Mike Olifirowicz Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Developing and implementing education programs designed to enable our team of 1200 technical consultants world wide. Focusing on several areas of business including and not limited to: Cloud, AI, Hadoop, Spark, BigData, Mongo, Db2 and Data Governance. Working with managers to assess gap areas where training is lacking and developing enablement programs to fill those gaps. Creating self assessment surveys to better determine skill weaknesses to allow more focused programs. Working with subject matter experts to develop content and educational learning roadmaps. Working with internal and external IBM employees and Business Partners to deliver live onsite training classes. Event planning and coordination of training facilities, hotels, transportation and infrastructure. Maintaining controls of 1+ million dollar annual learning budget. Facilitating new hire training programs. Tracking and reporting on learners progress. Leveraging internal tools to schedule onsite and virtual learning activities. Creating surveys and course evaluations. Maintaining newsletters and blogs to promote learning and training activities within our group and with other IBM teams across the company. Creating enablement websites where consultants can easily find and take self paced learning activities, view recently recorded tech talks, view recently recorded product knowledge transfers and view and register for upcoming events. Hosting online webinars and delivering online training. Contributing member to our biweekly "Wellness Wednesday" program where we promote "wellness" in the workplace. Topics include stress management techniques,time management, tips on maintaining a work / life balance, and working from home obstacles

Senior technical trainer teaching and developing or modifying curriculum for Informix LUW ( Linux, Unix, Windows ) classes which included, Installation, Database Design and Modeling, SQL, Advanced SQL, Database Administration, System Administration, Managing and Optimizing, Performance Tuning, Database Internals and Troubleshooting. Teaching Db2 classes for Windows, Unix & z/OS. Classes included Db2 Fundamentals, Db2 Administration Work Shop for Linux and Windows, DB2 SQL Workshop, DB2 SQL for Experienced Users, Db2 of z/OS Database Administration Part I, DB2 for z/OS Database Administration Part 2, Db2 z/OS Introduction to System Admin, Db2 z/OS Utilities For Database Administrators, Db2 for z/OS Performance and Tuning.

Highly rated technical trainer and consultant. Provided education and knowledge transfer on all Informix database products which included: Physical and Logical database design and implementation, Database Administration, Managing and Optimizing, Performance Tuning, Troubleshooting, and Database Internals. Was also part of the technical consulting group which was focused on helping customers in both short term critical situations and long term design and performance tuning.

Technical IDMS/R database administrator on z/OS. Responsibilities included, installation, patching, logical and physical database design and implementation, database administration, performance tuning and monitoring, troubleshooting, and backup / recovery planning. Offsite disaster recovery planning and implementation. Technical Informix database administrator. Responsibilities included, installation, patching, logical and physical database design and implementation, database administration, performance tuning and monitoring, troubleshooting, and backup / recovery planning. Offsite disaster recovery planning and implementation. HPUX system administrator. Responsibilities included, installation, patching, backup / recover, troubleshooting, system performance tuning, disaster recovery planning and implementation. Being part of a tech services group my primary responsibilities besides the two database administration and unix administration roles also included mainframe disk storage administration, implementation, tuning, and system wide backup and recovery.