Michael High Email & Phone Number

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Senior Database Administrator on DB2 V12 z/OS 5-way Data-sharing Group and i Series machines.30+ years experience with JCL COBOL DB2 SQL25+ years advising IT dept on SQL/DB2 related matters25+ years QMF For Windows Administrator25+ years experience developing in-house DB2/SQL trainingDeveloped, administrated, and maintained DB2 for z/OS databases in a data-sharing environment ensured integrity and managed security access to all DB2 objects.Identified, resolved, or provided recommendations for programmers with SQL performance tuning and coding of DB2 programs.Developed and presented in-house educational classes and seminars on DB2 and SQL to both the I.T. Trainee Program and various company personnel.Developed materials and methods to on-board and mentor many new DBA's over the years. Developed, coded, and maintained custom software to support DB2 Administration functions including a CICS DB2 Administration System Application, Batch DDL generator tool, Database Activity Reporting Tool, & Database Temporary Authority Tool.Developed, coded and maintained DB2 Utility Generator Tool which has already saved the company hundreds of hours of CPU time and thousands of dollars.Participated in multiple iterations of IBM DB2 Early support program including DB2 V12.Administrated DB2 for AS400/i Series databases.Provided 24 hour on-call database administration support.Coordinated product fixes with software vendors.QMF for Workstation AdministrationAdministered, maintained, and installed QMF for Workstation software for hundreds of company employees.Coordinated with Desktop Software personnel to apply software fixes to the product across the company.Coordinated product fixes and enhancements with the QMF software vendor.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Maintained DB2 COBOL batch and DB2 CICS code for Accounts Payable, Vendor Information System, and Vendor Charge-backs System.Provided 24 hour on-call programmer supportWorked directly with Accounts Payable personnel to resolve issues and provide new functionality.Major projects included Y2K conversion of the Accounts Payable System and Vendor Chargeback System.

University Of Arkansas, Fayettville, Arkansas

As a class Instructor I developed and presented course content for courses Computer Concepts and Structured Programming I Using Turbo Pascal.Teaching assistant responsible for grading and tutoring the IBM Assembler Programming class.Master's project: A complete Turbo Pascal parser.

Monticello, Arkansas

Maintained campus's central mainframe computer lab on nights and weekends. Provided students with assistance on programming assignments.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Teaching assistant duties included teaching 2 undergraduate courses per semester along with office hours.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Chairman, Beta Sigma Chapter of ACM, Student Gov Representative, University Assembly Representative, Library.

Honor'S Degree

Activities and Societies: Honor's graduate, Top 10% of my class, Beta Club, Choir, French Club, Math and Science Club, Computer Club.