William Voit
(512) 756-2581
11709 FM 963
Summary of Qualifications: A veteran IT professional
with more than 18 years of experience in several sectors of the IT industry
with proven problem solving skills. These skills come from working on both
sides of the system as an Applications Programmer working with COBOL and
Natural to Systems Programmer for a VM/VSE shop and a Database Administrator of
ADABAS under VM, VSE, MVS-OS/390, z/OS and several UNIX/Linux platforms. The
main focus has been on installations, upgrades, migrations and mentoring of new
Database Administrators in all areas of ADABAS and Natural. I am willing to
learn new skills and environments to get the job done and can work by myself or
as a member of a team.
Software AG
(05/1998 – 03/2009):
Technical Consultant / Senior
Systems Engineer
Have traveled up to 60% of the year in performance of his
job and has performed many technical tasks including:
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Taught classes on Software AG Products and how to use them.
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Assessed and Documented environments for clients.
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Mentored DBAs and Systems
Programmers on how to install, upgrade and use
Software AG Products in VM, VSE, z/OS and UNIX/Linux environments.
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Covered as the DBA and Systems Programmer for clients both
remotely and onsite to ensure that system ran smoothly which included Month-end,
Quarterly-end and Year-end processing.
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Helped migrated client’s Applications from z/OS to
UNIX/Linux. This included setting up application environment,
installing/troubleshooting software problems, and migrating data from z/OS to
UNIX/Linux.
·
Self taught with the use of O’Reilly Books UNIX/Linux
environment and Korn/Bash Shell scripting with use of
sed/awk.
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Work through and recreate problems for Customer Support.
The following are Projects
that I was involved with:
SAG
Product upgrades.
Time on
Project: 4 weeks
Products used: IBM z/OS,
TSO, JES, ADABAS, Natural, Natural Security, Natural for CICS, PREDICT, Predict
Application Control.
City of
Migration Project from OS400 Natural/DB2 to RedHat
Linux Natural/ADABAS. I was the Linux Technical Systems resource for the
Project. I installed the SAG products and set up the environment. I converted
the OS400 CL(s) to bash scripts, Worked with SAG Programmer on problem
submitting RJE type scripts, Worked with local resources to setup CRON scripts
to maintain the environment and suggest possible solutions and Worked to mirror
the OS400 Environment.
Time on Project: 5 months
Products used: PuTTY, bash, ksh, awk, sed, Natural, Natural Single
Point of Development, ADABAS, PREDICT, ADABAS SQL Gateway.
Rochester
Institute of Technology:
40 hour a
month DBA project. I try to deal with the issues the client has every month
within 40 hours a month. This means making ADABAS File changes, Natural
Environment changes, Looking into problems as they
arise in the environment and Product Installations.
Time on Project: on going
Products used: IBM z/OS,
TSO, CICS, JES, ADABAS, ADABAS Review, ADABAS Native SQL, Entire Broker,
Natural, Natural Security, Natural for ISPF, Super Natural, Natural for CICS,
PREDICT.
Argus
Healthcare Systems:
On-Site for Production upgrade for problem determination.
Time on
Project: 3 days
Products used: IBM z/OS,
TSO, JES, ADABAS.
SAG
Product upgrades.
Time on
Project: 4 weeks
Products used: IBM z/OS,
TSO, JES, ADABAS, Natural, Natural Security, Natural for CICS, PREDICT, Predict
Application Control.
Texas
Department of Insurance:
Migration
Project from IBM z/OS Natural/ADABAS to AIX UNIX Natural/ADABAS. I was the AIX
UNIX Technical Systems resource for the Project. I installed the SAG products
and set up the environment. Worked with local resources to setup CRON scripts
to maintain the environment and suggest possible solutions and to mirror IBM z/OS
environment as much as possible.
Time on Project: 9 months
Products used: PuTTY, Attachmate emulation Software, ksh,
awk, sed, Natural, Natural
Single Point of Development, ADABAS, PREDICT, ADABAS SQL Gateway.
SC Johnson:
Backup DBA.
Time on
Project: 1 year
Products used: PuTTY, ksh, awk,
sed, Natural, ADABAS.
Domtar:
Backup DBA.
Time on
Project: 1 year
Products used: PuTTY, ksh, awk,
sed, Natural, ADABAS.
INCO:
Migration Project for part of their application from IBM z/OS
Natural/ADABAS to AIX UNIX Natural/ADABAS. I was the AIX UNIX
Technical Systems resource for the Project. I installed the SAG products and
set up the environment. Worked with local resources to setup CRON scripts to
maintain the environment and suggest possible solutions and to mirror IBM z/OS
environment as much as possible.
Time on Project: 9 months
Products used: PuTTY, bash, ksh, awk, sed, Natural, Natural Single
Point of Development, ADABAS, PREDICT, ADABAS SQL Gateway.
Migration
Project from IBM z/OS Natural/ADABAS to SuSe Linux
Natural/ADABAS. I was an Intermediate Linux Resource until the main resource
could join the project.
Time on Project: 2 months
Products used: PuTTY, bash, ksh, awk, sed, Natural, ADABAS,
PREDICT, ADABAS Triggers and Stored Procedures.
I was the
Solaris UNIX resource on this project. I installed ADABAS and Natural, created
a script to offload data from IBM z/OS cartridges to load into UNIX ADABAS and
recreated backup scripts for the environment.
Time on Project: 2 months
Products used: PuTTY, bash, ksh, awk, sed, Natural, ADABAS.
NAL:
I helped
to work with ADAMagic and the use of it.
Time on
Project: 1 month
Products used: PuTTY, bash, ksh, awk, sed, ADABAS, CCA ADAMagic.
City and
SAG
Product upgrades.
Time on
Project: 2 weeks
Products used: IBM z/OS,
TSO, JES, ADABAS, Natural, Natural Security, Natural for CICS, PREDICT.
JA Majors:
SAG
Product upgrades on HP UNIX.
Time on
Project: 2 weeks
Products used: ADABAS,
Natural, Natural Security, Entire Broker.
TIAA/CREF:
SAG
Product upgrades.
Time on
Project: 2 weeks
Products used: IBM VM,
REXX, CMS, ADABAS, Entire Network.
Morgan
Stanley:
Migration of in-house written software to the use of ADABAS Vista. I took over as the Testing
resource on this project. I modified the existing Testing plan to the
requirements of the Morgan Stanley staff. I also ran this Test plan. The Test
plan involved batch JCL and Exceed’s HummingBird emulation scripts to run the CICS environment
pieces.
Time on Project: 1 ½ years
Products used: IBM z/OS,
TSO, JES, ADABAS, ADABAS Vista, Natural, Natural for CICS.
SAG
Product upgrades.
Time on
Project: 2 months
Products used: IBM VM,
REXX, CMS, ADABAS, Natural, Predict.
Programmer Analyst / Sr. Programmer Analyst
Analysis and coding in Natural 2 and COBOL. Trained
in
First Independent Computers, Inc. (05/1994 -
09/1996):
Database and Data
Security Administrator / Systems Programmer
As Database Administrator, Mr. Voit administrated the products from
Software AG (Adabas, Natural, and Predict) and
redesigned the Adabas environment for VSE/ESA. As Data Security Administrator, Mr. Voit set
up and converted IBM security to C/A Top-Secret software. As Systems Programmer, Mr. Voit installed,
maintained, and evaluated software for the VM/VSE/ESA environment. He also
converted third party software from VM/VSE/SP to VM/VSE/ESA and was on-call
24x7 for Computer Operations assistance.
Education
and Certifications
Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science,
Reference provided upon Request