IIUG Board of Directors - 2007

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:

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

Sergio Ferreira Portugal Email Sergio

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Sergio has worked with Informix for 20 years, starting with Informix 3.30 and including almost every product. He participated in creation of the Portuguese IUG as a director.

"I believe in Informix and in the role of the user group to protect a technology. It should be managed by users with some rotation over time."

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

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.

Cindy currently works for Computer Software Alliance, an IBM Advanced Business partner, as a Systems Engineer. 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. She is an advocate of local user groups and is working with a team to revive the Kansas City 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

Kernoal Stephens Memphis, Tennessee, USA Autozone Email

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Kernoal has been a user of Informix for over 12 years and in 2005 attended his first Informix technical conference, where he saw first-hand what the IIUG does. He volunteered for the Planning Committee for the next year and became increasingly interesting in furthering the goals of IIUG to the point of running successfully for a place on the IIUG Board of Directors in 2007.

IIUG Insider Profile - January 2007

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.

Bruce Weed USA Email Bruce

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Bruce is the official IBM representative and a voting member of the IIUG Board. His position at IBM is Program Director for Informix Products in the IBM Software Group Information Management division. He is an integral part of the everyday Informix business at IBM.