son Joshua.

He snowboards the steeps and deeps, bicycles (road) long distances, and plays squash when he can find someone of like mind.

Event Date: Tuesday, November 10, and Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Phill Rizzo, Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition, Golden Gate,

New Features, and capabilities in ODIEE, as well as data migrations solutions in the multi-legacy system enterprise.

Tom Atwood, Senior Principal Product Director

Oracle Systems Product Marketing Group

Tom Atwood is a Senior Principal Product Director in Oracle's Systems Product Marketing Group. Mr. Atwood joined Oracle in early 2010 when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems. Mr. Atwood's focus is on Oracle's SPARC servers. For the 15 years prior to the Oracle acquisition of Sun Mr. Atwood was part of Sun's SPARC server marketing team. He has written papers and spoken on server topics such as server consolidation, vertical and horizontal computing and improving system utilization. Mr. Atwood joined Sun in 1996. Prior to Sun Mr. Atwood worked for Cray Research, Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Sohio Petroleum and the U.S. Geological Survey. He has a B.S. in Geology and an M.S. in Geophysics both from Stanford University.

Steve Yraceburn, Sales Manager, Dell Performance Monitoring Solutions

Clay Jackson, Technical Expert, Dell Software

Dell Performance Solutions have lead the market , acquired from Quest, for ages. See how things have evolved and Dell has perfected their products .

Event Date: Tuesday May 12, and Wednesday May 13, 2015

Lynn Harig

Global Disaster Recovery Manager

Xerox Corporation

Lynn was acquired into Xerox as part of the Tektronix acquisition in 2000. She started out her career at Tektronix as an Oracle DBA in 1996. In 2000, Lynn moved into a newly created team to configure and set up middleware and websites for the Wilsonville campus. In 2008, she joined the Oracle Systems Engineering team responsible for the introduction of Oracle SOA and later Fusion Middleware platforms. In 2013, Lynn joined the Global Disaster Recovery Team. We are responsible for defining the Xerox Disaster Recovery policy and ensuring coherence to it.

James G. Correll,

A principal of Oliver Wight since 1984

Jim served eight years as chairman of Oliver Wight Americas and co-chairman of Oliver Wight International. As a consultant, he has assisted more than 20 companies attain Class A performance. These companies include numerous Caterpillar Divisions, Imperial Tobacco, General Dynamics Land Systems, Martin Marietta Astronautics, Boeing Portland, and Tektronix, Inc., to name a few.

Event Date: Tuesday August 12, and Wednesday August 13, 2014

Clay Jackson

Quest/Dell Enterprise Architect specializing in Performance

Clay has over 30 years experience as an Oracle DBA and manager of Oracle, SQLServer and DB2 DBAs. Clay is currently a systems Consultant for Dell specializing in Database and Application Performance Monitoring. Prior to joining Dell, Clay was BA Manager for Darigold and Washington Mutual, and worked as a DBA at Starbucks and US West. While at US West, Clay

participated in the Oracle Version 7 Alpha Program, and was a member of Oracle's Very Large Database customer focus group. Clay authored a paper on Database Performance Monitoring that was presented at Oracle OpenWorld in 1995.

Event Date: Tuesday February 18, and Wednesday February 19, 2014

Jared Still, Portland only (Book: Pro Oracle SQL - an invaluable source of SQL know how.)

Bill Brunt

Bill started working with Oracle in 1988, presenting 4 previous times at OOW and it's predecessor. He has worked with SharePlex for both Dell and as a customer. He has helped hundreds of customers increase the availability and deploy scalable infrastructures. His experience with Oracle includes database administration, architecture, data warehousing, Oracle EBS and application development. Hands on experience with replication technology includes change data capture, messaging queues, block level disk writes, enterprise application integration, extract transformation and load

Roger Freixa Vidal

Roger Freixa is Senior Principal Product Manager on the Cloud Application Foundation team in Oracle HQ worldwide since middle 2011. Before this, he was CAF Product Manager in Europe. He is responsible for Cloud Application Foundation, specifically in charge of WebLogic Server, Tuxedo and Virtual Assembly Builder. Roger has been in the software industry for over twenty years in various capacities, from developer to project manager to product manager. Roger held various positions at HP, EDS and Bea Systems and joined Oracle through the acquisition of Bea. Roger's fields of expertise include Java & JEE standards, WebLogic Server, Cloud and Interoperability.

Martin D'Souza Portland only

Is the CTO and cofounder at ClariFit, a consulting firm that specializes in APEX and PL/SQL development and training. He is also a volunteer director for ODTUG. Martin’s career has seen him hold a range of positions within award-winning companies. His experience in the technology industry has been focused on developing database-centric web applications using the Oracle technology stack. Martin is the author of the popular blog www.TalkApex.com, a designated Oracle ACE Director, coauthored and authored various APEX books, and is an active participant in various open source projects, such as Logger. He has also presented at numerous international conferences, such as APEXposed!, COUG, Oracle OpenWorld, and ODTUG Kscope, for which he won the Presenter of the Year award in 2011. Martin holds a computer engineering degree from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. You can contact Martin via email at martin@clarifit.com or by Twitter @martindsouza.

Event Date: Tuesday August 13 and Wednesday August 15, 2013

Arup Nanda

Arup Nanda has been working exclusively as an Oracle DBA for last 15 years covering everything from performance tuning to disaster recovery. He is the global head of database architecture for a New York area multinational company. He has co-authored 4 books on Oracle database, written 300+ articles in many publications including Oracle Magazine and OTN, presented 150+ sessions at conferences like Oracle Open World and IOUG Collaborate, publishes a blog (arup.blogpsot.com), conducts training sessions and builds tools for effective database administration. He is an Oracle ACE Director, a member of the Oak Table Network, an editor for SELECT Journal - the publication of IOUG, a member of the Board of Directors of Exadata SIG. In 2003, he was awarded the DBA of the Year by Oracle. (quoted from Amazon)

Glenn Fawcett

Glenn Fawcett started working with SUN Microsystems as an Oracle performance engineer. He has been running Oracle benchmarks on everything from Sequent gear, Sun Sparc servers, and Exadata. He is a staff engineer at Oracle and is the newest member of the OakTable Network.

SPEAKERS LIST: May 14-15, 2013

Phillip Rizzo, Oracle, Regional Sales Manager, Data Integration Solutions, Oracle Active Data Guard and GoldenGate, Oracle Data Integrator.

David Segleau, PORTLAND only

Director of Product Management Oracle Corporation

Technical Director for the Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle Database Mobile Server products

David Segleau is the former VP of Engineering for Sleepycat Software (makers of Berkeley DB) and is now the Director of Product Management for several products at Oracle, including Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle NoSQL Database. He has over 30 years of industry experience, leading and managing technical product teams. He has worked extensively with database technology as both a customer and a vendor. David has held management positions at many technology companies, including Britton-Lee, ShareBase, Teradata, Illustra, Informix, ANTs Software, Sleepycat Software and now Oracle. As Director of Product Management, David coordinates and communicates technical product features and functionality, both inbound to Engineering and outbound to Oracle Sales, Partners and Customers. He has broad experience with many NoSQL and Big Data use cases and application design challenges.

Clay Jackson

Quest/Dell Systems Consultant specializing in Performance

SPEAKERS LIST: FEBRUARY 12-13, 2013

David Segleau, Bellevue only

Director of Product Management Oracle Corporation

Technical Director for the Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle Database Mobile Server products

Gary Fox, Portland only

DBA Team Lead at Xerox in Wilsonville, OR. Over the past thirty years he has worked with Oracle database versions 5 through 11g. He has experience with eBusiness, Data Guard, Portal, Discoverer, and various other Oracle applications. Gary is an OCP certified Oracle DBA and taught OCP and many other classes, oracle as well as unix, math, and folk dancing.

Mark Atkinson, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation

Oracle Linux - Oracle VM

Mark Atkinson is a Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle on the Linux & Virtualization team. Mr. Atkinson has over 16 years Linux experience holding positions which include Linux System Administration, IT Manager, Enterprise Architect, Open Source Practice Manager and Sales. Mr. Atkinson has worked for several startup companies and Fortune 50 such as IBM, Unisys and Oracle.

Jeff Frix, Business Development Manager, Oracle Corporation

David Crandall, Oracle Corporation

SPEAKERS LIST: AUGUST 14-15, 2012

Roger Freixa Vidal, Sr. Director Oracle Corporation

Roger Freixa has spoken throughout the world on Fusion Middleware Technologies . His focus is on Java, Oracle’s Application Servers, and how to apply them to Oracle Applications, and Databases.

Jared Still, Portland only

Jared Still has been an Oracle DBA in health insurance and manufacturing environments since 1994 (and version 7.0.13 of Oracle). He first began dabbling with Perl in 1993 and it was love at first sight. Perl became an integral part of his Oracle toolkit when it was used to rapidly prototype and implement complex reporting based on data in Oracle databases. Jared has been working with databases of various ilks since 1988, and along the way has also worked as a Unix system administrator. When not riding herd on the databases at the OK Corral, he likes to spend time tinkering on his car, fly fishing, or sitting on the deck in the backyard at his home doing absolutely nothing. He can be reached at jkstill@cybcon.com. He is a member of the Oracle Oak Table and has made many more contributions to Oracle and Information Systems that he chooses to remember.

Jeremiah Wilton, Bellevue only

Jeremiah Wilton has over eighteen years of Oracle administration and architecture experience. As Amazon.com’s first DBA, he helped lead Amazon.com’s database group from pre-IPO times through the years of exponential growth. He is now a principal with Blue Gecko, a subsidiary of DataAvail, leaders in remote database administration for Oracle, Oracle Applications, SQL Server, MySQL and Postgres. Jeremiah is a recognized expert in scalability, high availability, stability and complex recoveries. He also teaches the Oracle Certificate Program at the University of Washington and independent seminars on a variety of Oracle subjects. In 2001 at Oracle Openworld, Oracle Education honored Jeremiah as one of the first eight Oracle Certified Masters in the world. Jeremiah is a member of the Oak Table, and has presented at numerous conferences including Oracle Openworld, Collaborate and UKOUG. He is the author of a variety of technical whitepapers and articles available at www.bluegecko.net.

David Segleau, Bellevue only

Director of Product Management Oracle Corporation

Technical Director for the Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Berkeley DB and Oracle Database Mobile Server products

SPEAKERS LIST: May 8-9, 2012

Craig Shallahamer, Leading expert on Oracle Database Performance

Orapub.com

One of the most sought after speakers in the world. Accomplished Oracle author. Leading Oracle Performance technologist. More than 20 years of experience with and at Oracle.

Craig Shallahamer is a researcher, author, and teacher for 1000s of Oracle professionals. For over 20 years his focus has been Oracle performance analysis including firefighting and capacity planning. He is the founder and President of OraPub, an Oracle ACE Director, and regularly posts his newest research on his blog, A Wider View. He can be reached at orapub.craig@gmail.com.

Theresa Merenkov, Senior Director

Oracle Corporation

Theresa has been in the IT industry for 28 years. She has a background in Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Systems Design, Technical Consulting; Middleware, Testing and Performance Management, Database Management, Custom Development, and Project Management. Her work in Project Management, technical implementations, custom software development led to a focus on software development processes including work with standards like PMI’s PMBOK, IIBA’s BABOK, UML and the Unified Process (UP). Theresa has been a part of Oracle’s Global Methods organization for 13 years. She is the OUM Technology Discipline Leader. She has led the development of the Technology Full lifecycle project content, and supplemental guidance for Performance Management, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Fusion Middleware, Enterprise 2.0, and Enterprise Security in OUM. In addition, she leads the development of the Enterprise level material in the Envision focus area of OUM.

Theresa is the OUM Method Release Director and has managed each release and development of Oracle's Unified Method (OUM) which supports Oracle’s acquisition strategy and provides support for the implementation of all of Oracle's products. Theresa is a PMI Certified Project Management Professional and a Certified ScrumMaster. OUM combines best practices from Oracle's legacy methodologies and field experience with an industry standard framework that includes the latest thinking around the industry's moved toward agile implementation approaches.

Linda Peel, Senior Director

Oracle Corporation

Linda Peel has spent over 25 years in the Consumer Products industry working at and consulting to several leading Consumer Products companies from the shop floor up to leading all of major functional areas for major manufacturers selling into through multiple channels. Linda has spent the last 15+ years consulting at the top global consulting firms focused on assisting Consumer Products companies in the areas of Sales, Promotion and Marketing Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Planning and Supply Operations Planning including integration Financial Budgeting and Targeting. Linda is an industry leader working with Gartner and key Sales and Demand Associations to define core metrics to be used by various go to market Consumer channels. She has assisted organizations select and has personally deployed many of the known Trade Promotion and Predictive Optimization solutions combined with S&OP and Supply Chain Planning solutions.

Linda currently works in Oracle’s North American Application Solution Group and leads the Consumer Products Industry for Oracle’s Value Chain Planning solutions (Sales, Trade, S&OP, and Advanced Supply Chain Planning). Linda’s team assists organizations evaluate their business needs, identify and quantify business value / benefit cases, and collaborate internally to define roadmaps to success.

John Mervis, Senior Director

Oracle Corporation

John Mervis works in the Application Solution Group specializing in the Value Chain Planning application. John runs the Edge Solution Center where Oracle showcases such processes as Integrated Business Planning, Enterprise Quality Management, Logistic Network Optimization and Enterprise Logistic Orchestrations. He works very closely with partners like Oliver Wight to provide IBP and S&OP education at the Edge Solution Center. John was previously at CAS, where John severed as the Senior Solution Architect. John helped customer and prospect to develop their business processes for trade promotion and retail execution. John was involved in such customers as The Coca-Cola Company, Kellogg, RJR and more. Prior to CAS John was at Procuri (a SAAS vendor management solution) where he ran the Global Pre-Sales Department. John had an extended stay at PeopleSoft, where he served as a Solution Consulting Manager for Solution Architects Group.

A fun fact John was the first store manager of the first Home Depot Store.

When John is not working you can find him at the river or ocean flyfishing!

SPEAKERS LIST: FEBRUARY 13-14, 2012

Steven Pierson CPIM

Oracle Corporation

25 years of manufacturing / planning and execution systems and process management.

Andy Sherman: Sales Consultant for the value chain suite from Oracle.

Gwen Shapira

is a Senior Database Consultant at Pythian (www.pythian.com). Gwen studied

computer science, statistics, and operations research at the

University of Tel Aviv, and then went on to spend the next ten years

in different technical positions in the IT industry. Working as a

developer, project manager, system administrator, storage

administrator and database administrator for HP, before joining

Pythian at 2010.

Gwen is an OakTable member, Oracle ACE and Oracle Certified

Professional. She specializes in scalability and high-availability

solutions such as RAC,Streams,Golden Gate and Exadata and has

presented at various conferences including Hotsos Symposium 2009,RMOUG

2010 and Collaborate 2011. Gwen Shapira also blogs for the Pythian

blog on Oracle and Big Data topics:

http://www.pythian.com/news/author/shapira/

Ed Whalen

is an Oracle ACE and the Chief Technologist at Performance Tuning Corporation (www.perftuning.com), a consulting company specializing in database performance, administration, virtualization and disaster recovery solutions with over 20+ years of experience. He has extensive experience in system architectural design for optimal performance. His career has consisted of hardware, OS, database and virtualization projects for many different companies. Edward Whalen has written six books on Oracle products and five books on MS SQL Server and is currently working on the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Deep Dive book for Oracle Press. He has also worked on numerous benchmarks and performance tuning projects with both Oracle and MS SQL Server.

Edward Whalen has extensive architectural experience consisting of all layers of the cloud/application stack from storage and hardware to hypervisor and OS and to the database. This experience and skills has provided the foundation for the system architecture work that he has done in the past.

Phillip Rizzo

has over 22 years of experience in the information technology industry (fourteen years specifically with Oracle). He is an accomplished professional, skilled in technical team leadership, sales process management, and strategic customer relationship building at the technical and executive management levels.

Phill has been instrumental in managing sales, pre-sales and consulting teams throughout the United States and Canada. He has served as a primary management sponsor for executive-level communications within key accounts and drove solution proposals encompassing all aspects of the Oracle technology stack.

Earned a master’s in Information Systems Management from Seattle Pacific University and bachelor’s degree in Communications from Washington State University.

Bill Slocumb

22+ years with Oracle Corporation. Senior Pre-sales Engineer in the Strategic Accounts group. Bill has assisted Oracle customers and has experience in many or most database configurations. Currently Bill provides support for Oracle customers implementing their new Exadata servers.