William Wood is an IT professional who has worked across many disciplines in his 18-year career. He started his work experience as a student worker for his school’s engineering department, which ran the school’s website, doing LAMP Stack work for database-driven dynamic website development. He has been working specifically in the database field for the past 10 years, first on a team that supported development infrastructure and release engineering where he became the Oracle SME, and then entering the working database administrator field in 2010 as a DBA, primarily working with and supporting Oracle and Oracle RAC in high volume, compute intensive, and high availability environments.