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Pedro P. Gatica, Jr. * 1818 Rogers Rd #4231 * San Antonio, TX 78251 * (210)380-0906
Professional Profile:
Possess proficient programming, analysis, design, and maintenance skills as an IT Lead Software
Developer/Integrator. Progressive Data Warehousing analysis, design and programming experience.
Knowledgeable in Inmon and Kimball Data Warehouse methodology and experience in Data Warehouse
construction and implementation. Proficient in the Design and Development of processes required to Extract,
Transform, Load data with a good understanding of Source to Target data mapping, ability to define and capture
Meta data and Business rules associated with the ETL processes. Possess a strong working knowledge of the
Unix, WebSphere DataStage Enterprise Edition 8.5.1 as Administrator and Developer, Informatica
PowerMart/PowerCenter, ETL Tool as Administrator and Developer, IBM DB2/UDB, Oracle RDBMS,
Windows NT, SQLPlus, SQLServer environments. Knowledgeable in DB2 Data Warehouse Edition and IBM
Balanced Configuration Units. Discriminating ability to accept projects and assignments with enthusiasm and to
produce excellent high quality products for the IT and Business user community. Experienced in Quality
Assurance, creating Test Plans, Test Objectives, Test Strategies, and Test Cases for Data Warehousing projects
ensuring the data in data warehouse meets the business requirements. Consistently demonstrate a talent for
organization, attention to detail and time management under pressure situations. Respected for high degree of
professionalism, integrity, perseverance, personal initiative and team oriented skills. Unfailing work ethic results
in increased productivity and user satisfaction on a daily basis. Knowledgeable in Kornshell scripting, DB2 SQL
Load Scripting, SQL, SQL Navigator software, Quest’s TOAD Software, PL/SQL, DOS Batch scripting, and the
ECS (CTL-M) Scheduling software. Familiar with Dimensional/OLAP Modeling, Normalized and Denormalized
Modeling, COBOL, JCL, NATURAL2, and FTP.
Experience:
USAA IT Lead Software Developer & Integrator
 2012 - 2014, as Member Data Applications Technical Lead responsible for maintenance and enhancements of the
WebSphere DataStage 8.5.1 Enterprise Customer Information File operational system and the Enterprise
Customer Data Warehouse near real time processes to WebSphere DataStage 8.5 and troubleshooting and
resolution of high data defects.
 Fall 2012, acted as the Offshore Availability Command Center in Chennai, India. Responsible for the Offshore
Availability Command Center operations while on duty. Drove major incident (MIs) calls to ensure that all
required resources were engaged to determine problem identification and system return to service to minimize
member pain and to communicate the status of MIs in a timely manner following a defined process. Insured that
all security policies were followed including restricted printing, cell phone usage, and OACC and hardware HUB
room access to protect USAA assets and member data.
 2012, As ETL Lead lead effort to retire the DataStage non-standard mount points for an approximate savings of
$12k per month. As acting Project Architect for Informatica Upgrade to provide guidance on a more streamlined
and efficient method to upgrade of all Informatica applications to reduce upgrade time, continue to support and
upgrade in flight projects as well as implement and validate the new Informatica environments for new
development. As ETL lead provided guidance in creating the Informatica 9.1 Upgrade plan as well as
implementing a reconfigured Informatica server cluster design to promote application portability thereby
decreasing critical application downtime during maintenance schedules.
 - As ETL Lead, actively participating in the Strategic ETL Environment design by researching vendor and
industry best practices from a software and hardware perspecitive.

 In 2011, as Project Technical Lead responsible for the analysis, design, construction and upgrade of the
WebSphere DataStage 8.0.1 Enterprise Customer Information File operational system and the Enterprise
Customer Data Warehouse near real time processes to WebSphere DataStage 8.5. Responsible for the design
and construction of the dev, test, QA and Prod DataStage server environments and configuration. The QA and
Prod environments are configured in an active/passive High Availabilty/Failover configuration. This project is
using technologies and infrastructure from the applied research projects described below. Technologies used to
deliver this project are IBM’s Classic Event Publisher (CEP), MQ Series, WebSphere DataStage EE 8.0.1 Data
Integration tool used in near real time mode, Data Event Publisher (DEP), DB2 UDB, DB2 Data Warehouse
Edition (DWE) on IBM Balanced Configuration Units. This project won the USAA IT Quality Cup Award for
small projects for delivering the project on time, under budget, zero defects and no production outages.
 In 2010, as Data Integration Lead responsible for the analysis, design, construction and upgrade of the
WebSphere DataStage EE 8.0.1 batch environment to version 8.1.01. Implemented and configured 8 linux batch
servers; dev (1), test (1), QA (2), and prod (4). QA and Prod DataStage environments are deployed on a shared
Veritas cluster in a head node-compute node for improved load balancing capability. Head node to compute
node failover is also available in this new environment. QA and Prod servers are within a firewalled “enclaved”
environment with restricted access. Approximately 5000 DataStage jobs were upgraded from the previous
version with approximately 800 jobs converted from using the DB2 EE Stage to the DB2 Connector stage in a
very aggressive timeline of 6 months.
 In 2009, as Data Integration Lead responsible for the analysis, design, and construction of the WebSphere
DataStage EE 8.0.1 batch environment. Implemented and configured four linux based batch servers, one dev,
one test, and two standalone production servers. Sources and targets include but a not limited to Host Data
Acquisition, Data Warehouses, Data Marts on various database technologies such as DB2 UDB, Oracle, MS
SQLServer, and IBM Balanced Configuration Unit.
 In 2008, assigned as Data Integration Lead assisted in the analysis, design and construction of the Enterprise
Customer Information File operational system and the Enterprise Customer Data Warehouse near real time
processes. Responsible for the design and construction of the dev, test, QA and Prod DataStage server
environments and configuration. The QA and Prod environments are configured in an active/passive High
Availabilty/Failover configuration. This project is using technologies and infrastructure from the applied
research projects described below. Technologies used to deliver this project are IBM’s Classic Event Publisher
(CEP), MQ Series, WebSphere DataStage EE 8.0.1 Data Integration tool used in near real time mode, Data Event
Publisher (DEP), DB2 UDB, DB2 Data Warehouse Edition (DWE) on IBM Balanced Configuration Units.
 In late 2007, assigned as ETL Design Lead to three USAA/IBM Technical Applied Research efforts to determine
feasibility, design functionality, acquisition, and implementation of new IBM Near Real Time Data Warehouse
Technology and tools. These 3 efforts delved into the Balanced Configuration Unit (BCU) scalable data
warehouse hardware, DataStage Data Integration tool in near real time mode, and the metadata integration of the
IBM’s WebSphere Information Server Tool.
 In 2007, assigned as Enterprise DW/Integration Area Development Component Lead responsible for analyzing
and planning for design changes to the current and future EDW/EIA model by current and upcoming projects.
Currents projects are for Market Performance Reporting and Analysis to support CEO Market Performance
Reporting to improve business decision execution. Other responsibilities include providing design and guidance
to ETL Project Delivery Teams to promote delivery of efficient and sound ETL processing from Data
Acquisition to Data Mart delivery in an accurate and timely manner. ETL Tool: Informatica PowerCenter 8
 In 2006, acting as Project Technical and Data Integration Lead lead many employee and 3rd
party teams to
implement many strategic initiatives allowing for improved business analysis and decision making. Such

projects included the HomeOwner Risk Tier project which encompassed the entire DW Lifecycle from Host Data
Acquisition, Data Store, Data Mart, and MS Analysis Services on IBM UDB/DB2 and SqlServer Database
platforms, Visual Sciences Analysis tool to track customer .com activity by delivering customer click trail data to
application using Informatica PowerCenter 7, Market Performance Reporting delivering raw Property and
Casualty and Customer into the Enterprise Integration Area for future storage in the planned Enterprise Data
Warehouse.
 In 2005, acting as Lead Informatica Developer continued to perform the analysis, design, construction and
implementation of the USAA Property and Casualty System Data Store (SDS) using Unix Kornshell scripting
and follow up projects such as the Fraud Tracking Application for Property and Casualty Insurance. Also lead
other projects, in the same capacity, delivering applications such as the IT Project Metrics Application
integrating project metrics into a single data repository allowing Project Managers improved project reporting
and estimating abilities in turn providing better project control and increased successful project implementation
in time to market and project cost savings.
 In 2004, Acting as the Lead Informatica Developer performed the analysis, design, construction and
implementation of the USAA Property and Casualty System Data Store (SDS) using Unix Kornshell scripting,
Informatica PowerCenter 6.1 to extract, transform and load Auto Policy Data into an IBM partitioned UDB/DB2
database. The first implemented at USAA. The MVS source file is ftp’ed as a 25-40 Gigabyte file that consists
of 40-60 million records of variable record lengths that include quality control record counts. Source is
processed into respective target table and work files and load using DB2 Sql Load scripts. 80-100 million
records processed on a twice nightly.
 Acting as Lead Informatica Developer led the analysis, design, construction and implementation of the
PeopleSoft EPM Application retiring the USAA Financial Data Warehouse converting 400 existing Unix
Kornshell/Informatica ETL processes to the use the delivered EPM Informatica objects often modifying to meet
the requirements provided by the USAA Financial User Community in 2003. Continued in the role of the Task
Group Lead maintaining the existing 400 USAA Financial Data Warehouse Unix Kornshell/Informatica ETL
processes
 Acquired proficient analysis, design, programming and maintenance skills while developing, implementing,
enhancing, and maintaining the USAA Financial Data Warehouse and achieving 98.5% system availability in
2001 and 2002. Demonstrated dynamic and innovative analysis and programming skills, performance tuning
activities that are vital elements in reducing system maintenance request generation thus allowing more time to
address customer requested system development and enhancements.
 As an IT Systems Analyst performed analysis, design, construction and implementation of the USAA Financial
Data Warehouse Pilot using Unix Kornshell scripting, SQL and PL/SQL scripts to extract, transform and load
Financial data from the PeopleSoft General Ledger application. The second phase of the Financial Data
Warehouse (FDW) was implemented one year later.
 Performed analysis, programming, directed and assisted other IT Systems Analysts and Associate Analysts in the
coding and testing of modifications to remove the surrogate keys from the FDW thus empowering the FDW end-
user to query, research and resolve data issues more efficiently thus resulting in lower troubleshooting and
customer service costs.
 Analyzed, designed and implemented the FDW Essbase Switch Utility. This utility is an application that allows
FDW users to have two versions of the ESSBASE application installed upon their desktop. Designed and
implemented this utility with little or no supervision in an expedient manner following all USAA ITCO

programming standards. The utility gives the user the ability to toggle between two versions of Essbase giving
the user more functionality and eliminating the need for a second work station.
 As FDW Task Group Lead, was responsible for the estimation, distribution and completion of all work requests.
Analyzed, designed and coded the FDW Data Retention process to eliminate obsolete data to recover disk space.
30 gigabytes disk space was returned for a cost savings in excess of $120,000.
 Responsible for efficiencies to nightly batch process and performance tuning of queries that has resulted in
decreased processing time and has contributed significantly to the application’s $130,000 profitability for 2001
and again in 2002.
Employment History:
USAA San Antonio, TX
IT Lead Software Developer & Integrator 2011 – August 2014
IT Senior Systems Analyst 1999 – 2011
IT Programmer Analyst 1997 – 1999
Bexar County Information Services San Antonio, TX
Analyst Programmer II 1994 – 1997
United States Naval Reserve 1989 – 1994
(Training and Administration of Reserves)
Naval Air Facility Detroit Selfridge ANGB, MI
Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class 1990 – 1994
Systems Output Technician 1987 – 1989
Education:
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Selfridge ANGB, MI
MBA, Information Systems Management 12 credit hours – 1993
St. Mary’s University San Antonio, TX
BBA, Computer Systems Management May, 1987
Macomb Community College Warren, MI
Emphasis in Computer Programming and Accounting 1992 – 1993
San Antonio College San Antonio, TX
Intro to Visual Basic, Intro to C++, Object Oriented Analysis and Design 1996 – 1997
Technical Data Warehouse Institute Las Vegas, NV
Various Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Seminar August 2002

Awards:
 Extra Mile/Professionalism Awards – For professionalism and excellent customer service and team oriented
skills (USAA)
 For professional achievement and superior performance of duty awarded the Naval Achievement Medal in 1992.
 Leadership, dedication, and professionalism resulted in selection as NAF Detroit Blue Jacket of the Year for
1991, NAF Detroit Blue Jacket of the Quarter for fourth quarter 1991, and as Sailor of the Month for November
1991.
 Letter of recognition as Class Honorman with a cumulative GPA of 93.34 in the Aviation Electronics Technician
Course, 1 of 26, on 01 August 1990.
 For good citizenship, community service, loyalty and honor awarded the Lions Club Citizenship Award and
selected as Outstanding Recruit on 08 December 1989.
Activities and Interests:
 Baseball
 Running
 Avid Reader
References:
 Available upon request

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