Nick Manu

Current

DB2 Architect & DBA at Smals

Past

DB2 Consultant at AXA Tech
DB2 Consultant at SiNSYS
Mgr Tech Supp zOS at Euroclear

Chief Data Architect DB2/SQL/BI at Allianz BE
Mgr Tech Supp zOS & DB2 Dev & tesT at Allianz BE
Consultant DB2/zOS at Computer Associates BE
Project Leader DB2/IMS at Commerz Bank DE
Consultant DBA DB2/MVS at Neckermann DE
Systems Engineer MVS/VM at IBM NL & DE
Systems Engineer MVS at IBM NL & DE
Systems Programmer VM/VSE at RAET NL

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Education

Cognos 8 BI Training
MS SQL Server 2005 EZOS
IBM BE Training centre

ITIL Certification Institue
Insurance Institute
Management Skills Institute
CA internal technical trainings
IBM ITSE La Hulpe, London, Utrecht
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti

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Recommended

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Connections

251 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Nick Manu’s Summary

SKILLS: Data(base) and Integration Architect, BI/DWH Architect, multi platforms (including zOS & Wintel) and different RDBMS (including DB2 Family & SQL Server) DBA.
EXPERIENCES: Sytems Programming: zOS, VM, CICS, IMS
DBA: DB2 family, SQL Server, Oracle
Consulting: Financial Services,
Manager (line); Development & Testing Technical Support.
EMPLOYERS (years): IBM (NL: 15+, DE: 3+), Commerzbank (4+), Neckerman (4+), CA (2+) and Allianz (3+).

Nick Manu’s Specialties:

Data & Techical Software Infrastructure Architect, MF zOS Systems Engineer (25+ years), MF DB2 DBA (10+), Project Leader (+5), Manager (3+), pre-sales (2+), independent consultant (15+), MF technical support (20+), MF dev (Cobol, Rexx, ISPF, etc - 5+), MS Win & Linux <-> Fluently conduct business in 5 languages: German, English, Dutch, Italian and French <-> International assignments (NL, DE, FR, BE, IT)

Nick Manu’s Experience

DB2 Architect & DBA

Smals

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)
DB2 Consultant

AXA Tech

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; AXA; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)

Plain DB2 DBA Operations Services support activities include IBM REPLICA roll-out and tuning, CA Unicenter DB management Data Base Analyzer implementation and AXA-Winterthur integration and data migration. Stack includes DB2, MQS, CICS/IMS, zOS.
Others actvities include DB2 v8 upgrade (on going) and roll-out.
DB2 Consultant

SiNSYS

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)

Plain DBA DB2 development support and SQL performance tuning for the SMAC application (PCI Acquire) running on the italian SSI Data Centre in Milan and operated fromBrussels.
Mgr Tech Supp zOS

Euroclear

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)

Corporate Technology, Technical Support (2nd level) Mainframe Infrastructure Services, Development & Security Architecture Tools & Solutions, platform: zOS 1.9, DB2 v8, CICS TS & CTG 3.1, REXX/SAS/ISPF/PL1, J2EE/WAS/AIX, Change Man, CA7, CA1, OPS, CORTEX,
Chief Data Architect DB2/SQL/BI

Allianz BE

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; www.agf.be; Insurance industry)

June 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 6 months)

MF Architecture: Mainframe Modernizatioon, Offload, Transformation, SOA/XML connectivity, EAI (SOAP/XML, WSDL, BPEL), EII (Federation, Replication, CDC), DB2, DB2 Connect, .NET connectivity, zOS, Data Centre Consolidation and standardisation, Data Privacy Protection and Security Compliance
BI/DWH/CPM Architecture - Cognos front end MS SQL Server IS & AS back end, MDM, Plannig, KPI, Dashboards, Forecasting, ETL (SAS, SQL, DB2, IMS, VSAM)
Mgr Tech Supp zOS & DB2 Dev & tesT

Allianz BE

(Public Company; AZ; Insurance industry)

November 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 7 months)

MF Architecture (Tools/Workbench/Infrastructure)and Development Technical Support, team/people management, DB2 DBA for Development (SQL, Logical/Phys. modelling, Rational, Subsystem/Application-SQL monitoring and tunning, performance, troubleshouting, coaching, internal education, coaching DBA multiplatform team), project leading
Consultant DB2/zOS

Computer Associates BE

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; www.ca.com; Computer Software industry)

April 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 7 months)

Pre-sales DB2 support ex-Platinum tools,
Services (consulting), Marketing: IDUG Europe
Working with the Lab in Lisle,
Support Mainframe and Distributive RDBMS (DB2 zos & luw, Oracle, SQL Server)
Mainframe Management Tools and Solutions, Monitoring & Performance Tools
Project Leader DB2/IMS

Commerz Bank DE

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; www.commerzbank.; Banking industry)

January 1999 — February 2002 (3 years 2 months)

DB2 Test Systems Project Leader (DB/IMS) - Year2000 & Euro Conversion
BMC Tools, OS390
Other projects in Frankfurt Banking Area: Dresdner Bank (DB2-VSAM conversion)
Consultant DBA DB2/MVS

Neckermann DE

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; www.nekermann.de; Retail industry)

January 1995 — December 1998 (4 years)

Information Centre Services Technical Support (DB2/SQL/QMF) and Data Center Operations Technical Support (DB2/CICS/OS390)
Systems Engineer MVS/VM

IBM NL & DE

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; www.ibm.com; Computer Software industry)

March 1982 — December 1994 (12 years 10 months)

IBM Netherlands: HQ, INTOPS & Plant Systems Technical Support (Sr. Systems Programmer: MVS & VM, IMS, CICS, DB2, CSP/REXX/ISPF, Hone/Dial, CMS/QMF/QBE/IC-AS) - Amsterdam, Uithoorn, Zoetermeer, Utrecht,
internal (permanent) 1982-1990, subcontractor 1993-1994
IBM Deutschland Mainz & Dusseldorf Software Manufacturing Center (zOS System Pac/DB2 Product Pac) - Systems Techical Support/Tester/Designer - subcontractor 1992
Software AG Darmstadt - VM Support - 1987 external assignment
Systems Engineer MVS

IBM NL & DE

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1983 — 1994 (11 years)
Systems Programmer VM/VSE

RAET NL

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; www.raet.nl; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1980 — March 1982 (1 year 11 months)

Systems Programmer - internal (VM/VSE/MVS - IMS/IDMS), - external consultant (Kluwer)

Nick Manu’s Education

Cognos 8 BI Training

Certification , Cognos 8 BI Suite Admin & Develpoment 10 days , 2007 — 2007
MS SQL Server 2005 EZOS

Certification , MS SQL Server 2005 BI Analysis & Integration Services 10 days , 2007 — 2007
IBM BE Training centre

workshop , SOA, MDM, WAS ... 1 or 2 days seminars , 2005 — 2007
ITIL Certification Institue

certification , ITIL basics (5 days) , 2006 — 2006
Insurance Institute

certification , Insurance basics (15 days) , 2006 — 2006
Management Skills Institute

certification , Communication, Presentation skills (10 days) , 2005 — 2005
CA internal technical trainings

workshops , DB2 v8 features & implementation, Database Management Tools (DB2) , 2003 — 2004
IBM ITSE La Hulpe, London, Utrecht

Post gradual , MVS large Operating Systems (ca. 6 months) , 1983 — 1984
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti

MBA , Computer Sciences, Econometrics , 1972 — 1977

Additional Information

Nick Manu’s Groups:

IDUG, GSE, CISA, OIUG, LINKEDIN, CIOnet

International Association of Software Architects
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Business Intelligence
Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Information Security Community (30,000+ Members)
Database Experts
DB2 Professionals
IDUG: The World Wide DB2 User Community
IBM Information Management (DB2) Enthusiasts
Strategic Use of Information Technology
CIOs.com: Chief Information Officer Network
IDUG Europe 2009
CIOnet
IBM co/ex workers independent group
Mainframe Experts Network
IBMers
MDM - Master Data Management
XML and Related Technologies Network
Database Developers and Architects Group
Data Architecture Professionals
PCI Europe
The IT Architect Network
Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence Architects
DB2 UDB DBA
IT Architect Association
XQuery Network
Belgian freelancers open for new projects
Belgian IT Network
Mainframe (COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM,MVS,Adabas/Natural ) Experts
DB2 for z/OS
Data Warehousing with DB2 for z/OS
Global Networking Group
Z Series User Group
DB2 for z/OS - What's On !
DBI Insiders