Joseph S. Gomez, has been in the IT field for 13+ years and loves every minute of it. Originally educated as a Graphic Designer, Joe was working at an art studio (as most Graphic Designers do) when his sister mentioned that there were several local companies willing to hire people and give them paid training to prepare them for the Y2K boom. That was all that it took and Joe hasn't looked back since. Joe is now the technical lead for his employer's OLAP Center of Excellence and is currently working on the Business Intelligence team as well.
In addition to enjoying his work in IT, Joe is also an author himself having co-authored the book, Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide, with his good friend Sarma Anantapantula.
Ulises Lazarini, is the President of Consultoria Informatica Lazarini, and partner of Oracle with more than ten years of experience working with Oracle databases and an OCP member since Oracle 7.3.4., 8. 8i 9i, and 10g.
He has been an Oracle instructor in the kernel field for more than 12 years now. He has been a speaker on Oracle Open World. (September 2008, "Migration from Siebel 7.8 running on SQL Server to Oracle 10g RAC"), DBA Consultant of two Database Successful Oracle Cases. Ulises has been very active in the installation and monitoring of RAC environments for OLTP and DataWarehouses Databases.
He has been responsible for the high availability for global's databases.
Peter McLarty, is a Senior Consultant working in Brisbane, Australia. Peter has worked with technology all his life. He is presently employed by Pacific DBMS Pty Ltd.
He works with Oracle database, Middleware Fusion and Enterprise Manager with clients in Brisbane. Peter's career spans 25 years in technology and 13 years in database management.
Peter has worked mainly in Australia and Asia. Peter's other interests include studying Asia and its cultures and of course its food, sailing and football. He can be found supporting his team each season at the stadium.
He has a wife and two children who say that they have to suffer through the times of editing books, amongst other projects. Peter would like to thank them for their understanding and allowing dad to do his stuff at times!
Peter can be reached on the Internet at <[email protected]>.