Manager Management

KAREN SESSION

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Nanuet, New York 10954

845-***-**** 914-***-****

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Senior Database Administrator with extensive experience creating and

maintaining large scale databases at a world class consumer Electronics

Company. Proven ability to support large numbers of diverse, database

servers in 24x7 global environment. Strong technical, operations and

systems administrative skills in a high-energy and fast-paced environment.

Additional skills as a Change Management Coordinator for Enterprise

Datacenter, including interaction with all platforms (Mainframe, UNIX,

Windows, AS/400), Storage and Network.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Z/OS 1.9; DB2 - V9; IMS - V9 DBRC/DBCTL; IMS Utilities (IBM);

DB2 Utilities (IBM); QMF; SPUFI; CA - DB2 Tools; FILEAID IMS; FILEAID MVS;

Librarian; Microsoft Office; Microsoft ACCESS; REXX; COBOL; VSAM; Control-

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 1981 - 2009

Change Management Administrator (2006 - 2009)

Coordinated and enforced Change Management Policies and Procedures as it

related to the Enterprise Data Center

. Conducted weekly call, which required participation from all platforms

(Mainframe, UNIX, Windows), Storage and Network

. Produced Weekly Report which showed the progress of all activities in the

enterprise

. Worked with compliance team on Sarbanes-Oxley Audit

Database Administrator (Senior Technical Specialist (1985 - 2009)

Provided production and development DBA support for in house and vendor

supplied applications utilizing IMS and DB2 on IBM Mainframe Operating

Systems

. Performed installs and upgrades of IMS and DB2

. Installed OEM Products used by Application Programmers and Technical

Support Personnel

. Generated Database Objects (Database, Tablespaces, Table, Index,

Segments, Secondary Indexes, etc) for both IMS and DB2

. Wrote and tested Disaster Recovery procedures to determine the Data

Center's ability to recover the corporations production data

. Designed, coded, and implemented automated procedures for repetitive

manual tasks (Restore test from production, DBDGEN, PSBGEN)

. Developed and enforced Policies and Procedures related to processing DBA

requests from the user community

. Monitored and responded to performance issues based on user input and pre-

defined alerts

. Created and executed all utility JCL required to maintain the integrity

of the data

Technical Account Manager (2004 - 2009)

Liaison between Latin American Division and UNIX Group

. Provided communication avenue for requirements and activities between

the Latin America users (Florida, South America, Mexico) and the

Enterprise Datacenter

. Managed weekly call between the principles, which included individuals in

the US (New York, Florida) and South America (Brazil, Argentina,

Venezuela)

Programmer Analyst (1981 - 1985)

. Coded, Tested, Implemented and Maintained COBOL programs (Batch and CICS)

using specifications provided by Systems Analyst

EDUCATION

B.S., Mathematics, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING

COBOL, IMS Database Administration

IMS Performance and Tuning

DB2 Database Administration, Visual Basic

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