Philip Nelson
Philip Nelson has worked in IT since 1987, with DB2 for z/OS since 1989, and with distributed DB2 since 1995.
He has been involved with IDUG as a presenter, panelist and author since 1997. He became editor of the IDUG Solutions Journal in early 2008.
As an Information Architect at Scottish Widows PLC, a large UK financial institution (part of the Lloyds Banking Group) he works with IMS and DB2 for z/OS and Linux, Unix, and Windows on a daily basis.
He also is a principal of ScotDB Limited, a consultancy company specializing in providing DB2 solutions for SMB.
His areas of expertise including performance monitoring and tuning, database design and administration and using DB2 with new technologies. Recently he has been heavily involved in exploiting pureXML and in developing applications with DB2 and Ruby on Rails.
Company
Scottish Widows PLC: http://www.scottishwidows.co.uk (link resides outside of ibm.com)
ScotDB Limited: http://www.scotdb.com. (link resides outside of ibm.com) (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Fountainhall, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
Expertise
DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
DB2 for z/OS
IMS
Performance monitoring and tuning
Database administration
Database design
Using DB2 with new techologies
Blog
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-geek (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Languages
English, Slovak
Interests
Bible study (and occasional lay preaching)
Hiking
Aircraft: spotting, history and photography
Technology
Recommended links
http://www.spurgeon.org/daily.htm (link resides outside of ibm.com)
http://www.marcelgagne.com/wftl-lug.html (link resides outside of ibm.com)
http://www.idug.org/solutions-journal.html (link resides outside of ibm.com)
http://www.government.gov.sk/10134/slovakia.php?menu=1293 (link resides outside of ibm.com)
http://www.air-britain.com/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Publications
IDUG Solutions Journal
Some older issues not currently online
http://www.idug.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8368&Itemid=3 (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Currently Executive Editor
IBM Database Magazine
http://www.ibmdatabasemag.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209900033#bloomnet (link resides outside of ibm.com)
User Groups/Professional Associations
Scottish: http://www.gseukdb2.org.uk/sdug.htm (link resides outside of ibm.com)
UK: http://www.gseukdb2.org.uk/. (link resides outside of ibm.com)
IDUG: http://www.idug.org. (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Conferences
IDUG Europe and North America : 1998 - 2009 inclusive
IBM : IOD North America (2008)
IBM : IOD EMEA (2009)
Contact Information
teamdba@REMOVENOSPAM.scotdb.com
http://www.scotdb.com. (link resides outside of ibm.com) (link resides outside of ibm.com)