IBM Data Champion Program

Dan Luksetich is a DB2 database professional with 24 years experience in high performance design and tuning of very large databases and highly available high volume database applications. Dan also teaches DB2 courses, and has authored books, guides, whitepapers, and magazine articles. Dan is also a DB2 application architect, and has been involved in several very large DB2 application designs. He specializes in DB2 for z/OS, but has worked with DB2 on a variety of platforms. His specialties include performance audits, SQL education, backup and recovery, stored procedures, UDFs, triggers, application design, high availability design, and DB2 high performance.

Dan is the creator of the DB2EXPERT.COM free DB2 help site with free downloads, numerous helpful links, free whitepapers and articles. This site also contains the first, longest running, and most popular podcast series "The DB2 Cocktail Hour", which began in March 2005 and now includes over 33 episodes.

Dan is a regular speaker at IDUG, IBM IOD, and numerous other user groups and communities world wide. He has consulted in more than one dozen different countries on the z/OS, AIX, Linux, and Windows platforms. Companies Dan has worked for include state and federal governments, international governments, domestic and international financial institutions, large retailers, consumer agencies, insurance companies, and medical device companies among others.

Company
Yevich, Lawson, and Associates (YL&A)
Springfield, Illinois

Expertise
High Performance Application and Database design for DB2 on all platforms, replication, backup and recovery, performance analysis, SQL design and tuning.

Blog
http://www.db2expert.com/index.php?page=podcasts3

Publications
Co-author of the DB2 9 for z/OS Database Administration Certification Study Guide.
Authored many articles for zJournal and other publications. Many free links can be found at http://www.db2expert.com/index.php?page=links .
Co-Author of the following free industry publications: CA DB2 Performance Guide, BMC DB2 Best Practices Guide, BMC DB2 9 for z/OS Catalog Poster, BMC DB2 9 for z/OS Explain Poster, BMC DB2 Backup and Recovery Guide. Many of these are available for free at http://www.db2expert.com/index.php?page=accept .

User Groups/Professional Associations
IDUG, IBM IOD

Conferences
IDUG North America frequent speaker and teacher
IDUG Europe frequent speaker and teacher
IBM IOD frequent speaker and teacher
Look for me (or request to have me speak) at your local DB2 user group.
Public speaking engagements can be found at
http://www.db2expert.com/index.php?page=events

Interests
Interests: DB2, SQL, and beer!
Languages: English
Recommended links: http://www.db2expert.com, http://www.idug.org

Contact Information
Email: Dan_luksetich@ylassoc.com