Advanced Oracle DBMS Packages: The Definitive Reference (Oracle In-Focus series) (Volume 41)
Paulo Ferreira Portugal is a DBA with a decade of experience in IT and has worked as a DBA for 8 years. He is an Oracle Certified Professional (9i and 10g); IBM DB2 Certified (8 and 9 “Viper”); and an Oracle 11i Applications Database Administrator Certified Professional. Currently, Paulo works as Senior Applications DBA for F2C Consultoria in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. F2C serves one of Oracle E-Business’ largest clients in Brazil.     He has participated in the Oracle Beta Test 11i project using Data Guard, and is a specialist in High Availability tools like Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Streams and Oracle RAC. His clients in Brazil demand the most sophisticated services using tools like Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, Oracle OTM, Oracle Retail and Oracle BPEL with Oracle RAC 10g. Paulo greatly enjoys what he does and is always improving his technical knowledge by attending events like Oracle Open World - San Francisco (2005 and 2006) and IBM Information on Demand – Los Angeles (2006).