Profile
Publish Date
24 June 2008
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Author(s)
- Chuck Ballard
- Joseph Baric
- Ajay Gupta
- Holger Kirstein
- Rajesh Naicken
- Nilesh Ozarkar
Chuck Ballard is a Project Manager at the International Technical Support organization, in San Jose, California. He has over 35 years experience, holding positions in the areas of Product Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Technical Support, and Management. His expertise is in the areas of database, data management, data warehousing, business intelligence, and process re-engineering. He has written extensively on these subjects, taught classes, and presented at conferences and seminars worldwide. Chuck has both a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
Joseph Baric has been in Advanced Support for approximately 10 years in the Down Systems Group. He joined Informix in 1996. In that period he has taught and helped develop classes, code features, and bug fixes. He has been the point person in the group for such things as Shared Memory Dump Analysis. He has recently accepted a position with the Technical Enablement Center. He lives and works in Kansas.
Ajay Gupta is a Software Architect for Backup/Restore, High Availability, and Data Replication Technology. He has held several technical leadership positions in the Development and QA organizations working on all major components of the IBM Informix Dynamic Server. Before joining IBM, he worked in the Operating Systems Group of the National Center for Software Technology (NCST), a premier R&D organization in India. Ajay holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India.
Holger Kirstein is a resolution team engineer with the European Informix support team. He joined the Informix support team in 1996 and has over 15 years experience in application development and support for Informix database servers and Informix clients. He holds a Masters of Applied Computer Science from Technische UniversitŠt, Dresden.
Rajesh Naicken is a Senior Software Engineer. He started his career with Informix Software in 1998 and later joined IBM as part of the Informix acquisition. Rajesh works as a Development Engineer in the Enterprise Replication and Availability areas of the Informix Dynamic Server. He has also worked as a Development/QA Engineer in DB2 Server areas such as LBAC and Q Replication. Before joining Informix, Rajesh worked at the Electronics Corporation of India as an entry level engineer. He holds a B.Tech degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Calcutta University in India.
Nilesh Ozarkar is Staff Software Engineer in the IBM Information Management Division, in Lenexa, Kansas. After joining IBM Informix in 2000, he worked on several IDS components, participated in IDS beta programs, and presented at technical conferences. In recent years, his primary focus was on high availability and Enterprise Replication technology. Before joining IBM, he worked in the payment processing industry, providing technical support for a card management system. Nilesh holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Amravati University, India.
ISBN
0738431303
IBM Form Number
SG24-7488-01