Ray Wurlod

Ray is a self-employed trainer and consultant for the IBM DataStage®, IBM UniVerse and IBM Red Brick Warehouse and DataStage® XE suites of products.

Ray has taught advanced classes in the USA, the UK and Germany, and has been used frequently as a training consultant by IBM to conduct advanced in-house training classes. Additionally, Ray has presented training classes in almost every country in the Asia-Pacific region, and has been involved in technical presentations and implementations throughout the region.

Ray joined Prime Computer of Australia in 1986. He later joined VMARK Software (original developers of DataStage®) after Prime Computer sold its database businesses to VMARK. Ray’s principal role with VMARK, and subsequently with Ardent, Informix and IBM was as a DataStage® trainer, but was also actively involved in technical support. While with VMARK and Ardent he was actively involved in the development of DataStage®, creating a complete training curriculum for use in the Asia-Pacific region. He has also developed training curriculum and train-the-trainer programs for the UniVerse® RDBMS, including its NLS (national language support) implementation. When Ardent sold its database businesses to Informix Software, Ray continued his involvement in Data Warehouse technology by becoming expert with the Red Brick Warehouse product; a database designed specifically for Data Warehouse (star schema) implementations.

When Informix was acquired by IBM Ray continued his concentration on training, while additionally focusing on Data Warehousing applications.

Ray Daignault

Raymond has been working with Datastage since August of 1997. This is also when Datastage version 1.0 was released by Ardent Software.  Working for the vendor, Raymond has extensive experience with both the Enterprise Edition of Datastage as well as the Server version. Raymond recently received IBM internal training for installation and development using the Release 8 version of Information Integration Services.  Raymond has been both a Consultant and PreSales engineer for Ascential working with Datastage.

Prior to his Datastage experience, Raymond was a Presales Engineer for the UniVerse and Unidata product set with VMark in Australia.  Raymond was instrumental in the development of the extensions for using the UniVerse database in a multinational environment. Raymond was the Engineer to work with NLS (National Language Support) in South Korea, China, Thailand, and Malaysia.  Raymond was also the Unix Administrator for all internal systems in Australia and was certified as a Windows 2000 Engineer.

Raymond has extensive application development experience in Financial, HR, CRM, and many vertical applications such as LTL Trucking, Retail, Medical, Banking/Credit Union, as well as Data Warehousing.