STRENGTHS:

DB2, JCL, Physical DB Design, Logical Modeling, Technical Coordination and Plann
ing, Technical Documentation and Training
EDUCATION:
M.S., Computer Science, 1992 - Stevens Institute of Technology - Castle Point on
the Hudson, NJ
B.S., Music and Math Education, 1978 - Ball State University - Muncie, IN
IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 Universal Database V8.1 for z/OS (May
/2005)
IBM Certified Solutions Expert - DB2 UDB V7.1 Database Administrator for OS/390
(July/2003)
IBM Certified Specialist - DB2 V7.1 User (July/2003)
HARDWARE:
IBM Z-Series, IBM System 390, IBM 3090, IBM 3084, IBM 3081, IBM 3033, IBM 4331,
IBM 370, IBM 360, AMDAHL, PC
SOFTWARE:
DB2, QMF, SQL, JCL, SPUFI, IBM Utilities (DB2 & non-DB2), ISPF, TSO, QMF for Win
dows, VSAM, PLATINUM/CA DB2 tools, BMC DB2 tools, OMEGAMON, INSIGHT, IOF, MVS, F
ILEAID, FILEAID for DB2, CA7, NDM, XMIT, Peregrine Service Center, IBM PComm, Hu
mmingbird, CLISTs, JHS, REXX, z/OS, RACF, STROBE, OPSVIEW, SDSF, WINDOWS, XP, IE
, AOL/IM, MS-EXCEL, MS-WORD, OUTLOOK, Jabber, MeetingPlace, COOLGEN, Primavera T
eamPlayer, Visio, MS-PROJECT, CICS, DOS
EXPERIENCE:
06/06 - Current " An International Transportation Company" - Senior Database Adm
inistrator
Responsible for Application database changes for TEST, QA and Production environ
ments, SQL tuning, DB2 maintenance, ensure data integrity, train developers and
participate in Production on-call rotation. Major accomplishments include:
- Replaced BMC Purge/REORGs with IBM REORGs with Purge criteria utilizing discar
d file for data retention.
- Documented new IBM REORG/Purge flow and discard dataset name cross-reference.
- Calculated and implemented new partition limits to avoid 4G limit (before IBM
REBALANCE option available).
- Designed tested and implemented conversion process of acquired company data.
- Actively participated in Disaster Recovery testing.
- Maintain TEST, QA and Production environments.
- Identified and tuned poorly performing SQL.
- Taught Visual Explain training.
- Developed and taught CA RC-Migrator training.
02/00 - 06/06 EDS - Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Continued and expanded my responsibilities as Senior z/OS DB2 DBA and DB2 Subsys
tem Administration: Below are a few highlights of my duties/experience with EDS
:
- Prior to DB2 rolling partitions, I developed a process utilizing CA7 parameter
s to determine previous and current month (year independent). The job backed up
and emptied the current month for application processing and copied, REORG'd &
RUNSTAT'd the previous month's partition for reference.
- Developed several SQL processes at the request of the DB2 install group to ide
ntify current subsystem setups.
- Discovered and corrected DB2 subsystem active log issue where associated DS01
and DS02 logs were defined differently, resulting with the larger of the pair be
ing consistently truncated at offload when the smaller log file filled.
- Redefined and moved DB2 Logs and BSDS's from SMS to private DASD.
- Increased number and size of logs on a DB2 subsystem which was offloading too
frequently.
- Decreased size of logs on DB2 subsystem which infrequently offloaded and spann
ed tape volumes upon offloads. The reduced active log size eliminated VOLSPAN,
conforming to company standards. This also saved 28,752 cylinders of unnecessar
y active log space.
- Created application initiated WLM refresh process by creating a job for the ap
plication to release, which refreshed the WLM Stored Procedure Address Space, an
d then resubmit itself in hold status for the application's next request. The i
nitial job was placed in IOF on HOLD, and there have been no issues since.
- Identified & corrected off-site application copies which were not being taken
off premise due to non-standard DSNs.
- Corrected job which was taking local copies off-site due to off-site DSN's use
d for DD associated with LPCOPY parameter.
- Identified and corrected application maintenance process which was no longer r
unning because my predecessor had changed, but not resolved the CA7 schedule for
the triggering job.
- Discovered mismatched schemas and table creators and wrote SQL to identify and
correct the mismatches, preventing data from being applied to the wrong environ
ment.
- Modified off over 8,500 SYSCOPY entries which I discovered no longer had assoc
iated datasets needed for recovery.
- Reclaimed over 15,000 cylinders by identifying and deleting old active logs wh
ich had been renamed/copied.
- Recovered 5 reels of critical production data for a peer after the data had in
advertently been deleted. The dataset was on tape, and the delete had actually
only uncatalogued the dataset, marking the tape for scratch. I quickly put toge
ther, and executed, an IEBGENER to copy the data before the data was permanently
lost.
- Identified underlying VSAM clusters (data & index) with no related DB2 objects
. The objects had been explicitly defined long ago. After confirming the data
was no longer relevant, I deleted the VSAM objects, saving space (& confusion).
- I create Microsoft EXCEL project plans for all of my major projects. This was
invaluable once when I had a last-minute family emergency, and a peer was able
to step-in and implement the change painlessly and flawlessly.
- Converted numerous DB2 maintenance jobs to V7 utilizing TEMPLATEs and LISTDEFs
, virtually eliminating future support of the jobs. I also took the opportunity
to combine functions (i.e. inline copy, runstats, etc..) to eliminate multiple
jobs reading the data multiple times, saving time, CPU and multiple job support.
This also required numerous CA7 changes, deletions and additions to accommodat
e the removed/decommissioned jobs. Documentation was also changed/deleted.
- Discovered and corrected a large database (in multiple environments) that I kn
ew was only updated by load utilities, which had FREEPAGE and PCTFREE non-zero v
alues specified. I eliminated these specifications and saved significant space.
- Coordinated with applications to redefine image copy retention periods to save
a large number of tapes.
- Identified GDG bases which were no longer used, and deleted them, cleaning up
the catalog.
- Determined that an online DB2 index REORG did not have to be submitted when th
e application's started task was not executing, since locks are no longer taken
on DB2 indexes. This enabled automated CA7 scheduling.
- Volunteered to provide CA7 support for DB2 DBA and Infrastructure organization
s.
- Developed QMF PROCs, QUERIES & FORMs to report on DB2 structures, authorizatio
ns, relations, etc... for self and peers.
- Developed process to clean up unnecessary QMF SAVEDATA objects. A query ident
ifies all data over a specified age, along with its creator's RACF ID. The crea
tors RACF ID is then run through a series of batch IKJEFT01 WHOIS commands to as
sociate a person with the excessively old data, so that a determination can be m
ade regarding deletion.
- Converted QMF SAVEDATA tablespaces from IBM standard simple to segmented enabl
ing immediate space reclamation.
- Discovered job templates had COND=(5,GT) on DB2 UTILID -TERM steps. UTILIDs d
o not need to be terminated unless there's and ABEND (not just a bad condition c
ode). Changed the step parameter to COND=EVEN/ONLY to avoid issues.
- Completed Sorbanes-Oxley audit.
- Discovered bufferpool thrashing resulting in unacceptable response time. I si
zed and created a new bufferpool and altered the application DB2 physical object
s to use it, resolving the issue.
- Discovered numerous extents for many datasets. Researched & discovered that t
he PRIQTY originally published to utilize the DBLARGE SMS pool was wrong (too sm
all) and the datasets were inadvertently going into the DBSMALL SMS pool which i
s typically more fragmented and smaller. Determined and published the correct P
RIQTY number. The excessive extents were resolved after ALTERs & REORGs or LOAD
REPLACEs.
04/94 - 02/00 MCI - Senior Staff Member
Due to my background in Traffic and my DB2 experience, I was originally hired at
MCI to assist with the design and implementation of a DB2 based Traffic system.
I next provided DB2 database design and support for their Commercial Order Pro
cessing (COPS) application. For the past three years I have functioned as Corpo
rate DB2 support. In addition to providing production support for several appli
cation systems, I also maintain several DB2 subsystems. My daily responsibiliti
es include assisting the applications with design issues, developing and schedul
ing production DB2 maintenance, performing production recoveries, migrating DB2
structure changes to production, monitoring performance, supporting DB2 subsyste
ms and testing system software. Significant responsibilities and accomplishment
s include:
- DB2 application database design, implementation and support
- DB2 subsystem support
- Third-Vendor software testing
- Y2K planning and testing
- Traffic Systems support
- Team-Lead responsibilities
- QMF training
- Data center move planning and coordination
- DB2 Release implementation and verification

07/92 - 04/94 SOUTHWESTERN BELL - Systems Specialist (DB2 DBA)

In July of 1992 I returned to Southwestern Bell from my rotational assignment at
Bellcore. My responsibilities were DB2 support for their test subsystems and a
pplication design. I implemented their corporate data repository on DB2 and lat
er installed and supported RELTECHs DBEXCEL. Significant responsibilities and a
ccomplishments include:
- Physical database design, implementation and maintenance
- Logical data modeling
- Administration of Corporate Data Repository
- Customized process development utilizing CLISTs, REXX and ISPF
- Third-Party-Vendor software installation and support
- Development and presentation of technical training
- SYSADM for all DB2 test subsystems

03/88 - 07/92 Bell Communications Research (BELLCORE) - Member of Technical Staf

f
In March of 1988 I accepted a rotational position at Bellcore as technical suppo
rt for all Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) for the Traffic Information
Distributor and Editor (TIDE). TIDE was a batch and on-line DB2 application wh
ich utilized ISPF to attach to DB2. My responsibilities included design assista
nce for the application, supporting the RBOCs, creation and maintenance of multi
ple test and trouble-shooting application environments, development and presenta
tion of technical training, creation and maintenance of technical documentation,
specification design, and new-feature testing. Significant responsibilities an
d accomplishments include:
- Database administration for multiple DB2 application environments
- Development and testing of application installation instructions
- TIDE (Traffic Information Distributor and Editor) support
- Bellcore client liaison to all RBOCs
- Development and presentation of application training
- Top-level technical application and DB2 support for all RBOCs
- Field trial management
- Application system testing
- Specification development
- QMF training and support
- Development and maintenance of technical documentation

12/78 - 03/88 SOUTHWESTERN BELL - Staff Specialist / Systems Supervisor / Assist

ant Staff Mgr.
I held several Information Services positions in my first ten years with Southwe
stern Bell. For the first several years, I supported various subsystems of the
Total Network Data Systems (TNDS). This was a batch application which was centr
ally designed for the Bell System by Bell Labs. I performed extensive JCL tunin
g to customize the product to Southwestern Bell's environment. This included re
blocking data sets to reduce EXCP counts, reduce seek-time and maximize disk usa
ge efficiency, invoking the ISAM/VSAM interface and modifying data set dispositi
ons to enable restartability. I developed and implemented a plan to consolidate
applications across multiple physical data centers. I also supported the Job M
anagement Operations System (JMOS), which was a batch and on-line IMS applicatio
n, and designed the JMOS Order Sub-System (JOSS). I also had management respons
ibilities for 9 employees. Significant responsibilities and accomplishments inc
lude:
- Logical database design
- Supervision of 9 management-level employees
- Application support for 7 regional data centers
- Coordination with AT&T, Bell Labs and Western Electric
- Develop and maintain technical documentation
- Plan, coordinate, test and implement application enhancements
- Database tuning
- Plan, coordinate, design and support multiple data center consolidations
- JCL customization and tuning