Joe Fatal

Orlando area, FL 352 508.1331 JoeFatalJobs@gmail.com

(Relocation is not a problem)

DB / DW – ANALYST, ADMINISTRATOR, ARCHITECT

AND

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Very talented and highly accomplished IT professional with contributions to multi-million dollar projects.
Extensive experience in fault tolerant Object-Oriented MMP environments. Multi-industry and multi-platform
experience. Strong leadership skills with great ability to teach and motivate others. Proven expertise in a
career spanning 20+ years.
Experienced in all aspects of database, data warehouse, data governance, data modeling; business
knowledge, and project management applying solid technical and people skills to consistently achieve
business objectives.

CORE SKILLS
Detail oriented with excellent analytical skills; good communication, interpersonal and client related skills;
proven decision making and problem solving capabilities; able to negotiate with various staff levels and
different departments; ability to function within a team environment or as an individual contributor; self-
motivated with the ability to take initiative; flexible – accepts and supports change without resistance, and
adapts quickly and easily to change; able to work on concurrent multiple priorities to provide timely results;
wide knowledge of various industries.
Expert on MPP environments (20+ years) – HP Nonstop / Neoview / Blade / Greenplum architecture,
utilities, and software; some MS SQL Server, ORACLE, and MySQL.
PowerDesigner, Access, Excel, VBA, TACL, PROGNOSIS, ETL, COBOL, SCOBOL, PATHWAY, FUP, C,
Shell Scripting, UNIX, HPDM, Query Viewer, MDM, JCL, NS-SQL, SQLCI, NCI, Query Plan interpretation.

Neoview and Greenplum MPP platforms are conceptually, functionally, and architecturally very similar.

HEWLETT PACKARD, Bentonville, AR 2008 – 08/2010

The team provides support and services mainly to Walmart 10+TB data warehouse on the HP MPP Neoview blade
environment. Also supports Sainsbury, UK, and other clients as required.
Senior Database Support Analyst
Provide support for all aspects of the Neoview environment, including rotational 24/7 on-call.
• Created level-2 guide for navigation, troubleshooting, and orientation for supported clients.
• Provided level-2 support for all software, including some customer supported items.
• Created help desk service guide of access, troubleshooting, and “how to” for familiar issues.
Establish remote customer support services.
• Created SOW. Interfaced and moderated with various internal and external organizations to resolve
organizational and process issues.
• Devised communication protocol between Customer and Help Desk with SLAs.
• Reduced initial callback from 45 minutes minimum to 5 minutes average.
• Acted as Point Person for complex issues, requiring multitasking, troubleshooting, risk management,
resolution, and post-mortems. Normally involved up to 10 people externally and internally
simultaneously in various world regions with diverse technical skills levels.
Investigate long running queries and platform overall performance.
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• Developed professional PowerPoint training materials and conducted customer education.

• Created platform load execution guide to educate people on resource histograms and corresponding
workloads.
• Identified bad query patterns for quick recognition, and set procedures to expeditiously communicate
issue and resolution back to customer.
Provide sales support to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Created professional status presentation for machine usage histograms, tasks, resource
assignment, target date, risks, impacts and historical performance enhancements list.
• Helped enhance relations through attention to details, assiduous meeting and impromptus
clarification discussions with customer staff.
RAYMOND JAMES, St. Petersburg, FL 2008 – 2008
Development project to enhance business by providing client aggregated position within bank and financial services.
Project manager – consultant
Manage project in matrix environment. Coordinate with program manager and other projects, database
architects and resource manager.
• Provides estimates, participated in peer reviews, managed ~10 people.
• Reviewed database architecture, and audited database design and data.
• Created common enhancement approach to shorten development time and minimize risks.
• Directed performance research and testing for improved OLTP and batch response time.
• Directed implementation project development.
• Mentored a junior non-SQL literate member to take over project in less than three weeks.
TMHP, Austin, TX 2006 – 2008
Very Large Data Warehouse (VLDW) – processing Texas Medicare claims for whole state.
Data Warehouse Support Architect – consultant
Provide support for all aspects of Production DW environment, including rotational 24/7 on-call.
• Created automation TACL scripts for faster issue troubleshooting.
• Provided level-2 support for troubleshooting, resolution, and level-3 for recovery of SQL DW.
Conduct job performance monitoring and tuning, and bad query analysis.
• Automated monitoring processes. Created elapsed time histograms and deviation charts.
• Created education materials for BI support for use by level 1 in Bad Query maintenance.
Responsible for data Warehouse staging and test environments availability and error free.
• Created searchable Visio website documenting job flow and table usage.
• Instituted operating procedures to control environment changes.
• Enhanced Job coding standards and peer reviews troubleshooting
• Reduced environment failures from daily to less than 2 per month.
GE HEALTHCARE (IDX), Boston, MS 2003 – 2006
Development of OLTP Carecast software suite for Hospital patient control and claim processing.
Principal Database Architect
Responsible to architect migration of flat file relational database (ENSCRIBE) to NonStop SQL.
• Created PowerDesigner data models. Optimized SQL statements for inclusion into Object Oriented
services for the data-layer access.
• Maintained data governance.
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• Mentored and coordinated offshore resources.

• Mentored ‘C’ knowledgeable staff in transition to COBOL85 and HP NonStop MPP.
PRIOR JOB DETAILS – PLEASE SEE APPENDIX A
PM, DBA, DW Architect, BA, Developer… COMPAQ, DELL, May Dept Stores, Scotia Bank, RBC, Ross, Ameritech…

EDUCATION
University of Phoenix, Online Assoc. in Computer Science – Databases
Western Governors University, Online BS. in Computer Science – Databases (ongoing)
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING

Brainbench certifications
Business Communication Financial Business SQL (ANSI)
Business Writing Financial SE Windows Programming Concepts
Analyst OO Fundamentals COBOL II
Listening Skills

CMM / SEI (SDLC) coursework including Waterfall methodologies

Completed HP Neoview data warehouse architecture, installation, support, and architecture.
Completed PMI test preparation – St. Andrews University extension, Austin TX.
Enterprise Data Warehouse Modeling.
COMPAQ / DEC Project Management, and Solutions Architecture.
Zero Latency OLTP, ODS, DW Design and architecture.
Pursuing MicroStrategy Dashboard certifications.
Pursuing Windows Server 2008 R2 certification.
Pursuing SQL Server 2008 certifications – implementation and maintenance & database development.
Self-learning Unix, PostgreSQL (Postgres), Oracle PL/SQL, C++, Business Objects, OBYEE.

OTHER POSSIBLE ADDITIONS

Created Canadian Tandem User Group (CTUG).
Past board member of the International Tandem User Group (ITUG).
Database workshop coordinator and moderator at ITUG meetings.
Member of Toastmasters International.

Certified Medical Laser Operator – hair removal, vein treatments, tattoo removal, angioma removal.

Seasoned equity and options trader.

Completed Series 7 course work.
Information Technology and Technical Specialist had responsibilities in managing, directing, developing and
supporting of application systems including:
• Order processing
• Retail warehousing
• Brokerage / Trading
• Campaign and collection management
• Inventory control and shipping
• Claim and Payment processing
• General accounting
• Healthcare patient, claims, payment processing
• Banking and Finance
Knowledgeable in the following technical industry areas:
• Data governance
• System metrics collection and reporting
• Data modeling using PowerDesign
• Data Warehouse on MMP with VLDW
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• Database OLTP and ODS on MMP with VLDB

• Project management
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APPENDIX A – MORE JOBS

ADP/SIS, Denver, CO 2002 – 2003
Development of OLTP brokerage Back-Office Software.
Lead Technical DB/DW – Development Consultant / Project Lead
Responsible for specifying, standardizing and modularizing the transition from Flat Files to platform
independent SQL.
• Formed and lead the Strategic Architecture Committee to help set strategic company direction for
the migration to OSS and SQL/MX.
• Created I/O layers for SQL access using ‘C’ functions.
• Collaborated with DBA team for data models, and
• Created DB and DW creation scripts.
• Collaborated in creation of QA processes, and test scenarios.
ROSS STORES, Newark, CA 2001 – 2002
Develop Database and data warehouse for the Distribution Centers with direct interface to ORACLE platform.
Lead Technical DB/DW – Development Consultant
Responsible for analysis, design, and development of complex functions.
• Developed Specifications, QA test plans, and code for complex functions.
• Collaborated in Data Governance, and SDLC standardization.

OTHER RELEVANT POSITIONS

AG EDWARDS, St Louis, MO
New end-to-end OLTP client trading application suite – client PC to Exchange and back.
Database Architect - Consultant
Responsible for oversight of entire data model.
• Collaborated with data modeler.
• Mediated data modeling discussions and reviews.
• Advised AG Edwards technical DBAs on best practices to obtain maximum database performance.
Responsible for enterprise auditing.
• Created SOA DFD model of new enterprise solution.
• Created gap documentation, and follow through process.
SPRINT, Overland Park, KS
Call tracking to Very Large Data Warehouse – VLDW.
Database Architect / Project Manager
Responsible for troubleshooting major Data Warehouse ETL performance issue.
• Audited data performance issue symptoms, warehouse, processes, new designs and changes.
• Interacted with multiple IT departments, and staff levels – to VP.
• Identified problem, presented solution alternatives and recommendation to management.
• Conducted lessons learned project closure with relevant SPRINT staff.
RBC DOMINION SECURITIES, Toronto, ON
Development of large GUI (PATHWAY) application for the in-house traders
BA / Technical Lead / Assistant Manager
Responsible for troubleshooting major Data Warehouse ETL performance issue.
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• Developed various programs to accommodate many ‘AI’ trading aspects for house traders. Used
COBOL, SCOBOL, TACL, C, FUP, ENSCRIBE, ENFORM, PATHWAY, TAL, etc.
Responsible for team supervisory collaboration during manager’s absence.
• Provided team guidance on coding aspects, and troubleshooting. Fielded User questions, provided
answers, and status as needed.