Hector R. Madrid is a highly respected Oracle professional with 20 years of experience as a full time DBA. He has been working with Oracle databases from version 5.0 up to the latest 11g release. He was the first Oracle Certified Master in Latin America and he holds the Oracle Certified Professional certificate for all Oracle versions starting with 7.3 up to 11g.
He obtained a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the Metropolitan Autonomous University in 1992, with a major in Digital Systems and Computers. He obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science from the same University. He has collaborated with Oracle Corp. as an instructor teaching the database track since 1996.
Hector works as a database consultant for several major firms, dealing with a wide range of DBA requirements, ranging from daily DBA tasks to defining and maintaining mission critical and high availability systems.
He has presented different technical papers at several Oracle conferences. He is the author of the Blog 'Oracle by Madrid' a Blog specializing in Oracle database topics.