Hans Forbrich has been around computers for 40 years. Indeed, while studying for his BSc EE in the 1970s he worked as a contract programmer to help pay for school. Hans has been working with Oracle products since 1984. In the field service group at Nortel he was introduced to 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.
Peter McLarty has worked with technology for over 25 years. He has been working with Unix and databases for over 10 years with 8 years experience as an Oracle DBA. Peter has worked with Oracle 7.3 through to Oracle 11. Peter has a number of years experience supporting Oracle Application Server. He has experience with RAC and Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture. Peter maintains his own web site with articles about many topics of interest to him and not always about databases or Oracle. Peter has a diverse background in IT supporting his DBA skills and is now involved in Architecture and System Assurance. Peter works for Pacific DBMS, whose office is in Margate, Queensland. Peter is married with 2 children, and several pets to support. When he is not doing things with computers he likes to follow his football team or study things about Asia and learn Thai.
Ulises Lazarini is the president of Consultoria Informatica Lazarini, and a partner of Oracle with more than 10 years experience of working with Oracle databases. He has also been an OCP member since Oracle 7.3.4, 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, and so on.
He has been an Oracle instructor in the kernel field for more than 12 years. Ulises has been a speaker at Oracle Open World (September 2008, "Migration from Siebel 7.8 running on SQL Server to Oracle 10g RAC") and a DBA Consultant on two successful Oracle database cases. He has been very active in installing and monitoring RAC environments for OLTP and data warehouse databases.
He has been responsible for high availability on global databases.