Susan Lawson
Susan Lawson is an internationally recognized consultant and lecturer with a background in system and database administration. She currently works with several large clients to help develop, implement and tune some of the worlds’ largest and most complex DB2 databases and applications. She also performs Performance and Availability Audits for many clients to help reduce costs through proper performance tuning and to help ensure availability. Her other activities include authoring articles and white papers, presenting at user group meetings, and teaching a variety of DB2 courses. She is an IBM GOLD Consultant for DB2 and z/Series, and an IBM Information Champion and has authored the IBM ‘DB2 for z/OS V8 DBA Certification Guide’ and the IBM ‘DB2 for z/OS V7 Application Programming Certification Guide’. She is also the co-author of several DB2 books including the IBM ‘DB2 9 for z/OS DBA Certification Guide’, ‘DB2 High Performance Design and Tuning’ and ‘DB2 Answers’.

Daniel Luksetich
Dan Luksetich is a senior DB2 DBA. He works as a DBA, application architect, presenter, author, and teacher. Dan has been in the information technology business for over 22 years, and has worked with DB2 for over 18 years. He has been a COBOL and BAL programmer, DB2 system programmer, DB2 DBA, and DB2 application architect. His experience includes major implementations on z/OS, AIX, and Linux environments.

Dan's experience includes:

• Application design and architecture
• Database administration
• Complex SQL
• SQL tuning
• DB2 performance audits
• Replication
• Disaster recovery
• Stored procedures, UDFs, and triggers