Thank you for your interest in my profile! I am a Product Manager at Oracle. Before realising that dream of mine I spent 8 eventful years working on very high-profile systems while at the same time enjoying the privilege of managing a team of some of the highest skilled Oracle experts at @Enkitec in Europe.

In addition to this weblog, I have published a few books.

The first one, for which I was a co-author, has become the de-facto reference for 11.2 RAC. I am very proud about the result: “Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux”  from Apress. I have also written “Expert Consolidation in Oracle Database 12c” where I am summarising different approaches to Oracle database consolidation. I still wonder how I managed to write this all by myself… For my next project I had help again: A great number of us from Enkitec got together to publish a second edition to the very successful “Expert Oracle Exadata”, also from Apress.

And I like it a lot to present at Oracle User Group meetings.

I have been an Oracle DBA for some time now-I started working with the DBMS in 2001. My main interests are high availability and disaster recovery solutions for mission critical 24×7 systems for which I possess a wealth of experience.

My interest in Linux and generally speaking, open source technologies, has really helped me when I started looking at “the cloud”. A lot of the software deployed in the cloud is based on (open source) projects: bingo :) I have tried to keep my skills in line with the growing demand of cloud knowledge, which you can see reflected on this weblog. I am very familiar with typical cloud automation and provision tools such as Terraform, Packer and Ansible on all major cloud platforms. I am also certified on some of these.

Speaking of certifications … I updated my Oracle Certified Master (OCM) certificate for Oracle Database 12c, having passed the grueling two-day exam first in 2008 for Oracle Database 10g.

I am very proud to be a member of Symposium 42, and the OakTable network. Before joining Oracle I was part of the Ace Programme, joining more than 15 years ago. I became an Ace Director Alumnus when joining Oracle.

I previously listed my skills here as well but decided against keeping that list, if you’re interested please hop over to LinkedIn where I cover these in more detail.

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