About me
Ken has been a DB2 Consultant for over 20 years, specializing in LUW systems. He has worked on a variety of large databases for large corporate and government clients. Most of these projects have involved deploying and supporting mission-critical applications where constant availability and high performance are required. Ken is an IBM Champion, Db2 Gold Consultant and finished second in the 2014 DB2’s Got Talent Competition. He has presented at several IDUG conferences and multiple times at IBM's IOD/INSIGHT/WoW. He started working with DB2 on the mainframe, somewhere around the v2.2 timeframe. However, those details have become a bit fuzzy… He returned to the Db2 world around the time that V8 for LUW was introduced. In between, Ken was a COBOL / SQL developer and a C/C++ programmer. His frustration with non-existent specifications and poor Software Development practices drove him to the relative comforts of UNIX system administration, where he spent ten years supporting every flavor of UNIX except AIX. (His LUW experience has remedied that deficiency!).