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| | Fred's professional IT career began in 1990, when he debugged and documented Honeywell's Pascal source code for the Airbus A320 jet. He has since worked as a software developer, technical consultant, and DB2 administrator for SMBs, multinational corporations, software development firms, and government agencies. Fred formed FRS Consulting in 2005 to help clients get the most out of DB2 LUW, and he delivers a variety of technical services to help them solve problems, cut costs, and meet their IT goals. |
| | Fred is also an award-winning IDUG speaker and a committed volunteer, serving on IDUG's web team and their North American conference planning committee. In his spare time, Fred maintains a DB2 LUW blog and occasionally writes for the IDUG Solutions Journal and IBM Database Magazine. |
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| | h2. Company |
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| | [FRS Consulting, Inc.|http://www.frsconsulting.com/] |
| | Portland, Oregon USA |
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| | h2. Expertise |
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| | DB2 LUW administration and tuning, application development, systems monitoring, database reporting, and data-driven business analysis. |
| | Programming Languages: SQL, Java, PHP, Perl |
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| | h2. Publications & Musings |
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| | [DB2 News & Tips Blog|http://db2news.blogspot.com/] |
| | Published in [IDUG Solutions Journal|http://www.idug.org/wps/portal/idug/soljournal] |
| | Articles for [IBM Database Magazine|http://www.ibmdatabasemag.com/] |
| | Technical proofreader for "Beginning DB2", written by Grant Allen for Apress (ISBN 1-59059-942-X) |
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| | h2. User Groups/Professional Associations |
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| | [The International DB2 Users Group|http://www.idug.org/] |
| | [Northern Oregon DBMS Exchange|http://db2oregon.org/] |
| | [Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs|http://possepdx.org/ ] |
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| | h2. Conferences |
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| | [IDUG North America|http://conferences.idug.org/Default.aspx?alias=conferences.idug.org/na] |
| | [IDUG Europe|http://conferences.idug.org/Default.aspx?alias=conferences.idug.org/eu] |
| | [IBM's Information on Demand Conference|http://www.ibm.com/software/data/conf/] |
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| | h2. Interests |
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| | Open source software, espresso, bicycling |
| | Languages: English |
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| | h2. Fred Recommends |
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| | [The International DB2 Users Group|http://www.idug.org/] |
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| | h2. Additional Information |
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| | Fred is available to speak at DB2 user groups |
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| | h2. Contact Information |
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| | [mailto:fred@frsconsulting.com] |
| | 503-484-5032 |
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