Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
Kellyn Pot'Vinis an Oracle ACE Director and Sr. Technical Consultant at Enkitec, managing Oracle and SQL Server. She specializes in environment optimization tuning and creating systems that are robust and enterprise level. Kellyn works mostly on multi-TB size databases, including Exadata and databases with driven performance involving solid state disk solutions. Kellyn is deeply involved in the Oracle User Group Community,speaking at conferences around the world and is the director for the Rocky Mountain Training Days Conference, (RMOUG) one of the largest regional conferences. Kellyn blogs at https://dbakevlar.comand is engrossed in social media. She can be found on Twitter under the handle, @DBAKevlar, Linked in and Facebook,where she often discusses her daily technical adventures since she works fromhome and doesn't have any co-workers to tell them to. She also heads up local and global WIT, (Women in Technology) groups, mentoring fellow women in technical fields. Kellyn resides in Westminster, CO with her partner, Tim Gorman and her three children, Sam, Cait and Josh.Niall Litchfieldis a DBA of 15 years standing, with extensive experience of running databases on various x86(64) platforms, and with a particular bias towards Microsoft Windows. Niall began professional life as a ""bean-counter"" for KPMG, consequently he is a DBA who respects auditors, not least because they have to stand in unheated warehouses in the middle of winter watching other people count things, something he never wants to do again. His dad was a real engineer crafting genuinely useful objects with fine tolerances and that, coupled with an early experience in which he showed that the two competing macro-economic theories of the time both explained actual behavior equally well, and that neither explained it adequately, rather explains his evidence based approach to databases in general and performance tuning in particular.FewDBAs are as well equipped asAlex Gorbachevto handle any kind of database scenario. Alexhas architected and designed numerous successful database solutions addressingchallenging business requirements. Alex is a respected figure in the Oracleworld and a sought-after leader and speaker at Oracle conferences around theglobe. He regularly publishes articles on the Pythian blog and runs onlinewebinars. Alex is a member of OakTable Network and an Oracle ACE Director.Today, Alex is working at The Pythian Group. Hestarted at Pythian in Ottawa, leading a team of database experts before movingto Australia to embrace the challenges of setting up company business in theEast Asia/Pacific region. Now he's back in Ottawa as Pythian's Chief TechnologyOfficer, continuing to bridge the gap between business and technology. Thesearch for the perfect fit between technology, engineering talents and businessprocesses is what keeps him up at night.Anand Akelais Senior Principal Product Marketing Directorfor Oracle Enterprise Manager. He focuses on Oracle�s enterprise cloud,virtualization, and infrastructure management offerings. Prior to his currentrole at Oracle, he worked at HP in various product marketing, productmanagement, and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, datacenter energy efficiency, and enterprise software areas.Anand is an active participant in various data centerindustry consortiums and currently serves as Chairman for the Data Collectionand Analysis Work Group at The Green Grid. The Green Grid is a globalconsortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energyefficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems around the globe.Anand also serves as an advisor to PeersNet, a web services provider. Anandreceived his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a B.S.in Computer Science from Pune University in India.Pete Sharmanis a Principal Product Manager with the Enterprise Manager product suite group in the Server Technologies Division at Oracle Corporation. He has worked with Oracle for the past 18 years in a variety of roles from Education to Consulting to Development, and has used Enterprise Manager since its 0.76 beta release. Pete is a member of the OakTable Network, and has presented at conferences around the world from Oracle OpenWorld (both in Australia and the US), RMOUG Training Days, the Hotsos Conference, Miracle Open World, and the AUSOUG and NZOUG conferences. He has previously authored a book on how to pass the Oracle8i Database Administration exam for the Oracle Certified Professional program. He lives in Canberra, Australia, with his wife and three children.Atil Gokhanis an independent consultant in Turkey. He has extensive experience with Enterprise Manager rollouts.Leighton Nelson�is an Oracle Certified database administrator and is a Lead Oracle DBA at Mercy, Saint Louis. He has over ten years of experience working with Oracle database products and currently spends his time working on database management, performance tuning, high availability, and backup and recovery. Leighton is an active member of the Oracle community. He often speaks at regional conferences across the United States, including Oracle OpenWorld and IOUG Collaborate. He currently serves as the Oracle RAC SIG US Events Chairperson and IOUG Liaison. In addition to his speaking engagements, Leighton shares his experience with working with various Oracle products by blogging at�blogs.griddba.com,�and by tweeting at his twitter handle @leight0nn. Leighton resides in Saint Louis, MO with his wife Kerrine, their four sons Casani, Brandon, Justin, and Matthew.Bobby Curtisis a Solution Architect at BIAS Corporation in Atlanta, GA. He has been a database administrator for 11 of 17 years in the IT industry, with experience in Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Sybase. Bobby specializes in database implementation, configuration, and data integration for enterprise level databases and monitoring tools. He is a member of the Georgia Oracle User Group (GOUSER), Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG), and Oracle Developer Tools User Group (ODTUG). Bobby is also certified in Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle Enterprise Manager 11, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, Oracle Exadata. He now puts particular focus on the Oracle Database Appliance.