Company Founder

Chris Fierros (fee air os) is the founder and principle consultant at Ten Digit Consulting, Inc. He began his career with DB2 UDB on client server distributed platforms on May 23, 1991 at IBM Corporation in Dallas, Texas. He worked at IBM for several years in DB2 UDB technical support, global services, and consulting practices before starting Ten Digit Consulting in November 1998.

Chris has published articles about DB2 UDB in the IBM System Journal, DB2 Magazine, DB2 Developer Domain, and IBM DB2 DeveloperWorks. He as presented on DB2 UDB at technical conferences including; IBM eServer xSeries Conference, IDUG North America, IBM Technical Interchange, and OS/2 World. He has also developed and delivered DB2 UDB training, A Technical Introduction to DB2 Universal Database, to IBM Data Management clients across North America. Chris was chosen as a subject matter expert by the IBM DB2 UDB Certification Team to assist in the development of the IBM Certified Advanced Database Administrator – DB2 Universal Database V8.1 for Linux , UNIX, and Windows certification exam. He recently co-authored two IBM Redbooks on DB2 UDB which include: DB2 UDB Exploitation of the Windows Environment and Scaling DB2 UDB on Windows Server 2003 and is also the lead author for the IBM Press book The Implementation Guide to DB2 Universal Database for Windows which is expected to be published in May 2004.

Chris is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert (ICSE) in DB2 UDB Administration and DB2 UDB Development as well as an IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) in DB2 Clustering (EEE), DB2 Replication (DpropR), and DB2 Connect (DRDA). He is one of only a handful of professionals who holds all five certifications.

Chris has spent the last couple of years helping customers move to DB2 UDB for Windows and DB2 UDB for Linux on large scale 16-way and 32-way Intel servers running Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. You can reach him via e-mail.

Company History

Ten Digit Consulting is a DB2 Universal Database delivering world class consulting, training, and support services for DB2 Universal Database on Linux, UNIX, and Windows founded by Chris Fierros after several years of working with DB2 UDB in support, services, and consulting roles at IBM Corporation.

The company officially opened for business on November 1st, 1998, however, as with most companies the experience and knowledge brought to Ten Digit Consulting by it's founder began many years ago. In fact the experience at Ten Digit Consulting can be found at very few consulting firms. We have been working with DB2 on Intel platforms since 1991 when IBM introduced it's third release to the then 16-bit OS/2 Extended Edition with Database Manager version 1.3.

Ten Digit Consulting has operated as a Michigan corporation for six very successful years between 1999 and 2004. In March 2005, and after one of the most successful years in business, Ten Digit Consulting relocated to Norcross, Georgia.

Prime Directive

Ten Digit Consulting was founded with one prime directive, Deliver World Class Consulting, Training, and Support Services for DB2 Universal Database, and customer satisfaction is the key ingredient for this directive. If you're not happy, we're not happy. We will guarantee that you will be completely satisfied with our consulting, training, and support service engagements or we will not rest until you are.

Our clients will tell you that we absolutely enjoy what we do and we will make sure that you are completely satisfied with our consulting, training, and support services.

Customer Engagements

Ten Digit Consulting provides consulting, training, and support service engagements that can be short term, from one day to a couple of weeks, to longer term engagements, from one month to a couple of months, as well as on going support services that can last as long as a year. We will contract directly with your organization. If needed we can work for your organization through any number of preferred vendors and/or business partners. Finally, we will partner with your organization to help you succeed with your client engagements.