Brian Markowitz Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Maryland, US

http://www.digitalinfuzion.com

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Architected front end database (OLTP) to support application data. Coordinated upgrades with 30+ development teams and 5K+ users. Provided technical guidance and work leadership to less-experienced team members.
• Implemented HADR solution for 24x7 uptime of critical application database, ending need for offline window.
• Designed automated Quality Assurance (QA) checks, allowing for automated alerts to be sent when variations in data met certain thresholds.
• Developed SPSS predictive analytics model for runtime optimization and error prevention.
• Started cognitive build team to crowdfund application using IBM Watson that allowed users to ask questions about code running on server.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Developed conceptual data model of entire services business area. Architecture of Dimensional Model in Netezza while migrating off MVS. Interpreted impact to data model of 20+ source systems.
• Improved Cognos report performance 50x by migrating reports to Netezza environment.
• Architected migration tool to move 10K+ users off of legacy security framework to modern platform.
• Designed system to enable users to have personal tables in new environment, alleviating need for thousands of reports.
• IBM Services Excellence Award – Earned for leading one of the largest user migrations with no negative impact recorded.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Created ETL staging process through series of interdependent shell scripts. Managed 10+ DBAs and ETL developers as well as operational team. Took over as project manager while remaining as lead architect.
• Reduced daily application downtime from 5+ hours to 3 seconds with individual designed high availability staging process (HASP) solution.
• IBM Eminence and Excellence Award – for achieving what seemed like impossible SLA and praise from user community.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Created strategy to maintain cohesive model across 10 different project teams. Developed best practices methodologies for project. Held onboarding meetings for all new partner teams. Conducted DataStage training for.
• Reduced data model redundancies, delivering massive cost savings across multiple organizations.
• Integrated 10 partner data models into core model, enriching services offering and reducing load on source systems.
• Improved staging load time 80% by implementing hipersockets architecture.
• Designed security shell scripts to alert team to root access attempts, protecting federal data.
• Migrated infrastructure to new LPAR, improving CPU load 70%+.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Created numerous DB2 Triggers, Stored Procedures, JCL jobs, and PL/1 code for large data warehouse.
• Undertook extensive optimization analysis of all project reporting queries, improving performance by estimated 40%.
• Eliminated need for application downtime by implementing real-time replication using Q-Replication.
• Created PL/1 application to allow for automatic re-execution of errored transactions caused by table locks, or system outages, improving data concurrency.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Additional IBM Teams/Projects 1998 - 2010 SAP - Ledger Conversion (BMSIW), Developer IBM Federal - United States Postal Service (USPS), VA, ETL Developer (Lead)IBM Federal - Emory University Healthcare, Georgia, ETL Developer (Lead) IBM Federal - Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia (DOE), ETL DeveloperIBM Federal - Department of Public Safety, State of.

• Led team during Severity 1 issues interacting with business owners, subject matter experts, application teams, and operations support groups. Technical lead of 30+ DataStage developers. Managed upgrades and outages of.
• Led migration effort to DataStage, replacing 120 complicated shell scripts.
• Worked with capacity planners to successfully create infrastructure under budget.
• Designed security for DataStage, DB2 and OS, passing 3 mandated audits.
• IBM Managers Choice Award: Received for migrating entire project to new OS, implementing standards, and rising to technical leader of over 75 team members.

• Developed ETL scripts sourcing Oracle and IMS data. Wrote ETL specifications and lead business requirements gathering. Implemented Oracle procedures to re-execute DML from Oracle’s LogMiner on target system while.
• Turned around underperforming project, completing work within stated contract time.
• Credited with regaining trust from clients after project was graded D, eventually earning A rating.