• Linux/SAP/Oracle troubleshooting with SAP Solution Manager ... Insight• SAP Basis Admin .. ValueAmerica• Oracle OPS, UNIX Clustering and Failover, ValueAmerica• Oracle Upgrades and Config ... JDA, Insight, APS• Oracle streams and TSM... AMEX• Oracle 7-Beta .. Deloitte and Touche• SYBASE, UNIX, ... Valic, SCI• SYBASE, Oracle, Lawson, UNIX, EMC SAN and Multiplexing ... SCI• Oracle Forms and Reports, Discoverer, UNIX, ... AZ DHS• C#, ASP.net, ... AZ DHS• Pro*C and Uniface configuration ... JDA • Basic Java ... JDA• Java, makefile and UNIX Package configuration ... Insight• ASP Web Clustering and Failover, .. ValueAmerica• Powerbuilder, Visual Basic, REXX, ... Valic• Cobol ... Data Training• Fortan 77 ... CDC Cyber.. Manchester University• H2 Assembler, Cobol .. Valic, Chase• IMS/DC, Boole/Babbage, REXX ... Valic• IMS/DC, more BMC, Massive DB2 Subsystems ... AMEX• CICS, JCL, Assembler, DL/1, DB2, Datavantage, Easytrieve, SAS, BMC, Omegamon ....BAe/IBM• VSCLP ... ICL

2004 Course 2124 Programming with C# - Interface - Phoenix AZ2004 Course 2310 Developing ASP.NET Web Apps w/Visual Studio .NET Interface - Phoenix AZ2004 Oracle 9i Database Management 2 - Greenbriar Russell - Phoenix AZ2003 Oracle 9i Database Management 1 - Greenbriar Russell - Phoenix AZ2003 Oracle 9i Applications Server Administration - Greenbriar Russell - Phoenix AZ2001 Inventory Transfer Management - JDA Internal2001 Inventory Management - JDA Internal2001 Introduction to Java Programming - Internal Course AZ2000 Introduction to Retailing - JDA Internal 2000 Oracle Openworld - San Francisco2000 S.A.P., Philadelphia - BC315 Workload Analysis2000 S.A.P., Boston - BC360 Oracle/Unix Core Fundamentals2000 Oracle, Baltimore - Oracle 8i Backup & Recovery 1999 HP ,Rockville Maryland - HP Serviceguard1999 Oracle, Houston - Oracle 8 P&T 1999 EMC, Boston - EDM course1998 Oracle, Houston - Oracle 8 for DBAs 1998 Lawson, Boston - Unix/DBA/App Server Admin 1998 SQL Server 7.0 - New Horizons Houston1995 Sybase, Houston:- Sybase v11 performance & Tuning 1995 AIX for MVS Systems Programmers Houston 1993 SEQUEL/PLATINUM - DB2 Performance & Tuning 1992 Arthur Anderson - Client Server and DB2 v2.3 London1992 SEQUEL/PLATINUM - CICS/DB2 Performance Tuning 1991 Logical Conclusions - Systems Analysis Blackpool1991 Database Architects/CA - DB2 System Administration/Database Design Birmingham1990 IBM - DB2 for DBAs l St John's Wood London1990 IBM - Database Recovery and Control St John's Wood London1989 IBM - DL/1 Logical Relationships St John's Wood London1989 IBM - DL/1 Performance & Tuningl St John's Wood London 1988 Pansophic - TELON ( CICS Rapid Development Framework )1988 British Aerospace (In-house) CICS, JCL, COBOL, DL/1 application programming 1987 ICL - VSCLP - SCL Programming - Beaumont London 1988 Data Training 8 weeks COBOL, Jackson Structured Programming, SCL (ICL/JCL ) Manchester

Whilst at BAe :- Team Leadership Skills Presentations Skills Negotiation Skills Technical Writing Skills Holding Effective MeetingsWhilst at VALIC :- Modelnetic Management Models

★ DBA ★ Programmer ★ Data ModellerTechnologies : - Database systems :- Oracle,, Sybase, DB2, SQL Server and DL/1 aka IMS etc - UNIX Operating Systems :- AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Tru64. Sun Solaris etc - Mainframe Operating Systems :- IBM OS390, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA and ICL 3960,2966 - Programming Languages :- C#, Java, Cobol, Fortan, Assembler, REXX, JCL, SCL etc - ERPs :- SAP, Oracle Financials, Lawson, JDA - Mainframe Transaction Systems :- CICS, IMS/DC - Other :- EMC Storage Management, Scripting.Troubleshooting, Upgrades,,VMWare. .

Successfully troubleshot their SAP Oracle upgrade using a response file, applied security patches, monitored their Oracle/SAP/Standy database setup. Had an interesting time when they had a total power-outage with v$recover_file. It all worked.Rebuilt their standby database.Used Oracle tuning techniques to turbo-charge their SAP experience. Metalink rules ... The rate-limiting step in most applications is how they access their data.

http://www.aps.com/ ... ►►►Obtained nuclear clearance .. Oracle upgrades from 8i to 10G2. Cloned instances and configured Oracle Intelligent Agent for Grid.

Implementation of Oracle - IBM Security systems. Redesigned their code to work 50x faster taking advantage of multi-threading. I utilised 8 cpus to spread optimise the run time. Interfaced Oracle error reporting with eg Infoman so that there was more corporate visibility for trend analysis.Wrote scripts, worked with Oracle Streams, RAC etc.

Monitoring their Data Warehouse. Had fun with the parallel hint to speed throughput. Very large Solaris servers and fun with RMAN and latch analysis.MVP - Jack Silvey genius with Oracle

Really basic Oracle Admin - some dot.net progamming training C# and ASP, successfully troubleshot their firewall issues, tuning. Interesting upgrade experience with the Oracle Application Matrix, the database upgrade being the simplest part. Found dot Net easy just no viable projects to apply it on.

Installed and toubleshot installation issues with multiple releases of ODBMS, Oracle and Uniface including remote client support. Interesting to see unique tuning opportunities eg Polyserver socket tuning, Muilti-language support, introduction to Pro*C and customised exception handling to optimise Batch throughput.MVP - German Galindo who taught me the importance of choosing the correct national characterset when the software package is to be rolled out in multiple languages rather than choosing the default also tricks converting english to spanish and v.v...

Oracle with a Web Farm, SAP, Siebel amd SQL Server Mustang email server implementation. Worked heavily with Oracle Clustering and SAP tuning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_America ... SQL Tuning, SAP Basis admin, HP-Openview interface to Oracle, media manager, Earlywatch etcWorked with the top Oracle consultants from the U.S. and India to optimise their RAC configuration.MVP - Phil intihar who orientated me around Cluster and Web Server maintanence. Ivan Peramas who showed me Microsoft back doors to SAP eg COM ManagerJointly with BAe the best company I worked with. A real priviledge to work with such gifted people. Left me with a real respect for the warmth of Virginia, the awesone projects and training , snowtubing with the Managers ...

HP-UX and EMC, obviously Windows. Worked with Lawson Payroll upgrade to dramatically reduce dead-locking during batch runs. Installed Oracle Financials components eg IIS, cofiguring cartridges, Java applets etc. Lots of work with the backup software eg omniconnect and EMC EDM.MVP-Mike Vaughan genius with Sybase

IMS/DC support with Boole and Babbage, sysgens etc and started working with AIX in 1994 on release 3.2 with Sybase 10.3. Member of ISUG. Automated DB2 recovery with REXX as a conduit to preparse JCL. Wrote Powerbuilder to load-balance Sybase AIX Servers using DataWindows. Worked with DB2 Data Capture Routine and a plethora of replication software.Worked on a Visual Basic application to do remote installs of System Architect a data modelling tool.MVP - Karl Fancher who taught me Powerbuilder.

Evening work interfacing and writing H2 level Assembler on OS390 with Visual Basic on DB2/2 with Crystal reports for their Check free - Recon system. Fun as noone available seemed to know Assembler which I had learnt when sparsing Indexes for IMS. Implementation at Love Field Dallas.

Worked on Oracle Heterogenous Gateway and Data Modelling project. First exposure to Powerbuilder. Oracle then ran on Novell not UNIX which was interesting.MVP-Laurel McGilvery who gave me a manual on Oracle v6 admin which I sped-read.

Prep and Rollout of multinational DB2/IMS-DC upgrade.. MVP-Wayne Nitta who taught me about plan stability. Important to ensure consistent performance in ATMs across the world. Then one can instantly see where the application staff inadvertantly changed the access path to the Database in a non-optimal way sometimes where the response time was unacceptable for the business requirements of the application.

Excellent company to work for !!!!IMS and DB2 DBA predominantly with CICS and DBRC. Plenty of Data Modelling, integration of BMC Utilities. Cobol programming, Wrote a reorg for their major Parts database which using the standard IBM Utilitites would take 3 days, optimised it to take 6 hours. Configured DB2 packages to do cross-mainframe connectivity load-balancing connections between 2 mainframes. Involved in the Quality Initiative ... member of the Flying Club on a Cessna 152 out of Blackpool.MVP-Vince Jackson Data Analysis techniques eg composite attributes.csmt, cedf, recon datasets, region=0M, recursive data structures for Bill Of Materials etc

Cobol Programmer on ICL using Jackson structured programming. Mantis 4GL programming. DDS Dictionary for copybooks.

Sitting Graduate Conversion Course exams in Bookkeeping ( Double Entry, Extended Trial Balances, Partnership accounts, Warehouse Accounts, unfinished records ) , Economics, Law and Quantitative Techniques( essentially Statistics applied to e.g. Stock Keeping ) . Clients ranged from small clients e.g. Book Shop accounts to audits on the Burton Group and Laidlaw Thompson