IIUG Board of Directors - 2011-2012

The operation of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) is managed and directed by a President and Board of Directors. The current members of the IIUG Board of Directors are:

Miguel Carbone Brazil Email Miguel

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Miguel Carbone "MC" has been involved with Informix technology since 1995. He started his professional career as a software engineer developing C/C++ solutions using Informix. He is president and principal consultant of MC Software, an IBM-Informix Consulting, Training, Translator and Tools Partner specializing in software development, data warehouse development, database design, performance tuning, high availability and Informix training and support.

Currently, Miguel specializes in developing creative, critical and strategic solutions to increase business performance, minimizing costs, providing his expertise to large-scale OLTP, web based and data warehouse systems requiring optimal speed, performance, and precision, developing and deploying critical nonstop solutions and environments.

Miguel is also the founder and president of the Brazilian Informix Users Group - BRIUG, a young but enthusiastic group, and has been serving on the IIUG Board of Directors since 2009.

Miguel "MC" is one of the most experienced Software Architects and IT Specialists in Brazil, leading a MC Software team, one of the most recognized technical teams, who develops unique and creative solutions. Miguel "MC" doesn't have customers, "MC" has references. "Everything MC does, MC does with passion."

Miguel is building the first Informix center of excellence in Brazil, to maximize the quality of the solutions developed using Informix technology.

Khaled Bentebal Paris, France Email Khaled

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Khaled Bentebal has 24 years of experience on the Informix products. He joined Informix in 1987 in Menlo Park and started the Informix subsidiary in France in 1987. Prior to that, Khaled was the VP of R&D at NEXA Corporation in San Francisco where he designed a famous computer game: SOKOBAN. He has been CEO and Founder of ConsultiX (an IBM/Informix Business Partner Advanced) since 1994 - consulting, training, support, software development and third party applications maintenance. Designed and developed DB-Supervisor: a client/server graphical tool to supervise Informix IDS 7 and 9. Recognized Informix consultant and specialist in France.

Khaled graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Math from the University of San Francisco in 1982 - Magna Cum Laude. Master's degree in Computer Science in 1984 from the University of San Francisco. Participated in the Putnam National Exam. National [WINDOWS-1252?]Dean.s list in 1982.

Khaled is IBM certified on different versions on Informix Dynamic Server: 9, 10, 11.10, 11.50, 11.70

Khaled is an IBM Information Champion: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/champion/profiles/bentebal.html

Khaled is the President of the UGIF (User Group Informix France) and a big fan of Informix.

Gary Ben-Israel Israel Email Gary

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Gary Ben-Israel has been working with Informix products since 1993 as a database administrator, database designer, application architect and application developer. Over the past 14 years, Gary has used 4GL, C and Java. Gary has been working with Informix Online 5, IDS 7, 9 and 10 and is on the closed Beta program for IDS 11. As a board member he served as editor of the IIUG Insider, took part in conference planning committees and is now in charge of the IIUG membership.

IIUG Insider Profile - 01 April 2004

Andrew Ford USA Email Andrew

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Andrew Ford has been working with Informix products since 1999 as a Database Administrator of IDS versions 7, 9 , 10 and 11 and an ESQL/C, PHP and Python Software Engineer. Andrew is currently the Senior Database Administrator for NetworkIP, the industry leader of prepaid telecommunication services. Prior to working for NetworkIP, Andrew was a Senior Database Administrator for The Home Depot and Director of Systems Engineering for Simplified Development Corporation.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, is an IBM Certified Solution Expert in IDS versions 7 and 9 and is an IBM Certified System Administrator in IDS versions 10 and 11.

IIUG Insider Profile - August 2007

Art Kagel USA Email Art

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Art Kagel has been working with Informix database and development products almost since the beginning. He is a frequent contributor to the IIUG Forums and the CDI Usenet group and a popular presenter at conferences. Art is currently working as a Senior Consultant and Director of Consulting Services for Oninit providing services to IBM Informix users around the world. He is also a former winner of the IIUG Directors Award for his outstanding contributions to the Informix Community.

Pradeep Kutty USA Email Pradeep

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Pradee pKutty brings more than 13 years of support experience to IBM being an avid Informix fan since 1998 when he joined Informix as a Support Engineer. Currently he serves as a Senior Manager responsible for the World Wide support for the Informix, Smart Analytics and the Business Intelligence product portfolio. Pradeep is a passionate advocate within the Informix business community, serving on the IIUG Board of Directors since May 2011. His mission is to ensure enduring client relationships through superior support and product value.

Cindy Lichtenauer USA Email Cindy

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Cindy Lichtenauer has been working with Informix products since 1989. Twelve of those years were spent at the Informix Lenexa Kansas office, as a Systems Engineer.

Cindy currently is Business Development Manager for Advanced DataTools, an IBM/Informix Business Partner. She continually works to spread the word about the Informix product line, to provide knowledge to Informix users and to influence the future and direction of Informix products. Cindy is an advocate of local user groups and is on the board of the Kansas City Informix User's Group.

Stuart Litel Boston, Massachusetts, USA President - IIUG Email Stuart

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Stuart Litel is an IT professional with eighteen years experience working with Informix products. His early days with Informix products included beta testing Informix 4GL and Informix SQL versions 1 as well as the first versions of Informix Rapid Development System and Turbo (now known as On-Line). He is one of the country's longest time users and developers of Informix products, and considered an authority and vast resource of Informix database knowledge.

Stuart is also the founder of the New England Informix User Group and remains a very active participant as the group's leader today. Some noteworthy activities within the Informix user community include his technical contributions to various books published on Informix products as well as to the Informix Certification Exams administered by Informix Corporation.

Stuart's professional work experience includes positions as Analyst, Developer, Data Base Administrator, and Project Manager. His knowledge spans the Informix product line and includes the various database engines as well as development tools. He has been a freelance Informix Consultant for more than ten years, providing his expertise to large-scale OLTP, web based and data warehouse systems requiring optimal speed, performance, and precision.

IIUG Insider Profile - 26 November 2002

Jean Georges Perrin Strasbourg, France Email Jean Georges

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Jean Georges Perrin has been involved with Informix related products since 1997 and is actively working on the IIUG Board since 2002. Jean Georges has over 10 years of experience in software development, 7 years in the management of projects in high technology and international environments. Jean Georges has started web development back in 1994. He has worked for 5 years for Four J's Development Tools and 3 years for Awoma, mainly involved in "webification" of data and applications.

Jean Georges has a Master's Degree in Computer Sciences. He is married, has two gorgeous sons and lives in France.

IIUG Insider Profile - 29 October 2002

Bruce Simms Saint Louis, Missouri, USA Email

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Bruce Simms has worked in the IT field since 1981 till present the time has included both the public and private sectors in application development and support and then move on to database support of Cincom's Total prior to using Informix. I was active in the NCR hardware/software users groups during the 80's. I have now been through 2 corporate buy outs and have been able to still work with what I believe is the Best Database software on the market and hope to retire still using this product. My first introduction to Informix was over 17 years ago during a search for a UNIX based database to replace Total running on NCR's O/S. We compared 3 other database to Informix and I along with the others I still work with feel this was the right decision. My hope is to work with Informix and to help grow the product and to see it regain it's following as the best database for cost of operation and ROI.

Kernoal Stephens USA Email

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Kate Tomchik Marietta, Georgia, USA Email Kate

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Kate has been a Database Administrator with The Home Depot for 12 years, working primarily with Informix for her first 9 years, but also with Unix DB2 UDB and SqlServer the last 3 years. Prior to that, she worked in Ingres and Informix at Lockheed Georgia Company as both a DBA and Data Modeler. She has been a member of the South-East Informix User Group (SEIUG) for the whole 12 years, and was president of SEIUG for the 3 years prior to being elected to the Board. Through contacts with the Board, she has learned many useful tidbits about Informix that weren't written in any manuals, and whenever possible she shares this information as the Web Content Manager. Kate is also the lead User Advocate, which includes collecting lists on new features users would like to see in the next release, as well as a list of vendors that need "encouragement" to upgrade to version 10 and beyond of Informix.