About the Technical Reviewers

Fuad Arshad has been a database administrator for more than 16 years. He has experience in all aspects of the Oracle database, from management to tuning, and is an Oracle Certified Expert. He frequently blogs about Oracle (http://www.fuadarshad.com) as well as participating in online forums and social media (http://www.twitter.com/fuadar). Fuad has presented at the conferences Collaborate and Oracle OpenWorld on topics ranging from Oracle Real Application Clusters to Oracle Database Appliance. Fuad currently works for a Fortune 500 company. He lives in Lindenhurst, Illinois, with his family.

Bernard Lopuz is a senior principal technical support analyst at Oracle Corporation since 2001, and he is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP). Before he became an Oracle DBA, he was a programmer developing Unisys Linc and Oracle applications, as well as interactive voice response (IVR) applications such as telephone banking voice-processing applications. Bernard was coauthor of the Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs (Apress, 2008) and technical reviewer of three other books, namely, Oracle RMAN Recipes (Apress, 2007), Pro Oracle Database 11g Administration (Apress, 2010), and Pro Oracle SQL (Apress, 2010). He has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Mapúa Institute of Technology in Manila, Philippines. Bernard was born in Iligan, Philippines, and now resides in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife, Leizle, and daughters, Juliet and Carol. Aside from tinkering with computers, Bernard is a soccer and basketball fanatic.

Bill Padfield is an Oracle Certified Professional, working as a senior database administrator for a large telecommunications company in Denver, Colorado. Bill helps administer and manage a data warehouse environment consisting of more than 100 databases. He has been an Oracle database administrator for more than 16 years and has worked in the IT industry since 1985. Bill also teaches graduate database courses at Regis University. He presently resides in Aurora, Colorado, with his wife, Oyuna, and son, Evan.