Credits for the Technology Explorer for IBM DB2

Who helped to build the Technology Explorer for IBM DB2?

The Technology Explorer for IBM DB2 was designed and built off of the DB2 Monitoring Console written by Peter Kohlmann and Matthew Vandenbussche with significant help from many other people.

The current Technology Explorer team:

  • Matthew Vandenbussche – Lead architect, designer, and developer
  • Brian Olynyk - Project manager and outreach coordinator
  • Clara Liu - Content and tutorial architect
  • Peter Prib - DBA interface developer and consultant
  • Peter Kohlmann - Domain expert
  • Paul Johnson – Developer, Test plan architect, cross browser support
  • Misato Sakamoto – Developer, Owner of the dynamic column framework
  • Gord Davison – Media design consultant

Contributors

A number of people were involved in contributing to the Technology Explorer for IBM DB2. Thanks go to:

Technology Explorer for IBM DB2 v3.5

  • Julia Ford, for help with testing
  • Rahul Duggal, for help with testing
  • Natasha Maxim - Multimedia Designer, thank you for the logo

Technology Explorer for IBM DB2 v3

  • George Baklarz, for providing the base content for over 180 individual tutorials
  • Clara Liu, for tutorial content review
  • Bill Comeau, for Workload Management and content review
  • KitMan Cheung - Architecture consultant, Legal advocate
  • Madhu Dutta – Tutorial framework Architecture Lead, Tutorial content designer

DB2 Monitoring Console v2

  • KitMan Cheung, for architectural consulting and guidance through the open source process.
  • Rizwan Tejpar, for designing the new XQuery auto-generation of the XML rules for tables and views
  • Gord Davison, for media design
  • Jessica Escott, for help with the new DB2 Administrative Views and Table Functions
  • Chris Eaton, for design and functional feedback
  • Brian Olynyk, for customizing the sample to use the IBM intranet password authorization
  • Bill Comeau, for Workload Management
  • Clara Liu, for designing the packaging database
  • Nima Ghanavatian, for updating the database for new editions of the DB2 data server
  • Anne James, for her outstanding editing talents
  • Knara Khourchoudian, for updating the packaging database, testing the sample, and applying fixes
  • Sumit Varshney, for performing real-world implementation, testing the sample, and making numerous bug fixes