xii Solving Operational Business Intelligence with InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition
development, database design and modeling, and IBM DB2® system
administration. Whei-Jen is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert in Database
Administration and Application Development, and an IBM Certified IT Specialist.
Pat Bates is a data warehouse technical specialist and a member
of the Worldwide Information Management Technical Sales Team
responsible for InfoSphere Warehouse, IBM Smart Analytics
System and Netezza®. He lives and works in southern New
Jersey and has been involved with IBM data warehousing and
in-database analytics since 2001. With 22 years in the industry,
Pat has served IBM Information Management as a product
development manager, product manager, and technical sales
specialist, and he is a frequent speaker at technical workshops
worldwide.
Timothy Donovan is a Senior IT Specialist with the Emerging
Technology Services (ETS) organization, part of IBM Software
Business. He has recently been working with the IBM Information
Management Software Service team, assisting with client data
warehouse migrations and new InfoSphere Warehouse solutions.
Aligned with Tim's past skill set of high performance computing,
Grid, IBM AIX® and Linux, he is currently working to support client
projects in new technology areas, with Hadoop and IBM Big Data
solutions related to data warehouse environments. Prior to joining
ETS, Tim worked for 10 years in the Developer Relations Division,
part of the IBM Business Partner program, supporting
Independent Solution Vendors (ISVs) with enabling their
applications to use a range of IBM technologies.
Garrett Fitzsimons is a data warehousing specialist based in the
IBM Dublin lab. He has worked with traditional database and data
warehouse applications since 1990 on a variety of platforms in
several countries. Garrett has worked on a number of large scale
implementations of ERP and data warehousing systems using
IBM DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft technologies. He is currently
working on providing best practice guidelines for the IBM Smart
Analytics System.