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Insider Profiles IIUG Director Andrew Ford

Q:	How do you use Informix in your "real" job (DBA, Consultant, Developer, etc.)?
A:	My current job title is Senior Database Administrator, which translates to Only Database Administrator (good thing we run I DS, I've only been paged twice in the last 9 months). I work for NetworkIP, a provider of prepaid telecom services based in L calability to power the call processing applications that we develop in house.
Q:	How long have you been using Informix products?
A:	I have been using Informix for about 8.2 years. It is funny, when I accepted that first DBA job I had no intentions of bec oming a DBA for life (does anyone?) The DBA job was just going to build some resume fodder and keep the lights on until I cou ld land one of the bazillion software jobs in Austin at the time. After a few months of working with IDS and some great train ing by the Informix Education people I forgot about those software jobs and decided IDS was where I wanted to spend my career.
Q:	What is background with IIUG and what interested you in joining the IIUG Board?
A:	I have been an IIUG member for about 8.1 years and in this time have benefited greatly from the hard work of the IIUG Board members, Conference Planning Committees and members of IIUG. I've attended the conferences put on by these people, utilized the scripts and applications in the IIUG Software Repository, received news and information from the IIUG web site and have ha d numerous questions answered in the forums. Joining the IIUG Board of Directors will give me a chance to do my part for the Informix community and repay those that have helped me in the past.
Q:	Where are you from?
A:	I'm an Austin, Texas guy. I have lived here since 1980 (that's almost 85% of my lifetime), graduated from the University o f Texas at Austin in 1999 (go Horns!) and landed a job right out of college as an entry level Informix DBA here in Austin. I' m beginning to think I'll live here forever and I am pretty sure I'm ok with that.
Q:	Can you tell us about your family and hobbies outside of the IIUG?
A:	I'm married and have two daughters ages 5 and 2. The few seconds of the day unallocated to playtime with my kids, work or home improvements are spent playing poker. I'm a big fan of most forms of gambling, but enjoy poker because it is not entirely a game of chance and you can show a positive exp ectation in the long run. I play online most of the time (I am oninit on bodog) but my wife (she plays too) and I try to make it up to the card rooms in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Las Vegas at least once every couple of months for some live poker sessions.

Published by IIUG Enews (Enews@IIUG.org), 31 August 2007.