At Rolta AdvizeX, we talk a lot about Oracle expertise, but what that really comes down to is people who know a lot about Oracle technologies. I’m a prime example of that.
My first job out of college was working for a well-known online retailer in their Oracle Database team building cutting-edge applications. That experience led me to branch out into other Oracle database areas—high availability, scalability, performance tuning, disaster recovery—and, ultimately, to lead the Oracle Infrastructure Services practice at Rolta AdvizeX.
I could probably spend the next few paragraphs talking about myself: I’m a frequent industry speaker and an author of technical books (Oracle Exadata Experts Handbook, Building Database Clouds on Oracle Database 12c), for example. But the real spotlight belongs on my team and the work we do for our clients.
I was fortunate to inherit a great team when Rolta acquired TUSC, an Oracle-focused IT consulting group, in 2008. Today, our group consists of senior-level consultants who have a minimum of 15 years of IT experience. We have one of the world’s foremost experts in Oracle database tuning and Recovery Manager in Kevin Gilpin.
Another team member, Mike Messina, is an Oracle Ace who also happens to be the president of the Indiana Oracle User Group. And Brad Gibson, our Oracle Fusion middleware team leader, can do some amazing things with Java and APEX.
With a team like mine, you can get a lot done.
If I looked back over the last 24 months, I’d see a list of successful customer engagements that included large-scale platform and database migrations, high-availability solution designs, database management and monitoring services, backup and disaster recovery solutions, Oracle database upgrades, security feature implementations, Linux migrations and a wide variety of cloud-based initiatives.
More importantly, each engagement adds to our collective knowledge. In other words, we’re not only really smart when it comes to Oracle technology, but we’re getting smarter every day and bringing that collective intelligence to bear on customer engagements through best practices and scripted standard operating procedures.
At the end of the day, even the best technology is only a tool. The secret to success is putting that technology in the right hands. ▪