Susan Lawson is an internationally recognized consultant and educator with a strong background in relational database system and database administration for 34 years. She works with several large clients to help design, develop, implement, and tune some of the worlds’ largest and most complex Db2 z/OS databases and applications. She also performs performance/availability audits and health checks for many clients to help reduce costs through proper performance tuning and to help ensure availability, stability and scalability. Most recently she has lead teams of experts in mainframe resiliency projects to perform architecture improvements for modernization/migration efforts of legacy data stores and applications. Her other activities include authoring books, articles, and white papers, and developing/teaching a variety of advanced database and application courses. She is an IBM GOLD Consultant and an IBM Champion.
Email: susan_lawson@ylassoc.com
Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/slawsonyla