Oracle ACE Award

I have just learned that I have been nominated and accepted as an Oracle ACE. I would like to thank Jonathan Lewis for the nomination and Oracle Corp. for the recognition.

It’s a tremendous honour for me to receive this award. I just hope I can live up to it by continuing to serve the community, write some more blog posts (here) that people find useful, keep organising the UKOUG RAC, Cloud, Availability and Infrastructure SIG and keep helping with UKOUG Tech 15. Keep going to the London Oracle Beer [no link, just beer] and #ClubOracle and keep promoting the Oracle community.

I’d also like to thank Martin Widlake for persuading me to get up on stage a few years ago and start giving presentations too. I think your beer debt is finally paid 🙂

Finally, I’d like to thank my wife and children for putting up with me sitting in my office at home, working on those presentations for hours and letting me enjoy myself off at conferences, SIGs and all the other events I attend when I could be spending time with them. I hope I get the work/life/community balance right.

Whilst all of that community stuff takes time and some effort, it’s rewarding and fulfilling, and remarkably social. Why don’t you try some or all of the above. I’m happy to help you get started. I’m short a talk on the next RAC SIG in July… fancy filling in? Send me an email. Lets talk.