About me
Dale McInnis is a Principal Data & AI Technical Specialist from 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 and is currently pursuing his PhD in computer science. Dale joined IBM in 1988 and worked in the DB2 development team from 1992 - 2014. 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. He has obtained eleven (11) patents in database resiliency and co-authored two books. Dale is a popular speaker at the International DB2 Users Groups (IDUG) conferences worldwide, as well as DB2 Regional Users Groups throughout the US and IBM's Technical conferences. In 2018, Dale was appointed to the IDUG Speaker’s Hall of Fame for being awarded best overall presentation at an IDUG conference several times. His expertise in the area DB2 resiliency / performance and is well known in the information technology industry worldwide. Dale currently is on the America’s Data and AI Technical Sales team as a Database Subject Matter Expert.
