Gavin Powell, BSc. Comp.Sci., OCP (Oracle8i Certified Professional) has fifteen years of computer industry experience. Diverse experience in database administration and database development in both relational and object databases. Applications development experience is procedural and object-oriented. He also has some systems administration experience. His extensive consulting experience includes software vendors, internet .COM's (some unfortunately have met with their demise), accounting, banking, financial services, the travel industry, construction, retail, mining, shipping, education and general advisory capacity. Gavin Powell has worked with many software products, tools and programming languages. These tools include items in the list shown below. He has authored two successful books Oracle .High performance Tuning and the just released Oracle SQL
The inspiring story of the shy Catholic academic turned liberal lawyer who became the first woman president of Ireland and who took on the entrenched and backward-looking Irish establishment to fight for a more liberal, pluralist Ireland. Today, shaken by what she witnessed on her visits to famine and war-torn Africa, she is the UN's Commissioner for Human Rights and one of the world's most high-profile women. (Kirkus UK)