ODTUG OPP Instructors

OPP2008 IS THE PL/SQL CONFERENCE OF THE YEAR! Hosted by PL/SQL Evangelist Steven Feuerstein and accompanied by the industry's most well respected leaders in PL/SQL, OPP2008 is the ideal educational experience for Oracle technologists who rely on PL/SQL to get their jobs done. Similar to OPP2007 but with updated content, expanded topics, and a brand new PL/SQL test-a-thon, OPP2008 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 keep checking back for updates. If you are interested in becoming an OPP2008 speaker, please contact us at odtug@odtug.com.
	Steven Feuerstein OPP Conference Chair PL/SQL Evangelist, Quest Software Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on he 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
	Ken Atkins Co-founder, Creative Design Associates Ken Atkins is currently a Business Intelligence Manager at SHPS, Inc, and has previously been a senior database design consultant working with many clients. He has been working with the Pl/SQL and 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
	Chris Baker Senior Principal Consultant, PITSS America, LLC Chris Baker is responsible for consulting services and sales engineering in the Americas. Chris supports sales initiatives, training, and workshops for PITSS. Since 2000, he has worked for/with Oracle on several projects throughout the United States and Canada. Return to Top
	Sam Drake Architect, Oracle Corporation Sam Drake is an architect in TimesTen Development at Oracle. He has been a member of the TimesTen team since 1996, spending time in Development, Product Management and now as an architect. He joined Oracle Corporation in 2005 when it purchased TimesTen. He has given numerous presentations at Oracle OpenWorld and to customers about TimesTen. Prior to TimesTen he spent eleven years at IBM Almaden Research Lab. 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
	Paul Dorsey, PhD 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
	David Gambino Director, Product Manager - Application Development Oracle Corporation David Gambino joined Oracle Corporation in December 2006 and is responsible for product management of Oracle database tools for application development. Prior to joining Oracle, David led the database technology organization supporting Bank of America’s Global Corporate and Investment Banking business. He has specialized in database technology throughout his entire career. David has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a M.S. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology. Return to Top
	Dr. James F. Hudson Systems Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Dr. James F. Hudson is an independent consultant working in applications development for environmental regulation, primarily for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He has been working with Oracle almost twenty years, since version 6 of the database and version 2.3 of Forms. His first public PL/SQL Web application went into production in 1997, and is still providing information to Wisconsin's citizens today. He's also used PL/SQL as a key component of a standards-based Web services implementation (the Exchange Network) since 2002. Dr. Hudson has been a speaker at Oracle conferences over the last decade. 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
	Michael Rosenblum DBA, Dulcian, Inc. Michael Rosenblum is a development DBA at Dulcian, Inc. He is responsible for system tuning and application architecture. Michael supports Dulcian developers by writing complex PL/SQL routines and researching new features. Michael is the co-author of PL/SQL for Dummies (Wiley Press, 2006). Michael is a frequent presenter at various regional and national Oracle user group conferences. In his native Ukraine, he received the scholarship of the President of Ukraine, a masters degree in information systems, and a diploma with honors from the Kiev National University of Economics. Return to Top