Cary Millsap spent the 1990s learning a lifetime's worth of technical and political lessons as a consultant for Oracle Corporation. By 1999, he had amassed an impressive personal track record with about a hundred different customers, while building and training a team of eighty-five elite performance specialists that Oracle deployed to help hundreds more customers worldwide. In 2004, he wrote Optimizing Oracle Performance, for which he and researcher Jeff Holt were named Oracle Magazine's 2004 Authors of the Year. In 2008, he founded Method R Corporation, which served ultra-high-profile customers and created the world's first software system for managing, mining, and manipulating thousands of Oracle trace files. Over his career, Cary has educated thousands of information technology professionals through his commitment to writing, teaching, and speaking at public events.
