Michael Brown has been working the Oracle Database since 1993, the E-Business Suite since 1997 and various flavors of Unix/Linux since 1986. He has a B.S Computer Science from Appalachian State University and an M.S. Computer Science from Clemson University. An active member ans supporter of user groups, he is a member of OATUG (formerly OAUG), ODTUG, and was a member of IOUG until was disbanded. He is once again a member of the Oracle Ace community having been named Oracle Ace Associate in June 2025 after having dropped to Oracle Ace Alumni in 2022. He is the the Chair of the OATUG Database SIG, the Chair of the OATUG Advanced Architecture and High Availability SIG, the Co-Chair for the OATUG Sysadmin SIG, and the Co-Chair of the OATUG OCI Cloud SIG. At Collaborate 2013, he was named the OAUG Member of the Year. He is currently employed at BlueStar as a database administrator.