Chris Foot

Christopher Foot is the Director of Service Delivery at Remote DBA Experts. Chris has been involved in database management for over 20 years, serving as a database group lead, database administrator, database architect, trainer, speaker and writer.

Chris began his career working as a database administrator at Mellon Bank. For ten years at Mellon, Chris served as a DBA and later as the bank’s Client Server Systems Architect. During his tenure at Mellon, Chris was responsible for helping to create Mellon’s support infrastructure for all non-mainframe database applications. As a result, Mellon was asked by the Oracle Corporation to participate in Oracle’s Showcase Environment program in August of 1996.

He broadened his skills at Alcoa, learning the world of manufacturing and became Alcoa’s Database and Server Architect in April of 1998. Chris was responsible for Alcoa’s worldwide database and hardware server strategies at a corporate level, reporting to Alcoa’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Chris is the author of over 80 articles for a variety of magazines including DBAZine, Database Programming & Design, The Data Administration Newsletter, and Edge- The Database Survival Guide.

Chris developed Oracle and DB2 database training curriculum for several companies, including Platinum Technologies and KCS Inc.. At Platinum, Chris was responsible for creating their entire Oracle curriculum including classes on general administration, backup/recovery, database tuning and several SQL and PL/SQL courses.

Chris is a frequent lecturer on the database circuit and has given over a dozen speeches to local, national and international Oracle User Groups. In addition, Chris has also been a guest lecturer for the Master’s Program at Duquesne University. He was a featured speaker at six international Oracle User Groups, and four Oracle Open Worlds. At Oracle Open World, he spoke to a group of more than 700 and was asked to provide an encore presentation on database tuning.

His practical knowledge of databases has also made him a popular Oracle trainer. Chris received his Senior Oracle Instructor title from Oracle in 1999, and was the recipient of Oracle’s Oracle Approved Education Center Quality Achievement Award in 2000. Chris also received his Oracle Ace title in 2005.

In his current position at Remote DBA Experts, Chris is responsible for coordinating and directing the technical activities of the Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 DBA teams, O/S administrators and network engineers. These responsiblities include workload monitoring, increasing the quality of customer support thru the use of best practices, reducing the number of problem occurrences, streamlining support operations and reducing overall support costs. Chris also helps Remote DBA Experts professionals maintain continuing research and evaluation efforts involving ‘leading edge’ operating system, network, database and application technologies to insure all customers are employing and benefiting from the ‘best in class’ practices and products available. Chris and the Remote DBA Experts teams manage thousands of production databases for RDBAE clients.