Senior IT Specialist and Managing Consultant of the IBM Toronto Lab Information Management Services team. Twenty years of extensive experience and expertise in maximizing the potential of all DB2 LUW versions, including the InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse and IBM Smart Analytics System, Tivoli Systems Automation (TSA), Performance Expert, and other DB2-related products, including key offerings of the Optim Suite of database tools.

Excellent communication skills, providing technical leadership, defining and implementing Best Practices, advanced tuning and problem determination skills, and project management to numerous customers, resulting in highly successful projects.

Key skills in knowledge of DB2 internals, security and data protection, comprehensive monitoring and performance tuning, complex query tuning, bench-marking, high availability, DPF, capacity planning, migrations, database administration, database logical/physical design, MQT design, product installation, and application support in Balanced Warehouse, ISAS, Data Warehouse and OLTP environments with: AIX, SUN Solaris, SuSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, Windows.