About the Reviewers

Bogdan Dragu is a senior DBA certified with Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, and with DB2. Although he has a business background, he began pursuing a career as a DBA after deciding to transform his interest in databases into a profession.

Bogdan has over 10 years of experience as a DBA, working with Oracle databases for large organizations in various domains, and is currently working in the banking industry. Bogdan has also worked within Oracle for three years as a support engineer.

Throughout his career, Bogdan was deeply involved in all areas of database administration, such as performance, tuning, high availability, replication, database upgrades, backup, and recovery, while particularly interested in performance tuning and data security. In his spare time, Bogdan enjoys playing the guitar and taking photos of his colleagues and friends.

Gabriel Nistor is a principal technologist working with a group called Platform Technology Solutions (PTS), which is a part of the Oracle Product Development's Server Technologies (ST) division. The group's mission is to help Oracle partners adopt and implement the latest and greatest of Oracle software.

Gabriel acts as a Technology Evangelist for Oracle within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, enabling partners in the areas of Oracle Exalytics, Big Data Appliance, Endeca, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, BI Applications, Oracle Data Integrator, Essbase, Golden Gate, Real Time Decisions, Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (options inclusive), and Fusion Applications. He has foundation level experience with SOA, BPM, EPM, Oracle Exadata v1 (HP hardware) and v2 (Sun hardware), and know-how of developing with Oracle Exalogic and WCC (ECM). He has undertaken projects involving migration of third party databases to Oracle.

He has delivered over 150 workshops (in almost all European countries, the Middle East, India, and Australia), and more than 30 eSeminars (with worldwide/regional audiences) and has done a considerable number of projects with partners such as HP, Accenture, IBM, Capgemini, Deloitte, Logica, Affecto, and more. Last but not least, he possesses more than 10 Oracle professional certifications (OCP, OCE, Oracle Certified Specialist) and he is PMI PMP certified. He has been with Oracle for almost 8 years.

Steven D. Macaulay has an extensive background in the Information Technology industry, and his primary areas of interests include mitigating database security risks through issue identification, corrective action implementation, proactive prevention, and process improvements. Steven has significant experience in the design, development, and management of database management systems, and he has supported customers in the aerospace, financial, insurance, government, banking, educational, retail, and manufacturing industries.

He has frequently been recognized by his peers and management for his customer focus, collaboration, project management, technical aptitude, and creative problem solving skills. He has played pivotal database design and administration roles during the development of several space shuttle-related management systems at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Steven also helped to design, develop, and administer subscriber management and receiver provisioning systems used during the roll out of the satellite radio industry in the United States.

He was one of the first Oracle Certified Professionals in the world, and he has been Oracle certified at multiple release levels. He has worked with Oracle database and application technologies across all release levels, from Oracle version 6 to Oracle 12c. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and has earned the ITIL certification. Steven has completed an Executive Masters of Information Systems degree program in Information Technology Management, as well as a Certificate in International Business from Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Steven enjoys connecting with professionals with similar backgrounds and interests, and he can be contacted at http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemacaulay.