
Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist
Houston, Texas Area

Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist
Houston, Texas Area
Willie Favero is currently a Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist working with the Data Warehouse for System z Swat Team at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab, a member of IBM's zChampion team, a representative for System z with IBM's Academic Initiative, an IBM Certified Solutions Expert for DB2 9 for z/OS and DB2 for z/OS Version 8, DB2 UDB, and DB2 for OS/390 Version 7, and a participant in the zNextGen program at SHARE. Between IMS/VS DB/DC, Cincom's Total and Supra, IDMS, and DB2, he has over 30+ years experience working with database. However, Willie has spent his last 24 years working primarily with the DB2 family. His responsibilities include consulting to IBM's customers on Data Warehouse running with DB2 for z/OS. He has performed DB2 subsystem, performance, and security health checks, performance tuning for the DB2 subsystem, performance analysis for DB2 applications and SQL, design reviews, data modeling, general DB2 consultation, CritSit resolution, DB2 installation assistance, migration planning to DB2 for z/OS Version 8, all forms of DB2 education, and dables in z/OS and System z hardware. Willie currently has one of the top DB2 for z/OS blog on the internet, Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z.
DB2 for z/OS, data warehousing, z/OS
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Data Warehouse for System z Swat Team - DB2 SME at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)
Selling DB2 for z/OS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — Present (7 years 11 months)
(Computer Software industry)
2003 — 2007 (4 years)
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2006 (7 years)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1994 — September 2001 (7 years 8 months)
DB2 for z/OS SME
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)
February 1994 — September 2001 (7 years 8 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
August 1983 — February 1994 (10 years 7 months)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Sporting Goods industry)
August 1981 — August 1983 (2 years 1 month)
(Computer Software industry)
1979 — 1983 (4 years)
(Banking industry)
August 1977 — August 1981 (4 years 1 month)
(Computer Software industry)
August 1977 — August 1978 (1 year 1 month)
(Computer Software industry)
August 1977 — August 1978 (1 year 1 month)
(Computer Software industry)
August 1977 — August 1978 (1 year 1 month)
(Computer Software industry)
August 1977 — August 1978 (1 year 1 month)
(Banking industry)
January 1974 — August 1977 (3 years 8 months)
BS , Information Management Sciences , 1971 — 1974
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