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Information Management solutions to many customers with DB2, Informix
Dynamic Server, DB2 on SAP, WSII and many other tools.
Marina Greenstein is a Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist with
the IBM Database Migration Team. She is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert who
joined IBM in 1995 with experience in database application architecture and
development. During the 11 years Marina has been with the DB2 Migration
Team, she has assisted customers in their migrations from Microsoft SQL
Server™, Sybase, or Oracle databases to DB2. She has presented migration
methodology at numerous DB2 technical conferences and at SHARE. She is
also the author of multiple articles and a white paper about DB2 migration.
Scott J Martin is a DB2 Technology Consultant with the IBM Innovation Center
(IIC) for Business Partners in Waltham, MA, which is part of IBM Developer
Relations. He has 25 years of IT experience with IBM, and is a certified
Advanced Database Administrator for DB2 LUW V8.1, a certified Application
Developer for the UDB Family, and a certified Database Administrator for DB2
for z/OS®. For the past four years with the IIC, Scott has helped business
partners convert their applications from Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL to DB2
for LUW and DB2 for z/OS. In this role, Scott has also managed DB2
performance enablements and performed a variety of architecture and database
administration tasks supporting business partners. Prior to this, he spent 13
years with IBM Global Services performing Application Development, Database
Administration, and Database Tuning for DB2 mainframe environments.
Fraser McArthur is a DB2 Technical Consultant with the Information
Management Partner Enablement organization at the IBM Toronto Lab, where
he has worked for the last seven years. He focuses on assisting IBM Data
Services Business Partners, performing application migrations and performance
tuning, which can involve anything from low-level and detailed application
development and troubleshooting to high-level database design and
administration. Recently, his focus has been on DB2 pureXML™. Fraser also
conducts DB2 technical workshops and publishes the occasional article to IBM
developerWorks® for the DB2 community.
Carlos Eduardo Abramo Pinto is an IT Specialist for Database Administration
in IBM Global Services in Brazil, supporting IBM local and international
customers. He has more than 11 years of IT experience in a wide range of client
and server platforms, including technical and system support of the Windows
operating system, Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases in UNIX,
Linux and Windows platforms. He is also specialized in Oracle Real Application
Clusters implementation and support. Carlos is an IBM DB2 Certified Database
Administrator on DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows, an Oracle
Certified Professional on Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g databases, a Microsoft Certified IT
Professional Database Administrator and Database Developer for Microsoft SQL