SUMMARY:

• Seeking an opportunity within a progressive, innovative and challenging organization that will allow me to utilize and exploit my past technical and leadership experiences.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison WI

Senior Consultant DB2/DBA (Codeworks)

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for all DB2 related requests.
• Provided solutions for performance problems.
• Participated in DR exercises.
• Senior Consultant DB2/DBA (QAT)
• Performed a DB2 for Z/OS Release upgrade from Version 10 to Version 11.
• Administored IBM’s ITOM product.
• Upgraded QMF to current PUT Level
• Upgrade SQLPA to current PUT Level
• Provided general support. (problem resolution, on call, performance etc.)

Confidential, Albany, NY

Senior Consultant DB2/DBA (Infopeoplecorp)

Responsibilities:

• Performed a DB2 for Z/OS Release upgrade from Version 9 to Version 10.
• Installed CA DETECTOR in test and production.
• Instituted online reorganizations.
• Benchmarked Flashcopy versus conventional image copies.
• Provided general DBA support in test and production.
• Improved online performance by 20 percent.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

Senior Consultant DB2/DBA

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with the migration from Datacom DB to DB2 using Tiburon coding. easured programs to ensure that release changes would meet CPU consumptions goals.
• Worked with end user to test and tune applications.
• Investigated using Threadsafe techniques in CICS to reduce CICS performance.
• Created metrics to measure the performance of CICS and DB2.

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Senior Consultant DB2/DBA

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the design of DB2 financial management system for broker compensation.
• Developed 100 plus access routines using stored procedure builder.
• Ensured that transactions and access met or exceed corporate guidelines.
• Wrote various programs that were used in the conversions of data.
• Assisted with the backup and recovery procedures for the system.

Confidential, Trenton, NJ

Senior Consultant DB2/DBA

Responsibilities:

• Performed Risk Analysis for a major DB2 application conversion.
• Produced reviews, made recommendations and oversaw implementation of approved infrastructure changes.
• Reviewed and implemented performance processes for the DB2 production environment.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior Consultant DB2/DBA

Responsibilities:

• Performed Risk Analysis for a major DB2 application conversion.
• Produced reviews, made recommendations and oversaw implementation of approved infrastructure changes.
• Reviewed and implemented performance processes for the DB2 production environment.
• Benchmarked the DB2 conversion effort and the future resource needs for the ongoing
• DB2 environment.
• Reviewed scheduling and SLA requirements and make appropriate recommendations.

Confidential, Princeton Junction, NJ

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Directed the efforts of 7 database administrators in three countries.
• Responsible for the day to day availability of the Confidential DB2 systems.
• Charged with revamping weekend efforts with new and innovated approaches.
• Instituted new hardware approaches that have significantly improved productivity.
• Major contribution was creating a stable DB2 production environment.
• Key implementations were:
• Version 7 of DB2BMC Software Suite
• Catalogue ReorganizationStored Procedure Builder
• SMS Storage (Mod3 thru 27)IBM OnDemand
• Routine responsibilities included the following:
• 24 by 7 Production support Object creation
• Performance monitoring Backup, recovery and disaster recovery
• SQL analysis Creation and enforcement of standards
• DB2 production environment had over 150 databases and 3000 tables. Additionallya test, QA and user acceptance environment were maintained.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Director (DB2 Database Administration)

Responsibilities:

• Directed the efforts of 14 database administrators.
• Responsible for physical and logical database designs of new and reengineered applications.
• Directly responsible for the administration of mainframe databases. (DB2 and IDMS)
• Coordinated deployment to distributed platforms using UDB, DB2 Connect and Data Proprogator.
• Major contribution was creating a DB2 production environment that could be available 24 by 7met current and anticipated transaction volumes, ensured data integrity and could be recovered within 4 hours period once a disaster was declared.
• Key implementations were:
• Version 6 and 7 of DB2Installation of DB2 data sharing into z/OS 7 - way sysplex
• Work Load Manager (WLM)Stored Procedure Builder
• WebsphereUDB 7.2 with DB2 Connect
• SMS Storage
• Systems included:
• MSD (Master Securities Database) Tax Lots
• Automated Order Management Transaction Switch
• Corporate Action
• DB2 related product also administered:
• DB2 Connect DB2 Performance Monitor
• Stored Procedure Builder Platinum Utilities for DB2
• Omegamon for DB2 IBM Utilities for DB2
• Routine responsibilities included the following:
• 24 by 7 Production support Object creation
• Performance monitoring Backup, recovery and disaster recovery
• Physical database design Programming support
• SQL analysis Creation and enforcement of standards
• DB2 production environment had over 40 databases and 1000 tables. Additionally, a test and
• QA environment of similar size.
• IDMS environment spanned 16 production regions and processed in excess of 700 billion dollars on a daily basis.

Confidential, New York, NY

Independent Consultant-Project Manager/DBA

Responsibilities:

• DB2 DBA in charge of the logical and physical design of Merrill-Lynch’s Global Collateral System.
• Created all objects and the coordination from the test, integration testing, and user acceptance through production implementation. This system had more than 240 tables.
• The DB2 performance, backups, recoverability and DR process were also part of my responsibilities.
• Third party software products that were integrated in the system were Neon’s Formatter, BMC and

Confidential, Hopewell,NJ

Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• DB2 database administrator for year 2000 conversion.
• Daily programming and development support.
• On call and production support.

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Director of Technical Services

Responsibilities:

• Designed, trained, staffed and implemented logical activities for the organization.
• Design, creation, support, performance and recovery of over 1500 tables that spanned 3 address spaces and are service by 5 CICS and DB2 regions.
• Provided database, and technical support for up to 70 computer professionals n the usage of DB2.
• Introduced database technology on the mainframe (DB2) and midrange computing platforms (RS6000).
• All technical aspects of a 52 million dollar strategic project.
• Creation, usage, and administration of the Production and Test TSO environments.
• Designed and supported an interactive development environment. Including the acquisitionadministration, and support of a suite of purchased and developed productivity tools.
• Developed and designed an ad-hoc computing environment, which utilizes SPF and Dialogue management, Services.
• Provided a stable production CICS environment.
• Designed, created and supported an asynchronous computing environment, which facilitates rder entry, electronic data interchange and inventory updating.

Confidential, East Brunswick, NJ

Senior Data Base Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As the senior Technician within the corporation, was the lead DBA for all Data and
• Database Management software.
• During this time, the following software products were implemented:
• Cincom’s Total DBMS, Environ1 and T-ASK
• Infodata’s Inquire DBMSAston Tate’s dBASE
• MSP’s DatamanagerIBM’s SQL/DS and QMF
• IBM’s IMS/DB IBM’s DB2, QMF and DXT
• Additionally, assisted hiring personnel, the writing of standards, promotion of Data and
• Database functions within the SDLC and the setting of direction/goals for the corporation’s

Confidential, East Brunswick, NJ

Project Leader / DBA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed both Financial and Manufacturing Systems. The systems were developed using Cobol, TOTAL and CICS (Taskmaster).

Confidential, Valley Forge, PA

Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and wrote a Confidential t tracking system using Cobol.

Confidential, Alfred, NY

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Started professional career as a programmer utilizing FORTRAN to develop business applications.