Speaker : Jarek MISZCZYK from Rochester

Jarek Miszczyk is a Senior Software Engineer at the ISV Solutions Enablement organization in Rochester, MN. He has been with IBM for 15 years. His mission is to provide consulting services to ISVs, large IBM Clients, and other IBM organizations on DB2 for i5/OS related issues. He also writes extensively and teaches IBM classes in all areas of the System i database. Before joining the ISV Solutions Enablement organization in 2000, he has worked for several years at the IBM ITSO in Rochester, where he was the leading author of several popular database Redbooks. Jarek holds a Masters degree in computer science and has over 18 years of experience in the computer field. His areas of expertise include cross-platform database programming, database performance tuning, and database integration with emerging technologies (XML, Java, Microsoft .NET).

Speaker : Claus WEISS from Toronto

Claus Weiss is an advisory software consultant with the Rational Software System i – Ecosystem team at the IBM Canada Toronto Laboratory. He has degrees in industrial engineering and computer science from the University of Hamburg in Germany. He worked as a systems engineer with IBM Germany and joined the IBM Toronto Laboratory in 1984. He was a developer and team leader for System/38 development tools. He was a member of the Design Control Group for the AS/400 development tools. He has worked as a consultant for System i Application Development for the past 10 years specializing in Visual Tools. Claus is a frequent speaker at COMMON and other System i conferences. He is a 6 time winner of COMMON’s Speaker Excellence award. He is the lead author of the book Understanding the IBM WebFacing Tool, published by IBM Press, and has co-authored several IBM Redbooks.