Anil Mahadev
Company
Agile DB Consulting (Own Practice) – Cannot mention company name due to NDA.
Bengaluru
Expertise
DB2 LUW and .NET Application development with DB2
Blog
Blog
Languages
Kannada, English and Hindi
Interests
Reading Mystery Novels, Traveling, Playing Video Games and Fine Dining
Recommended links
http://anilm001.myfreewebs.net
http://www.idug.org
http://www.ibm.com/db2
Publications
Published my first article in DB2 Magazine: Introduction to .NET Development using DB2 as the Database.
Article ( I wish to acknowledge Kim Moutsos, continuous encouragement towards my writing for DB2 Magazine)
2) Featured as the World’s First Featured Contributor to the IBM DB2 Express-C website in 2006 (I wish to acknowledge Raul Chong, Leon Katsnelson, Rav Ahuja, Ian Hakes and Boris Bialek)
3) Published my second Article on IBM developerWorks on using DB2 9 with ASP.NET 2.0
Article
( I wish to acknowledge Nancy Miller and Emily Cox of IBM US and Bharati Muthu of IBM India)
4) Developer IQ.com. Asia’s largest technology magazine. Published several articles in their magazine on DB2
(I wish to acknowledge Ramdas and Raja Kishore Reddy)
5) Lead Architect for Learn DB2 Now Project hosted on Youtube and channelDB2
User Groups/Professional Associations
1) Member and inceptor for the Country first DB2 Community Group DB2 India ( I wish to acknowledge Mr. C Balaraju, IBM India and Mr. Chetan Mukundan). I created the User Group Logo for DB2 India
2) IDUG India
3) Bengaluru .NET User Group
4) SQL Server PASS(India, US and Switzerland) and The SQL Server Club
Conferences
1) CPC Lead for the IDUG India Forum 2008 Conference( I wish to acknowledge
Bjarne Nelson (IDUG India Forum 2008 CPC Chairman)
Rajesh Prabhu ( MindTree Consulting, IDUG India Forum 2008 CPC)
Pampana Gowda (Qwest Software)
Ravindra Ramaiah (CIM India)
Anitha (CIM India)
2) Current Lead for the IDUG Community Events in India along with Rajesh Prabhu and Pampana Gowda
Additional information
The journey has been very fruitful so far with DB2 as it has given me a lot of exposure in the Database Arena. Hope to do some work on Database Consolidation Projects and Virtualization in the coming months with DB2 and other Database platforms. Excited about pureXML, Compression and .NET enhancements.
Aim to strive and establish a robust user community in the sub continent.
My message to the community is that don’t be afraid to try something new even if you think you cannot learn it. I learnt DB2 the hard way by initially downloading db2 over a low bandwidth connection, but later on, attended IBM Conferences, learnt from the experts on how things are to done and the rest as they say is History!
One needs to look around articles, peers, blogs, books and conferences to get the maximum advantage of using DB2 to the best!
Also participate in forums and help one another, Always remember that you were @ one time @ the same position they were.
Give back to the community without expectations. Write Articles, Blogs and even videos to help your friend or peers to learn the Technology.
Participate in Competitions organized by IDUG and IBM. I won the XML Challenge contest for Ported App Contest.
My last word of advice is Search , Learn , Implement and again do the same thing over and over till you get it right!
DB2 ROCKS!!!
Contact Information
You can contact me via my website or blog
http://anilm001.myfreewebs.net or http://lifeinadatabase.wordpress.com
You can e-mail me
@
anil dot mahadev at gmail dot com or anil dot mahadev2009 at live dot com
I wish to thank the following people in no particular order
IDUG references:
Bjarne Nelson : IDUG Board Member HQ
Meagen Hanlon : Smithbucklin