Sheeri Cabral

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Sheeri Kritzer Cabral
Sheeri Cabral 2012.jpg
Cabral in 2012
Born Sheeri Kritzer
(1978-09-17) 17 September 1978 (age 45)
Ridgewood, NJ
Residence Boston area, MA
Nationality USA
Education Brandeis University
Occupation Senior DBA
Employer Mozilla Corporation
Known for MySQL
Height 5'3"
Title Database Administrator/Architect
Spouse(s) Tony Cabral 2007-
Website Sheeri dot com

Sheeri Cabral (born 17 September 1978), née Kritzer, is a MySQL community contributor. She was chosen as the first[1] Oracle ACE Director for MySQL.[2] She won the MySQL Community Advocate, Communicator and Facilitator award in 2007[3] and again in 2008[4] 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".[5] She delivered another community keynote entitled, "Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community" [6] at the same conference in 2010. In 2012, she won the MySQL Community Award again [7] for her work founding and co-hosting the OurSQL podcast.

Cabral wrote the MySQL Administrator's Bible,[8] and has edited the O'Reilly books SQL Hacks[9](2007), High Performance MySQL 2nd edition[10](2008), and C.J. Date's How to Write Accurate SQL Code.[11] Cabral developed and maintains a new version of mysqltuner[12] (with permission from Major Hayden for the name).

Cabral has a master's degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University and is MySQL 5.0 DBA Certified and MySQL Core Certified.[13]

Other notable work

  • Program Committee Member for the Open Source Convention (OSCon) for 2011 and 2012[14]
  • IOUG MySQL Council Member, 2011–present[15]
  • MySQL Track Manager for Collaborate 2011[16]
  • Organizer of OpenSQLCamp Boston[17]
  • Program Committee Member for the 2010 MySQL User Conference & Expo[18]
  • Organizer of the 2009 MySQL Camp[19]
  • Boston MySQL User Group Founder and frequent speaker[20]
  • Technocation, Inc Founder and Treasurer 2004–present (2010)[21]
  • Volunteer DBA work for The Human Creativity Project[22]
  • MySQL Podcast ("OurSQL"), November 2006 – February 2009, December 2010 – present[23][24]

Cabral has worked as a Systems Administrator for Tufts University; a Database Administrator for Guardium, Inc, Manhunt.net and The Pythian Group and a Database Operations Manager for PalominoDB, Inc. She currently works as a Senior Database Administrator/Architect at Mozilla.

References

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  17. http://opensqlcamp.org/Events/Boston2010/
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