Francisco Munoz has over 23 years of experience in consulting, analysis, support, implementation, and migration of Oracle products. He is also an expert in most phases of a database life cycle, for example, development, stabilization, security, backup and recovery, tuning, installations, and data warehouse (ETL) with excellent implementation and support methodologies, being a popular speaker on many Oracle conferences around the world.
He is also the President of CLOUG (Chilean Oracle Users Group), LAOUC (Latin American Oracle Users Groups Community which is the umbrella organization for all Latin America), and NZOUG (New Zealand Oracle Users Group). Francisco worked as an associate technologist at Oracle Brazil and Chile, was an Oracle instructor for New Horizons Centre, Chile and for Oracle education (Brazil and Chile), and also worked on the first team to introduce Oracle to South America (Oracle 6 and Beta version of Oracle 7). He was also the first Master Oracle 7 Database Administrator in South America, as well the first South American Oracle professional to be awarded a double ACE (ACE at 2008 and ACE Director at 2009) by Oracle HQ and in 2010 he had the privilege of receiving a prestigious Oracle Magazine Editor's Choice Awards as the Oracle evangelist of the year - a huge recognition of his outstanding achievements in the Oracle world that includes the creation and organization of the already famous OTN Tours, which are the biggest Oracle evangelist events in the world.
Currently, Francisco works for Revera Limited which is a leading provider of utility computing infrastructure and enterprise data management in New Zealand as the Oracle Professional Services Manager since June, 2011.
Aman Sharma is an Oracle database consultant and instructor. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications and has been working with the Oracle database for over a decade. His main focus is to understand how the Oracle database works internally. Besides the core database, he has a very strong knowledge of Linux, Solaris, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
He is an Oracle Certified Professional and also an Oracle Certified Expert in Oracle RAC, SQL, and Linux. He is also an Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist and a certified Solaris System Administrator. He loves to share his learning with the Oracle community, so when he is not delivering an Oracle related session, he spends a lot of his time participating in OTN (Oracle Technology Network) Oracle discussion forums. He also maintains an Oracle blog ( http://blog.aristadba.com ). He is a strong supporter of user groups and is a member of the India Oracle user group ( http://www.aioug.org ) and has been a speaker at various Oracle conferences organized by AIOUG. He is also an associate member of IOUG ( http://www.ioug.org ). In 2010, he received the prestigious Oracle ACE award from Oracle Corporation.