The Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) announces the upcoming election of its Board of Directors for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Pursuant to the group's by-laws, the Directors must be members of the Corporation and shall be elected for a term of one year at the annual meeting by a majority vote of the members present in person or by proxy.
When there are 12 or less nominations then RMOUG Policies state that no official election by ballot is prepared, instead there will be an election by acclamation. All available candidates will be elected by acclamation in accordance to RMOUG policies. Any vacant directorships on the Board of Directors may be filled at any time during that fiscal year by a majority vote of the board.
Nominees: Ron Bich Brad Blake Carolyn Fryc Tim Gorman Tom Green Peggy King
Allison Leech Barbara Lewis John Peterson Pat Van Buskirk
Ron Bich
Campaign Statement, Qualifications and Biography
My IT career began in 1990 within the IBM mainframe world, looking back I find it amazing to see how the world as evolved with an ever increasing presence of technology. After getting initiated into Oracle at my job in 1995, I was provided with incentive to become involved with RMOUG in various volunteer roles of which many of those roles have been on the Board of Directors. My early involvement put me in direct contact with two very talented individuals, Doug Faughnan and Stan Yellott. Their support for this organization went beyond their knowledge about Oracle and in that same spirit my support has contributed improvements beyond my Oracle knowledge. This has been my way of paying tribute to both of those individuals, by supporting RMOUG in improving membership benefits beyond my Oracle knowledge!
Brad Blake
Campaign Statement
I have been an RMOUG member since 2000, and served as the SIGS Director over the last year. I feel that I have a lot to offer, and I could also benefit from serving on the Board of Directors for RMOUG. It would be a great opportunity for me to continue to serve the RMOUG community, provide my input and some fresh perspectives for the Board. I would be happy to continue and enhance my role as the SIGS Director, or in any other position that is open, that I could be a good fit for.
Qualifications and Biography
Brad Blake has been an RMOUG member since 2000, and served on the Board in 2009. He received his Bachelor Degree from Colorado State University in 1995, and went on to pursue an MSCIT degree from Regis University, with an emphasis in Database Technologies. He has been an Oracle DBA for over 10 years, most of which has been in the Biotech industry. He currently works for Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical company that focuses on oncology and hematology. He is also an Affiliate Faculty member for Regis University, teaching online courses in the graduate program since 2001, in the Database Technologies area. In 2006, he was awarded with the "Excellence in Teaching" award from Regis.
Carolyn Fryc
Campaign Statement
I feel that I am uniquely qualified for this role, based on my 6 + years of experience in designing business solutions, providing staffing services and overall working with customers to help achieve a greater value from their IT investments. I have a deep desire to help my customers improve their business processes, as well as streamline their operations, whether it's through software, staffing or solution design. I am the consummate customer advocate and work to ensure that they are getting their needs met, as well as being informed as to all potential solutions available to them. I am an independent, and am not tied to any solution or brand, as each customer is unique and should be treated as such. I pride myself on my commitment to my customers and my loyalty to them is unparalleled, as is my honesty and integrity that I bring to each business relationship I engage in. The diversity of my solutions background is also a key component of my success, as I have a vast experience in applications, web development, and infrastructure and managed services to draw from, so am able to quickly identify opportunities for solving IT related business issues, being much more agile in responding to these scenarios than the majority of folks out there.
If I am selected for this role, I will promise to work diligently on helping RMOUG design programs and training sessions that are in line with the local Denver IT Market, as well as ensure that the group members feedback is distributed and responded to in a timely and effective manner, and will work with the members to proactively provide content and forums for discussing current and emerging needs.
Qualifications and Biography
I am an Account Manager for Optima Resource Services in Denver. I have been a volunteer for over 2 years with RMOUG, as well as participated in the 2009 and 2010 RMOUG training days. I am writing you to express my desire to join the RMOUG board of Directors for the coming year.
Tim Gorman
Campaign Statement
As a member of RMOUG since 1993, and as a board member from 1995 through 2007, I have served RMOUG as a presenter, as Oracle Corporation liaison, programs director, education director, president, and training days director. Throughout that time, I have concentrated on ensuring that the organization maintains its high standards of service to the membership for the myriad activities of continuing professional education for Oracle professionals. During the coming year, if elected, I intend to continue supporting the basic educational mission of the group.
Qualifications and Biography
Tim Gorman began his IT career in 1984 as a “C” programmer on UNIX and VMS systems, working on medical and financial systems as an application developer, systems programmer, and systems administrator. He joined Oracle in 1990, became a technical manager there, then left in 1998 became an independent consultant, founding EvDBT.com. Mr. Gorman is co-author (with fellow RMOUG member Gary Dodge) of “Essential Oracle8i Data Warehousing” (2000) and “Oracle8 Data Warehousing” (1998) from John Wiley & Sons, co-author (3 others) of “Beginning Oracle SQL” (2010) from Apress, and co-author (with the Oak Table Network) of “Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table” (2004) and “Expert Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table” (2009), and he has served as technical reviewer for eight other published books.
Tim first joined RMOUG in 1993, presenting at the “Training Days” conference that year and at every “Training Days” conference since. He has presented numerous times at quarterly membership meetings, and contributed numerous articles for “SQL_Update”, the RMOUG newsletter. He has also presented at dozens of other Oracle Users Groups in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Tim joined the board of directors of RMOUG in 1995 as the first Oracle Corporation liaison, became programs director from 1997-2000 and 2001-2002, membership director 2000-2001, education director 2002-2003, president from 2003 to 2005, and Training Days director in 2006-2007.
Tom Green
Campaign Statement
In 2009 I delivered a presentation for Training Days on Identity Management and this article was published in SQL Update. Now I believe I am ready to give in other ways by serving on the RMOUG board. I believe RMOUG is the best way to sharpen one's skills in Oracle. Training Days gives learners new ideas on how to improve Oracle in their work place. RMOUG allows participants to better their skills and learn about the latest upgrades and new applications that interact with Oracle. The best part of RMOUG is being able to interact with other Oracle professionals and hear their ideas on how to over-come the many Challenges Oracle Databases can present.
Qualifications and Biography
I have been an Oracle DBA with the Department of Defense for 7 years. Our system includes 6 clustered databases. Over the years some of my duties have been to create and run scripts against the database, to partition tables, upgrade indexes, and remove test data from tables. I know how to recover a database using the control file. I'm very familiar with the uses of RMAN. I continually inspect redo logs to keep from losing critical data. In this way I keep the database up and running at top performance. This allows my customers access to the information they need without maintenance delays and unscheduled downtime.
I have been a member of RMOUG for a decade or so. I remember 10 years ago when I attended my first Oracle Training Days I met Stan Yellott and his love for Oracle rubbed off on me. He did not care what I knew, he was just happy I was there and he wanted to share with me his wonderful Oracle world. I now feel that I have learned enough about Oracle to want to help continue Stan's work. For the last 7 years I have volunteered as room monitor at RMOUG Training Days. This was a good way to help people feel welcome to the Oracle fellowship. I am an objective thinker and a problem solver. I believe these skills will make a valuable contribution to RMOUG.
Peggy King
Campaign Statement
As President of RMOUG for the last year I have been fortunate to be able to work with an amazing group of people that brought variety of learning opportunities to our members. These include our Quarterly Newsletter, the "Database Lab Meetup" sessions in concert with Regis University SICS, our partnership with ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) for a half day Training Workshop that benefited members of both organizations and our Quarterly Educational Workshops (QEWs) continually well-attended due to great topic and speaker selection. In February 2010 we had another successful RMOUG Training Days with top experts from around the world and the United States as speakers and others attending as part of the Oracle Ace program. With your support I will continue working to expand the training opportunities for our members and RMOUG's presence in the User Group Community. I will also continue working with the Board of Directors to improve our administration processes to ensure the continued growth of RMOUG.
Qualifications and Biography
As a partner in King Training Resources since 1992, I have been involved in the coordination, administration, and management of technical training classes in several topics including Oracle. Over the years I have volunteered at RMOUG Training Days, IOUG Live and ODTUG conferences to help where needed. I have served multiple terms on both the Finance and Web committees for IOUG. Outside of the Oracle User's community I have been involved with several organizations serving on the board as well as on various committees. I accepted the position of Training Days Director for 2004 in July 2003 as a Board member at large. I was elected to the RMOUG Board in 2004 in the position on Training Days Director for 2005 and re-elected to the Board in 2006, 2007, and 2008. I have also served as Vice President 2006, 2007, and 2008 and as President for 2009.
Allison Leech
Campaign Statement
Having been involved with RMOUG for over 12+ years, I have served as a registration volunteer, track coordinator and board member. I am a high energy, creative individual whose main focus is promoting the involvement of Oracle professionals in a leading, innovative and progressive user group community. If elected as a board member for the upcoming year, I will continue to bring these qualities to RMOUG by promoting and supporting membership interests, professional development and industry leadership.
Qualifications and Biography
Allison Leech has been involved with the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group over the past 12+ years. She has served as a registration volunteer, track coordinator and board member. She is a high energy creative individual whose main focus is promoting the involvement of Oracle professionals in a leading, innovative and progressive user group community. She has 18+ years of Oracle leadership experience developing custom based business application solutions. She is currently serving as a Senior Developer participating in the development and support of a large integrated resource management application with the USDA Forest Service.
Barbara Lewis
Campaign Statement
I have been with RMOUG for 10+ years. I worked as a web maintenance developer for several years and then as IS Director until this past year where I have served as Membership Director.
As the IS Director other volunteers and myself focused an effective strategic plan for maintaining membership services of our technical environment. During my time in this role some of my accomplished initiatives included: drafting an RFP (Request for Proposal) that moved our platform and services to a new provider; reviewing and selecting a provider; testing new provider site and offerings; working with the previous provider to better assure a seamless transition of web hosting, email services and hardware; continuous search for a placement of hardware (we own two servers); site management to include file management in Unix, Mailman, a number of GUI tools, and other site context updates; etc. A future initiative of the strategic plan is to begin working in HTML-DB to develop a members’ site: the workspace is already developed and the formatting of documentation is slated.
As Membership Director I have worked in a number of ways in an effort to increase our business community awareness of RMOUG with the intent of increasing membership. These efforts include: being an active member of the Denver and Aurora Chambers to include volunteering for various committees – leads groups, women in business, health care committee … all of which have an interest in furthering technical services within their organizations; working with other Board members and ISACA to broaden the scope of topics presented to membership; working with the SCIS department at Regis University to bring a variety of database labs to membership; now that we are 501(c)3 working events such as the event sponsored by UCD on Auraria’s campus to get the word out to students with the intent they might join our organization; etc. Continuing this level of networking will further explain the benefits of RMOUG to business managers, technical recruiters, tech students, and other MIS professions. In time, the goal is that this word-of-mouth should result in more meaningful membership growth.
Qualifications and Biography
Barbara A. Lewis has been an RMOUG member for 10+ years. She has worked on the Web Maintenance team for about three years of this time. Her technical career began as a Programmer Analyst, Tester, Oracle Database Network Administrator, and Network/Systems/Web Administrator. Certified as an 8i OCP-DBA, she currently works a variety of KForce contracts and is also an investor/stockholder in a 75+ member telematics software development company where she works on a variety of technical projects. Barbara has been an online faculty member with the University of Phoenix for a number of years. She teaches a number of IT/IS courses.
John Peterson
Campaign Statement
I have served on the RMOUG Board for 3 years, as Education Director, Secretary, and Currently Vice President. In the past I have presented at the Quarterly Education Workshops, RMOUG is a group or amazing, talented Oracle Professionals; I would be honored to serve another term.
Qualifications and Biography
I have been interested in Computers and IT since my best friend in High School logged me into a teletype printing Terminal computer in 1969. Have been doing IT since 1981 as a Cobol programmer, since then worked as a Systems Analyst, Programmer/Analyst, Sql*(forms, reports, oem,oam, developer/designer, tools), Oracle Developer, Oracle DBA, Oracle Applications DBA, OS Systems Administrator, College Lecturer in Business and Computer Science, internet implementation, Client Server/DBA Mgr, W2 Consultant, Sr. Oracle DBA currently Oracle RDBMS/EBusiness Suite, Experience with SungardHE(SCT Banner, Peoplesoft, Oracle ERP systems 10.7nca thru 11i, Oracle Rdbms versions 5,6,7,8,9 and 10). Oracle DBA experience since 1998, RAC, Dataguard, ASM and Streams and Lead positions in recent years.
Pat Van Buskirk
Campaign Statement
During the past year, I have served as Newsletter Director.
During that time, we have increased advertising revenues and the number of technical articles in each issue. We have added a new section, featuring RMOUG members and their work with Oracle. My plan for the coming year, if re-elected and chosen as Newsletter Director, would be to continue to increase revenues while continuing to improve the overall quality of the magazine.
Qualifications and Biography
Pat Van Buskirk has been an Oracle DBA since 1991 and is currently the remote DBA for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Prior to that, she was a mainframe programmer and Oracle Forms developer. She has acted as project manager for applications in manufacturing, insurance, education, research and banking. Her hobby is horses and she is currently the web advisor for the Centered Riding Organization in Perkiomenville, PA. She also volunteers with the Eastern Plains Reining Horse Association and the Elizabeth, Co Stampede.
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