AUSOUG Masters

Developer Advocate

Connor is a Oracle Developer Advocate for Oracle Corporation. Over the past 25 years, he has worked with systems in Australia, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and the United States. He has co-authored three books and has been a popular speaker at Oracle conferences around the world, specializing in topics regarding the database engine and PL/SQL. He has three times won the Best Speaker award by the UK Oracle User Group, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award by the UKOUG in 2016.

Consultant & Oracle ACE

Dennis is a Principal Consultant for LogicalTech, Oracle ACE in Fusion Middleware, and former National President of the Australian Oracle User Group.  He is commonly engaged in integration and development using SOA, BPM, WebCenter and cloud-based iPaaS, and of course, is a keen ornithologist, specialising in flighless birds.

Director & Principal Consultant

Based in Canberra, Australia, Richard has been working in the IT industry for over 30 years, 20 plus years with Oracle database technologies. Richard has supported and diagnosed the performance of numerous highly secure, mission-critical, large-scale applications. He has worked for Oracle Corporation on two occasions, 1996-2002 as a Database Instructor where he won many internal awards and accolades and between 2011-2017 as a Technical Presales Consultant where he was awarded the Best Sales Consultant of the Year in 2017. In 2002, he became a member of the world-renowned Oracle Oak Table Network and an Oracle ACE Director in 2008.

Richard is a very popular, award winning speaker and regularly presents at international conferences and Oracle User Group events including Oracle Open World, IOUG Collaborate, Hotsos Symposium, AUSOUG InSync, ODTUG Kscope, UKOUG Tech Conference, E4 Enkitec Extreme Exadata Expo and Trivadis Performance Days. Accolades include special recognition for the highly innovative “Good DBA, Bad DBA” co-presentation at Oracle Open World in Brisbane in 1999, Best Oracle Speaker at UKOUG in 2015, Best 3 presentations at the Hotsos Symposium in 2017, Best 2 presentations at Trivadis Performances Days in 2018 and Lifetime Achievement Speaker Award at UKOUG in 2018.

He is especially renowned for his research and knowledge of Oracle indexing strategies, hosts an internationally renowned blog on Oracle Index Internals (richardfoote.wordpress.com) and has developed an acclaimed in-depth seminar on Oracle Indexing Internals which he has presented in some 20 countries. In 2017 Richard started his own independent consulting and training company (www.richardfooteconsulting.com) where he continues to deliver his Oracle Index Internals seminar globally and assists organisations with addressing Database performance issues.

Richard listens to the music of David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Nick Cave as much as possible.

Director & Principal Consultant

Penny Cookson has thirty years’ experience of working with Oracle products. Penny is the Managing Director for SAGE Computing Services, which provides consulting and training in the Oracle database and development tools throughout Australia. She was Oracle Magazine’s Educator of the Year in 2004 and is an Oracle ACE. Penny has presented numerous papers on Oracle technologies at national and international conferences.

Link: http://www.sagecomputing.com.au

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/penny-cookson-55857b1/

CEO at Viscosity North America

Charles Kim is an Oracle ACE Director since 2009, VMware vExpert, an Oracle Certified DBA, Certified Exadata Specialist, and a Certified Oracle Linux, Oracle Cloud, and RAC Expert. Charles specializes in Cloud, Exadata, RAC, and Virtualization (VMware, KVM and Oracle VM) and co-authored ten books around the Oracle EcoSystem.

He is the Founder and CEO of Viscosity North America, a highly specialized niche consulting organization with over 30 years of Oracle experience on mission and business critical databases. Charles presents regularly at local, regional, national and international Oracle conferences including IOUG Collaborate, VMware World, RMOUG, UKOUG, New Zealand/Australia Oracle User Group, and Oracle OpenWorld on topics of Oracle Cloud, RAC, Exadata, Database Consolidations, Private Database Cloud, ASM, Linux Best Practices, Data Guard Best Practices, Performance Tuning, VMware Virtualization Best Practices, and 7×24 High Availability Considerations.

Link: https://viscosityna.com/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chkim

Oracle APEX Consultant | Oracle ACE Director

With over 18 years experience working with Oracle tools Lino started his ventures with APEX 3.1 version back in 2008. In early 2015 became freelance APEX consultant. He worked for US, Europe, New Zealand and Australia based clients from all sectors. He is an Oracle ACE Director and regular APAC and AUSOUG conference speaker.

VP of Thought Leadership and Advocacy | Oracle ACE Director

Debra is an Oracle ACE Director and Fusion Applications UX Advocate. She is a volunteer and Past President of UKOUG, Apps18 Lead and led the Product Development Committee of the IOUC; the user group team working with Oracle during the development of Fusion Applications. She has worked with Oracle Applications and technology since 1996.

Managing Director ERP & HCM Practice

My experience of Oracle spans over 30 years, predominantly working in the Human Capital Management field. Originally working as a technical consultant I then went on to spend a large part of my career as a Senior Solution Architect. Delivering innovative solutions to customers across the globe in a wide range of industries.

Oracle Developer

Scott Hollows is an Oracle developer enthusiast since 1991, based in Perth. With more than 100 industry presentations he has been recognized by the Oracle community with ADUG USA Best Presenter award and Oracle USA Best New Instructor award. Scott was previously a Senior Principal at Oracle’s world corporate headquarters in Redwood Shores, USA. He is an AUSOUG committee member