ODTUG OPP Instructors


OPP 2008 IS THE PL/SQL AGENDA OF THE YEAR! Hosted by PL/SQL Evangelist Steven Feuerstein and accompanied by the industry's most well respected leaders in PL/SQL, the OPP 2008 agenda is the ideal educational experience for Oracle technologists that rely on PL/SQL to get their jobs done. Similar to OPP 2007 but with updated content, expanded topics and a brand new PL/SQL test-a-thon, the OPP 2008 agenda is simply the only place to get this much technical content and get up-close-and-personal with the experts themselves. Take a look below at the lineup of planned speakers and check back often - our complete agenda is coming soon. If you are interested in becoming an OPP 2008 speaker, please contact us at info@odtugopp.com.
	Steven Feuerstein OPP Conference Chair PL/SQL Evangelist, Quest Software Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, having written nine books on PL/SQL (all from O'Reilly & Associates), including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices. He has received various awards over the years for his work on PL/SQL, including Oracle Magazine PL/SQL Developer of the Year in 2003 and 2006. He is the only ODTUG presenter to win three awards—the 2005 Best Presentation, 2005 Editor’s Choice Award, and 2002 Best Presentation Award. He has taught thousands of PL/SQL developers and DBAs in seminars throughout US, Europe, Australia and Latin America. Return to Top
	Bryn Llewellyn PL/SQL Product Manager, Server Technologies Division, Oracle Corporation Bryn Llewellyn is the Oracle PL/SQL Product Manager, Server Technologies Division, Oracle Corporation. Bryn has worked in the software field for almost 30 years. He joined Oracle UK in 1990 at the European Development Center in the Oracle Designer team. He transferred to the Oracle Text team and then into Consulting as the Text specialist for Europe. He relocated to Redwood Shores in 1996 to join the Oracle Text Technical Marketing Group. He has been the Product Manager for PL/SQL since 2001. It's hard for Bryn to remember his life before Oracle. He started off doing image analysis and pattern recognition at Oxford University and then worked in Oslo, in the public sector and in a startup. While in Norway, Bryn programmed in Simula (its inventors were his close colleagues). This language was the inspiration for Smalltalk and C++. Return to Top
	John Jeunnette President, Prairie Systems, Limited ODTUG President John Jeunnette is president of Prairie Systems Group, Limited, a consulting organization specializing in application development using the Oracle Tool set. He has more than 15 years of experience working with Oracle and has developed applications in a variety of industry areas for large and small clients throughout the United States and England. John has developed, deployed, and maintains several large PL/SQL Web Toolkit-based applications over the last eight years including the ODTUG conference abstract submission and review application. He continues to work on creative ways to leverage the power of the toolkit for internet-based application development. Most recently, he has focused on Web-based applications using Oracle Developer, Oracle Designer, the PL/SQL Web Toolkit, and Oracle E-Business Suite administration. John is a frequent presenter at the ODTUG and OAUG conferences. Return to Top
	Paul Dorsey President, Dulcian, Inc. Dr. Paul Dorsey is the founder and president of Dulcian, Inc., an Oracle consulting firm specializing in business rules and Web-based application development. He is the chief architect of Dulcian's Business Rules Information Manager (BRIM®) tool. Paul is the co-author of seven Oracle Press books on Designer, Database Design, Developer, and JDeveloper, which have been translated into nine languages as well as the Wiley Press book PL/SQL for Dummies. Paul is an Oracle Fusion Middleware Regional Director. He is the President of the New York Oracle Users’ Group and a Contributing Editor of the International Oracle User Group’s SELECT Journal. In 2003, Dr. Dorsey was honored by ODTUG as volunteer of the year, in 2001 by IOUG as volunteer of the year and by Oracle as one of the six initial honorary Oracle 9i Certified Masters. Paul is also the founder and Chairperson of the ODTUG Symposium, currently in its seventh year. Return to Top
	Mary Hunsaker Gable President, Preferred Training Solutions, Inc. 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 ProPL/1 and ProC, 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. Return to Top
	Karen Morton Director of Education, Method R Corporation Karen Morton is the Director of Education of Method R Corporation. For more than twenty years Karen has worked in information technology, starting out as a mainframe programmer and then growing and changing with the times to do development, DBA, and data architect work. She has been using Oracle since the early 90's and began teaching others to use Oracle more than a decade ago. She has authored several Oracle training course books, including leading the development of the Hotsos/Method R SQL Optimization curriculum, and is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences. Method R Corporation is a Cary Millsap company that is committed to genuinely satisfying software performance. The company creates software tools, education courses, and consulting services dedicated to helping software application systems run faster and more efficiently. Method R focuses predominantly on Oracle-based systems, but it has the worldwide network in place today to assist with Microsoft SQL Server performance issues as well. Return to Top
	John Pocknell Product Manager, Quest Software John Pocknell, a product manager at Quest Software, works at the company’s European headquarters in Maidenhead, UK. He has been with Quest since 2000, focusing on the database design, development and testing product areas. John also spends significant time with customers at Toad and Oracle user group meetings throughout Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, promoting Toad and presenting Toad training courses. John has worked in IT for more than twenty years, primarily in Oracle-based application design and development. He is also an aeronautical engineer, with more than ten years of experience as a business development manager delivering IT consulting services and implementing quality assurance systems to the ISO 9001 standard. Return to Top
	John Beresniewicz Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation John Beresniewicz is currently a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle USA working in the Manageability group of Server Technologies. He joined Oracle in 2002 and was instrumental in the design of Enterprise Manager’s exposure of new features and workflows within the Oracle 10g manageability infrastructure. Previously John worked at Precise Software Solutions and Savant Corporation for seven years on performance diagnostic tools for the Oracle DBA, and as a production Oracle DBA for about ten years prior to that. He was the sole author of the PL/SQL performance data collection engine used by the Savant product, about 25K lines of code executing under database releases 7.2 through 9i. John is coauthor with Steven Feuerstein of Oracle Built-in Packages and Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference from O’Reilly & Associates. He has spoken many times at Oracle user groups large and small about both database performance analysis and PL/SQL programming, twice receiving the best speaker award at the East Coast Oracle conference. Return to Top
	Ken Atkins Co-founder, Creative Design Associates Ken Atkins is a co-founder of Creative Design Associates (www.cda-llc.com), an Oracle consulting firm specializing in Oracle development tools, application architecture, design, data modeling, configuration management, and project management. Ken has been working with the Oracle database and tools for over 15 years, and has extensive experience with Oracle Designer, Oracle Developer, Oracle Portal, SQL, and PL/SQL, as well as Java, XML, and SOA. He is a popular speaker at Oracle conferences, and was awarded the 2003 ODTUG best speaker award, as well as the 2001 and 2003 ODTUG editor’s choice awards. He is also a co-author of Oracle Designer System Generation (Oracle Press). Return to Top
	Marc Sewtz Oracle Corporation Marc Sewtz is a software development manager for Oracle Application Express in the Database Tools Group, part of the Server Technologies Division. Marc has fourteen years of industry experience, including roles in Consulting, Sales and Development and joined Oracle in 1998. He has been working with Oracle Application Express since 2001, first as a consultant, using it as a development framework for writing extensions to Oracle Applications. For the last five years, he has worked as an architect and development manager for Application Express itself. Marc lives and works in New York City and has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Wedel, Germany. Return to Top