Peter C. Boyd-Bowman is a Technical Manager and Consultant with the Oracle Corporation. He has over 30 years of software engineering and database management experience, including 12 years of focused interest in data warehousing and business intelligence. Capitalizing on his extensive background in Oracle database technologies dating back to 1985, he has spent recent years specializing in data migration. After many successful project implementations using Oracle Warehouse Builder and shortly after Oracle's acquisition of the Sunopsis Corporation, he switched his area of focus over to Oracle's flagship ETL product: Oracle Data Integrator. He holds a BS degree in Industrial Management and Computer Science from Purdue University and currently resides in North Carolina.

Martin A. Kendall has been working with IT systems since the mid 1980s. He has a deep understanding of application infrastructure, system engineering, and database architecture. He specializes in Oracle RAC and Oracle Identity Management solutions, along with object-oriented software engineering through the use of the Unified Process.

Martin consults through two distinct organizations to deliver Oracle integration services through sysnetica.com and to provide private cloud infrastructure adoption consultancy through dicedcloud.com.

Asif Momen has been working with Oracle technologies for over 12 years and has expertise in performance tuning and high availability. He has a Master's degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.

He is an Oracle ACE and is OCP certified DBA, Forms Developer, and RAC Expert. He is a speaker at Oracle OpenWorld and All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG). In addition, he is the Editor of Oracle Connect — the quarterly publication of AIOUG. His particular interests are database tuning, Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, and backup and recovery.

Asif posts his ideas and opinions on The Momen Blog (http://momendba.blogspot.com). He can be reached at <[email protected]>.

Ronald Rood is an innovating Oracle DBA, an ACE 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, until the latest RAC releases, currently being 11g. Ronald is constantly looking for ways to get the most value out of the database to make investment for his customers even more valuable. He knows how to the handle the power of the rich Unix environment very well, making him a first class trouble-shooter and solution architect. Next to the spoken languages like Dutch, English, German, and French, he also writes fluently in many scripting languages.

Currently, he is a principal consultant working for Ciber (CBR) in The Netherlands, where he cooperates in many complex projects for large companies where downtime is not an option. Ciber CBR is an Oracle Platinum Partner and committed to the limit.

He can often be found replying in the Oracle forums where he is an active member, writes his own blog (http://ronr.blogspot.com) called From errors we learn, and writes for various Oracle-related magazines. He is also the author of Packt Publishing's Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases, where he fills the gap between the Oracle documentation and the customer questions. As well as reviewing this book, he was also part of the technical reviewing team for Packt Publishing's Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials.

Ronald has lots of certifications, among them:

Ronald fills his time with Oracle, his family, sky-diving, radio controlled model airplane flying, running a scouting group, and having a lot of fun.

His quote: "A problem is merely a challenge that might take a little time so solve."