Mike Dietrich has almost twentyfive years of experience in the information technology industry. Mr. Dietrich has spent the last twenty years at Oracle Corporation where he has held senior and management roles in both the presales and support organization. Currently he is a Master Product Manager for Databases Upgrades and Migrations. He is responsible for evangelizing, influencing and demonstrating Oracle technology solutions related to database upgrades, migrations and consolidation to Oracle customers and partners all over the world. Besides that he works consistently with customers in key reference projects, onsite and remotely. Mike Dietrich holds a graduate engineer degree of Georg-Simon-Ohm Technical University Nuernberg in Telecommunication Technologies and Computer Science. You'll find more information on Mike's Upgrade blog at: http://blogs.oracle.com/UPGRADE