Manager Design

Jim Cleveland

**** ****** **. #*** • Fairfax, VA 22031

703-***-**** • ********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Contract or permanent position providing an opportunity to refine a proven technical set, and deliver sterling

quality database architecture and management services.

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Currently serving as Principal Consultant with Bluepoint Consulting Inc., an IBM Business Channel Partner

specializing in the delivery of expert DB2 UDB Services on the UNIX, Windows and Linux platforms.

Previously employed with IBM Global Services as a Senior IT Specialist on the DB2 National Consulting

Practice team. Career history comprises 25 plus years experience in the full spectrum of database design,

implementation, and administration. Skill set also includes a broad ranging knowledge of data modeling,

production database management, and advanced performance tuning techniques. In addition to core

competence in the areas of database design and administration, have developed particular expertise with DB2

database performance enhancement and troubleshooting on AIX and Windows platforms. Entire skill set has

been evidenced in the performance of numerous exceptionally successful service engagements for a wide

variety of IBM’s most valued clients. Possess a demonstrated mastery of both DB2 EE and ESE DPF (parallel)

editions. Additional areas of expertise include: multi terabyte data warehouse design and implementation,

Enterprise Storage Server implementations, DB2 integration with leading CRM and ERP packages (e.g.

Siebel, SAP, Peoplesoft, Lawson, Baan), and migration to DB2 of complete large scale Oracle and Informix

database systems. Initial part of career involved over ten years application software development experience

as a Sr. Systems Analyst in COBOL/CICS/DB2/JCL/ISPF mainframe environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal Consultant, Bluepoint Consulting Inc., Alexandria, VA 7/03 – Present

DB2 services delivered on a recent and typical project have included:

• Database design, implementation and operational support for the DoD’s TRICARE (healthcare) Decision

Support System which resides nationwide on several hundred V8 and V9 DB2 EE and ESE DPF

(parallel) database nodes

• Design upgrades to data stores, data marts and enterprise level data repositories

• Integrating DB2 with hardware environment comprised of hundreds of UNIX (predominantly AIX) high

end computing platforms including multiple p795 and p690’s

• Incorporation of Enterprise Storage Server systems such as EMC and IBM’s Shark arrays to provide

database capacity expandable to 55 Terabytes in several instances

• DB2 configuration for support of Content Manager, SAP, Siebel CRM, and PeopleSoft

Provided services such as these for a number of Fortune 500 companies in the financial, manufacturing, and

health insurance sectors, among others.

Senior IT Specialist IBM Global Services, Bethesda, MD 1/01 6/03

Client engagements typically included delivery varied services such as:

•DB2 product installation and upgrade

•Logical and physical database design, development and implementation

•Advance database performance troubleshooting, tuning and enhancement

•Support for client database application design, testing and operation

•Deployment and administration of DB2 development, test and production environments

•Contributions to enterprise level data architecture and infrastructure planning

•Migration of database from other vendors into the DB2 UDB environment

•Integration of DB2 with Content Manager, OnDemand and Siebel CRM, among others

Full spectrum DB2 services of this nature were delivered to a variety of IBM’s foremost clients in the financial,

manufacturing, and health services sectors. Contributed personally and significantly to the IBM DB2 National

Practices’ country wide reputation as database design and performance tuning experts for enterprise scale,

extremely complex, mission critical DB2 systems.

Database Analyst CEKA/OnlineSuppliers.com, Vienna VA 12/97 12/00

•Served as the Lead DB2 UDB Database Administrator and Data Modeling specialist in the design and

support of a WebSphere based e commerce web site

•Responsible for configuration, performance tuning, disaster recovery and day to day operation of the

production data store

•Implemented sophisticated triggers, UDF’s and stored procedures for business logic

•Developed processes and procedures for the maintenance of client inventory and catalog

•Supervised and trained a staff of three junior database administrators

Senior Consultant EDP Source Consulting, Vienna VA 6/95 11/97

•Performed consulting engagements of various lengths for the Department of State, GEICO, Department of

Defense, Department of State, the United States Information Agency and the Acacia Financial Group

•Primary duties involved technical management of systems design and life cycle of COBOL/CICS/DB2

enterprise applications

•Also provided DB2 MVS database design and administration support

• Administrative duties entailed disaster recovery planning and execution, hardware infrastructure capacity

planning

•Domains included financial management and logistics systems software development

[George Washington University – Completed B.S. Computer Engineering 9/92 6/95]

Senior Programmer Analyst – CACI, Arlington VA 1/89 8/92

•Served as Mainframe Programmer Analyst serving on various Department of Defense and Department of

State contracts

•Developed of CICS/DB2/VSAM system designs specifications Clients included the DIA, Navy, and Air

Force, USIA and the Department of State

Programmer Analyst American Embassy, Seoul, Korea 6/84 12/88

Programmer Analyst for the US Embassy in Korea (as dependent of US diplomat). Mainframe application

development efforts involved Immigration and Naturalization fraud detection systems as well as support of the

mission’s general logistics systems.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, George Washington University, GPA 3.8

IBM Certified Database Administrator for DB2 UDB V8, V9

IBM Certified Solutions Expert DB2 UDB V7, Administration for Window, Linux and Unix

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