Aaron Mensey

Email: 5978bbt@gmail.com / Mobile/Text: 845-418-3426

Current Location: Missouri, St. Louis

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A self-motivated team player with outstanding communication skills and over 20 years of demonstrated

records of challenging achievements administering relational databases, application development and

ETL data integration.

EDUCATION

Graduate School: University of Toledo Ohio 1991-1993, MBA specializing in MIS

Undergraduate: California Lutheran University-1991, Business Administration focused in CIS

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Aug 2015 – (remote/part-time projects)

Senior Architect Consultant at Tactician Media in Chesterfield, MO

  · Remotely on as needed/part-time basis, assisting this client with converting their existing ETL

processing of spacial advertising data to leverage TALEND Open Studio. Technical exposure also

includes SQL Server Management Studio, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS and visual Studio

December 2014 – June 2015

ETL Data Engineer Consultant at Telvent/DTN in St. Louis, MO

  · Developed ETL and other spacial data integration processes leveraging TALEND Open Studio in a

MySQL DB environment. Technical exposure included: Oauth2, .NET, Birst Dashboards, web based

geospatial content, JSON, Hadoop, GeoJSON and JIRA with Confluence

  · Collaborated and worked closely with directors and management to design, development ETL

requirements and incorporate clients farm related data for mobile, web and reporting applications

  · Evaluated new open source tools and techniques while helping establish and maintaining process

methodologies and technology standards

March 2013 – October 2014

Database Architect Employee at Newspaper Data Exchange (NDX) in Chesterfield, MO

  · Responsibilities included all phases of SQL Server administration from logical and physical design to

application support, tuning SQL stored procedures, systems upgrades and disaster recovery.

  · Technical exposure included: REST APIs, ArcGIS desktop, ESRI Server, Boundless, QGIS and Tableau

  · Migrated all SQL Server database environments from SQL Server 2008 to 2012 and 2014.

  · Routine work involved hands-on writing SQL (functions, stored procedures, etc.) used for ETL, tuning

and optimized existing SQL by analyzing execution plans and unit testing.

March 2011 – March 2014

Senior DB2 DBA Consultant at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) in Chesterfield, MO

  · Acted as RGA's primary DB2 expert serving both domestic and remote clients with all aspects of DB2

systems and application support.

  · During my tenure I upgraded the client from RDBMS from DB2 UDB LWU version 7 through DB2

UDB LWU version 9.8 in a AIX P-SERIES environment.

  · Was available on-call 24/7 for after hour technical support needs and worked with remote overseas

clients and technical staff to quickly resolve all critical DB2 issues.

August 2010 – February 2011

Senior DB2 Database Administrator Consultant at Nestle Purina in St. Louis, MO

  · Responsibilities included all phases of DB2 system and application support and implementing DB2

software upgrades for all of Purina's Manufacturing plants in US and Canada. Technical exposure

included TALEND v4.2 and working with complex DB2 data propagation/replication scenarios from

various Mainframe and mid-tier RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.).

July 2008 – April 2010

Project Manager Consultant at Peekabuck Media in St. Louis, MO

  · Managed a technical team of 5 members (1 DBA and 2 SQL developers and 2 web/.NET developers) to

support the development of video communication systems used for advertising in a small start-up

environment. My responsibilities also included all phases of DB2 system and application support, while

supporting multiple DB2 DPF databases used for data replication.

October 2007 – June 2008

Senior DB2 DB2 Consultant at United Healthcare in Maryland Heights, MO

  · Supported multiple environments: (8) partition, (4) node DB2 Data Warehouse on AIX version 5.3,

working closely with Web-sphere 6.1 in a Unix & Mainframe environment.

  · Responsibilities included all phases of DB2 DBA support including. DB2 9.5 upgrades, upgraded Tivoli

Storage Manager from v5.2 to v5.4, creating load scripts and worked closely with the ETL team while

decommissioning obsolete DB2 Servers. Technical exposure included implementing MDC and

summary tables and configuring the use of cube views.

February 2007 – October 2007

Senior DB2 DBA Consultant at Lockheed Martin / Homeland Security in Baltimore, MD

  · Working to support the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Services (DHS CMS), my responsibilities included all phases of DB2 system and application support

including the managing the recover-ability of UNIX and Solaris mid-tier DB2 databases in a Windows,

UNIX, and Mainframe environment; mid-range systems.

  · Primarily responsible for designing and implementing disaster recovery techniques and documenting

High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) options.

  · Worked closely supporting MQ-Broker and Q-Replication team members in their DB2 efforts.

February 2006 – February 2007

Senior DB2 DBA Consultant at State Farm in Bloomington, IL

  · Responsibilities included all phases of DB2 system and application support including configuring and

supporting complex Q-Replication and DB2 Data Propagation scenarios that spanned over 30

mainframes in a zSeries Parallel Sysplex data sharing environment, and hundreds of clustered AIX and

Unix federated Servers; mid-range systems.

OTHER NOTABLE CLIENTS PRIOR TO 2006

• MCI Telecommunications (SQL Developer)

• Kemper Insurance (Peoplesoft Technical DBA)

• DuPont (COBOL Developer)

• Cushman & WakeField (Peoplesoft Technical DBA)

• Maryland State & North Carolina State Dept of HR with top secret security clearances (DB2 DBA)

References are available on request