SUMMARY:

Confidential IT professional with many years of experience supporting high visibility, mission critical databases and applications. Experienced in all phases of the Confidential life cycle from design to implementation to installation and maintenance of large high visibility database systems. Excellent performance and tuning, problem resolution, backup and recovery, migrations, and much more. Well versed in all Confidential and DB2 tools, I easily work with developers to help them become more productive. Up - to-date Backup and recovery techniques will keep your data safe and secure. Able to work in a team environment or can manage systems on my own. Excellent customer service attitude with emphasis on quality work and customer satisfaction.

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE:

Mainframe: In-depth knowledge of Confidential, SMPE, z/OS, JCL, BMC & CA Tools, Candle, TMON and Omegammon, DB2 and most of IBM's mainframe enterprise software and much more.

Microcomputer: Excellent knowledge of most Microsoft products and understanding of PC architecture such as HTML and Java

EXPERIENCE:

Database Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Application development and production support
• Application design and implementation
• Application migrations
• Disaster recovery processes - Team Lead Role
• Monitoring operating system
• Performance and tuning
• Capacity planning and Reporting
• SAS Reporting
• Change management
• 24x7 support
• Mentoring team members
• SQL Tuning
• Confidential V17, DB2 V10

Database Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Application development and production support
• Application design and implementation
• Application migrations
• System support
• Disaster recovery processes
• Monitoring operating system
• Performance and tuning
• Capacity planning
• Change management
• Security
• Software fixes and upgrades using SMPE
• 24x7 support
• Also Provide DB2 V9 application and production support for several applications and backup system support for DB2. IBM Certified DB2 V9 DBA.

Database Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• DB2 DBA for large and high visibility applications with millions of daily transactions and hundreds of distributed threads.
• Provided performance and tuning services which improved online response time while increasing application thru put.
• Designed capacity planning for new STC Iceberg device and EMC dasd devices, which allowed the application to experience its best response times ever.
• Designed disaster recovery processes that were used to recover data during real disaster.
• Performed oncall DBA services for approximately 80 DB2 systems covering entire enterprise mix of applications.
• Received progressive promotions during this time. Taught other DBA's on subjects such as 'problem determination' using Omegamon and other subjects as needed.
• Worked with applications personnel on improving application through code reviews and database design.

Database Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Database Administrator of project to upgrade Confidential software.
• Created test system environment and developed detailed database conversion plan.
• This conversion was a major change to the system architecture in that it allowed access to DBMS by SQL and Client/Server operations.
• Concurrently provided critical support function to ongoing development and production systems.

Database Administrator

Confidential, SAN DIEGO

Responsibilities:

• DBA responsible for installation and maintenance of DB2 software and related products using IBM'S SMPE services.
• Provided technical resource consulting to application programmers on an ongoing basis.
• Developed and implemented disaster recovery procedures, capacity planning studies, performance and tuning services.
• Other DBA tasks include database reorgs, securityand application software migration.
• Worked with application developers to normalize data.
• Designed new physical structures to provide additional capabilities as well as provided redesign support to increase performance and resolve problems in existing structures.
• Worked with many vendors to implement or upgrade software.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Member of a development team that successfully implemented an online Confidential system. System consisted of a provider service, market services, contract service, and tracking service.
• Also member of the standards committee.
• Performed software evaluations and logical data base designs.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Using 4GL language in an OS environment, developed an online financial reporting package for a major hospital administrator. This included documentation of the online processes and implementation of online help documentation screens.
• Also designed and implemented batch reporting system. This Project Leader role included developing program specificationssystem flow, timing specifications, and appropriate audit control steps.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in bringing a large Confidential database into full operation. This included both online and batch operation in a DOS .
• For online operations, performed major modifications to a purchased online system.
• For batch operationsresponsibilities included designing, writing and implementing programs to load database; also wrote complex utility programs to merge multiple databases.
• Lack of a DBA position at this company provided me with the opportunity to perform this function and learn the details of Confidential from the ground up.