Informix developer since 1983 and Certified System Administrator for IDS 11.50, 11.70 & 12.10.Extract from an IBM Data Champion nomination by Scott Pickett:"With 30 Years as a programmer, manager, owner, consultant and trainer, Doug Lawry has had a successful single minded focus on IBM Informix database and application technology.He has devoted considerable time and effort in the governance and operations of the UK Informix Users Group, and presents at the annual International Informix Users Group (IIUG), amongst other subject matters, his invention of the CGI-SQL software interface, which allows an Microsoft Excel workbook user to self refresh their spreadsheets via Informix Web-based queries without the overhead requirement of an ODBC client to manage the connections and connectivity between the user client computer and the database source server.Doug has also contributed to SQuirel SQL Client which is an open-source universal database connectivity client, for which he has created the data dictionary code for the Informix plug-in. As a developer, Doug has worked in some of the UK's biggest Informix customers, such as the BBC, Shepperton Studios, Reuters. He is presently an in-house consultant for Oninit Consulting Ltd, a leading IBM Informix business partner in the UK. He splits time between contract work, monitoring customer databases and responding to their problems in a technical support role, training and software development. He wrote the Oninit Archiver which automatically navigates foreign keys to unload and delete old data from complex hierarchies. Doug has built a product which feeds off of the data produced by AGS Sentinel to produce enhanced database server reports for Oninit customers.Doug is widely recognized as being a true expert on Informix. He resides in the UK but his impact has been global."