Morgan is a MySQL Expert, with interests in Performance Tuning,
scalability and High Availability. He is a regular speaker on these
topics at MySQL (and PHP) conferences in the United States and Canada.

Before joining Percona, Morgan worked as a Technical Instructor for
MySQL (and then Sun Microsystems) in Canada where he taught courses on
High Availability, Performance Tuning and Database Administration. He
has also previously worked in the MySQL Support Team, and provided DRBD
support.

Morgan lives in Montreal, Canada. He's content in settling there after
moving from Australia in 2007.

For a hobby, Morgan likes to engage in adventure traveling. In 2009, he
spent 2 weeks driving an auto-rickshaw on a rally through India.
Previous trips have included backpacking thought Europe, and working
from a hotel room in Thailand.

Morgan recently collaborated with John Coggeshall in his book 'Zend
Enterprise PHP Patterns', which is scheduled to be released in August 09.