About the Reviewers

Marius Ileana is an OpenGroup Certified IT specialist currently working in banking industry.

Working for six years in IBM Romania as a part of middleware team and also being a two-year support specialist, he has been involved in various IBM-related technologies and enterprise grade deployments.

He holds many IBM certifications including IBM Certified DBA for DB2 9 on LUW. Since Java development is one of his hobbies, he is also a Sun Certified Programmer for Java? v1.4. His areas of expertise include AIX, HACMP, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 UDB, and design and development of J2EE? applications.

His current focus areas include the architecture and development of a general-purpose monitoring solution, Portal solutions, and data visualization.

Nitin G. Maker is an IBM Certified DB2 UDB DBA with around 11 years of IT experience, primarily in IBM DB2 Universal Database Technologies. He has demonstrated excellent capabilities in various roles as Data Architect/Database Administrator/DataWarehouse Architect, Applications Administrator, Upgrade Specialist, and Technical Team Leader.

Nitin has worked with many leading software houses in India and also completed assignments in the USA, UK, and Sri Lanka. He is currently based in Pune, with his family, and enjoys making new friends, listening to music, and following sports.

Drazen Martinovic graduated at the Faculty of Electronics, Machinery and Shipbuilding, Split, Croatia, in 1996. He worked in DHL international d.o.o. as a Unix administrator—IT support administrator—for 11 years. He then started to work as a database administrator for DB2 for LUW. He has been an IBM Certified Database Administrator (DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows), since last year.

He works in the Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d. Zagreb bank as a Database Administrator for DB2. It has over 2000 employees.

Eldho Mathew is a DB2 LUW, Linux and AIX certified administrator with 8 years of proven expertise in various aspects of building, administrating, and supporting highly complex 24x7 operational and warehouse database servers. He has handled highly complex and critical systems for many top branded customers in UK.