Profile
Publish Date
20 April 2007
Rating: Not yet rated
Author(s)
- Chuck Ballard
- Carlton Doe
- Ajay Gupta
- Michael Lee
- Dick Snoke
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.
Carlton Doe has over 10 years of Informix experience as a DBA, Database Server Administrator and 4GL Developer before joining Informix in 2000. During this time, he was actively involved in the local Informix user group and was one of the five founders of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG). Carlton has served as IIUG President, Advocacy Director, and sat on the IIUG Board of Directors for several years. He is best known for having written two Informix Press books on administering the IDS database server as well as several IBM whitepapers and technical articles. Carlton currently works for IBM as a Sr. Certified Consulting IT Specialist in the Global Technical Partner Organization. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
Ajay Gupta is the 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 Technolgy (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institue of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India
Michael Lee is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. He started his career at IBM, but could not pass up an offer in 1987 to work at the company about which he had written his senior paper: Informix Software. Mike has held a number of positions, all focused around the database industry. He has experiences serving as an IT applications programmer, Value Added Reseller, Instructor, Manager, Systems Engineer, and, currently, as a Certified Consulting IT Specialist architecting solutions for customers using Informix, DB2, and Information Integration products. He holds a BS degree in Business Administration, Information Systems Management from California State University, Hayward.
Dick Snoke is a Senior Certified IT Specialist in the ChannelWorks group in the Unites States. Dick has 33 years experience in the software industry. That experience includes activities such as managing, developing and selling operating systems and DBMS software for mainframes, minicomputers and personal computers. His current focus is on the IBM DBMS products and, in particular, the Informix database products. Dick also supports related areas, such as information integration and high availability solutions.
ISBN
0738486221
IBM Form Number
SG24-7319-00