Timothy Valihora is an Ottawa-based IT consultant working with IBM on next-generation data solutions, particularly IBM Cloud Pak for Data, which enhances data cataloging and organization. He specializes in data governance, has extensive experience with IBM InfoSphere Information Server, and has successfully completed over 160 installations, including disaster recovery strategies. Valihora is also certified in cloud governance with Collibra and is proficient in various IBM products and microservices.

1. Timothy Valihora

2. Timothy Valihora is an Ottawa IT consultant who coordinates with
IBM on developing next generation data solutions. Among the
areas in which Timothy Valihora has extensive knowledge is IBM
Cloud Pak for Data, an enterprise platform that was expanded in
2020 to include new data cataloging technologies.

3. The synergy provided by this solution is that it combines
containerized software metadata repositories with new ways of
simplifying and unifying elements that enable seamless collection
and organization of data. This is critical in situations where
business continuity efforts are at the forefront and massive
volumes of data from various sources are challenging to
aggregate and analyze, in ways that generate fast, actionable
insights.
IBM Cloud Pak for Data begins with a robust data catalog
designed for handling processes at scale. Set around specific
business vocabularies, it generates a template for efficiently
loading and automating data content. At the same time, data
sources are more easily accessed and managed in ways that drive
transparency and informed decision-making.

4. These intelligent data catalogs avoid many of the redundant
manual processes of old repositories and are ideal for deployment
in multicloud and virtualization environments. They are also
designed for close integration with the latest artificial intelligence
tools as they emerge.
Tim Valihora is a US based (Vero Beach, FL) Data Governance
specialist within the IBM InfoSphere Information Server (IIS)
software suite and is also Cloud Certified on Collibra Data
Governance Center
Career Highlights Include:

5. Technical Architecture, IIS installations, post-install-
configuration, SDLC mentoring, ETL programming, performance-
tuning, client-side training (including administrators, developers
or business analysis) on all of the over 15 out-of-the-box IBM IIS
products
Over 160 Successful IBM IIS installs - Including the GRID Tool-Kit
for DataStage (GTK), MPP, SMP, Multiple-Engines, Clustered
Xmeta, Clustered WAS, Active-Passive Mirroring and Oracle Real
Application Clustered ‘IADB’ or ‘Xmeta’ configurations
Extensive experience with creating realistic and achievable
Disaster-Recovery (DR) for IIS and Collibra

6. IBM MicroServices (MS) (built upon Red Hat Open-Shift Technology)
installations and administration including Information Governance
Catalog (IGC) ‘New’, Information Analyzer (IA) ‘thin’, Watson
Knowledge Catalog (WKC) and Enterprise Search (ES) – on IBM Cloud
PAK for Data platforms or IIS v11.7.1.2 ‘on-prem’
Over 6000 DataStage and QualityStage ETL Jobs Coded
Address Certification (WAVES, CASS, SERP, Address Doctor, Experian
QAS)
Real-Time coding and mentoring via IBM IIS Information Services
Director (ISD)
IIS IGC Rest-API coding (including custom audit coding for what has
changed within IGC recently…or training on the IGC rest-explorer
API)

7. IGC ‘Classic’ and IGC ‘New’ – Data Lineage via Extension Mapping
Documents or XML ‘Flow-Docs’
IBM Business Process Manager (BPM)
Information Analyzer (IA) Data Rules (via IA or QualityStage – in
batch or real-time)
IBM IIS Stewardship Center installation and Configuration (BPM)
Data Quality Exception Console (DQEC) setup and configuration
IGC Glossary Publishing Remediation Workflows (BPM, Stewardship
Center, Subscription Manager)