Dave Beulke is an internationally recognized DB2 consultant with over 25 years in the industry, performs application performance reviews for Fortune 500 clients. He is known for his extensive expertise in DB2 high performance development and tuning. Dave's expertise is in business intelligence data warehouse, Internet applications, Java architectures and system/application performance. Dave is a frequent speaker at local, national and international conferences, is a co-author of the IBM V8 and V7 z/OS DB2 Certification exams, and the Business Intelligence Certification exam, as well as a columnist for DB2 Magazine and former editor of the IDUG Solutions Journal. Dave has also been an instructor for The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) and a past president of the International DB2 Users Group.
Dave is a member of IBM's DB2 Gold Consultants program and a member of IBM's Information Champion program. Through his consulting service experiences, Dave researches performance and has dramatically reduced CPU demand for his clients, saving them from unnecessary hardware upgrades and millions in processing charges.
Dave Chiou is a Certified Consulting Software IT Specialist from Chicago, Illinois. He has over 20 years of experience working in technical presales and assisting IBM clients with database, database tools, data privacy, data archiving, business intelligence and data warehouse implementations. His current responsibility is software presales technical support for customers in the Midwest area.
Maciej Mazur is a member of the IBM WW Information Management Technical Sales Team, providing DB2 technical and competitive insight to IBM customers and IBM technical and sales professionals world-wide. Based out of the IBM Toronto Lab, Maciej previously worked within the User-Centered Design group of the DB2 development team, contributing to feature development in product areas such as High Availability and Disaster Recovery, Installation, and Performance Monitoring/Troubleshooting.
Michael Nobles is a Consulting Solution Specialist at IBM. Having been a part of all aspects of software development since 1992, Michael has had some fun times in the software industry. Back in 2001, he started working in the area of Business Intelligence (BI) for all industries and joined IBM in 2004. More recently, Michael has added Hadoop, Big Data, and real-time BI to his areas of expertise. With IBM's products, named InfoSphere BigInsights and InfoSphere Streams, he is working to help the world, one company at a time, with their "data in motion" and "data at rest" challenges. As a Technical Pre-sales Professional, covering all of North America, on the IBM InfoSphere Warehouse, Advanced Warehousing Team with a focus on Big Data, Michael looks forward to helping his potential customers grow and succeed.
John Tobler is a senior developer and designer for DB2 and z/OS. He has worked extensively on instrumentation, agent services, and storage management. He has lead numberous projects focused on autonomics, serviceability, and performance. John has chaired the DB2 for z/OS Service Advisory Team and Design Review Board. He currently oversees all development and design for the core engine components of DB2.
