1. Jim Jones
Senior Data Warehouse Consultant
jim.jones1208@sbcglobal.net
813-785-0471
EXPERIENCE Jim has more than 40 years of combined IT experience in database
technology. Seventeen years of experience in enterprise data warehousing,
ETL/ELT, Advanced SQL Coding and Tuning, Semantic View Creation,
Teradata DB, Teradata Physical Database Design, Teradata Capacity
Analysis and Performance Tuning. Jim is a highly motivated self-starter
with excellent communication and leadership skills. His areas of expertise
include; Erwin, Physical Data Modeler, SQL, UNIX, Teradata Load Utilities,
BTEQ, Administrator, SQL Assistant, Teradata Manager. Jim has a proven
track record of successfully delivering top quality, value-added services as
a consultant and employee.
KEY SKILLS
ETL Architect/Developer
Expert experience in Teradata load utilities, Fastload, Multiload and TPT
Architected and designed ETL processes and system development life
cycle procedures for many large data warehouse projects
Extensive experience in summary table and semantic view design and
creation.
Expert experience in coding and tuning complex SQL, including
interpretation of Teradata Explain output.
Extensive experience using the Teradata Manufacturing Industry Model.
Experience developing korn shell scripts.
Teradata DBA
Expert experience analyzing Query log and extracting poor performing SQL
for tuning.
Expert experience performance tuning ETL SQL and MicroStrategy
generated SQL
Expert experience in setting up and using Teradata DBA tools such as
Administrator, Teradata Manager and Viewpoint.
Extensive DBA experience with Teradata V2R5, V2R6, TD12, TD13 and
TD14.
Expert experience with Teradata SQL development.
Expert experience with design and development of Teradata databases
including: tables, indexes, join indexes, PPI, constraints, views, referential
integrity, and stored procedures.
Expert experience with Teradata capacity planning and workload
management using AmpUsage, ResUsage and Query Log.
Data Warehouse Architect
Extensive experience in all phases of the data warehouse development life
cycle
Physical Data Modeling including the proper choice of PI/SI/JI/AJI and
proper de-normalization for performance considerations.
Expert knowledge of star-schema, and multi-dimensional data modeling.
Conducted successful brown bag luncheons with customers covering
subjects such as physical database design, SQL query performance and
Teradata parallel processing architecture.
Led team that developed procedural logic applications using advanced
SQL.
2. Jim Jones
Senior Data Warehouse Consultant
Technical lead on two initial data warehouse build projects
CLIENT
ENGAGEMENTS
04/2015 - 11/2015
Working as a team lead at Expedia, Jim performed data replication, moving
data from DB2 to Teradata.
Selected Accomplishments
Debugged generated TPT scripts extracting data from DB2 and
loading to Teradata.
Converted DB2 Stored Procedures and BOBJ views.
Performed PDB Design that included picking of primary and
secondary indices.
01/2015 – 02/2015
01/2014 – 11/2014
At eBay Inc, Jim performed performance tuning assistance
Selected Accomplishments
Performed Query Log analysis for performance and error reporting
Performed Query Log analysis to identify selected job performance
degradation
Provided general Teradata support for email campaign team
including secondary index/primary index recommendations and
additional column statistics.
Senior DBA at JP Morgan Chase where Jim was responsible for maintaining
the Data Warehouse and mentoring other team members.
Selected Accomplishments:
Wrote SQL scripts to collect statistics after data was move to new
machine.
Wrote SQL scripts to scan Query Log history looking for special
situations involving stored procedure compilation settings.
Provide input to enhance the Job production approval methodology.
Provided review assistance for review of over 500 applications before
move to production.
01/2013 – 10/2013 At Target Corp., Jim was a semantic modeler.
Selected Accomplishments:
Responsible for semantic layer design and creation of views and
summary tables.
3. Jim Jones
Senior Data Warehouse Consultant
Chose secondary indexes and created join indexes
Responsible for tuning MicroStrategy generated SQL.
Extensively used Query Log and Viewpoint to identify and correct poor
performing SQL
Used Query Log and Viewpoint to monitor integration testing and
produce performance reports.
11/2011 – 12/2012 At Department of Defense, Jim was an ETL developer.
Selected Accomplishments:
Prototyped transformation SQL for ELT processing.
Built and helped design Summary Tables to be used by Business
Objects for user reporting.
09/2010 – 11/2011 At Navistar International, Jim was as data warehouse architect.
Selected Accomplishments:
Mapped Financial Source Data to Teradata Mfg. Logical Data Model
Created Physical Database Design for 3NF PARTY and LOCATION
subject areas
Re-architected semantic views into permanent summary tables
Designed and created semantic views for use by OBIEE reporting tool
Designed and implemented Star Schema’s for OBIEE reporting tool
Created and maintained an Star Schema, choosing Primary/Secondary
Indexes for an application migration from Oracle to Teradata.
09/2009 – 08/2010 At Department of Defense, Jim was an ETL developer.
Selected Accomplishments:
Responsible for developing and maintaining complex ETL code
involving Teradata stored procedures.
Provided production support as needed to resolve critical performance
and functionality issues.
06/2009 – 09/2009 At Frost Bank, Jim was a data warehouse architect.
Selected Accomplishments:
Sourced data from SQL server databases and loaded to Teradata.
Created BTEQ scripts to produce new standard reports per user
requests.
Tuned new and existing queries.
4. Jim Jones
Senior Data Warehouse Consultant
Provide expertise on load strategies.
Restored needed tables using NetVault
Created workload analysis queries using DBQL
01/1999 – 07/2007 Jim was an employee of Teradata Corp in their data warehouse consulting
group and delivered services at the following accounts;
At PepsiCo;
Selected Accomplishments:
Provided Teradata ETL consulting to approximately 25 programmers.
Created BTEQ scripts using SQL to perform data validation, surrogate
key generation, complete transaction validation, and date versioning.
Optimized SQL using by inspecting results from EXPLAIN listings.
Implemented semantic views over highly generalized 3NF model
Wrote queries to extract data from a very complex model.
At, MedStat;
Selected Accomplishments:
Assisted customer DBA in creating and moving data from Oracle to
Teradata.
Provided on-site Teradata training.
At Entergy Corp.;
Selected Accomplishments:
Responsible for the initial setup of Teradata and installation of utilities.
Performed query optimization by inspecting the output from EXPLAIN.
Determined the addition of secondary and join indexes where needed.
Created semantic views used by reporting tool
Consulted ETL group on Teradata utilities and performance.
Used Teradata Manager for system monitoring.
At Dell Computers;
Selected Accomplishments:
Converted an ORCALE application to Teradata. Tasks included table
generation, table loading and SQL conversion.
Using AMPUSAGE data, created a prototype workload analysis
application based on user-id groupings.
Worked with help desk to tune SQL generated by an in-house query
tool. Most time was spent tuning queries, changing table structures, and
collection of statistics on groups of columns to prevent queries from
exhausting spool space.
5. Jim Jones
Senior Data Warehouse Consultant
Provided consulting to the ETL and DBA teams.
Tuned queries generated by home grown reporting tool
At ATA Airlines;
Selected Accomplishments:
Starting with the Teradata industry standard logical data model
produced a physical database design for the flight and customer data.
Loaded the physical model using Multiload and SQL.
Generated customer flight activity reports.
At Federal Express;
Selected Accomplishments:
One of three team leads that participated in a conversion of the EDW
from Informix to Teradata. Converted UNIX shell scripts to use Teradata
Multiload utility to load to work tales. Wrote SQL to move data to EDW.
Wrote SQL to validate that the load worked as planned.
Led team in design and coding of a Pricing Application using the EDW
for customer historical shipping data. Used SQL to implement
procedural logic. The web-based application was used by sales people
to provide timely contract pricing for customers.
Provided Teradata feature/performance consulting for DBA and ETL
teams.
06/20xx – 09/20xx At Continental Airlines;
Selected Accomplishments:
Worked with statisticians to develop a Customer Defection Model that
would alert the airline when a valued customer experienced identified
customer defection events and correlated the results to a decrease in
flight activity.
Examined approximately fifteen operational systems to identify the
customer defection events and design extract strategy.
Created the tables and load scripts to load the customer provided
extracts to work tables.
Wrote SQL to perform data transformation.
Loaded the data to the defection model tables.
MEMBERSHIPS &
CERTIFICATIONS
Teradata Certified Professional, V2R5
Teradata Certified SQL Specialist, V2R5
EDUCATION University of Texas at Austin, BA in Mathematics, Minor in Computer Sciences.
Graduated August, 1970.