William Voit

(512) 756-2581

11709 FM 963

Burnet, Texas 78611

 

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:

·         Taught classes on Software AG Products and how to use them.

·         Assessed and Documented environments for clients.

·         Mentored DBAs and Systems Programmers on how to install, upgrade and use Software AG Products in VM, VSE, z/OS and UNIX/Linux environments.

·         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.

·         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.

·         Work through and recreate problems for Customer Support.

 

The following are Projects that I was involved with:

Brown University:

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 Olathe:

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.

 

Brown University:

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.

 

North Dakota Government:

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.

 

Colorado Interactive:

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 County of Denver:

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.

 

Hospital of Ontario Pension Plans (HOOPP):

SAG Product upgrades.

Time on Project: 2 months

Products used: IBM VM, REXX, CMS, ADABAS, Natural, Predict.

 

 

Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation  (09/1996 - 05/1998):

Programmer Analyst / Sr. Programmer Analyst

Analysis and coding in Natural 2 and COBOL. Trained in Delphi. Databases include: Adabas, IDMS, DB2 (DB2 on Windows NT).  Operating system MVS.  Editor ROSCOE, TSO.  Applications.  ADABAS Database Administrator. DB2 Administrator on Windows NT.

 

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, McMurry University, 1990.

 

Reference provided upon Request