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NEEOUG Office Information
NEOOUG Officers Information
Officers & Responsibilties
NEOOUG is administered by the following elected officers with these key responsibilities:
- President
The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer and shall have
general supervision over the affairs of NEOOUG. The President shall preside
at all meetings of NEOOUG and the Officer Committee. The President may appoint,
with the consent of the Officer Committee, standing committees, task forces
and their respective chairpersons. The President shall be an exofficio member
of all committees and shall perform all the duties incident to the office
of Chief Executive Officer of a corporation, and such other duties as may
be prescribed from time to time by the Officer Committee. The President shall
serve as liaison to the International Oracle Users Group and all outside groups.
The president is one of the 4 valid signatures on the NEOOUG checking account.
- Vice President
In the absence of the President or in the event of his or her inability
or refusal to act, the Vice President shall perform the duties of the President,
and when so acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the
restrictions upon the President. The Vice President shall perform such other
duties as from time to time may be assigned by the President or by the Officer
Committee. The vice president is one of the 4 valid signatures on the NEOOUG
checking account.
- Vice President of Vendor
Relations
This role was created with the intent to give our vendors a single
point of contact to establish good long lasting relationships with NEOOUG.
We can draw from the pool of vendors for talks that coincide with the general
meeting format and content. The VP of Vendors will also be responsible for
a column in the NEOOUG newsletter.
- Vice President of of Database
Technologies
This role was created to ensure that our group has someone who
is on top of the database technology community. This role gives a specific
emphasis on the Oracle Database and the DBAs who establish and maintain them.
This person will be responsible for assisting the meeting coordinator to ensure
that there will be a quality speaker for the NEOOUG meetings. The VP of Database
Technologies will also be responsible for a database technologies column
in the NEOOUG newsletter. This role reports to the President and works with
the entire group to provide ideas and information.
- Vice President of Development
Technologies
This role was created to ensure that our group has someone who is on top of
the development technology community. This role gives a specific emphasis
on Oracle and the people who use related development tools. This person will
be responsible for assisting the meeting coordinator to ensure there will
be a quality speaker for the NEOOUG meetings. The VP of Development Technologies
will also be responsible for a development technologies column in the NEOOUG
newsletter. This role reports to the President and works with the entire group
to provide ideas and information.
- Secretary
- Scribe general and officers meeting minutes
- Maintain all NEOOUG records
- Report official meeting minutes at each meeting.
- One of the 4 valid signatures on the NEOOUG banking accounts.
- Treasurer
- Serves as the Chief Financial Officer of NEOOUG and shall have charge
and custody of and be responsible for all funds and securities of NEOOUG
- Shall receive and give receipts for monies due and payable to NEOOUG
from any sources whatsoever
- Shall deposit all such monies in the name of NEOOUG in such banks,
trust companies, or other depositories as shall be selected in accordance
with the provisions of these bylaws
- Shall develop financial plans and budgets
- Shall submit financial reports to the Officer Committee at its regular
meetings and to the membership at the Annual Meeting
- Shall perform all duties incident to the office of Vice President of
Finance and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned by
the President or by the Officer Committee.
- One of the 4 valid signatures on the NEOOUG checking account.
- The Treasurer shall create all bank accounts in such a way that it
will require two (2) officers' signatures to authorize removal of funds
from
that account. No withdrawal vehicle such as an ATM card shall be created
which can authorize transaction by only one person.
- The Treasurer shall file the NEOOUG tax return when required by law.
- Membership Coordinator
- Process new and renewal membership
- Administer annual member survey.
- Maintain and update membership list
- Handle communications with the membership
- Special Events Coordinatorr
- Oversight of all event planning activities including finance, sponsorship, venues, and event promotion
- Securing speakers and negociating fees and expenses
- Monitoring event registration
- Managing day of event operations
- Webmaster
Develop, design and maintain the NEOOUG
web site.
- Assistant Webmaster
Develop, design and maintain the NEOOUG web site.
- Newsletter Editor
Compile a newsletter and publish it
electronically prior to the each business meeting and/or event.
Email ALL Officers
Elections & Terms
All Officers are elected to 1 year terms
of service. Candidates for each office are nominated at the fall meeting and
elections are held at the first meeting of the new year. Elected officers take
office at the close of the election meeting.
NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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PRESIDENT
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BIO: A Northeast Ohio native and Kent State University graduate with a BS
with honors in computer science. Has over a decade of experience working
with the Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server products.
Accomplished application developer incorporating data persisted in
Oracle with various application development technologies including:
Visual Basic, Java, and J2EE. Enjoyed a wonderful ten year stint
working for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company at their Akron
Technical Center. Currently employed as a technology consultant with
Deloitte Consulting LLP working on an engagement with the U.S. DOD Defense Finance Accounting Service in Cleveland, OH.
Contact Information: gamartin@deloitte.com
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Gerhardt "Gary" Martin
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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VICE PRESIDENT
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BIO: Eric earned Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Computer
Science from Brigham Young University where he studied database theory and Software
Engineering principles. He has over 15 years of Oracle Experience. Eric has experience
as an Oracle developer in PL/SQL and Proc*C, as a Database Administrator and Oracle
Applications Administrator, and 6 years of experience as a Data Architect
(some of this time designing Data Warehouse systems). Eric is currently working for
Sherwin Williams as a Lead Database Administrator.
Contact Information: eric.a.mortensen@sherwin.com |
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Eric Mortensen
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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VICE PRESIDENT OF VENDOR RELATIONS
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BIO: Greg has been working with Oracle since 1995. Currently he's with
Deloitte Consulting LLP building solutions for DFAS. Lately he's been
doing a lot of back end PL/SQL programming, system design, and SQL &
PL/SQL tuning.
Contact Information: gregnemeth@hotmail.com
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Gregory Nemeth
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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VICE PRESIDENT OF DATABASE TECHNOLOGY
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BIO: Patty is an Ohio native. She has a BS in Computer Science from CSU. She works at Amtrust Bank
as an Oracle Database Administrator. Patty has worked as a Oracle DBA since 1995. Amtrust Bank gives her the
opportunity to work with cutting edge technology including 10g RAC Linux clusters, 9i RAC HP clusters and 10g Application Server.
Her primary interest in database technology is data warehousing.
Contact Information: pgigliotti-Paltza@amtrust.com |
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Patty Paltza
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY
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BIO: John graduated from KSU with a degree in math/computer science and later completed his MBA at
Baldwin-Wallace. Currently employed as a Senior Oracle DBA at Summit Racing Equipment John has 10
years of Oracle experience. Some of John stronger skills include relational modeling, performance
tuning, application migration, and backup/recovery. Specific strengths within the Oracle environment
include RAC, EMC Symmetrix, Solaris, and HPUX. In a prior parallel universe John spent many years
doing system programming and database administration in large scale IBM mainframe environments.
Contact Information: JHurley@summitracing.com |
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John Hurley
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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SECRETARY
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BIO: Nancy works for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority as a Database Analyst. She has been working with Oracle for over 9 years and specializes in the E-Business Suite.
Contact Information: NBoberek@GCRTA.org |
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Nancy Boberek
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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TREASURER
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BIO: Sean is an Ohio native, born and raised in Cleveland. Sean started his IT
career 8 years ago at Cleveland State University as a student computer
technician while earning his Bachelors in Computer Engineering. He moved
into a full-time position managing the student technicians and
administrating the University's Window's servers while working on his next
degree, a Masters in Software Engineering. Currently he is employed at
Cleveland State University as a Systems Administrator who is responsible for
the maintenance and upgrades of the PeopleSoft and Oracle environments.
Although fairly new to the Oracle world Sean is experienced with PeopleSoft
Campus Solutions, Oracle 9i and 10g, Solaris 10 and AIX platforms. While
working as a System Administrator he has finished his Masters in Software
Engineering degree and is just about halfway through earning his MBA.
Contact Information: d.s.zechman@csuohio.edu |
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Sean Zechman
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR
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BIO: Paul started working with Oracle when it was version 3 (can anyone guess how long ago that
was - see the end for the answer)? As an aside, Paul indicated at that time that there were only two
licensed Oracle sites in all of Ohio. Paul has over 18 years of experience working with Oracle and works
as an Oracle DBA at AmTrust Bank.
Contact Information: phealy@amtrust.com |
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Paul Healy
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR
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BIO: Rumpi Gravenstein has been working with Oracle continuously since
1987, focusing on providing consulting services in the Oracle technologies.
He has given numerous technical presentations at Oracle conferences covering
topics such as security, application design, PL/SQL development, ANSI SQL, and
data loading. Rumpi is currently working for AmTrust Bank as a lead developer.
Contact Information: rgravens@gmail.com |
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Rumpi Gravenstein
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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WEBMASTER
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BIO: Gary has done almost everything you can do in the IT field. He was even there at the birth of
the PC revolution (anybody remember the IBM codenames popcorn "The PC" and peanut "The PC Junior"?).
Gary has done Systems Support, Technical Support, Database Support, and development work in everything
from Mainframes to Micros. He currently works in the Global Data Management and Collaboration Team at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
as an Oracle DBA, Linux Systems Admin, HTTP Server/LDAP Admin, and Web CGI/DHTML developer. Like Paul Healy,
Gary started working with Oracle way back at version 3
Contact Information: gary_tanski@goodyear.com |
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Gary Tanski
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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ASSISTANT WEBMASTER
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BIO: Ankit has been working with Oracle for the past 6 years.
Currently he works for Snapon Business Solutions in Richfield as an Architect.
These days he is focused on implementing the quality system and best practices among developers.
His interests are public speaking, researching new technologies and learning new human languages.
Contact Information: ankit dot jain at snapon.com
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Ankit Jain
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NEOOUG LEADERSHIP
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NEWSLETTER EDITOR
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BIO: Pete is originally from Rochester, NY and has bachelor degrees in Mathematics (Baldwin-Wallace College) and Music (Cleveland Institute of Music). He has worked with Oracle Technologies for the past 10 years, and is currently a Senior Database Administrator at AmTrust Bank. Pete's interests include Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Application Server infrastructure and Oracle e-Business Suite.
Contact Information: pete@dinin.net
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Pete Dinin
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