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Cristian Molaro is an independent consultant based in Belgium working in Europe for customers with some of the largest DB2 installations. His main activity is linked to DB2 for z/OS administration and performance. He has presented papers at several international conferences and local user groups in Europe. He is an IBM Certified DBA and Application Developer for DB2 for z/OS V7, V8 and V9. He holds a Chemical Engineer degree and a Master in Management Sciences.. Cristian can be reached at cristian@molaro.be.

Company
MConsulting Bvba
Overijse, Belgium

Expertise
Cristian has been involved with DB2 as an independent consultant, author, lecturer and teacher. An overview of his recent activities can be found at here (link resides outside of ibm.com).

Languages
Flunet in French, English, Italian and Spanish

Interests
DB2, DB2, DB2, DSLR Photography.

Recommended links
IBM Redbooks
IBM LookAt
IDUG (link resides outside of ibm.com)
DB2 for z/OS information roadmap
DB2 Database Product information

Publications
Coauthor of the IBM Redbook "Enterprise Data Warehousing with DB2 9 for z/OS"
Coauthor of the IBM Redbook "50 TB Data Warehouse Benchmark on IBM System z"
Coauthor of the IBM Redbook “DB2 9 for z/OS Distributed Architecture Functions and Scenarios”
Cristian has developed and lectured several DB2 related presentations on recognized international and local conferences

Conferences
Cristian participated as a lecturer in several editions of IDUG and GSE among other recognized events

Additional information
Certifications
IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 9 DBA for z/OS
IBM Certified Application Developer - DB2 9
IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 9 Fundamentals
IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 UDB V8.1 for z/OS
IBM Certified Application Developer - DB2 UDB V8.1 Family
IBM Certified Solutions Expert - DB2 UDB V7.1 DBA for OS/390
IBM Certified Specialist - DB2 V7.1

Contact Information
Cristian Molaro can be reached at cristian@molaro.be