Meet the 2023 Board of the Oracle Developer & Technology User Group
The Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Board of Directors is a group of volunteers elected by the Oracle Developer & Technology User Group membership to serve the community at large.
Tim German - President
tim@odtug.com @CubeCoderDotCom
Tim has worked with Oracle tools since 1998 and is currently a director at Qubix, an Oracle partner focused on EPM/BI products. His particular area of expertise is in designing systems built on Essbase and the Oracle Analytics platform. In 2015, Tim was recognized as an Oracle ACE, and in 2017 he was recognized as an Oracle ACE Director. He lives with his family in Chicago.
Jackie McIlroy - Vice President
jackie@odtug.com @McilroyJackie
Jackie McIlroy is an Oracle Application Express (APEX) developer based out of Dallas, Texas, USA who has been tinkering with APEX since 2006. She is the Director of Product and Client Services at United Codes with a focus on their products: APEX Office Print (AOP), APEX Media Extension (AME), APEX Project Eye (APE), and Plug-ins Pro. She previously had the privilege of working with the experts at both Insum Solutions and Accenture Enkitec Group and has worked in government defense at Raytheon. She is an Oracle ACE, is a frequent speaker at conferences, maintains an APEX-related blog, is the APEX Content Chair for Kscope21 - 22, and is the Organizer of the Dallas/Fort Worth Oracle APEX Meetup group. Jackie enjoys mentoring new APEX developers and helping others create awesome APEX applications.
Roel Hartman - Secretary
Roel began using Oracle RDBMS 5, Oracle Forms 2.3, RPT/RPF and Oracle*Case 4.5 a long time ago. For the past few years he has focused mainly on Oracle Application Express. He has been a speaker at UKOUG, OOW, Collaborate, Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Kscope, and a number of local Oracle User Groups. Within Oracle Developer & Technology User Group, Roel acted as the APEX content lead for the Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Kscope14 and Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Kscope15 conferences and was elected a member of the Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Board of Directors in 2016. Roel keeps an (APEX-related) blog on http://roelhartman.blogspot.com. In June 2009 he received an Oracle ACE award, and in August 2010 he was appointed as Oracle ACE Director. Roel is a co-writer of the Expert Oracle Application Express and Oracle Application Express for Mobile Web Applications books. He is a director at APEX Consulting in The Netherlands.
Jim Czuprynski - Treasurer
Jim Czuprynski has nearly four decades of professional experience in his career in information technology, serving diverse roles at several Fortune 1000 companies before becoming an Oracle DBA in 2001. He has been an Oracle ACE Director since 2014 and is a sought-after public speaker on Oracle Database technology features, presenting often at Oracle OpenWorld, COLLABORATE, Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Kscope, Oracle CODE events, Oracle Development Community tours, and Oracle User Group conferences around the world.
Jim has authored 100+ articles on Oracle Database administration, ML/analytics, and APEX since 2003 at databasejournal.com, IOUG SELECT, and Oracle Developer & Technology User Group TechCeleration and has co-authored four books on Oracle database technology. Jim’s blog, Generally…It Depends (https://jimczuprynski.wordpress.com), contains his regular observations on all things Oracle and the state of the IT industry.
Karen Cannell - Director
Karen is president of TH Technology, a consulting firm providing Oracle technology services, and an Oracle ACE. A mechanical engineer by degree (one of them), she has analyzed, designed, developed, converted, upgraded, enhanced, and otherwise implemented legacy and commercial database applications for over 25 years, concentrating on Oracle technologies. She has worked with Application Express since its Web DB beginnings and continues to leverage Oracle tools to build quality web applications for government, medical, and engineering industries. Karen is editor emeritus of the Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Technical Journal, a 2015 Oracle Developer Choice finalist, 2012 Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Volunteer Award winner, and co-author of Expert Oracle Application Express, Agile Oracle Application Express, and Beginning Oracle Application Express 4.2. Karen is an active member of Oracle Developer & Technology User Group, IOUG, RMOUG, and NOUG.
Debra Lilley - Director
Debra has been an Oracle ACE Director since 2008, and has spoken on many different topics at over 200 conferences worldwide, including the last 15 Oracle OpenWorlds. She has written many whitepapers and blog about her experiences and thoughts http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com.
Debra recently joined Inoapps. Not just an Oracle Partner but also an End User Organization. She champions the technology that sits beneath the applications and how we can extend the solution through the Platform portfolio, including development, integration, and analytics. She is a chartered director, a UK professional body responsible for the governance of companies.
Kurt Mayer - Director
kurt@odtug.com @KurtFromSupport
Kurt has been living and breathing Analytics & Reporting, Business Intelligence, and Data Integration for nearly four decades -- the past two of which he has enjoyed working in the Oracle EPM/BI space. Hailing from both corporate and consulting worlds, it has allowed him to hold diverse positions in a wide range of industries, including food & restaurant, retail, insurance, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing.
As a Solutions Architect, he specializes in the design, delivery, and support of solutions for both on-premises and cloud-based projects, utilizing Hyperion EPM, Oracle Essbase, and Oracle Analytics.
A well-received speaker, Kurt has presented at Kscope18, Kscope21, North Central Oracle Applications User Group (NCOAUG) Training Days, Michigan Oracle Users Summit (MOUS), and Northeast Joint Oracle User Group Meeting (NEOAUG). Kurt is a longtime member of both Oracle Developer & Technology User Group and OATUG, and volunteers with the Oracle Developer & Technology User Group Analytics Community in various committees and capacities.
Edward Roske - Director
My name is Edward Roske and I love to learn things and pass them on. This is why I've helped write 15 books on EPM and Analytics, it's why I've made over 50 YouTube videos, it's why I've delivered over 100 webcasts, and it's why I've traveled to 7 continents to educate students in over 60 countries. And in 1997, my love of education led me to found interRel Consulting, so that we could leave the world a smarter place than we found it. I have helped bring interRel together with *11* other companies to make up Argano where I'm now Chief Performance Officer. I'm an Oracle ACE Pro and graduated at the top of my class from SMU with a Masters of Data Science in Business Analytics. My goal is to make sure that you always leave any session with me knowing three more things than when you arrived. Let's get started.
Neviana Zhgaba - Director
neviana@odtug.com @NevianaZhgaba
Neviana is a Digital Finance and Analytics Manager with 10 years of experience leading cross-functional teams in implementing global financial services solutions with the goal of digitizing and transforming FP&A, Controllership, Audit, Risk Management, Wealth Management business processes using Agile methodologies and a varied suite of technical products. She holds a Bachelor and a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from Fairfield University, and has attended numerous leadership trainings at the General Electric Crotonville Development Center. She is also the co-founder of Aquila's Nest Vineyards, where her passion for community engagement, women empowerment, photography, the arts, interior design, social media and marketing has strongly influenced Aquila's Nest's brand identity and business strategy.
Rob Bergeron - Interim Executive Director
rob@odtug.com @thebalticburger
Rob Bergeron is the interim executive director of the Oracle Developer & Technology User Group. He has been a passionate association management professional for 25+ years and is dedicated to the spirit and success of volunteerism. Rob is based in Wilmington, NC, USA, and enjoys the challenge of applying his non-profits career experiences to the exciting world of independent user groups.