Fon Silvers

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Senior Systems Analyst at Publix @ Lakeland Symphony Orchestra
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Tampa, Florida, United States, United States
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Fon Silvers is a Senior Systems Analyst for an Enterprise Data Warehouse for a Fortune 500 retail corporation. Fon leads the production support team which maintains and operates the Data Warehouse.Fon led the design, development and implementation of ETL applications which bring transaction level data from throughout the enterprise into the data warehouse. Currently, Fon is leading the team which supports the production data warehouse.Fon has published numerous articles, blog entries and two books on data warehousing: "Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse" and "Data Warehouse Designs: Achieving ROI with Market Basket Analysis and Time Variance". The focus of these publications has been the dissemination of lessons learned while designing, creating and supporting a data warehouse.Fon’s goals are to exchange knowledge, principles, methods and best practices with other experts in the data warehouse industry, and to apply that knowledge by building other data warehouse subject areas.Specialties: Data Warehouse, ETL, Market Basket Analysis, Data Modeling, Metadata, Business Intelligence Reporting

Fon Silvers's Current Company Details
Lakeland Symphony Orchestra

Lakeland Symphony Orchestra

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Senior Systems Analyst at Publix
Fon Silvers Work Experience Details
  • Lakeland Symphony Orchestra
    Double Bass
    Lakeland Symphony Orchestra Aug 2017 - Present
    Lakeland, Florida Area
    Section Double Bass in the Imperial Symphony Orchestra in Lakeland, FL.
  • Publix
    Senior Systems Analyst
    Publix 1997 - Present
    Lakeland, Florida Area
    Publix Super Markets, Inc. (www.publix.com) is a Fortune 500 food retailer in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee.Fon came to Publix as an entry-level programmer. In his first assignment on the HR Employee system, Fon developed and maintained applications using COBOL, CICS, IMS, VSAM and OS/390 JCL.In 2000 Fon moved to the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team. In the EDW team Fon’s first assignment was that of an ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) analyst and developer. Those initial ETL applications were built using COBOL, DB2, VSAM and OS/390 JCL. The Load jobs were written using ESCON channel-attached syntax into a Teradata RDBMS.The EDW team was completed via staff from Teradata and Infosys. In addition to analysis, design, development, code and unit test responsibilities, Fon acted as coordinator and liaison between the team members.In 2004, Fon was the development lead in the effort to incorporate DataStage as an ETL tool. Beginning with DataStage version 7.5.1.a, then version 7.5.3 and finally version 8 Fon designed, developed and unit tested DataStage ETL applications for the EDW. DataStage ETL applications extract data from various platforms (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, MQ and flat files) and load various platforms ((DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata).In 2006, Fon was dubbed the leader of the EDW Production Support team. By then, staffing of the EDW team was composed of Publix associates. While leading the EDW Production Support team Fon continues to use a coaching approach to leadership. This method simultaneously encourages team members to invoke and develop their own analytic skills, which leads to a sense of accomplishment and ownership.Fon is currently a Senior Systems Analyst, and continues to lead the EDW Production Support team.
  • Wayne Pearson Trio
    Jazz Bass
    Wayne Pearson Trio 1999 - 2002
    Wayne Pearson (http://jazzpulse.com) has been a jazz musician and bandleader in Tampa, FL for decades.In 1999, Fon joined the Wayne Pearson Jazz Trio, playing double bass. During the 3+ year stint at the Café Creole (an eternity in jazz musician years) Fon developed his arco solos on the double bass. The concept was to bring the arco solos of the jazz violin, best epitomized by Stephane Grappelli, to the double bass.In the post-9/11 economic downturn, the Café Creole closed, ending Fon’s engagement with the Wayne Pearson Jazz Trio.
  • Hillsborough County Property Appraiser'S Office
    Mainframe Operator
    Hillsborough County Property Appraiser'S Office 1998 - 1999
    The Hillsborough County Property Appraiser Office (www.hcpafl.org) assesses the property value for which residents of Hillsborough County, FL will be taxed.In 1998, having been hired by Publix Super Markets as an entry-level programmer, Fon sought a second position. Fon operated the mainframe for the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser’s Office alone so their entire I/T staff could work during the day to deploy a Y2K-compliant property tax system.In late 1999, the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser’s Office deployed a Y2K-compliant property tax system. As a result, Fon brought down their mainframe for the last time.
  • Financial Management Association, Inc.
    Mis Director
    Financial Management Association, Inc. 1987 - 1997
    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
    The Financial Management Association (www.fma.org) publishes research in finance and financial decisions.In 1987, Fon began working at the Financial Management Association (FMA) as a student assistant. Fon’s primary task was to enter membership data into a membership database. Displaying his curiosity and intuition, Fon typically concluded data entry sessions by looking at the data entry applications.In 1989, Fon graduated and was immediately hired as a full-time employee by the FMA to operate manage and maintain the computers and applications used by the FMA.As a one-person I/S shop, Fon automated the accounting system and consolidated the accounting and membership databases & systems; and, in the process, removed himself from the membership data entry task. During that time Fon used SAS, SPSS, DBIII+, MS Access and Visual Basic v.4 in the iterations of the accounting/membership database system. Also, Fon maintained the computers, software, network, data and backups for the FMA.
  • Florida West Coast Symphony
    Section Bass
    Florida West Coast Symphony 1987 - 1993
    Www.Sarasotaorchestra.Org
    The Florida West Coast Symphony, since then renamed the Sarasota Orchestra, is a professional orchestra based in Sarasota, FL. Fon played double bas in the Florida West Coast Symphony. Fon participated in performances of masterworks and chamber music by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Respighi, Stravinsky and several others. While a member of the Florida West Coast Symphony, Fon also performed with the Sarasota Opera, Sarasota Oratoria and Sarasota Ballet.

Fon Silvers Skills

Data Warehousing Business Intelligence Databases Etl Data Modeling Data Integration Data Quality Business Intelligence Tools Db2 Data Warehouse Architecture Teradata Erwin Market Basket Analysis Metadata Olap Microsoft Sql Server Datastage Cobol Software Project Management Requirements Analysis Business Analysis Enterprise Architecture Sdlc Double Bass Spss Jazz Improvisation Jazz

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