Managing Partner

Introduction of the Data Lake and the Big Data & Analytics platform. Migration of the big data platform from on-premises to the (Azure) cloud. Technical Product Owner for Enterprise Data Catalog & Data Governance tool (Alation). Support and consulting for business units in using the data lake, analytics tools and data catalog.

• Management of the Enterprise Data Catalog & Data Governance tool
• Work on data lineage and data governance within the data catalog
• Programmatic extensions of the data catalog (e.g. integrating glossaries via REST API or routines to monitor data quality)
• Migration of the catalog to the cloud
• Migration of big data applications to Microsoft Azure / HDInsight / Databricks
• Introduction of nearshoring team members
• Build and expand in the big data environment
• Support business units in implementing use cases in the big data environment
• All work followed SCRUM
• Hadoop (Hortonworks / Cloudera)
• Hive
• Hive LLAP
• HBase
• Spark
• Databricks
• Solr
• Kafka
• Alation
• Scala
• Azure Cloud / HDInsight / ARM
• Scrum
• Ansible
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• helm
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio Code
• REST API
• Postman
• Python
• Python Django

Building a technical data warehouse including ETL processes. Setting up reporting in IT operations for various use cases. Implementing the DWH solution in a big data environment (Hadoop).

• Built the technical data warehouse
• Data preparation (ETL) in the technical environment using Kettle (Pentaho Data Integration) and Informatica. Data feeds from monitoring, scheduling, deployment, event processing, SAN, backup, DB applications and directly from apps
• Built automations (integrated into scheduling, functionality extensions via Java)
• Report creation using Eclipse BIRT / Cognos for IKS, capacity, availability and license management
• Built a Hadoop cluster and evaluated tools
• Created the reporting solution in a Hadoop cluster
• Eclipse
• SQL Explorer
• Various SQL variants (Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL, Sybase SQL, MySQL)
• BIRT
• Pentaho PDI Kettle
• Informatica PowerCenter
• Cognos
• Java
• Perl
• Hadoop (HDFS / YARN)
• Sqoop
• Hive
• Pig
• HBase

Migrations and redesign of event processing. Product evaluation for event processing.

• Migrated event processing tool from TEC to Omnibus
• Migrated a rule database from the trouble ticket tool to Netcool Omnibus
• Redesigned technical event processing
• Product evaluation for event processing
• Integration into business service management
• Reporting
• Tivoli Netcool Omnibus
• Tivoli Event Console (TEC)
• Kyberna Ky2Help
• AIX
• Java
• Sybase
• Oracle
• PL/SQL
• BIRT

Design, development and introduction of a provisioning solution for Unix servers in the Avaloq environment.

• Project lead and contributor to implementing Unix provisioning
• Adapted provisioning to environments and operations (test environments, production)
• Developed TPM workflows
• Integrated initial pilot applications into the provisioning solution (Avaloq-R and Avaloq-Z)
• Reporting
• Migration of the provisioning solution
• Tivoli Provisioning Manager
• Eclipse
• Avaloq
• AIX
• Subversion
• Maximo
• BIRT
• Cognos

Replacing a monitoring installation mainly for cost reasons (open source solution).

• Evaluated monitoring solutions
• Replaced IBM Tivoli Monitoring with GroundWork
• Reporting
• Tivoli Monitoring
• GroundWork (Nagios)
• PostgreSQL
• Cognos
• BIRT

Consolidation and migration of a job-scheduling setup in an ETL data warehouse environment on Unix (as part of a data center migration from IBM Maidenhead UK to TUI-Infotec Hanover). Integration into existing systems management.

• Migrated from TWS 7.0 to 8.2
• Reviewed existing ETL job scheduling with view to migrating to UC4:Global and from TWS to UC4:Global
• Integrated ETL jobs into existing systems management using IBM Tivoli
• Maintained and consolidated ETL jobs
• IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7.0, 8.2
• Framework 3.7 and 4.1
• Monitoring 3.7 and 5.1
• TEC 3.7 and 3.9
• UC4:Global 3.02
• Solaris 8
• IBM-UDB 8
• Informatica PowerMart 7

Review, consolidation and upgrade of a systems management environment (Tivoli).

• Analyzed and consolidated existing systems management
• Optimized Tivoli framework (MDist2) for software distribution
• Automated various workflows (using Perl and Tivoli)
• Migrated to new OS (Solaris 8) and new Tivoli versions (Framework 4.1 and Configuration Manager 4.2)
• IBM Tivoli Framework 3.7.1 and 4.1
• Software Distribution 3.6 and 4.1
• Inventory 3.6
• Configuration Manager 4.2
• BMC Patrol
• TEC 3.6 and 3.7
• Various proprietary tools
• Oracle 8.1.6
• Solaris 8 (Veritas Cluster Server)
• HP-UX 11.00 (MC-Service Guard)
• Windows NT 4.0 and XP

Design and implementation of the Tivoli systems management for an application service provider. Unix system administration.

Analysis and design in an OO software development project for an airline booking and reservation system.

Optical archiving, system and network management, optimization of system and network infrastructure.

Support, design, development and project management in a LAN-WAN infrastructure, its servers and the connection to the mainframe.