SUMMARY:

Seasoned DB2 professional with 25 years of DB2 progressive experience in the Information Technology field that spans 35 years. DB2 experience includes 5 years of system programming related experience, 16 years of DBA experience and 9 years of application programming experience.

Major Responsibilities:

• Provided oversight for physical database structures using complex technical skills based on physical design for development, test, and production environments.
• Responsible for complex database performance tuning, security, database backup/recovery strategy, replication, and implementing monitoring procedures to maximize availability of the database.
• Implemented monitoring procedures to maximize availability and performance of the database, while meeting defined targets.
• Provided oversight to application development teams on DBMS product technical issues, techniques and SQL review.
• Coordinated with system programmers to configure systems for DBMS product installation and complex database creation.
• Configured and maintained DBMS product software on complex database and application system.
• Hardware IBM 3090 Z/OS
• Software DB2 9.0 DB2 10.0 CA DB2 Tool Suite
• Company: TEK Systems /BeneCard PBF Prescription Benefit Facilitator
• Position: Senior DB2 DBA contractor fixed term contract
• Date of Employment: March 2013 to August 2013
• Number and type of personnel supervised: direct support to systems programming, application development, and
• Operations staff

Major Responsibilities:

• Participant in the implementation of database changes for releases of software.
• Promotion of database changes from the development, quality assurance, and production environments.
• Implementation and enhancement of DB2 utilities in the production environment.
• Participated in the migration of releases of DB2 software.
• Hardware IBM 3090 Z/OS , DB2 Linux 9.7.4 Software DB2 9.0 DB2 10.0, IBM DB Admin Tool, Data Studio, Omegamon XE for DB2 Performance Expert
• Company: Automated Financial Systems
• Position: Senior Database Administrator
• Date of Employment: April 2012 to February 2013
• Number and type of personnel supervised: direct support to systems programming, application development, and
• Operations staff

Major Responsibilities:

• Participated in migration of releases of DB2 software and intermediate upgrades of current releases.
• Implemented DB2 utilities for the various client databases.
• Reviewed and enhanced where needed data security to meet company objectives.
• Implemented various releases of product software.
• Recommended and implemented features of DB2 that enhanced the company's product software.
• Introduced pro-active DB2 monitoring techniques.
• Hardware IBM 3090 Z/OS
• Software DB2 9.0 DB2 10.0 IBM DB Admin Tool, Omegamon for DB2
• Company: WellPoint, Inc.
• Position: Database Administration Advisor
• Date of Employment: September 2008 to February 2012
• Number and type of personnel supervised: direct support to systems programming, application development, and
• Operations staff

Major Responsibilities:

• Participated in DBA 24/7 on-call support rotation.
• Determined database requirements for projects, and ensured database design and support activities meet those requirements.
• Translated logical data models into physical database structures optimized for the DBMS.
• Participated in the review of ETL processes and made recommendations regarding DBMS load strategies.
• Supported development and test database environments.
• Managed DBMS software including major upgrades, patches, maintenance releases, incidents, and technical alerts.
• Monitored, analyzed, and managed overall system performance utilizing DBMS tools.
• Monitored, analyzed, and reported on overall system capacity including but not limited to memory, space, I/O, and CPU.
• Implemented and made recommendations regarding new database features as they became available.
• Developed and documented database administrator procedures and service level agreements.
• Established and monitored corporate database standards, including disaster recovery, security, and data retention.
• Coached, mentored, and provided guidance for less-experienced database administrators .
• Hardware IBM 3090 Z/OS Software DB2 8.0 DB2 9.0, IBM DB Admin Tool, IBM Application Performance Analyzer, Mainview, IBM SQL Performance Analyzer.