Hans Forbrich has been around computers for 40 years. While studying for his B.Sc. EE in the 70s, he worked as a contract programmer to help pay for school. Hans has been working with the Oracle products since 1984. While at Nortel in the field service group, he met Oracle Database version 4. He joined Oracle Canada to work in the Communications vertical from 1996 to 2002. In 2003, Hans started Forbrich Computer Consulting Ltd., which has become a successful international Oracle consultancy and Oracle training partner based in St. Albert, near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

As an Oracle ACE Director and OCP, Hans frequently responds in various Oracle Forums, teaches for Oracle University, consults with Oracle customers on maximizing value from Oracle licenses, and speaks at Oracle User Group conferences around the world. He holds a strong belief that Oracle products provide significant value, and the key to extracting that value—and reducing the effective cost of the product—is in understanding the product and using the right tool for the job.

Mennan Tekbir has a master's degree in Computer Sciences, and has worked for several telecommunications companies around the world. He is mainly focused on performance analysis, designing and implementing frameworks, automated PL/SQL code generation, and fraud detection with data mining.

Robin Buitenhuis is an experienced Oracle DBA. During his study at the Universiteit Twente, he came in contact with Oracle RDBMS 6.0 en Forms 2.3. From that moment on, he has always worked with Oracle products. He is also a member of the board of the Dutch Oracle Usergroup (www.ogh.nl).

Syed Jaffar Hussain has more than 16 years of Information Technology (IT) experience, which includes over eight years as a Production Oracle DBA. He is an Oracle ACE, Oracle 10g Certified Master (OCM), OCP DBA (v8i, 9i, and10g), and Oracle 10g RAC Certified Expert. He is currently involved in 8 node production and 6 node development RAC setup with more than 60 databases running across the nodes. He has a broad experience in Oracle advanced technologies such as RAC, DataGuard, RMAN, and Performance Tuning. He occasionally presents Oracle University five-day courses and one-day seminars on behalf of Oracle EMEA. He has also worked for a couple of multinational banks in Saudi Arabia. He is currently involved with the Oracle 11g RAC book.

He is a frequent contributor at Oracle OTN forums and regularly writes to his blog, (http://jaffardba.blogspot.com). He is reachable at <[email protected]>