Eric Dodson Email & Phone Number

Lexington, KY, US

United States

Supporting clients in the Insights & Data practice

Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

• Led a Data Quality and Data Validation Proof of Concept project for annual cost savings of $350,000
• Maintained IBM InfoSphere Information Server enterprise platform with upgrades, security patches,and weekly maintenance across 15 Linux servers and 5 environments
• Tested DataStage 11.7.x migrations to IBM Cloud Pak for Data v4.6 for modernization and worked with vendor support and technical sales staff on enhancement requests
• Developed DataStage Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) jobs and Information Analyzer data rules

Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

• Initiated an annual full cost recovery process for data integration software licenses, hosting charges, and system administrators, to recover $5,000,000
• Researched and tested DataStage 11.7.x migrations to IBM Cloud Pak for Data v4.5 and v4.6 for modernization
• Led a Data Quality Proof of Concept project and presented results to Chief Technology Officer and Department of Medicaid Services Director
• Configured on-premise DataStage connections to Azure Data Lake for a large Data Analytics project
• Maintained and supported Information Servers on Linux with an on-call after hours rotation
• Developed and supported enterprise web services, DataStage Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) jobs and Information Analyzer data rules

Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

• Consolidated multiple technologies to achieve Kentucky taxpayer cost savings of $2,000,000
• Maintained and supported IBM InfoSphere Information Server with LDAP integration and IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) servers on AIX, Linux, and DB2 with an on-call rotation
• Continually presented to Leadership, Enterprise Architects, and Project Teams on Data Integration capabilities to expand platform utilization from one department to a large-scale enterprise environment serving a wide.
• Developed DataStage Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) jobs and QualityStage data cleansing and probabilistic data matching jobs
• Developed 12+ enterprise web services for public-facing web sites to handle millions of records
• Provided after hours support for web services and 3,000 daily and nightly data integration, data transformation, and data cleansing jobs

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Performance-tuned multiple complex Data Warehouse applications and Data Marts for sales orders, bakeries, truck deliveries, and retail stores
• Supported multiple Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence applications
• Developed and modified DataStage Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) applications
• Data issue tracing, troubleshooting, and resolution
• Maintained DataStage servers on AIX

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Earned IBM’s top rating for Personal Business Commitments 3 years in a row
• Led a global resource Data Warehouse Production Support team
• Supported and enhanced multiple Data Warehouse applications and Data Marts
• Developed and modified DataStage Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) applications
• Installed and maintained DataStage servers, ERwin Data Modeler and Model Manager
• Problem-solving and root cause analysis