IBM Data Champion Program

David Beulke is an internationally recognized software architect, consultant, author and teacher. He is known for his extensive expertise in meta data, database performance, data warehouses and internet applications. He is president and author of the Syspedia meta data product. He is also a member of the IBM DB2 Gold Consultant program, co-author of the IBM V8 and V7 z/OS DB2 Certification exams, co-author of the Business Intelligence Certification exam, past president of the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), columnist for DB2 Magazine, former instructor for The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI), and former editor of the IDUG Solutions Journal.

Through his consulting service experiences, David researches performance and integration topics. These real world experiences lead him to architect and build Syspedia. Through Syspedia's advanced meta data research capabilities, he has dramatically reduced CPU demand for his clients, saving them from unnecessary upgrades and millions in processing charges. Syspedia has also helped clients dramatically reduce research expenses; time needed for IT cost cutting programs and application integration efforts.

Company
Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.
Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Expertise
SOA Architecture, Database Design and Performance and Meta Data
Dave specialty is design and performance optimization of data warehouse and operational database systems.

Publications & Musings
Dave Beulke - Your Database Expert Blog
DB2 Magazine Articles
z/Journal Articles

User Groups/Professional Associations
Member of the Board of Directors for the DAMA-NCR user group
Past president of the The International DB2 Users Group (IDUG)
Former instructor for The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI)

Conferences
Presenter at almost all of the North American and European IDUG Conferences over the last twenty years
Also presented at most of the IBM's Information on Demand Conference Conferences over the last ten years
Also presented at DAMA and local user groups

Dave Recommends
Syspedia

Additional Information
Recently architected and designed a large high performance data warehouse for an internet client. This warehouse was built in 120 days, contains over 1.4 billion rows of optimized click stream information and typically processes over 300 million rows per day in under four hours.

Contact Information
Dave @ DaveBeulke.com
703 798-3283