Senior DB2 DBA Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior DB2 DBA

Responsibilities:

Provide production support, application development support and production implementation. Perform health check monitoring of DB2 subsystems (production and all test and databases in a fast pace data sharing environment) to assure continued high performance and 100% availability. Work off hours to perform DB maintenance and implement production changes. Provide 24x7 on - call production support. Sync d test environments for Release testing. Side note; JPMC offered me a FTE position but I would have to relocate to DE, or Columbus, OH, not interested in moving.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Sr. DB2 DBA on z/os contractor. Provide production support, application development support, new project support and production implementations. Perform health check monitoring of DB2 subsystems to assure high performance and 100% availability. SME for performance issues. Familiar with health services requirements for protection of sensitive information. Knowledgeable in mainframe DBA tools and have over 20 years of experience with DB2 on z/os.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior DB2 DBA

Responsibilities:

Senior DB2 DBA on z/os subcontracting through IBM (strategic outsource provider) assigned to The GAP. On-site DB2 project DBA assigned to all the RFS project work; planning, support, trouble-shooting, problem resolution, new entity design, alterations, structural migrations, data migrations, production implementations. Approve RFS proposals, allocate resources, perform project work, and publish weekly management summary to IBM and Gap. Provide single-point-of-contact (SME) for resolution of production DB2 issues and all DB2 related project support problems.
Manage and support structural changes and data migrations and responsible for the overall health of 12 test subsystems and two production environments. Collaborate with all the IBM off-shore technical support teams, the Gap development and application production support teams, and vendors; IBM, BMC, and CA to keep projects on target and business moving forward. Define, evaluate, recommend, and implement database solutions and process improvements to achieve maximum data availability and proactively prevent outages. Perform SQL reviews prior to production installation to ensure continued good performance. Work closely with Gap teams and IBM teams to define, monitor, and ensure compliance with existing SLAs. Trouble-shoot and tune performance problems. Advise off-shore production support DBA team. Available 24 x 7.

Confidential

Senior Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

Managed, designed and administered large DB2 database systems. Identified and implemented database changes and process improvements that substantially increased data availability, eliminating data contention errors by 90% and production support calls by 75%.
Reduced annual software maintenance costs by 30% by implementing new database utilities. Responsible for daily monitoring and health of production environment. Member of the Architectural Review Board - represented database administration. Initiated and successfully implemented a self-directed database performance improvement project that deferred costs for a mainframe upgrade; saved the company $3 million. Received corporate HR and IT Dept. s for the project.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Database Analyst

Responsibilities:

Managed, upgraded, enhanced and tuned large DB2 databases. Worked closely with technology vendor to implement DBMS tools. Formulated solution to decrease load time of month - end sales data and processing by over 100%. Member of the DBA team that participated in a three year strategic project to rewrite the Legacy systems to take advantage of DB2 relational technology. Performed project related DBA functions; new entity design, structural changes, data migrations, production implementations, on-call production support 24 x 7.

Confidential

Project Leader / Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

New application system launched successfully and on time.
Received Guardian of Excellence for flawless integration of leading edge technology solution into existing business application. Managed operating system conversion project for the MoneyGram application with zero defects.