All Burleson Oracle consultants are Oracle certified DBAs and the majority possess Masters or PhD Degrees from distinguished Colleges including Harvard, West Point, Northwestern and Johns Hopkins University.

Steve Karam (Oracle ACE, Oracle Certified Professional) - Steve is one of elite few DBA's worldwide to achieve the coveted Oracle 10g Certified Master status.  A former senior instructor for Oracle University, Steve specializes in complex Oracle 10g and 11g RAC environments. 

Donald Burleson (Oracle Certified Professional) - A retired Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Burleson has more than 20 years of full-time DBA experience, authored 32 Oracle database books, written over 100 Oracle articles, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Rampant TechPress. 

Kent Crotty (Oracle Certified Professional) - Kent a graduate of the University of Maryland and an experienced IT professional with over 15 years in a variety of roles ranging from Programmer/Analyst (developer) to Systems and Database Administrator. 

Dr. Carolyn Hamm (Oracle Certified Professional) - Dr. Carolyn Hamm Ph.D. is a recognized expert in Oracle data warehouse technologies, advanced analytics and Oracle data mining.  Dr. Hamm specializes in Oracle Discoverer, Oracle OLAP and Oracle Data Warehouse Builder.

Dr. Tim Wu (Oracle Certified Professional) - Dr. Wu, MD is an experienced physician and an Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server certified DBA. Specializing in medical informatics, Dr. Wu excels in using Oracle Discoverer, OLAP and HTML-DB to create informatics systems for life-saving Oracle applications.

John Palinski (Oracle Certified Professional Developer) - John is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and he has an MBA from Creighton University.  John is an experienced database administrator, developer and software engineer with over 20 years of professional IT experience. John has also authored three database books and has dozens of published web and periodical articles.    

Aaron  (Oracle Certified Professional) - Aaron is an experienced RAC expert with almost two decades of progressive experience in high availability technology for mission-critical Oracle systems.  A former Managing Principal Consultant with Oracle Corporation, Aaron has extensive experience with large system architectures including Oracle Application Server and Oracle Data Warehouse Technologies.  Aaron is also a military veteran with an active TOP SECRET security clearance.

Tim   (Oracle Certified Professional) 
Oracle DBA Top Gun - RAC and OS Tuning Expert - Tim is a distinguished graduate of MIT, earning both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science.

With more than 30 years encompassing all areas of systems development, Tim is a hands-on Oracle certified DBA with more than a decade of full-time Oracle RAC and OPS experience on multi-million dollar Oracle systems.