Michael Deskis

Mr. Deskis has twenty years of exposure in the design, construction and implementation of mainframe and client/server application systems.  His experience ranges from programming in a variety of languages (COBOL, Assembler, C and Java®) through database design and into data warehousing.  The breadth of his exposure ranges from large-scale mainframe operations to smaller client/server systems allowing him to articulate solutions to many types of business scenarios and understand the implications of system migrations.

During his most recent tenures he has been worked closely with IBM utilizing their Visual Warehouse product to migrate legacy systems to smaller more user-responsive enterprise data warehouses with Java-enabled front-ends.  He is one of a select few individuals authorized by IBM to teach their Visual Warehouse Business Intelligence and VisualAge for Java® curriculum in North American.  In 1998, IBM ranked their entire worldwide instructor/developmental staff based upon student evaluation forms and Mr. Deskis was ranked in the top 3% of all global instructors used by IBM.

Mr. Deskis is presently involved with data warehousing projects incorporating UDB and Oracle structures, development of Java transformation and cleansing applications (applets, servlets and JSPs) and the design and creation of OLAP data warehouses and their integration with web browser user interfaces facilitated via IBM’s VisualAge for Java® and WebSphere Application Server.

General Experience

• Twenty years in hierarchical and relational system design, data warehousing, procedural and OO application programming and Database administration support.

• Six years experience in the role of logical modeling, physical design and development of Data Warehouses.

• Seven years IMS DBA database design and performance tuning support (3 years as a DB2 DBA).

• Four years DB2 application programming and relational structure design and system support.

• Eight years support for migrating host IMS, DB2 and CICS structures to client/server environments.

• Three years of support for distributed RDMS processing utilizing XDB, Oracle and IBM’s Universal Database.

• Two years designing/implementing data warehouses using UDB, OLAP Server, Java®, WebSphere® and Visual Warehouse.

• IBM certification in VisualAge for Java® v3.5.

Technical Skills

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