Speaker Available

OraPub founder and President, Craig Shallahamer is available to speak to business and technology professionals on a wide variety of topics. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Shallahamer has spoken to groups as large as 500 people as a keynote speaker and as a technical presenter. His unique interests, presentation style, and passion for communicating allows him to uniquely connect with people in a personal way.

Request To Speak: To make a request for Mr. Shallahamer to speak at one of your events, please call +1.503.636.0228.

Titles Previously Presented:

Keynotes

• Service Level Management in an Oracle Envirnment - (Title and content can be easily adapted.)
• Learning By Fire - Lessons in life learned from years of performance consulting
• Survey of Grid Computing (industry and technology overview)
• How Oracle's Complexity Breeds Simplicity (self-organizing systems, complexity, and Oracle)
• The World on the Brink of Change...and Oracle is ready (six discoveries that could change the world, not just the West)

Technical Presentations

• Essential Performance Forecasting
• Oracle Wait Interface Deceit
• Conquering Oracle Latch Contention
• The New Performance Myths
• Forecasting Perf Using Linear Regression
• Creative Forecasting Using Queuing Theory
• Performance Triage: Stop the bleeding!
• Oracle Response Time Analysis
• Responsibly Forecasting Oracle Performance
• Capacity Planning Using Roller Coaster Tycoon
• All About Oracle Database Fragmentation
• All About Oracle's Touch Count Algorithm

Short Bio:

Mr. Shallahamer has been quoted as being "An Oracle performance philosopher who has a special place in the history of Oracle performance management." Mr. Shallahamer brings his unique experiences to thousands as a keynote speaker, a sought after teacher, a researcher, a writer, and author of the book, Forecasting Oracle Performance. He is also is the designer and developer of both of OraPubŐs Advanced Reactive Performance Management and Forecasting Oracle Performance classes as well as the arthitect of HoriZone, OraPubŐs service level management solution. For over 20 years, he has been helping companies improve their service delivery by carefully managing and optimizing performance, service levels, and IT investment.

Mr. Shallahamer spent nine years at Oracle Corporation personally impacting literally hundreds of consultants, companies, database administrators, performance specialists, and capacity planners throughout the world. After co-founding OracleŐs Core Technologies and System Performance Group, he left Oracle in 1998 to start OraPub, Inc. a company focusing on Doing and helping others do both reactive and proactive Oracle performance management. He has personally trained over 1000 DBAs on five continents in fifteen countries. Mr. Shallahamer is also the architect of HoriZone, OraPubŐs service level management solution.

When Mr. Shallahamer is not working on maximizing IT efficiency, he is fly fishing, praying, backpacking, playing guitar, or just relaxing around a fire.