At TruTek, we take pride in bringing in the most knowledgeable Oracle experts. Take a look at our top instructors:

Mike Swing - Mike is the founder of TruTek, a national leader in technical and functional Oracle training and consulting. Mike has been an Oracle Apps DBA with TruTek since 1996, an Oracle DBA since 1993, and a  DBA with Informix, Ingres, and Sybase from 1988 to 1993. He has been a software engineer since 1986 and has two degrees in physics from the University of Utah. Mike has been a presenter with IOUG, OAUG, EOUG, and EOAUG since 1997. Mike teaches most of TruTek's DBA and Applications DBA classes. Be sure to check out Mike's first book, the little r12 upgrade guide.

Steven Feuerstein - Oracle Ace Director Steven Feuerstein is one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, having written nine books on PL/SQL, including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices. Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle (1987-1992) and serves as a Senior Technology Advisor for Quest Software. His Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices column is one of the most popular pages on the Oracle Technology Network, and he writes regularly for Oracle Magazine and Oracle Professional.

Tanel Poder - Tanel is our rockstar of Oracle internals. He was one of the first (and youngest) Oracle Certified Master DBAs. He's a member of the prestigious Oak Table Network, and he's an Oracle ACE Director. But best of all, Tanel is a wonderful speaker. He rocked at the last RMOUG Training Days and his Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Seminar. Be sure to check out his papers!

Robert Freeman - Robert Freeman is the author of more than a dozen Oracle-related books including Oracle Database 11g New Features,  Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup & Recovery, and Oracle Database 10g New Features. Robert has presented many times on both the local, national and international level. He works as a DBA Team Manager for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Be sure to check out Robert's latest books, OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Certification Kit: (1Z0-051, 1Z0-052, and 1Z0-053) and OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide: (Exam 1Z0-053).

Tim Gorman - Tim Gorman has worked in IT on relational databases since 1984, as an Oracle application developer since 1990, and as an Oracle DBA since 1993. Tim is an independent consultant specializing in performance tuning, database administration (particularly availability), PL/SQL development, and data warehousing. He has been an active member of RMOUG since 1992 and has been a board member since 1995, holding most of the positions, including president. He has co-authored three books, Oracle8 Data Warehousing, Essential Oracle8i Data Warehousing: Designing, Building, and Managing Oracle Data Warehouses and Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table. Tim has presented at Oracle Open World, Collaborate, UKOUG, Miracle Database Forum, and Master Classes, as well as local Oracle user groups in North America and the Caribbean.

David Kurtz - We consider David Kurtz to be the foremost expert on PeopleSoft. In 1996, David joined PeopleSoft in the UK, starting out in support and gradually moving into consultancy over several years. Since there was virtually no internal documentation about how PeopleSoft related to the database, David began learning it by himself. This led to fixing performance problems in PeopleSoft systems. Soon enough, David was spending all of his time on performance-related consultancy. David left PeopleSoft in 2000 and set up Go-Faster Consultancy Ltd. Since then, David has learned to apply principles of wait-based tuning to the database and to the PeopleSoft layers atop the database. David has been a member of the UK Oracle User Group since 1994 and became chairman of the UNIX SIG in 2000. He presents regularly at PeopleSoft and UKOUG conferences and SIG meetings. 

Jonathan Lewis - Jonathan is the author of Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals and Practical Oracle8i, and a co-author of Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table. Students love Jonathan's classes because he so thoroughly understands the underlying principles. Jonathan is a wonderful instructor!

Ferenc Mantfeld - Ferenc has over 20 years experience in IT, 15 of them specifically with databases. Ferenc has been an Oracle DBA since 1995, having done contract roles as senior / lead DBA with several Telco organizations, managing Siebel, Oracle Applications, PeopleSoft and SAP implementations. Ferenc spent 3 years at Siebel, where his last post was senior performance engineer: Siebel Analytics. Ferenc has also taught database technology at community colleges while residing in Dallas, TX. 

Scott Spendolini - Scott Spendolini specializes in Oracle Application Express training and services. Scott has assisted a number of clients from various industries with their Application Express development and training needs. Prior to founding Sumner Technologies, he worked for Oracle Corporation for almost ten years, the last three of which he was a Senior Product Manager for Oracle Application Express. He has presented at a number of conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, ODTUG, and IOUG and co-authored a book, Pro Oracle Application Express (Expert's Voice in Oracle). Scott is, therefore, an APEX Guru!