Sima Yazdani

Sima Yazdani (Javanbakht) is Senior IT Engineer at San Jose, CA-based Cisco Systems, which has one of the most advanced data warehouses in the industry. Her responsibilities include analysis and architecture of data warehouse, metadata, and Internet applications. She has worked with Oracle database technologies as a developer, DBA, and application architect since 1985. Sima also contributes to the Database Systems and Concepts certificate program at the University of California at Santa Cruz,...See more

Sima Yazdani (Javanbakht) is Senior IT Engineer at San Jose, CA-based Cisco Systems, which has one of the most advanced data warehouses in the industry. Her responsibilities include analysis and architecture of data warehouse, metadata, and Internet applications. She has worked with Oracle database technologies as a developer, DBA, and application architect since 1985. Sima also contributes to the Database Systems and Concepts certificate program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, developing the academic curriculum and teaching Oracle technology-related courses. Shirley Wong is Senior IT Project Manager at Cisco Systems, with responsibilities that include the managing and rollout of Cisco's enterprise-wide Data Warehouse decision support applications. Previously, Shirley was Vice President and Director at the Bank of America's Systems Engineering Division, where she oversaw the bank's statewide retail automation systems. She and Sima are co-authors of a DBA handbook on data warehousing. Tao-Sang Tong worked for the Oracle Corporation for over five years. At Oracle, he held several engineering positions on porting Oracle Server and Oracle Applications to different operating systems. He holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford Universi See less