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Presenters
Keynote Speaker
Tom Kyte, Oracle Corporation |
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Tom Kyte is a Senior Technical Architect in Oracle’s Server Technology Division. Before starting at Oracle, Kyte worked as a systems integrator building large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications, mostly for military and government customers. Kyte spends a great deal of time working with the Oracle database and, more specifically, working with people who are working with the Oracle database. In addition, Kyte is the Tom behind the AskTom column in Oracle Magazine, answering people's questions about the Oracle database and its tools (http://asktom.oracle.com/). Kyte is also the author of Expert Oracle Database Architecture (Apress, 2005), Expert One on One Oracle (Wrox Press, 2001/Apress 2004), Beginning Oracle Programming (Wrox press, 2002/Apress 2004), and Effective Oracle by Design (Oracle Press, 2003). These are books about the general use of the database and how to develop successful Oracle applications.
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| Melissa Andrews, Oracle Corporation |
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Melissa Andrews has been a sales consultant at Oracle for the past eleven years. Her area of focus is the database and the COTS products that live right on top of it (BI, content management, etc). She has seen many new product lines introduced to Oracle customers during her tenure there, and her belief is that the customers who succeed are the ones who understand what all of their options are (even if they aren't all good), and move forward utilizing a strategy that works best for them.
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| Tyrone Borromeo, Oracle Corporation |
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Tyrone Borromeo is a principal sales consultant specializing in Service-Oriented Architecture, Data Integration, Business Process Management, and Application Server Middleware technologies. He has twelve years of Enterprise software experience from Oracle Corporation, IBM Corporation, and BEA Systems doing client-facing solutions architecture, systems implementation, technical sales, consulting services, and research and development.
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| Erik Cohen, SAIC |
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Erik Cohen works for Science Applications International Corporation, a system integrator currently supporting many government and private contracts. He has over twenty years of experience as a database administrator. Over the past fifteen years, Erik has served as a WebServer, LAN, and system administrator in addition to doing database-related activities. He has a BA in political science and an M.Mus. in music performance. He has OCP certifications in Oracle 7.3, 8.0, 8i, 9i and 10g.
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| Martin Disterheft, PITSS America LLC |
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Martin Disterheft brings nearly two decades of information technology and global leadership to his role as President, PITSS America. Drawn to PITSS dynamic, entrepreneurial environment and its reputation as a leader in Oracle Technology related solutions, Martin spearheads PITSS expansion to North America and is responsible for the strategic direction for the Americas division. He is committed to increasing awareness among US based companies that PITSS superior Oracle Forms solutions significantly improve the ROI of both past and present investments in Oracle development technologies. Prior to working with PITSS America, Martin worked for Robert Bosch Corporation for almost ten years as Project Manager/Director for Engineering Services and provided leadership as Project Manager for global IT projects with fiscal budget responsibility up to $20 million. He holds a bachelors degree in management information systems.
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| John Flack, Synetics for Management Decisions, Inc. |
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John Flack has been acting as an internal consultant on projects at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). He has also provided Oracle database administration services for the National Council of Architectural Review Boards (NCARB). He has more than twenty-five years of system analysis and design experience. He is the author of numerous papers on Oracle Software Methodology, which he has presented at the IOUG Forum at Collaborate and at Oracle Development Tools Users Group (ODTUG) conferences. His paper, "Google Maps, ADF Faces, and Oracle Locator: A Backstage Tour of the New Treatment Locator," won the Editor's Choice Award for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008.
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| Mary Gable, Preferred Training Solutions |
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Mary Hunsaker Gable has been designing, administering, and developing education solutions for Oracle databases for over twenty years beginning with version 5 of the database. With no choice but to use Pro*PL/1 and Pro*C, she was excited to take advantage of PL/SQL when it was initially released and used it along with Oracle's Forms and Reports tools to develop her company's custom accounting software. While watching PL/SQL grow into a robust (and sane) environment for Oracle development, Mary combined her passion for Oracle with her passion for teaching and created Preferred Training Solutions in 1993. In addition to PL/SQL, her favorite, she regularly teaches the full curriculum of Oracle database administration and application development courses worldwide for many Fortune 100 companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Fannie Mae, Northrop Grumman, various universities, and local, state, and federal government. Mary is active in the Oracle user group community and has authored and presented dozens of papers for various Oracle user groups. She founded the Hampton Roads Oracle User Group (HROUG) in 1993 and continues to serve the local user group community as a board member, frequent presenter, and IOUG representative.
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| Manish Khera, Avanco |
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As senior project manager for Avanco International, Manish Khera is leading the effort to automate the Army's consolidation of personnel, equipment, training, and facilities databases into a business intelligence system. The Army Enterprise Management Decision Support (EMDS) project will include future expansion of analytical dashboards with links into other state-level, joint forces level, and geographical informational systems. Prior to joining Avanco, Manish worked for six years as a senior director for HB Software Solutions, a transportation software company, where he headed up HBSS's business development, consulting, and product implementation divisions. He was instrumental in the opening of global markets for HBSS in Europe and South Asia.
Prior to joining HBSS, Manish worked at CGI and Painted Word in their business intelligence practices. In his tenure at these companies, he implemented BI and GIS systems for public and commercial sector clients such as National Cable and Telecommunications Association, National Association of Home Builders, Prime Retail, CVS, Sears, BMW, MetLife, and Wal-Mart.
Manish started his career as an operations manager at Genetics Institute designing bioreactors and filtration processes for growth and harvest of recombinant proteins. His work in the design and implementation of the ERP and bioinformatics system for Genetics Institute is what led him to change careers from designing bioreactors to business intelligence systems and artificial intelligence systems. Manish holds a BS in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in computer science from Boston University.
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| Robert Lindsley, Oracle Corporation |
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Robert Lindsley is a senior sales consultant in Oracle's North American Public Sector organization. He specializes in Oracle's business intelligence, analysis, and data warehousing solutions and has worked in the software industry for over ten years. Before that, Robert was a research scientist specializing in the analysis of large neuroscience datasets. He has several publications in the areas of multisensory integration and neuropharmacology. Robert has a BS from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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| Karen Morton, Agilex Technologies |
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Karen Morton is a senior principal database engineer for Agilex Technologies with nearly twenty years of Oracle experience. She works with companies around the world teaching application optimization in both classroom settings and shoulder-to-shoulder consulting engagements. She is an author of two upcoming Oracle books from Apress, a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups, an Oracle ACE, and a member of the OakTable network. She blogs at http://karenmorton.blogspot.com.
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| Bharadwaz Pappu, VISTAtsi |
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Bharat Pappu is a principal consultant with more than ten years of experience using multiple Oracle products. He has worked with Oracle APEX for over three years, specifically to re-engineer and rebuild the Army’s Enterprise Real Property Planning System. Bharat has also lead several software architecture teams to support and implement DoD IT systems involving technologies like MS Project Server 2003, Cognos 7.x, and J2EE (Struts-hibernate) applications. Bharat has a master’s degree in information technology from George Washington University.
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| Scott Spendolini, Sumneva |
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Scott Spendolini is president and founder of Sumner Technologies, a small business founded in October 2005, which specializes in Oracle Application Express training and consulting services. He has assisted a number of clients from various verticals with their Application Express development and training needs. He has presented at a number of conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, ODTUG, and IOUG and is a regular contributor to the APEX Forums on OTN. He is a recent recipient of the Oracle ACE Director designation and is also a co-author of the recently released book Pro Oracle Application Express. Previously to founding Sumner Technologies, Scott worked for Oracle Corporation for almost ten years, the last three of which he was a senior product manager for Oracle Application Express. He holds a dual bachelors 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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| Heather Toombs, Guident Technologies |
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Heather Toombs is a senior Oracle database engineer at Guident Technologies. She has over ten years of experience with the design and development of reporting solutions and OLTP applications. She also has over two years of experience developing J2EE applications using JDBC and ORM (object-relational mapping) tools. Her interests focus on developing the best practices for interactions between J2EE applications and the supporting database.
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| Julie Xiang, Oracle Corporation |
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Julie Xiang is an experienced IT professional with over ten years of experience in technical consulting and ERP implementation. Her areas of expertise extend across all core technology offerings from Oracle including database administration, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Universal Content Management, and Oracle portal solutions. In her current role at Oracle, Julie works closely with customers to meet their business challenges using Oracle technology.
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