iSelfSchooling - Biography

The iSelfSchooling.com organization was founded on 1999 by Mehri Kazerooni. We are a small educational organization, with small resources, expenses, people, words, tools, budgets but we still have big objectives, mottos, visions, missions, contributions, and ideas. We are not, however ashamed of the label ‘small;’ rather, we are proud of it. I once read a commentary about small words and the power they exact in the place of bigger or more complex hackneyed language. In Joseph A. Ecclesine’s literary work Printer’s Ink, Ecclesine insisted that:

When you come right down to it, there is no law that says you have to use big words when you write or talk.
There are lots of small words, and good ones, that can be made to say all the things you want to say, quite as well as the big ones. It may take a lot more time to find them at first. But it can be well worth it, for all of us know what they mean. Some small words, more than you might think, are rich with just the right feel, the right taste, as if made to help you say a thing the way it should be said.
Small words can be crisp, brief, terse -- to the point, like a knife. They have a charm all their own. They dance, twist, turn, sing. Like sparks in the night, they light the way for the eyes of those who read. They are the grace notes of prose. You know what they say the way you know a day is bright and fair -- at first sight. And you find, as you read, that you like they way they say it. ...
Small words move with ease where big words stand still -- or, worse, bog down and get in the way of what you want to say. There is not much, in all truth, that small words will not say -- and say quite well.

So there are a lot you can say with small words. You even can do more with small things, for they are not as unwieldy. It humiliates us so we raise our standards. It humbles us so we remember that where we came from. It honors us so we payback to others regardless of where they came from. It is such character that we proud to associate ourselves with it. We are, in essence, small with small things but we can still contribute and accomplish big objectives as well.

- iSelfSchooling.com

It is an honor for me to run and own this organization. As you can see, we offer a lot of FREE information, so that anyone can educate himself/herself with no expense.

I hope that my organization can bring a healthy lifestyle for everyone and plays an important role in today’s society. --Mehri Kazerooni

One of my hobbies is to work as a volunteer at schools and I am a realtor too.

Do you think that you are unfortunate?

Click here to see. --iSelfSchooling.com

John is a full time DBA and a technical consultant for a number of companies. He gives lectures and seminars on Oracle at numerous computer schools. His subject topics are: ORACLE Database Administrator, ORACLE Developer, PL/SQL, DBA, Backup and Recovery, Performance and tuning, and Oracle Network. His hobby is gardening and teaching and he has been teaching off and on since 1975. He taught in high school and was technical assistant at George Washington University and Yorktowne Business Institute for a number of years.

"I always tell my students that if I teach them all the technical knowledge, it doesn't serve them any good unless they put their heart into it. It is their character that makes a change not my transferred knowledge." John Kazerooni.

"Some people with the little they have, harvest a lot; and some with a lot, do not harvest much. We hope with the little we share and give, all of you may harvest a lot." John Kazerooni.

Background Education and Certifications:

B.S. in Economics and Accounting, M.S. in Operations Research in Industrial Engineering, Oracle Certified Database Administrator, Physical Database Design, File Management, System Management, File Architecture, Recovery and Integrity, Oracle Application Developer, Oracle Database Administration, Oracle Performance Tuning, DB2, Documentum, Enqueuing, Security, System Configuration, Problem Determination and Resolution DBMS, Excelerator CASE tools (INTERSOLV), APS (Online and Batch application), OBJECT-ORIENTED Software Engineering (Analysis and Design), UNIX solaris, LAN Overview, Object Oriented Methodology Technology, Design and Integration for Developers, MS SQL Server for windows NT, MS SQL Server Administration.

As a full time DBA and part time consultant, John is maintaining more than a dozen of Oracle databases' installation architecture under UNIX, LINUX, and NT environments.

Overall his responsibility is: Installing, customizing, enhancing, troubleshooting and maintaining ORACLE and SQLserver databases. Maintaining system security, ensuring compliance with company license agreement, Networking, optimizing the performance of the databases, planning for backup and recovery of databases.

As a consultant he worked for following agencies: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Department of Interior; Department of Defense and Commerce; DYNAMAC Corporation; SMC Corporation.

Send mail to john@iselfschooling.com with your questions or comments.