Sheeri K. Cabral née Sheeri Kritzer, is a MySQL

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 community contributor. She was chosen as the first Oracle

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 ACE Director for MySQL. She won the MySQL Community Advocate, Communicator and Facilitator award in 2007 and again in 2008 for her frequent blog posts, community work, and conference/user group presentations; this sparked a keynote presentation for the 2009 MySQL User Conference & Expo on "How to be a Community Superhero". She delivered another community keynote entitled, "Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community" at the same conference in 2010.

Cabral wrote the MySQL Administrator's Bible, and has edited the O'Reilly

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 books SQL Hacks(2007), High Performance MySQL 2nd edition(2008), and C.J. Date

Christopher J. Date

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's How to Write Accurate SQL Code. Cabral developed and maintains a new version of mysqltuner (with permission from Major Hayden for the name).

Cabral has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University

Brandeis University

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 and is MySQL 5.0 DBA Certified and MySQL Core Certified.

Other notable work

• Program Committee Member for the 2011 Open Source Convention (OSCon)
• IOUG MySQL Council Member, 2011-present
• MySQL Track Manager for Collaborate 2011
• Organizer of OpenSQLCamp Boston
• Program Committee Member for the 2010 MySQL User Conference & Expo
• Organizer of the 2009 MySQL Camp
• Boston MySQL User Group Founder and frequent speaker
• Technocation, Inc Founder and Treasurer 2004–present (2010)
• Volunteer DBA work for The Human Creativity Project
• MySQL Podcast ("OurSQL"), November 2006 – February 2009, December 2010 - present

Cabral has worked as a Systems Administrator for Tufts University

Tufts University

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; a Database Administrator for Guardium, Inc

Guardium, an IBM Company

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, Manhunt.net

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and The Pythian Group. She currently works as the Database Operations Manager for PalominoDB, Inc.