Bonnie Baker is a consultant and educator specializing in applications performance issues on the DB2 z/OS platform. She is an IBM DB2 Gold Consultant, a five-time winner of the IDUG Overall Best Speaker award, an IBM Information Champion, and a member of the IDUG Speakers' Hall of Fame. She is best known for her series of seminars entitled "Things I Wish They'd Told Me 8 Years Ago" and the "Programmers Only" column in IBM Data Management Magazine.