Professional Certifications
IBM Advanced DB2 DBA for LINUX, UNIX, and Windows
IBM DB2 DBA for Z/OS
IBM COBOL/CICS Applications Developer
IBM AIX System Administrator
PMI Project Management Professional

Formal Training:

Database Management Systems
Structured Systems Design
Structured Systems Analysis
Systems Analysis & Design
Principles of Economics (Macro & Micro)
Principles of Accounting
COBOL Programming
Advanced COBOL Programming
CICS Programming
JCL Programming
Small Business Computing
FORTRAN Programming
C Language Programming on VAX/VMS system
Practice of Management
Database Programming Development
Decision Support Systems
Distributed Data Processing
Software & Hardware Concepts

Other pertinent training:

Websphere Commerce
Oracle 10g/11g Database Admnistration
Micsosoft SQL Server 2000/2005
Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, 
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft A+ Fundamentals
Microsoft Net+ Fundamentals
Microsoft Windows NT Administration
XML Database Storage
Object-oriented Software Engineering
IBM Fundamentals of DataWarehousing and Business Intelligence for Knowledge Management
BMC Utilities, CA UniCenter
FileAid/AbendAid
DB2 SQL Workshop/DB2 Advanced SQL
DB2 Family Fundamentals
DB2 Stored Procedures Programming
DB2 Content Manager
DB2 Database Administration
DB2 Advanced Database Administration
DB2 Content/Records Manager
Lotus Notes Basic
Lotus Notes Application Development
Lotus Domino Server Administration
Intro to Local Area Networking
Data Modeling with ErWin
Data Mining
Data Warehousing 
EPIC Medical Systems Cache Relational Database
AIX System Administration
LINUX System Administration
UNIX Fundamentals
Informatica Power Center
Cognos Powerplay
Microstrategy
Ab Initio
Teradata
IBM VSAM File Structures
Rational Data Architect, RUP
Tivoli Storage Manager
Websphere Application Server
Websphere MQ
MySql/PHP
TOAD for DB2
Quest Central
Spotlight for DB2

Professional Background

2006 – present
Confidential,
Senior IT Consultant - Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing Consultant/Analytical Data Modeling
This position encompasses the time after I retired from Seaboard and took time off in between. I have summarized my tenure here. The complete details are listed, below. This was a continuation of the work I was performing at Seaboard after the company was sold. This position concentrates on the modeling, construction, and maintenance of large-scale data warehouses based on the Kimball/IBM design principles and re-designing standard relational database models into dimensional models used for OLAP/BI purposes.

• DB2 DBA for Z/OS, Solaris, Linux, UNIX, and Windows
• Cube/Dimensional design and development
• Testing all BI/TSQL queries for accuracy on SQL Server and Oracle
• Development of OLAP cubes, star schemas, and data marts
• Data Warehouse/Data Mining development
• Analytical/Statistical data modeling
• ETL Management
• Analytical reporting management
• Designing and implementing database system security protocols
• Applications performance enhancement
• Database performance and tuning expert
• Disaster recovery planning and verification
• Backup and recovery planning and verification
• 3rd party vendor product evaluation and verification
• Help Desk management

Confidential,(2006 - present) Completed projects

10/2007 - present
As the senior DB2 DBA/Consultant for the Infrastructure Support Group at the Internal Revenue Service, my duties are to provide senior-level DB2 database administration strategies to the Enterprise Operations management. Currently, I provide strategic support for V8 and V9 of DB2 UDB as well as serve as an advisor to production support on performance enhancements to the existing systems. Installation and maintenance of DB2 UDB V9.5 for Windows and AIX platforms as well as DB2 Data Studio and DB2 Management Console products. This includes research on DB2 products to enhance production support, planning disaster recovery strategy, failover configuration, review and recommend changes to existing database systems, and testing of new DB2 versions to deploy in the common operating environment. I am leading the effort to develop and deploy a High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) system for the IRS DB2 systems on middle-tier servers. I am also leading the testing of new DB2 database versions to be deployed in the Common Operating Environment (COE). Also, evaluate performance of JAVA applications interfacing to databases. Use of SQL Server 2005/2008 as well as Oracle 10g databases

01/2006 - 09/2007
A Senior Manager and DB2 Database Administrator on the SecureFlight project with the Transportation Security Administration holding a SECRET CLEARANCE. This is a DB2 database system spread over 40 servers utilizing a 20-terabyte IBM Shark Storage system. The servers are both AIX and Windows Server platforms and include Tivoli and Rational databases. Duties include all facets of database administration, data modeling, data security protocols, database auditing procedures, performance monitoring/tuning, installation of IBM fixpaks, and implementing structural changes to the environment. Rollout of DB2 V9 to implement use of XML in data exchange.

1974 – 2004 (retired)
Confidential,
President/CEO – IBM Business Partner

This position encompasses a 30-year period after I graduated from IBM Business Management school in 1973. I have summarized, below, the highlights of my tenure.

• Management of a 60-employee IBM software development staff for 20 years, including the following software teams; Database Management, Applications Development, Systems Programming, Network Administration, and Corporate Administration
• Hire, train, motivate, and mentor employees
• Senior Computer Scientist for CSC
• V.P. for business development for 10 years
• Senior executive for 20 years
• Managed the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Implemented SOA architecture based on ITIL principles
• CMMI/Six Sigma/Scrum/Agile methodologies
• Some familiarity with Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM)
• 20 years senior executive management experience of a IBM firm
• 35 years mainframe experience
• Certified Advanced IBM DB2 DBA for LINUX, UNIX, and Windows
• Oracle and SQL Server experience
• Logical/Physical data/database design
• 30 years Database management/Data Warehousing experience
• 30 years DBA experience
• 30 years applications development experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Expert Data Management experience
• Federal and State government experience
• Health insurance experience with Kaiser Permanente and Blue Cross
• Property/Casualty insurance experience with Zurich Insurance
• Database Server Access control and audit procedures
• Commercial insurance and banking experience
• DB2 programming instructor at Blue Cross
• COBOL programming instructor at Anne Arundel Community College and Strayer University
• Systems analysis and design instructor at Strayer University
• 25 years experience as a mainframe COBOL/DB2 applications developer
• Non-profit experience

Seaboard Systems (1974 - 2004) completed projects

01/2004 - 12/2004
Management of a DBA team supporting IBM Global Services clients. Providing data modeling, database administration, and application DBA support for multiple client sites for 4 years. Supported electrical component and garment manufacturers as a DBA and senior programmer/analyst. This environment was an IBM DOS/VSE and OS/390 environment utilizing both IMS and DB2. Re-engineering databases consisting of image, text, sound, and graphics data types for DB2 platform to work across a multi-platform environment.

01/2003 - 12/2003
Director of Database Architecture for Zurich Insurance Company North American operations. Directly managing database administration staff of 10 for all of insurance company database architecture/administration supporting entire insurance application spectrum. This data warehouse environment consisted of DB2 on Z/OS, DB2 UDB on Windows, and SQL Server 2000 on Windows. Also, consisted of using Quest software to manage all of the database environments from a common client interface on desktop machines.

01/2002 - 12/2002
Manager of the Mid-Atlantic Data Warehouse operations for Kaiser Permanente and an IBM-Certified Data Management expert and senior DBA managing a team of Oracle, Sybase, and DB2 DBAs. Implementation of EPIC Medical Systems (CLARITY, CHRONICALS) using Intersystems Cache relational database and web-ready development system in a MUMPS programming environment. Use of Kimball Data Warehouse principles in design of data warehouses. Implementing the ICD-10 format into our existing data structures and conversion of existing data to ICD-10 format. Managing all day-to-day production. This included developing web-based applications utilizing Cache Object-Oriented Database utilities. Instructor for use of Cache Object Script for programming. These data warehouses are in excess of 5 terabytes in size. Managed data warehouse staff for development and designed/performed ETL services, using Informatica, Cognos, and Ab Initio, to support the data warehouse and business partners for medical reporting. Worked directly with clinical and membership business partners to develop customized healthcare reporting systems. Third-party data reporting supported both HCFA/CMS data reporting and HHS functions. Developed system to feed systematic data to Johns Hopkins for the purpose of identifying potential serious disease outbreaks. The environment contained federated databases that included DB2, Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server 2000. I became certified in HIPAA compliance measures during this tenure.