Josef Richberg

Current

DBA at HarperCollins Publishers

Past

Co-Founder & CTO at AzureStream
Independent Consultant (Self-employed)
Consultant at Tyndale Company, Inc.

Sybase DBA at Bisys Retirement Services
Independent Consultant (Self-employed)
Chief Architect at The Sycamore Group
Principle Consultant at Inventa, Inc.
Senior Consultant at Xtend-Tech
Senior Consultant at Sybase, Inc

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Education

University of Scranton
Pennsylvania State University - Worthington Campus

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Information Technology and Services

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Josef Richberg’s Summary

Having over 16 years in the world of RDBMS, Mr. Richberg has in-depth knowledge of Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server leading him to found AzureStream and its first product, SQLMesh.

Co-Founded AzureStream, LLC which designs and builds Java software. Current product is SQLMesh.

Josef Richberg’s Specialties:

RDBMS Performance & Tuning, instructor, java programming,system design,systems architect

Josef Richberg’s Experience

DBA

HarperCollins Publishers

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Working in the data management group, which is responsible for managing and maintaing a large SQL Server 2005 environment. Responsibilities include re-designing data access modules using SSIS, developing Service Broker services, and maintaining the overall health of the sql environments.
Co-Founder & CTO

AzureStream

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2002 — January 2009 (7 years 1 month)

My current responsibilities include monitoring product development and direction. Our latest product is SQLMesh.
Independent Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 4 months)

Sybase ASE and Microsoft SQL Server consultant.
Consultant

Tyndale Company, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Sybase DBA

Bisys Retirement Services

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BSG; Financial Services industry)

June 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 7 months)

Duties included doing intensive Sybase ASE v11.9.x tuning for their Wystar 401k record keeping system. The original system was running on a Compaq GS160, which was later migrated to an IBM P5 series. This tuning includes tables, stored procedures, triggers, indexes, and system resource issues. I have helped in the design and implementation of their disaster recovery procedures. The system has well over 3500 stored procedures, over 40 databases with an estimated data size of over 250GB of data. Was also responsible for the conversion from Sybase 11.9 to 12.5. After conversion to 12.5, I had continued responsibility for reviewing all stored procedures, triggers, tables, and indexes for all projects. The review is to insure adherence to coding standards and performance requirements. I also instruct the developers on improved coding practices by way of brown-bag lunches and web meetings
Independent Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; BSG; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 5 months)

Consulted for Bisys Retirement Services
Chief Architect

The Sycamore Group

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 2 months)

I was primary engineer on a project to develop a wireless infrastructure for Merc Laboratories at one of their facilities outside of Lansdale, PA. This included recommending and integrating hand-held devices, using wireless technology (802.11x), to remote servers for the collection of QA data. The design was based on Sun’s J2EE technologies.

I am the designer and primary engineer on a pre-commercial, 100% pure java peer-to-peer application for use in EDI transactions/transmissions. Some of the technologies involved included SSL, cryptographic algorithms (blowfish, SHA-1, MD5, etc), multi-threading, sockets, and database connectivity. The project is at an alpha stage and we currently partnering for beta testing.

I have designed a JSP based web-site for hospital call tracking. This site is designed with JSPs, using tag libraries, Apache, Tomcat, and a MySql backend. We are currently engaging a local hospital for testing.
Principle Consultant

Inventa, Inc.

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2000 — October 2000 (9 months)

Currently working on an in-house project for data collection. I am writing a data server responsible for the co-ordination of the collection from various sources. This is a multi-threaded, socket-based system with database connectivity (JDBC). Co-developed a proprietary packet-based communication layer and XML based message layer for use within the collection system.
Senior Consultant

Xtend-Tech

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1999 — January 2000 (7 months)

Worked on an internet project for a large payroll processing company using Java. This project required multi-threading, efficient database connectivity, in a heterogeneous, multi-tiered environment. This application required some of the database management connection class previously created (connecting to both DB2 and oracle), as well as a complex multi-threading core. This application is now known as ADP-EasyPay.
Senior Consultant

Sybase, Inc

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SYB; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1997 — July 1999 (2 years 2 months)

Worked in all facets of the Professional Services division, troubleshooting on-site client issues.

Certified Sybase Instructor and taught the following Sybase classes:
“Intro to SQL”, “Fast Track to SQL Server”, “Advanced Stored Procedures”, and “ASE 11.5 Administration”. Classes ranged in size from 10-35 students.