Julio is a Senior DBA for Viscosity North America. He is also a computer engineer and has a master’s degree in IT project management. Starting as a DBA in 2012, he has been working with multiple virtualizations, software development and database technologies related to different industries, such as telecom, banking, manufacturing, print media and retail. Having expertise in various RDBMS systems, he has become an Oracle Certified Professional in 11g and 12c, and became an Oracle Certified Expert for Data Guard and RAC and Grid Infrastructure administration. He is an expert in many areas of database administration, analytics, and operating systems, including high-performance tuning, high availability, replication, backup, and recovery, and recently in cloud technologies, becoming an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect and a Microsoft Azure Certified Database Administrator. In 2014, Julio joined the Oracle User Group in Guatemala, a group to which he belongs and collaborates with several activities. He actively participates in Oracle-related forums such as OTN Latin-America and maintains a Personal Technology blog on http://oraclehomegt.blogspot.com.