Sheryl M. Larsen is president and founder of Sheryl M. Larsen, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in DB2 Systems Analysis and Advanced Education.  She is an internationally recognized researcher, consultant and lecturer, specializing in large scale DB2 systems and is known for her extensive expertise in optimizing SQL. Sheryl has over 23 years experience in DB2, has published many articles, and co-authored a book, DB2 Answers, Osborne-McGraw-Hill, 1999.  She was selected as a keynote speaker for the IDUG Asia Pacific 2002 Conference and is frequently asked to keynote DB2 tool vendors worldwide events.  She was voted into the IDUG “Speaker Hall of Fame” in 2001 and was the Executive Editor of the IDUG Solutions Journal magazine 1997-2000.  Currently, she is President of the Midwest Database Users Group www.mwdug.org ,a member of IBM’s DB2 Gold Consultants program and just announced, an inaugural member of IBM’s Data Champion program www.ibm.com/software/data/champion/.