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| Chairman Term Expires: May 31, 2010 | Michael Brown | Colibri Limited 419 E. Crossville Road Suite 102 Roswell, GA 30075 email: mbrown@colibrilimited.com voice: (336)792-4800 Blog: blog.michael-brown.org Linked In |
Michael Brown has been working the Oracle Database since 1993, the E-Business Suite since 1997 and various flavors of Unix/Linux since 1986. He has a B.S Computer Science from Appalachian State University and an M.S. Computer Science from Clemson University. He is a member of OAUG and IOUG. He has been a regular presenter at Oracle Openworld and Collaborate as well as at local user groups. |
| Vice Chairman Term Expires: May 31, 2011 | Kaberi Nayak | Mitre Corporation Oracle Applications DBA email: knayak@mitre.org Voice: 703 606-3964 |
Kaberi Nayak has an undergraduate and graduate degree in Computer Science from GMU in Virginia. She has over sixteen years of experience with Oracle database administration specifically supporting Oracle Applications and also Oracle/Peoplesoft environments including installation, implementations, administration, maintenance, upgrades, platform migrations. Currently she works for Mitre Corporation as a Senior Oracle Applications DBA. |
| Secretary Term Expires: May 31, 2011 | Mark Farnham | Rightsizing, Inc. President 36 West Street Lebanon, NH 03766-1239 email: mwf@rsiz.com voice: (603) 448-1803 |
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 database technology and co-founded the OAUG. |
| Past Chairman | |||
| Andy Rivenes | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory email: arivenes@llnl.gov voice: (925) 424-9834 |
Andy Rivenes has been an Oracle DBA supporting Oracle Applications databases since 1992. He is currently employed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is a member of both the OAUG and IOUG user groups. Andy has been a presenter and panel member at many OAUG, Open World and local conferences as well as the Hotsos Symposium. | |
| Board Members At Large | |||
| Ahmed Alomari | Cybernoor Corporation 5000 Hopyard Road Suite 470 Pleasanton CA 94588 email: aalomari@cybernoor.com URL: www.cybernoor.com Voice: 925 924-0400 |
Ahmed Alomari is well known in the industry for his performance expertise. He has published several books on performance tuning with Prentice Hall. He has also presented on the subject of performance tuning at numerous conferences including Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle User groups, Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), VLDB, SANS, and Database and Client Server World. Prior to becoming an independent consultant and starting Cybernoor Corporation, Ahmed worked for Oracle Corporation for over 10 years, and he last held the position of Vice President of the Applications Performance Group. | |
| Wolfgang Breitling | Centrex Consulting Corporation email: breitliw@centrexcc.com URL: www.centrexcc.com |
Wolfgang Breitling was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and studied mathematics, physics and computer sciences at the University of Stuttgart. Following several years as systems programmer for IMS and later DB2 databases on IBM mainframes, he made the transition to Oracle on a project to implement Peoplesoft. In 1996, he became an independent consultant specializing in administering and tuning Peoplesoft on Oracle. The particular challenges in tuning Peoplesoft, with often no access to the SQL, motivated him to explore Oracle's cost-based optimizer in an effort to better understand how it works and use that knowledge in tuning. He has shared the findings from this research in papers and presentations at Hotsos, UKOUG and other conferences and newsgroups dedicated to Oracle performance topics. | |
| Bob Fleisig | Fleisig Consulting Services SROAUG Founding Chairman email: bfleisig@gmail.com Voice: (714)310-9600 Linked In Oracle Mix |
Bob Fleisig has been an Oracle Applications DBA for 15+ years and has been a leader in the Orange County and Southern California Oracle communities for the past twenty years. He has shown a selfless dedication to the advancement of the Oracle user community in his role as Founder and Chairman of the SROAUG, which he had nurtured into a highly respected user group through innovative leadership and continuous promotion, as he did with the Orange County Oracle User Group before it. Bob has presented at SROAUG and OAUG conferences, and contributes to periodic newsletters. Bob's philosophy is to minimize the pain by sharing the knowledge. It is Bob's pleasure to be affiliated with the outstanding group of professionals of the DBSIG. | |
| Neil Jensen | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 8008 L-363 Livermore, CA 94551 email: neil.jensen@hotsos.com |
Neil started using the Oracle database and Applications in 1989 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He earned his stripes performing several upgrades and solving performance problems. Neil found that he really enjoyed finding and solving performance issues so he joined the Hotsos team in 2005. | |
| Netta Kausalik | Blood Systems, Inc. e-mail: nkausalik@bloodsystems.org Voice: (480)675-5521 |
Netta Kausalik grew up in Albia, Iowa enjoying the beautiful Victorian Architecture & water sports on Lake Rathbun. She served in the United Sates Army as a Computer Operator / Key Punch Operator from 1973 through 1976 at Fort Devens Ayer, Massachusetts. Currently she works for Blood Systems, Inc. as a Database Administrator with primary focus on Oracle Applications. | |
| Larry Klein | email: larry.c.klein@gmail.com | Larry Klein has enjoyed working in IT for over 35 years in various technical and management roles, both in the IBM mainframe world as well as in the Oracle database and E-Business applications world. Having previously enjoyed a long consulting career at Oracle and Hotsos, Larry now works as VP of IT Operations at CCC Information Services in Chicago, a leading edge Oracle customer. | |
| Barbara Matthews | Reed-Matthews, Inc. 41 Sycamore Ridge Honeoye Falls, NY 14472 email: barb@oncalldba.com URL: www.oncalldba.com Voice: (585)624-2402 |
Barbara Matthews of OnCallDBA has worked with the Oracle Database and Applications for more than 15 years. Barb's experience includes supporting implementations and upgrades of Oracle Applications as a database administrator, as well as working as an Applications System Administrator. Barb began writing books about the Applications beginning with Releases 10.7 and 11.0, and now edits, writes and publishes books, newsletters, websites, papers, presentations and blogs about the E-Business Suite. | |
| Sandra Vucinic | VLAD Group, Inc. 538 Citadel Circle Westmont, IL 60559 email: sandrav@vladgroup.com voice: 630 202-1248 |
Sandra has over sixteen years of experience with Oracle database administration specifically supporting Oracle E-Business Suite environments. For years Sandra has been a presenter and panel member at OAUG, NCOAUG, CSOAUG, OVOAUG, SROAUG, Oracle Apps World and Oracle Open World Conferences (70+ sessions). Sandra continues to be active in the OAUG organization and serves as a Director on various OAUG GEO and SIG Boards. Sandra has been awarded the OAUG Member of the Year Award for 2008 at the Collaborate 2008 Conference in April 2008 in Denver CO. In December 2008 Sandra received Oracle ACE Award by Oracle Corporation. | |