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Paul Stoker

Director, Sales & Marketing

Favourite topics – Advanced SQL, Performance Tuning, Physical Database Design and Snowboarding

Paul has undertaken many roles including, Technical Architect, Performance Tuning specialist, Physical Data Modeler & Development/Production DBA and has also managed DBA teams, Technical Support teams, Data Migration and Database Version upgrade projects. Paul’s experience covers industry sectors such as Retail Banking, Central Government, Investment Banking, Insurance & Telecoms on projects including, modernisation of a large scale 24*7 online retail application & design/implementation of data migration processes.

Paul heads up the Sales & Marketing team as well as being actively engaged with customer projects. Most recently Paul has been working in a project management and technical planning role for Db2 z/OS version migration and conducting a review of data security/test data management.

Paul is always up for the challenge of reducing elapsed time for log running transactions or reducing CPU time of CPU hungry jobs.

When he’s not battling CPU challenges Paul can be found hurtling down the mountainside on his snowboard.

Recent Posts by Paul Stoker

Dec

2018 Posted by Paul Stoker

Development is more Important than Production!

Some years ago, not too long after Y2K when DB2 V7 for z/OS was reasonably new, I recall a busy afternoon trying to identify the root cause of a slowdown within a recently amended critical application process in Production. New

Nov

2016 Posted by Paul Stoker

IDUG Day 2 – Expect the unexpected

Having been fortunate enough to have attended IDUG for many years I know what to expect. But I also know there will be some surprises and to expect the unexpected. I know at IDUG there will be the opportunity to

Nov

2015 Posted by Paul Stoker

IDUG EMEA 2015 Day 4

Dublin hosted IDUG EMEA for the first time and what a warm welcome we received. Plenty of great company, great food and of course great Guinness. Day 4 is always tinged with sadness as it is the end of IDUG

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