So what makes an Oracle ACE? These two show a staggering background:
Penny's Oracle history:
- 2004 Oracle Educator of the Year awarded by Oracle Magazine.
- President of the Western Australian branch of Australian Oracle User Group (AUSOUG) 2006, conference chair 2007, and still a standing and active committee member.
- Awarded AUSOUG life membership 2003
- Best user paper award at Western Australian and Victorian Oracle User Group Conference 2003 for her paper "Whose fault is it – A review of Application tuning problems"
- Best user paper award at the Western Australian Oracle User Group Conference 2002 for her paper "Oracle Forms and Reports 9i"
- Best user paper award at Queensland Oracle User Group Conference 1999 for her paper "Application Tuning in Oracle 8i"
- Best user paper award at Oracle Asia Pacific OpenWorld 1997 for her paper "Optimising SQL in the Oracle 8 Object / Relational Database"
- 2nd best user paper award at Oracle Asia Pacific OpenWorld 1996 for her paper "Minimum Ingredients for Generating and Application in Designer 2000"
- Best user paper award at Oracle Asia Pacific OpenWorld 1996 for her paper " 20 Application Tuning Tips"
- Best user paper at Oracle Asia Pacific OpenWorld 1995 for her paper "How to Perform a 20 point Health Check on your database"
(For your reference most of these presentations are available from the Sage website)
- Quality Assurance of Data Models - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1994
- Oracle Forms Standards - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1994
- Using Oracle Case for easily Maintained Applications - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1995
- How to Perform a 20 point Health Check on your database - Oracle Asia Pacific Openworld - 1996 - Oracle User Group Conference (VIC, WA, QLD, ACT) - 1995+1996
- Using Oracle Reports in a Financials Data Warehouse - Oracle Asia Pacific Openworld - 1996
- 20 Application Tuning Tips - Oracle Asia Pacific Openworld - 1997 - Oracle User Group Conference (VIC, ACT) - 1996 + 1997 - Singapore OUG Conference - 1998 - Malaysia OUG Conference - 1998
- Minimum Ingredients for Generating and Application in Designer 2000 - Oracle Asia Pacific Openworld - 1997 - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1997
- Designing Applications for Performance and Ease of Maintenance - Oracle User Group Conference (ACT, QLD) - 1997 - Oracle Asia Pacific Openworld - 1997 - Singapore OUG Conference - 1998 - Malaysia OUG Conference - 1998 - Oracle Asia Pacific Conference (Sing) - 1999 - Oracle N.Z. Conference - 1999
- Optimising SQL in the Oracle 8 Object / Relational Database - Oracle Asia Pacific Openworld - 1997 - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1998
- Oracle Forms 5 New Features - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1998
- Developing Form Builder applications for a - Oracle User Group Conference (QLD) - 1998
- Web and Client Server environment - Oracle Asia Pacific Conference (Sing) - 1999 - Oracle N.Z. Conference - 1999 - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1999
- Oracle Forms 6 New Features - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1999 - Oracle User Group Conference (ACT) - 1999
- Creating Libraries and Templates for 100% Definition in Designer 2.1 - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 1999 - Oracle Asia Pacific Conference (Sing) - 1999 - Oracle User Group Conference (ACT) - 1999
- Application Tuning in Oracle 8i - Oracle User Group Conference (QLD) - 1999 - European Oracle User Conference (Madrid) - 2000 - Oracle N.Z. Conference - 2001
- WebDB Mini Lesson - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 2000 - New Zealand conference - 2000
- Managing the Cost Base Optimiser in Oracle 8i (Full Day Tutorial) - Eurpoean Oracle User Group Conference (Madrid) - 2000
- Oracle Portal Components - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 2001
- Materialized Views for Summary Management - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 2001 - Brisbane Oracle Masters conference - 2001
- Indexing Strategies in Oracle 8i - New Zealand conference - 2001
- Converting to Oracle Web Forms - New Zealand conference - 2001 - Brisbane Oracle Masters conference - 2000
- Whats in Oracle 9iAS - Oracle User Group Seminar (WA) - 2001
- Understanding the Oracle Portal API - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 2002
- Oracle Forms and Reports 9i - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 2002
- Whose fault it it – A review of Application tuning problems - Oracle User Group Conference (WA) - 2003 - Oracle User Group Conference (VIC) - 2003
- Content management with Oracle Portal - Oracle User Group Conference (VIC) - 2003
- Oracle 9i Features for developers - Oracle User Group Conference (WA, VIC, SA) - 2003
- Oracle 10g New features - Oracle User Group Conference (WA, VIC, QLD) - 2004
- Oracle Portal Case Studies - Oracle Openworld Melbourne - 2004
- HTMLDB mini lesson - User Group Conference (VIC, QLD) - 2004
- Masterclass – Database and application tuning - Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Perth - 2005
- Development techniques for HTMLDB - User Group Conference (WA) - 2005
- Lost Without a Trace - User Group Conference (WA) - 2005
- Whose fault it it – A review of Application tuning problems - Oracle Openworld (USA) - 2005
- Masterclass – Database and application tuning - Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch NZ - 2006
- Oracle Application Express (mini lesson) - Oracle User Group Conference (WA, VIC) - 2006
- How can I tune it if I can't change the code - Oracle User Group Conference (WA, VIC) - 2006
- Oracle Application Express (mini lesson) - NZOUG Conference - 2007
- How can I tune it if I can't change the code - NZOUG Conference - 2007
- 2007 New Scientist Sleek Geek Winner
- 2004 PL/SQL Developer of the year
- 2002 Australia Recognition Award for building Strang Shipping System
- 1999 Oracle Asia Pacific User Conference Paper (Joint paper: voted 2nd)
- 1993 Asia Pacific Oracle Conference – Best Paper
- How to Multimedia - Enable Your Applications with Oracle Multimedia - Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco - 2007
- Podcast: Best Practices using Mod PL/SQL - On the external - donut web site - 2007
- Podcast: Multimedia - On the external - donut web site - 2007
- Podcast: Being Locked In - On the external - donut web site - 2007
- Podcast: Question Everything - On the external - donut web site - 2007
- Podcast: Extreme DBA Programming - On the external - donut web site - 2007
- Preach and Teach: Configuring the Mod PL/SQL Gateway - Oracle User Conference – Melb / Perth - 2006
- Conditional Compilation and Ajax - Oracle User Conference – Melb / Perth - 2006
- Developing Multimedia Applications for the Internet - Edinburgh User Group May 2006 - 2006
- Who wants to be a DBA - ACT User Group - 2005
- Web Based Interfaces - Chicago PL/SQL Conference - 2005
- Multimedia and PL/SQL - Chicago PL/SQL Conference - 2005
- Internet Security - Chicago PL/SQL Conference - 2005
- Hierarchical Queries and XML - ACT Oracle User Group - 2005
- Enterprise Manager - ACT Oracle User Group - 2004
- RMAN - ACT Oracle User Group - 2004
- Building Web Services - ACT Oracle User Group - 2004
- Oracle XML Roadmap for Developers - ACT Oracle User Group - 2003
- Oracle Database Objects - ACT Oracle User Group - 2002
- New Features in 9i R2 for Developers - ACT Oracle User Group - 2002
- Donuts for DBAs - Australian SELECT Magazine - 2002
- Understanding Mime Types - ACT Oracle User Group - 2001
- Dynamic SQL in Oracle8i - ACT Oracle User Group - 2000
- Good DBA – Bad DBA - Australian Oracle Open World - 1999
- Top Ten Oracle 8i features for a Database Administrator - QLD Oracle User Group 1999 - 1999
- Rapid Application Development and Oracle - ACT and QLD Oracle User Group 1999 - 1999
- Understanding the Business Issues behind a Data Warehouse - A Business Perspective - Oracle Business Conference 1998 - 1998
- Using Oracle8 to Web Enable the Data Warehouse - OpenWorld 1997, QLD Oracle User Group 1997 - 1997
- An overview of the Oracle8 Database Server - Federal Dept of Social Security - 1997
- Using Oracle8 to address the Child File Design - Federal Dept of Social Security - 1997
- Issues in establishing a world wide web site for a business - Canberra local seminar - 1997
- A Review of the Development of Commercial Applications for the World Wide Web - OpenWorld ’96,
- Australian Computer Society ‘96 - 1996
- Tips and Techniques for designing and building an application using the Oracle WebServer product - OpenWorld ‘96 - 1996
- Oracle PL/SQL Course Notes - Over 20 training courses - 1996
- Moving to a Proactive Database Environment - ACT User Group 1995 - 1995
- Implementing Repeating Fields within the Relational Model using PL/SQL and Oracle7 Release 7.1. - ACT User Group 1995 - 1995
- Implementing Hyper Indexes using Oracle7 Technology - Submitted to Oracle Magazine Jan 1996 - 1995
- Advanced uses of Oracle7 Technology - OpenWorld ‘94 - 1994
- Advanced Uses of Oracle7 and Oracle Glue in the Desktop Environment - OpenWorld ‘94 - 1994
- The Centralised Database Model vs. The Distributed Database Model - Local Seminar - 1994
- Understanding the Rowid and Rownum Pseudo Columns - Never Presented - 1994
- Using Oracle7 and Forms 4 Technology to address the problem of poor performance in the Client/Server Environment - Federal Department of Health - 1994
- Managing the external Oracle environment - OpenWorld 1993 - 1993
- Query Optimisation and Database Fine Tuning - OpenWorld 1992,IOUG 1993,QLD Oracle User Group 1992
- Managing Client/Server Technology - OpenWorld 1993 - 1992
- The User Authorisation System - OpenWorld 1990 - 1990
Penny works for Sage Computing Services as the MD in Perth Australia and Marcel at Piction in Canberra Australia. I know Penny's presenting at Collaborate 08 this year, and I'm willing to bet you'll have the chance to see Marcel at OOW08.
2 comments:
Hey, congratulations folks!
About bloody time we got a few more around this place besides HJR!
And people who know what a database is and how to use it, as well!
Wonders will never cease...
Congratulations to both of you, well deserved !!
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