Luis A. Guirigay is an IT Architect at IBM with over 15 years experience in deployment, administration, support, analysis, design, and development of business applications focusing on delivering excellence with industry leading IBM platforms. His areas of expertise include deployment, infrastructure, high availability, disaster recovery, development, system tuning, troubleshooting, and everything else related to IBM Social and Collaboration solutions.

He is an IBM Certified Administrator for virtually all versions of IBM Connections, WebSphere Portal, Domino, Sametime, and Quickr as well as an IBM Certified Developer in Domino and an IBM Certified Instructor. Luis has published multiple developerWorks articles and IBM Redbooks related to Domino, Workplace, DB2, and System i. His speaking engagements include multiple User Group Conferences in North America as well in IBM Connect (also known as Lotusphere) and IBM workshops in the United States and LATAM. You can follow Luis at @lguiriga or e-mail him at <[email protected]>.

He has also worked on a few other books before, such as Implementing IBM Lotus Domino 7 for i5/OS (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247311.html), Preparing for and Tuning the SQL Query Engine on DB2 for i5/OS (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246598.html?Open), Deploying IBM Workplace Collaboration Services on the IBM System i5 Platform (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246640.html?Open), and IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User's Guide (http://www.packtpub.com/ibm-lotus-sametime-8-essentials-a-users-guide/book).