Please come join the Chicago Oracle Users Group for our next meeting on Tuesday, August 8th from 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM with co-founder and CTO of Viscosity North America, Nitin Vengurlekar and Chief Innovation Officer of Viscosity North America, Rich Niemiec!

This meeting will be sponsored by Viscosity North America at the Prairie Center for the Arts in Schaumburg.  This will be a knowledge packed all day session!

Lunch will be served and we will have raffle prizes at the end of the meeting. 

Nitin Vengurlekar is the co-founder and CTO of Viscosity North America. At Viscosity, Nitin is responsible for Service delivery, Partner relationship and end-2-end solution architecture. Nitin’s main emphasis has been on virtualization, Oracle Engineered Systems, Hyper-Converged Systems, and Public/Private Database Cloud implementations.

Nitin is a well-known Oracle technologist and speaker in the areas of Oracle Storage, high availability, Oracle RAC, and private database cloud. He is the author of Database Cloud Storage, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, and the Data Guard Handbook. He has also written many papers on storage, database internals, database tuning, and served as a contributor to Oracle documentation as well as Oracle education material.

Prior to joining Viscosity, Nitin worked for Oracle for more than 18 years. The key areas across those years included:

·   Database Cloud Architect/Evangelist in Oracle’s Cloud Strategy Group in charge of Private Database Cloud messaging. 

·   Key member of the Real Application Cluster (RAC) engineering group and RAC Product Management Team. Main emphasis was on ASM, 3rd Party Storage Integration, & RAC integration. 

·   Key member in helping to build & instantiate the Oracle-EMC Joint Escalation Center (JSC). This included support enablement and content generation for the center.

·   Key member of Storage Alliances Team (EMC, NetApp, etc). Produced white papers and presentation with joint collaboration with Storage Partners 

·   Advisory Consultant role in Oracle Gold and SSC Support

With more than 28 years of IT experience, including OS390 Systems Programming, Storage Administration, System and Database Administration, Nitin is a seasoned systems architect who has successfully assisted numerous customers in deploying highly available Oracle systems.

Rich Niemiec is the current Chief Innovation Officer of Viscosity North America. Rich is an Oracle Ace Director, a world renowned IT Expert, and was a co-founder and the CEO of TUSC, a Chicago-based systems integrator of Oracle-based business solutions started in 1988. Rich has served as President of Rolta TUSC and Rolta EICT.

Rich is the past President of the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and the current President of the Midwest Oracle Users Group (MOUG). Rich has architected and tuned many Fortune 500 systems over the past 25 years.

His experience in data processing ranges from teaching to consulting, with emphasis in database administration, performance tuning, project management and technical education. Rich is one of six originally honored worldwide Oracle Certified Masters and advised Oracle development from time to time. In 2017, he authored the Oracle “Oracle12c Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques,” an update of his previous 4 Oracle best sellers on Oracle8i, 9i, 10g, and 11i Performance Tuning. Rich was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 1998.

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