Dave has been involved in various facets of information technology since March of 1980 when he began his career with the MVS Systems Programming department at Irving Trust Bank in New York City (Irving has since been acquired by Bank of New York). His background includes database administration, application design and development, systems programming and the delivery of training, seminars and webinars to experienced I.T. professionals.

Recent Success Stories:

In addition to his rigorous training and courseware development schedule, Dave was able to speak at a number of Oracle User Group meetings over the last year:

• Oracle 10g Flashback Enhancements - SEOUC, March 2007
• Oracle 10g Introduction to ASM - SEOUC, March 2007
• Oracle 10g SQL Enhancements - NYOUG, March 2006
• Oracle10g New Features for DBAs - VOUG, March 2006




Upcoming speaking events include:

• Oracle 10g Performance and Tuning Features at the Connecticut Oracle User Group, November 1, 2007
• Oracle SQL Tuning Tips and Pitfalls, October 25, 2007




Recently completed consulting assignments include:

• Massachusetts Property Insurance - Oracle Database Performance Tuning. Oracle Application Tuning.
• Retail Decisions - Oracle Database Performance Tuning. Oracle Application Tuning.
• Seatadvisor - Oracle performance tuning, SQL and application tuning, RMAN backups.
• National Nurses - migration of a health care database from Oracle 8.1.7 to 9.2.0. Tasks included installing Oracle9i, applying patches, migrating test data, enabling system for testing, migrating production data and providing complete documentation.
• Computrition - Oracle application tuning.




Employment History

SkillBuilders (1985 - present) - President and Senior Instructor

• Dave writes the courseware and teaches most introductory and advanced Oracle Database subjects. Since 1992 Dave has been the lead Oracle administrator as well as the developer for the SkillBuilders web site back-end. Currently supporting Oracle 10g Release 10.2 on Red Hat AS 3.



Allendale Insurance (FM Global) (1996) - Oracle Consultant

• Administered a DB2 to Oracle conversion for IBM mainframe COBOL application to DEC COBOL.



Estee Lauder & Chemical Bank (1986 - 1995) - Consultant

• Various consulting assignments including CICS/COBOL programming at Estee Lauder, DB2 Administration at Chemical Bank.



Martin Marietta Data Systems (1985) - MVS Systems Programmer

• Responsible for IBM MVS system administration including installations, upgrades, patches and product installation and maintenance.



Computer Associates International (1983 -1984) - Assembler and IBM Mainframe machine code programmer

• Provided customers with Level 3 (i.e. last line of defense) support for CA-SORT.



Irving Trust Bank (1980 - 1982) - IBM MVS Programmer

• Responsible for IBM MVS and TSO system maintenance.