Dayal Sukumaran currently works as a senior database administrator at the Miami campus of Assurant (www.assurant.com). Sukumaran has many years of database experience and is an IBM Certified DB2 DBA. He has over a decade of database experience working in and supporting various databases like IMS, DB2 (both z/OS and LUW) and SQL Server. His experience spans across the world—in places like Sydney (Australia), U.K, India and various locations in the U.S. He can be reached at dayalus@hotmail.com.