Dale McInnis B. Sc(CS), M.Eng, I.S.P., ITCP

Dale McInnis is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at the IBM Toronto Canada lab. He has a B.Sc.(CS) from the University of New Brunswick and a Masters of Engineering(M.Eng) from the University of Toronto. Dale joined IBM in 1988, and has been working on the DB2 development team since 1992. Dale's area of expertise includes DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Kernel development, where he led teams that designed the current backup and recovery architecture and other key high availability and disaster recovery technologies. Dale is a popular speaker at the International DB2 Users Groups (IDUG) conferences worldwide, as well as DB2 Regional users groups and IBM's Information On Demand (IOD) conference. His expertise in the area DB2 availability area is well known in the information technology industry. Dale spent the last 10 months as the IBM Cloud Data Services Chief Availability Architect, and now Dale is on the North American Core DB technology Sales team. He is also a Director at the National Board for the Canadian Association of I.T. Professionals.