Philip Rice has been in the computer field since 1980 and began working with Oracle in 1991. He is now an Oracle DBA for campus enterprise systems at the University of California Santa Cruz, where the school mascot is a banana slug. Philip has done presentations on the RMAN topic for User Groups at regional and national levels.
Charles Schultz has worked at the University of Illinois since 1998 as an Oracle Database Administrator supporting various central administration services, including the University-wide ERP, where he specializes in rooting out performance issues. While Charles's main focus is on Oracle, he has dabbled in Sybase, MySQL, and MS SQL Server. Charles values the rich resources of the user community and teaches Oracle classes at a community college.
When not logged into a server, Charles can be found on a volleyball court, eating up a Sci-fi book, playing with his family, or engaging the community on social issues, and he has been known to be up in the wee hours playing video games.
Lei Zeng is a seasoned DBA with over ten years of hands-on experience in Oracle database management and administration on various platforms. She has worked with many mission-critical databases, including both OLTP databases and data warehouses up to terabytes. She is an OCP in Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, and also a certified system administrator on HP-UX, Sun Solaris platforms. She has special interests in areas such as RAC, Data Guard, Stream, database upgrade, migration, and performance tuning. For the recent years, Lei has become an active contributor to IOUG's SELECT journal. Currently, she works for Yahoo! and can be reached at <aleizeng2003@yahoo.com>.
