Murali Vallath

has been using Oracle products for over 16 years. His work spans industries such as broadcasting, manufacturing and telephony and most recently transportation logistics. Vallath is no stranger to the software development life cycle; his solid understanding of IT covers requirement analysis, architecture, modeling, database design, application development, performance tuning and implementation.
Vallath is an Oracle Certified Database Administrator and has worked on a variety of database platforms for small to very large implementations, designing extensive databases for high volume, machine critical, real time OLTP systems. His expertise is with Oracle Parallel Server/Oracle Real Application Clusters and has several implementations to his credit. He is a frequent contributor to the Oracle-L list server and is known in the Oracle community for his dedication and leadership while he served as the President of the Charlotte Oracle Users Group. Vallath is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, including the Oracle Open World, IOUG, UKOUG on Real Application Cluster and Oracle Performance Tuning related topics. He was the recipient of the Best Presenter of the Year Award in the DBA Track at the CLTOUG 2001 conference. Vallath currently provides Oracle consulting services through Summersky Enterprises LLC (www.summersky.biz). The firm specializes in implementation and performance tuning of Oracle products, including OPS, RAC, data guard and replication. Prior to this he worked as Senior Database Architect at Elogex Inc. Where apart from the regular performance tuning efforts, he led the Performance Management SWAT team. His previous work and consulting experience includes Hinditron Computers in India, Digital Equipment Corporation, GTE Mobile, Navistar International and DST Interactive (formerly DBS Systems). Vallath is a native of India and resides in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife (also an Oracle Certified Professional) and children Grishma, 8, and Nabhas, 7. When Vallath is not working on complex databases, his hobbies include photography and playing classical Indian music on the tabla, an Indian instrument.