Asif Momen has been working with Oracle technologies for over 14 years and has expertise in database architecture, performance tuning, and high availability. He has a master's degree in software systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.

Asif has been honored with the prestigious Oracle ACE award from Oracle Technology Network. He has authored Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide for Packt Publishing. Asif is an Oracle Certified Master (OCM) and has certifications in OCP 11g DBA and OCP 9i Forms Developer. He is also an Oracle Certified Expert in RAC 10g.

Asif has given presentations at the Oracle OpenWorld 2012, 2011, and 2010 conferences, All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG), and Middle East Oracle User Group (MEOUG). He is an active contributor to the Oracle user community and plays the following roles in various users groups:

His articles have appeared in Oracle Support - Customer Knowledge Exchange. His main areas of interest include database architecture and tuning, Oracle RAC, and backup and recovery. He posts his ideas and opinions on The Momen blog at http://momendba.blogspot.com. Asif can be reached at <[email protected]>.

Shuxuan Nie is a platform architect with specialization in SOA, Oracle VM, Exalogic, and Java technologies. She holds an MS in computer science from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. ShuXuan has 15 years of experience in the IT industry, which includes SOA technologies, such as BPEL, ESB, SOAP, XML, Enterprise Java technologies, Eclipse plugins, and C++ cross-platform development. Since 2010, she has been working at Rubicon Red, helping customers resolve integration issues and design and implement highly available infrastructure platforms on Oracle VM and Exalogic.

From 2007 to 2010, ShuXuan worked with the Oracle Global Customer Support team and focused on helping customers solve their middleware/SOA integration problems. Before joining Oracle, he worked as a staff software engineer at IBM China Software Development Lab for 4 years and participated in several complex products, such as IBM Lotus Workplace, WebSphere, and the Eclipse platform. Later, he joined the Australia Bureau of Meteorology Research Center, where he was responsible for the implementation of the Automated Thunderstorm Interactive Forecast System for Aviation and Defense.

Gavin Soorma is an Oracle ACE and Oracle Certified Master with over 19 years of experience. He is also an Oracle Certified Professional (versions 7.3, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, and 12c) and an Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist in GoldenGate, Exadata, and Enterprise Manager 12c.

Gavin regularly gives presentations at various Oracle conferences and seminars. He has presented several papers at the IOUG, South African Oracle User Group, Oracle OpenWorld, and the Australian Oracle User Group. He presented a paper on Oracle GoldenGate titled Real Time Access to Real Time Information at AUSOUG 2015, which was held in Melbourne and Perth.

He is currently employed as a senior principal consultant at OnCall DBA, an Oracle solution provider based in Perth, Western Australia. Prior to this, he held the position of a senior Oracle DBA and team leader with Bankwest in Perth. Before migrating to Australia, Gavin worked for Emirates Airline Group IT in Dubai for over 15 years, where he held the position of a technical team manager of databases.

He has also written a number of tutorials and notes on Oracle GoldenGate, which can be accessed via his personal blog at http://gavinsoorma.com.

He was a technical reviewer for another book, Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's Guide by John P Jeffries, Packt Publishing.

Eric Yen has been working with Oracle products since 1994. His experience includes working with VLDBs for various United States government agencies. Eric's areas of expertise include architecting and implementing Oracle's highly available and replication environments from their conception to implementation. He holds multiple Oracle and Security certifications from ISC2.