Behind Quest Software's award-winning products are some of the industry’s top experts, as recognized by their industry peers and the IT community. Quest’s products embody their decades of collective experience, and they also share what they know via a wide variety of blogs, podcasts, books and articles.
These experts are available for press interviews and to provide commentary on industry developments. Just contact a member of the Quest PR team to arrange a call. |
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| Database Management |
Johannes Ahrends
Oracle Expert |  | Johannes Ahrends is an Oracle database specialist at Quest Software and a recognized Oracle expert with more than 15 years of experience. Together with former colleagues he has published two German Oracle books: Oracle9i für den DBA and Oracle 10g für den DBA. Johannes has done a large variety of presentation at the German Oracle User Group (DOAG) conferences and local seminars.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Mike Ault
Oracle Expert |  | Mike Ault is an Oracle database specialist at Quest Software and a recognized Oracle expert with more than 16 years of experience as an Oracle DBA and consultant in a variety of industries and companies. A prolific author, Mike has published over 20 Oracle-related books, including Oracle Administration and Management, Oracle DBA OCP ExamCram and Oracle 10g Grid and RAC.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Claudia Fernandez
SQL Server/DB2/Oracle/Sybase Expert |  | Claudia Fernandez has more than 10 years of industry experience working with RDBMS and related technologies. She has presented as an expert on RDBMS and application performance tuning at many technical conferences and recently co-authored Database Benchmarking for Oracle and SQL Server.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Steven Feuerstein
Oracle PL/SQL Expert |  | Steven Feuerstein is a PL/SQL specialist for Quest Software and is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language. Steven has more than 26 years of experience and has written 10 books on PL/SQL, including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, all with O'Reilly Media.
Complete profile and resources. |
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David Gugick
SQL Server Expert |  | David Gugick is the director of product management - SQL Server for Quest Software. David brings more than 16 years of technical and management experience in application development and database design. David is also a published author.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Guy Harrison
Oracle & MySQL Expert |  | Guy Harrison is chief architect, database solutions, at Quest Software. He is a recognized database expert with more than 15 years of experience in database administration, development and performance tuning. Guy is the author of Oracle SQL High Performance Tuning, Oracle Desk Reference and MySQL Stored Procedure Programming, a regular contributor to technical journals and a regular speaker at technical conferences.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Kevin Kline
Microsoft SQL Server MVP |  | Kevin Kline has more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry and is a recognized SQL Server expert. In addition to being a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Kevin is a regular contributor to database technology magazines and discussion forums. Kevin is the author of the O'Reilly titles SQL in a Nutshell and Transact-SQL Programming. He is currently president of PASS - the international SQL Server user group. Complete profile and resources. |
| Patrick O'Keeffe
SQL Server Expert |  | Patrick O'Keeffe is a senior software architect for Quest Software, where he specializes in the design and implementation of diagnostic and performance tools for Microsoft SQL Server. Patrick has more than 12 years of experience in software engineering and architecture and spoke at Tech Ed 2004 Australia.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Gary PiperOracle Expert |  | Gary Piper has over 20 years business experience in managing Oracle E-Business Suite installations in many local and global organizations. Gary is an E-Business domain expert and more recently Product Manager for Oracle E-Business Suite applications. Gary has been a regular presenter at international user group conferences for six years and is an active committee member the state level AUSOUG.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Bryan Oliver
SQL Server Domain Expert |  | Bryan Oliver has worked with SQL Server for over 11 years and is a lead developer for Quest Software. Bryan is a regular speaker at conferences such as SQL PASS and SQL Server Summit.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Bert Scalzo
Toad for Oracle, Data Warehousing and Data Modeling Expert |  | Bert Scalzo has worked with Oracle databases for well over two decades; his key areas of interest include data modeling, database benchmarking, database tuning and optimization, "Star Schema" data warehouses and Linux. Bert is the author of books including Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schema and TOAD Pocket Reference. He recently co-authored Database Benchmarking for Oracle and SQL Server.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Jeff Smith
Toad for Oracle, Development Best Practices for Oracle |  | Jeff Smith is a solutions archtect for Quest Software. He has seven years of IT experience and is a certified Toad® expert. Jeff is the primary author of the Toad Handbook, 2nd Edition, published by O'Reilly. He is a frequent contributor to the popular ToadSoft and a recent member of ODTUG. Jeff is a regular speaker at Toad User Groups and Oracle User Groups worldwide.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Jim Wankowski
DB2 Expert |  | Jim Wankowski is a DB2 technology specialist for Quest Software. Jim has more than 20 years of development and database administration (DBA) experience with DB2 and is well known in the DB2 community. Jim has written articles for DB2 Magazine as well as z/Journal, and regularly presents at IDUG conferences, regional DB2 user groups and vendor seminars worldwide.
Complete profile and resources. |
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| Windows Management |
Joe Baguley
Windows Management Expert |  | With over 14 years of experience in IT, Joe Baguley has extensive field experience in deploying and managing large-scale infrastructures. He regularly writes and presents on the key challenges facing companies globally in an increasingly complex and integrating world. Based in the UK, as global product director, Joe is responsible for driving product strategy for Quest’s global accounts and territories outside of North America with Quest’s product teams and sales management.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Doug Davis
SharePoint Expert |  | Doug has worked in the IT industry for almost twenty years. He is a noted SharePoint expert, responsible for the strategic roadmap for Quest’s SharePoint products. His current role at Quest is Product Director of the SharePoint Business Group.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Curtis Johnstone
Exchange Expert |  | Curtis Johnstone has over 12 years of enterprise application development experience and is currently focusing on Unified Communication research with Microsoft Office Communication Server and Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging. Curtis is a senior software developer at Quest in the Microsoft Windows Management division.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Alexander Klink
Windows Management Expert |  | Alexander Klink has been working in IT for 13 years. As technical director, Windows Management, for Quest Software GmbH for EMEA, he is responsible for the expertise of all products in the Windows Management area.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Anthony Marchment
Exchange Expert |  | With over twelve years of experience, Anthony Marchment is one of Quest’s leading Exchange experts and has worked with all aspects of Microsoft Exchange. For the past six years he has worked exclusively with the Quest MessageStats product, first as a developer now as the technical lead.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Anthony Moillic
Windows Management Expert |  | Anthony Moillic has been in the industry for over ten years and has authored research in both French and English. As the technical director and alliance manager for the Microsoft relationship, he is responsible for ensuring the technical relationship between large customers and the pre-sales and post-sales team within Quest Software France. He also works to develop and execute corporate strategies and agreements with Microsoft across France, Belgium, Luxemburg and North Africa.
Complete profile and resources. |
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David Sengupta
Microsoft Exchange MVP |  | David Sengupta has been a Microsoft Exchange Server MVP since 1998 and has worked with Exchange since its inception, and is Quest's director of unified communications. A leading expert in Messaging and Unified Communications, David has written for many print and online publications, contributes regularly to books on messaging and Exchange, and speaks at major Microsoft events and conferences including TechEd and IT Forum.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Jackson Shaw
Active Directory, Identity Management Expert |  | Jackson Shaw has been involved with directory, meta-directory and security initiatives for almost twenty years. He has spoken at various industry events and writes a popular identity management blog. Jackson oversees product direction, strategy and go-to-market activities for Quest’s suite of Active Directory management products.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Dmitry Sotnikov
Powershell MVP |  | Dmitry Sotnikov has over eight years of experience working in the Windows management area, and is the author of multiple whitepapers, a regular blogger and a presenter at numerous trade shows, including: Microsoft Management Summit, WinHEC, Longhorn RDP Airlift and TechEd. The TechEd session which Dmitry co-presented became the 3rd most highly rated within the Windows Server Infrastructure track. He is currently leading the new product research and development team for Quest’s Windows Management business unit.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Peter terSteeg
Microsoft Exchange Expert |  | Peter terSteeg has been working with Microsoft Exchange engineering, migration and solution delivery for over ten years. Currently, he is a director in the Unified Communications and Collaboration business unit for Quest Software. He has worked on both inter- and intra-organizational Exchange migrations ranging from 10,000 to over 350,000 users for Fortune 500 companies and government organizations. In addition to Exchange projects, Peter has spoken at various industry events like Microsoft TechEd Australia and Business Trends Quarterly about e-mail management and archiving and is a contributor to SearchExchange.com’s “Ask the Expert’s” section.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Michael Tweddle
Active Directory, Identity and Access Management Expert |  | With more than ten years of experience working in the areas of migration, Exchange and AD management and compliance, Michael Tweddle is the technical director for Quest’s Active Directory, Identity and Access Management solutions. He is responsible for technical direction and field execution, and works closely with the product team, development and sales. Prior to this position, he managed architecture specialists in various Windows Management areas.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Steve Walch
SharePoint Expert |  | Steve Walch has been a Lotus Notes and Microsoft technologist since 1993 and has built a number of successful products. In 2002, he founded Proposion Software with the mission to connect Lotus Notes into the emerging Microsoft .NET development platform. Over time, Proposion became focused on Notes-to-SharePoint migration and integration tools and became the leading vendor in that market. In late 2007 Proposion was acquired by Quest Software. Steve is currently a product manager at Quest and continues to lead his Newburyport, MA development team.
Complete profile and resources. |
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David Waugh
SharePoint Expert |  | David Waugh has over twenty years of technical and marketing experience, and, as VP of unified communications and collaboration, is Quest’s resident expert for collaboration tools. He has held various executive and management positions in marketing, product management and product development. As a lecturer at James Cook University, David developed and taught science courses, and helped form the computer science department.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Adam Woodruff
SharePoint Expert |  | Adam has over ten years of experience creating solutions that utilize Microsoft systems and infrastructure. He is skilled in Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory and SharePoint Portal Server (MOSS) integrations and configurations for deployment and operational management. He is currently working as a solutions architect for Quest’s SharePoint products.
Complete profile and resources. |
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| Application Management |
Steven Haines
Java Expert |  | Steven Haines is Quest's resident Java EE expert. A prolific writer, he is the author of numerous articles and books, including Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization (Apress), Java 2 Primer Plus (Sams) and Java 2 From Scratch (Que). Steven has taught Java programming at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Learning Tree University (LTU).
Complete profile and resources. |
| Scott Herold
Virtualization Expert |  | Scott Herold is the lead architect of the Virtualization Business Unit for Quest Software, a role to which he brings a decade of industry experience in operating system, network, security, and storage design. Scott has been a pioneer in architecting advanced virtualization solutions for many Fortune 100 organizations in R&D and implementation roles. He has provided architectural expertise to multiple local and federal government agencies around the world and continues to provide key information about market and technology trends to Quest’s growing virtualization business.
Complete profile and resources. |
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Tyler Jewell
Application Expert |  | Tyler Jewell is considered a foremost expert in the development, deployment, and management of applications. He has more than ten years of experience and has authored three books and more than three-dozen industry articles in trade magazines worldwide. Tyler is a recognized industry personality, having spoken at more than 200 industry events, some as a keynoter. Tyler is senior director of Quest's application and services management solution portfolio and business strategy.
Complete profile and resources. |
| Ramesh Naidu
Domain Expert - Oracle |  | Ramesh Naidu is a Oracle domain expert at Quest Software, Australia specializing in performance monitoring and diagnostics. A 20-year IT industry veteran, Ramesh has extensive development and consulting experience in various Asian countries and industries, including heavy engineering, manufacturing and banking. Ramesh has published several technical articles on Oracle database, RAC and ASM, and speaks regularly to Oracle user groups.
Complete profile and resources. |
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