Raul F. Chong
- Is a senior DB2, Big Data and Cloud Program Manager at the IBM Information Management Cloud Computing Center of Competence, based at the IBM Canada Laboratory in Toronto. He works as a technical evangelist delivering presentations at educational institutions and conferences around the world showing the latest features of DB2, BigInsights, Data Studio, and related products, and how they work on the Cloud. He is also the IBM liason to the DB2 on Campus community program which fosters collaboration with universities, professionals, and the DB2 community in general and delivers DB2 skills to the community by leading the development of collateral material such as books (ibm.com/db2/books), videos (channeldb2.com/oncampus), and online courses (db2university.com, BigDataUniversity.com); all of these with help from a growing community.
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Raul holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and is a DB2 Certified Solutions Expert in both DB2 Administration and Application Development. Raul joined IBM in 1997 and has held numerous positions in the company. As a DB2 consultant, Raul helped IBM business partners with migrations from other relational database management systems to DB2, as well as with database performance and application design issues. As a DB2 technical support specialist, Raul has helped resolve DB2 problems on the OS/390, z/OS, Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms. Raul has also worked as an information developer for the Application Development Solutions team, where he was responsible for the CLI guide and Web services material.
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Raul has taught many DB2 workshops, has published numerous articles, and has contributed to the DB2 Certification exam tutorials. Raul has summarized many of his DB2 experiences through the years in his book "Understanding DB2 - Learning Visually with Examples - 2nd Edition" (ISBN 978-0131580183) for which he is the lead author. He has also co-authored the book "DB2 SQL PL Essential Guide for DB2 UDB on Linux, UNIX, Windows, i5/OS, and z/OS" (ISBN 0131477005), and is the author of many books that are part of the DB2 on Campus book series.
In his spare time, Raul likes to spend time with his daughter and wife. He also enjoys watching hockey and basketball, traveling to interesting places, and experiencing new cultures. Raul is fluent in Spanish as he was born and raised in Peru, but he keeps some of the Chinese traditions from his grandparents. He also enjoys reading history and archeology books.