Piet is an experienced Database Consultant and DBA.He has been in IT since 1987, and specializes in Oracle and Database-related technology since 1994.Piet combines technical database knowledge with extensive experience in global organizations.His energetic personality and language-skills makes him ideal for pioneering and ground-breaking projects in amulti-national environment. Piet also invests a lot of effort in maintaining a network of Like-Minded Oracle specialistsworldwide and is a regular speaker at international usergroup events and symposia.Piet likes to travel, speaks various languages more or less fluently, and is alway interested in learning how to say"Hello" and "Thank You" in a few more languages, provided he can learn it in-situ.Piet specializes in Oracle databases and High-Availability, deployment and performance.His philosophy is that Simple systems are easier to maintain and to runand therefore offer better Availability.