RESUME
Peter Dres
4th
February 2014
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Skills Summary
Relational and Hierarchical DB design
Business and Data analysis, mainframe and client/server
System performance and tuning, mainframe and client/server
Client/Server planning: Technical architectures, James Martin TCSM
Client/Server implementation: Legacy migration, Testing, Test Data Generation
Data Warehousing
Hybrid computing model
Modelling (Analytic, Simulation), Capacity Planning
Object oriented designs
IMS, Fast Path, DB2, TPNS
TSO, JCL, ISPF, CICS, Tivoli (TWS)
IEF, C++, Visual Basic, Java
SQL, QMF, DL/1, REXX
MySql, DBM, ACCESS, EXCEL
Assembler, APL, PL/1, PHP and C++
Huron, IEF (now Cool:Gen)
Work Experience over last 40 years
Senior DBMS and large systems consultant for IBM, Amdahl, Texas Instruments, Tangent International
Business and Data Analysis, Logical and Physical Data models. Data warehousing.
Relational and Hierarchical DBMSs including IMS, Fast Path, DB2, Huron, Sybase.
TSO, JCL, ISPF, TPNS, Assembler, APL, PL/1, IEF, SQL, QMF, DL/I.
Client/Server technical architectures. Migration from mainframe to client/server.
Web enabling mainframe legacy systems, especially IMS, Fast Path, and Relational.
Performance, locking, integrity, security, monitoring and cryptography techniques.
Using RES-IT products for migrations to Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS)
Windows, PHP, C, C++, Visual Basic, ACCESS, EXCEL
Current Residency and Unrestricted Work
Permits
• All countries in European Union
• Australia, New Zealand
Education
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - B.Sc. Mathematics
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Overview
Peter has worked globally with large System z (mainframe) systems for over 40 years, including 18 years at
IBM and 10 years at Amdahl Corporation. His experience covered all areas of mainframe systems, from
operations through application programming through senior consultant on large DBMS systems. He led
project teams at numerous customer sites. He also designed, and delivered worldwide, advanced internal
and customer courses on systems and data analysis, with special emphasis on integrity and performance
issues.
Later he worked with CASE for 18 months at Texas Instruments as a senior IEF consultant, covering all stages
of the application life cycle from strategic planning through implementation, now known as DevOps.
For three years he worked worldwide on client/server systems, specializing in migrating users of mainframe
legacy systems. He worked independently in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He was then a
senior consultant for Tangent Group in Australia. He is experienced in the James Martin Methodologies and
was the Pacific Basin's Apple Corporation accredited instructor and consultant in their client/server technical
architecture.
In recent years, Peter has been keeping up with the latest technologies as well as performing his own
research and development projects.
Employment Overview
Strategic Consulting Partnerships (SCP) 05/09 –
present
Peter had been working with SCP business development and management on a number of internal SCP
projects essential to build SCP’s go to market model.
Peter has then been assisting with development of these opportunities to hand over to other SCP consultants
to execute or performed the initial services himself.
Over the last 2 years he has been very involved with SCP‘s RES-IT Business Partnership with 2 visits to RES in
Milan, Italy and preparation for an IBM Asia/Pacific Roadshow.
He has performed a 3 week onsite Proof Of Concept at Bank Of China with a senior RES Product Manager
from Milan and IBM. It will lead to contracts in Q1 2014.
Defining the Moment (DtM) 10/04 –
05/09
Peter was again working on a number of internal DtM projects essential DtM’s Go To Market (GTM) model:
- He was instrumental in a research and development project, which lead to a presentation to
senior management of a large System z American software company to better utilize mainframe
IMS functions. Ultimately this built up to over 20 DtM consultants working for this large
American software company in an innovative ‘outsourcing’ agreement. He was involved in
interviewing their software consultants and understanding where their skills and roles finished,
leadin g to where DtM’s skills could start.
- Enhanced to Version 3 of a z/OS front end pre-processor to enable performance related system
information to be gathered automatically to prepare DtM for on-site Assessments.
- This work now covers IMS and DB2 and can be utilized from a lap top.
- He also travelled to Iran to investigate the possible transfer of an application package to be sold
in Australia.
- He was the technical lead to a software relationship based on System z software performance
and tuning ISV package out of Germany, this lead to DtM acquiring the distribution right for
Australia/New Zealand with Peter being the lead senior technical consultant
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- Developing encryption applications and usage via the web.
CA (San Jose/New York) 9/99 –
9/04
Joined IDI 9/99 specifically to design and build new IMS tools. IDI acquired same month by CA.
- Installing and testing IMS V7 QPP on IDI hardware.
- Updating IDI software for V7
- Architecture of three new IMS tools for CA
IBM (Santa Theresa Laboratory, California) 11/96 –
8/99
IMS Sysplex and IMS web enabling. Internal testing and customer support
IBM Stockholm 6 months in
1998
Resident support for four major customers moving to IMS Sysplex.
Took IBM early retirement package 8/99
GERLING KONZERN (Köln) 3/96 -
9/96
DB2 Monitoring, performance/tuning. Design, implement and run stress tests with TPNS
TANGENT INTERNATIONAL (London) 01/96 -
3/96
Database and system design for internal Power Builder application.
TANGENT INTERNATIONAL (New York) 06/95 -
12/95
Client/server and system design consulting for customers of the New York office.
Previous Customer Assignments
As a Senior Consultant for Tangent International (Sydney based)
Telecom
Amdahl
QANTAS
MLC Insurance
Commonwealth Bank
GIO Insurance.
Courses: Delivered 10 courses on client/server technical architectures.
As An Independent Consultant
British/American Insurance (Nassau)
Banking, New Zealand
Shipping, USA
Banking, Europe
Texas Instruments
As a Senior Consultant for Amdahl Corporation (Worldwide)
Qantas Airways
British Airways
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Ford Europe
Databank
On behalf of IBM (Worldwide)
WTSC Poughkeepsie New York
WTSC Palo Alto, California
ISC London
Delivered IMS and Fast Path courses
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Ford Europe
Databank
On behalf of IBM (Worldwide)
WTSC Poughkeepsie New York
WTSC Palo Alto, California
ISC London
Delivered IMS and Fast Path courses
Commercial-in-Confidence 5
PO Box 1529 North Sydney NSW 2059
p +61 411 888 390 f +61 2 9949 1346 w scpaustralia.com
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    RESUME Peter Dres 4th February 2014 NOTICE:The information contained in this resume is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for use of the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this resume in error, please notify SCP by reply transmission and delete this resume without copying or disclosing it. Commercial-in-Confidence 1 PO Box 1529 North Sydney NSW 2059 p +61 411 888 390 f +61 2 9949 1346 w scpaustralia.com © Strategic Consulting Partnerships pty ltd ABN 17 124 525 122
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    Skills Summary Relational andHierarchical DB design Business and Data analysis, mainframe and client/server System performance and tuning, mainframe and client/server Client/Server planning: Technical architectures, James Martin TCSM Client/Server implementation: Legacy migration, Testing, Test Data Generation Data Warehousing Hybrid computing model Modelling (Analytic, Simulation), Capacity Planning Object oriented designs IMS, Fast Path, DB2, TPNS TSO, JCL, ISPF, CICS, Tivoli (TWS) IEF, C++, Visual Basic, Java SQL, QMF, DL/1, REXX MySql, DBM, ACCESS, EXCEL Assembler, APL, PL/1, PHP and C++ Huron, IEF (now Cool:Gen) Work Experience over last 40 years Senior DBMS and large systems consultant for IBM, Amdahl, Texas Instruments, Tangent International Business and Data Analysis, Logical and Physical Data models. Data warehousing. Relational and Hierarchical DBMSs including IMS, Fast Path, DB2, Huron, Sybase. TSO, JCL, ISPF, TPNS, Assembler, APL, PL/1, IEF, SQL, QMF, DL/I. Client/Server technical architectures. Migration from mainframe to client/server. Web enabling mainframe legacy systems, especially IMS, Fast Path, and Relational. Performance, locking, integrity, security, monitoring and cryptography techniques. Using RES-IT products for migrations to Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) Windows, PHP, C, C++, Visual Basic, ACCESS, EXCEL Current Residency and Unrestricted Work Permits • All countries in European Union • Australia, New Zealand Education UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - B.Sc. Mathematics Commercial-in-Confidence 2 PO Box 1529 North Sydney NSW 2059 p +61 411 888 390 f +61 2 9949 1346 w scpaustralia.com © Strategic Consulting Partnerships pty ltd ABN 17 124 525 122
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    Overview Peter has workedglobally with large System z (mainframe) systems for over 40 years, including 18 years at IBM and 10 years at Amdahl Corporation. His experience covered all areas of mainframe systems, from operations through application programming through senior consultant on large DBMS systems. He led project teams at numerous customer sites. He also designed, and delivered worldwide, advanced internal and customer courses on systems and data analysis, with special emphasis on integrity and performance issues. Later he worked with CASE for 18 months at Texas Instruments as a senior IEF consultant, covering all stages of the application life cycle from strategic planning through implementation, now known as DevOps. For three years he worked worldwide on client/server systems, specializing in migrating users of mainframe legacy systems. He worked independently in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He was then a senior consultant for Tangent Group in Australia. He is experienced in the James Martin Methodologies and was the Pacific Basin's Apple Corporation accredited instructor and consultant in their client/server technical architecture. In recent years, Peter has been keeping up with the latest technologies as well as performing his own research and development projects. Employment Overview Strategic Consulting Partnerships (SCP) 05/09 – present Peter had been working with SCP business development and management on a number of internal SCP projects essential to build SCP’s go to market model. Peter has then been assisting with development of these opportunities to hand over to other SCP consultants to execute or performed the initial services himself. Over the last 2 years he has been very involved with SCP‘s RES-IT Business Partnership with 2 visits to RES in Milan, Italy and preparation for an IBM Asia/Pacific Roadshow. He has performed a 3 week onsite Proof Of Concept at Bank Of China with a senior RES Product Manager from Milan and IBM. It will lead to contracts in Q1 2014. Defining the Moment (DtM) 10/04 – 05/09 Peter was again working on a number of internal DtM projects essential DtM’s Go To Market (GTM) model: - He was instrumental in a research and development project, which lead to a presentation to senior management of a large System z American software company to better utilize mainframe IMS functions. Ultimately this built up to over 20 DtM consultants working for this large American software company in an innovative ‘outsourcing’ agreement. He was involved in interviewing their software consultants and understanding where their skills and roles finished, leadin g to where DtM’s skills could start. - Enhanced to Version 3 of a z/OS front end pre-processor to enable performance related system information to be gathered automatically to prepare DtM for on-site Assessments. - This work now covers IMS and DB2 and can be utilized from a lap top. - He also travelled to Iran to investigate the possible transfer of an application package to be sold in Australia. - He was the technical lead to a software relationship based on System z software performance and tuning ISV package out of Germany, this lead to DtM acquiring the distribution right for Australia/New Zealand with Peter being the lead senior technical consultant Commercial-in-Confidence 3 PO Box 1529 North Sydney NSW 2059 p +61 411 888 390 f +61 2 9949 1346 w scpaustralia.com © Strategic Consulting Partnerships pty ltd ABN 17 124 525 122
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    - Developing encryptionapplications and usage via the web. CA (San Jose/New York) 9/99 – 9/04 Joined IDI 9/99 specifically to design and build new IMS tools. IDI acquired same month by CA. - Installing and testing IMS V7 QPP on IDI hardware. - Updating IDI software for V7 - Architecture of three new IMS tools for CA IBM (Santa Theresa Laboratory, California) 11/96 – 8/99 IMS Sysplex and IMS web enabling. Internal testing and customer support IBM Stockholm 6 months in 1998 Resident support for four major customers moving to IMS Sysplex. Took IBM early retirement package 8/99 GERLING KONZERN (Köln) 3/96 - 9/96 DB2 Monitoring, performance/tuning. Design, implement and run stress tests with TPNS TANGENT INTERNATIONAL (London) 01/96 - 3/96 Database and system design for internal Power Builder application. TANGENT INTERNATIONAL (New York) 06/95 - 12/95 Client/server and system design consulting for customers of the New York office. Previous Customer Assignments As a Senior Consultant for Tangent International (Sydney based) Telecom Amdahl QANTAS MLC Insurance Commonwealth Bank GIO Insurance. Courses: Delivered 10 courses on client/server technical architectures. As An Independent Consultant British/American Insurance (Nassau) Banking, New Zealand Shipping, USA Banking, Europe Texas Instruments As a Senior Consultant for Amdahl Corporation (Worldwide) Qantas Airways British Airways Commercial-in-Confidence 4 PO Box 1529 North Sydney NSW 2059 p +61 411 888 390 f +61 2 9949 1346 w scpaustralia.com © Strategic Consulting Partnerships pty ltd ABN 17 124 525 122
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    Ford Europe Databank On behalfof IBM (Worldwide) WTSC Poughkeepsie New York WTSC Palo Alto, California ISC London Delivered IMS and Fast Path courses Commercial-in-Confidence 5 PO Box 1529 North Sydney NSW 2059 p +61 411 888 390 f +61 2 9949 1346 w scpaustralia.com © Strategic Consulting Partnerships pty ltd ABN 17 124 525 122
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    Ford Europe Databank On behalfof IBM (Worldwide) WTSC Poughkeepsie New York WTSC Palo Alto, California ISC London Delivered IMS and Fast Path courses Commercial-in-Confidence 5 PO Box 1529 North Sydney NSW 2059 p +61 411 888 390 f +61 2 9949 1346 w scpaustralia.com © Strategic Consulting Partnerships pty ltd ABN 17 124 525 122