Ann McKinnell has been an OCP since Oracle 7.3.4, with over eight years experience as a senior technical member of Oracle Global Support, specializing in Database Server technologies. Ann has trained Oracle Support and Consulting personnel from many countries in Database Internals and Problem Solving techniques. She has served as a technical reviewer for Oracle University course material, numerous My Oracle Support (previously Metalink) notes and whitepapers, and various Oracle Database Administration user manuals. Ann is also a co-author of Packt Publishing’s Oracle 11g Streams Implementer’s Guide. With over 15 years in the IT industry, Ann continues to specialize in practical implementation strategies and the development of distributed Oracle database systems, database architecture, along with software and database design, integration, and engineering.
Fairlie Rego is a Senior Oracle Database Consultant with over ten years of experience in Oracle Database Technologies. He has worked on mission-critical, highly available systems built around the Maximum Availability architecture propounded by Oracle.
He has worked extensively in the financial, telecom, and educational sectors, and has been fortunate to work in challenging environments that make use of state-of-the-art technologies.
Ronald Rodd is an innovating Oracle DBA with over 20 years of IT experience. He has built and managed cluster databases on about each and every platform that Oracle ever supported, from the famous OPS databases in version 7 to the latest RAC releases, currently being 11g. Ronald is constantly looking for ways to get the most out of the database to make the investment for the customers even more valuable. He has a great knowledge of how to handle the power of the rich Unix environment, which makes him a first class troubleshooter and solution architect. Next to the spoken languages such as Dutch, English, German, and French, he also writes fluently in many scripting languages.
Currently Ronald is one of the consultants working for Ciber, in the Netherlands, cooperating on many complex projects for large companies, where downtime is not an option.
Ronald often replies on the Oracle forums, writes his own blog (http://ronr.blogspot.com), and writes for various Oracle-related magazines. He has also authored a book, Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases, where he fills the gap between the Oracle Documentation and the customers questions.