Taras Hryvnak is an experienced Oracle Database Engineer and Architect currently working at JPMorgan Chase & Co. since October 2015 as part of the Core Database Engineering group within GTI. In addition, Taras serves as a Senior Oracle Consultant at New York University ITS, collaborating on the design and evaluation of Disaster Recovery Datacenter initiatives. Previous roles include serving as an Application DBA and Golden Gate technical lead at Citigroup and holding the position of Senior Oracle DBA/AVP at Credit Suisse. Prior to this, Taras held various senior roles at Citigroup and participated in the Symposium 2005 organized by Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. Taras holds a master's degree in Engineering and Finance from Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, obtained between 1988 and 1997.