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Professional Summary

More than 20 years of experience as a Mainframe DBA 20 in IDMS, 15 in DB2. Competence in all IDMS, DB2 and MQ utilities in support of huge, complex datastores. Attained 'Master' status in the IDMS technology. Have held project lead positions for DBMS release upgrades, Y2K testing, Disaster Recovery Testing, Hardware/Software Upgrades as it affects the DBMS's. Focus has been at the application support level as opposed to Platform support. DB2 preferred Toolset is BMC but have used IBM tools . Extensive experience in Disaster Recovery and Planning, having represented the DBA teams in all Disaster Recovery events and as plan author. Responsible for of all DBMS datastores for Aetna Healthcare O/S 390 systems currently over 20 terabytes of data . Implemented a Data Mirroring product that reduced data recovery from days to hours. Technical writing skill is exemplary.

PROFESSIONAL Experience

Confidential

Consultant

  • Mainframe DB2 Database Support for Aetna,Inc, a leading edge Healthcare company
  • Utility Functions in support of transition to a multi-tiered Test environment. Creating database structures, moving and securing data.
Confidential
Database Administrator Technical Specialist
  • Production support for Claim Domain Databases DB2, IDMS as well as MQ data stores.
  • Performance monitoring and tuning, migrating database changes in support of application releases.
  • Responsible for Disaster Recovery planning and testing for 21 Terabytes of data amongst the 3 technologies.
  • Currently supporting at IDMS 14.1 and DB2 V8 .

Confidential

Database Administrator
  • Provided DB2 and IDMS database support for multiple Aetna Health Plans.
  • Project Lead for conversion to IDMS 12.0 for a large, complex application.
  • Team leader for Y2K testing support for over 50 applications. Personally built dozens of DB2 databases on isolated LPARS.
  • Project Lead for database portion of Company DBAR plan.
  • Expert in IDMS recovery due to local mode complexity in the company.
Confidential Database Administrator/Software Specialist
  • Technical Support for Enrollment/Billing Application development and QA teams. Designed and implemented database changes. Served as Data Dictionary record level administrator.
  • Projects included IDMS 10.2 Upgrade, 3390,3480 DASD conversions,
  • Implemented the first Endevor system for code asset management.
  • In 1995, received the departments top award for 280K cost savings ideas.
  • Promoted to Manager position in 1988.
  • Performed IDMS platform support from 1983-1985, including participation in IDMS 10.0 implementation.
  • Systems/SOFTWARE Proficiency

DBMS's

  • IDMS,DB2, MQ O/S 390 , UDB for Unix
  • Miscellaneous Software
  • TSO, JCL, IDCAMS, IDMS and DB2, MQ Utilities, Word, Excel, UCC7, Zeke/Zebb, WSF, VSAM Utilities, IDCAMS, CA1, COBOL, Sunrise.

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