Informix Certified Professional VARDAN AROUSTAMIAN Informix Certified Professional

20938 Elenda Dr.
Cupertino, CA 95014
Phone: (408) 343-5485 work  (408) 253-6514 home
E-mail: vaar@geocities.com


SUMMARY: Sixteen years of extensive experience in the design and development of software systems and applications. Strong analytical, programming and design skills;
5 years of experience as an Informix DBA, Informix Certified System Administrator;
Strong knowledge of C and different DBMS in UNIX and MS Windows environments.
HARDWARE: HP 9000 Series, Sun Ultra Enterprise, IBM PC and compatibles, Nairi-4 (PDP-11 compatible)
SOFTWARE: UNIX (HP-UX, Sun Solaris, SCO; shell, sed, awk, perl),
MS Windows 2000/NT/98/95, MS-DOS, C, C++, SQL,
MS-SQL Server 2000/7, MS-OLAP, DataStage, ActaWorks, Brio, ProClarity,
Informix Dynamic Server 7.x, Informix-OnLine 5.x, Informix-SE,
Informix-NewEra, Informix-4GL, DB/2,
Clipper, FoxBase, Paradox & Object PAL, Btrieve,
Assembly (Intel 80x86 and IBM 360), PostScript


EXPERIENCE:
InfoGain Corporation www.infogain.com
Cupertino, CA, 08/00 - present
Dallas, TX, 06/99 - 07/00
Position: Consultant
  • at Hewlett Packard from InfoGain
  • at Cirrus Logic from InfoGain

Hewlett Packard www.hp.com
Cupertino, CA, 07/00 - present
Position: Data Warehouse Architect
  • Warranty reporting data warehouse maintenance and enhancement
    * MS-SQL Server databases maintenance
    * DataStage maintenance
  • Maintenance of MS SQL Server databases
    In all cases
    * Performance monitoring and tuning
    * Troubleshooting
    * Scripting (shell, awk, sed)

Cirrus Logic Inc. www.cirrus.com
Austin, TX, 09/99 - 03/00
Position: Informix DBA
  • Data Warehouse maintenance
    * Informix databases maintenance
    * ActaWorks maintenance
  • Maintenance of Informix databases for SAP R/3
  • Maintenance of Informix databases for Documentum
    In all cases
    * Performance monitoring and tuning
    * Troubleshooting
    * Scripting (shell, awk, sed)

The Chase Manhattan Bank www.chase.com
New York, NY, 06/98 - 05/99
Position: Informix DBA
  • Existing database and application analysis and improvement/maintenance recommendations
    * Security and Year 2000 issues
    * Performance and resource usage monitoring

Towers Perrin www.towers.com
Philadelphia, PA, 08/97 - 05/98
Position: Informix DBA
  • Maintenance of OnLine DS 7.2x (HP-UX, SunOS) in production, staging, testing and development environments (8 servers; primarily responsible for PeopleSoft HR databases) which includes:
    * System performance monitoring
    * Troubleshooting
    * Performance tuning
    * Scripting (shell, perl)
      - developed scripts for statistics informmation saving and
        scripts to extract particular parameters from saved files
  • Development team assistance
    * SQL analysis and optimization

Sterling Group/Intercomservice www.sterling.ru
Moscow, Russia, 04/95 - 06/97
Position: Senior Software Engineer
  • Database Administrator (Informix OnLine Dynamic Server 7.x, HP-UX)
    installation, configuration, archive/backup/restore, replication, troubleshooting
  • Provided Informix products technical support and consulting
  • Developed experimental programs for testing facilities of NewEra 2.x;
    programs on Informix-4GL with CGI


Inversion www.inversion.ru
Moscow, Russia, 01/95 - 03/95
Position: Software Developer
  • Developed applications for converting Bank System data from the old version (implemented on Clipper) to the new version (implemented on Borland C++ and Btrieve)
  • Developed application for analysing and transforming the data from the old version to text files with special structure;
        Clipper 5.01, MS-DOS
  • Developed application for inserting data from text files with special structure to Btrieve tables of the new version;
        Borland C++, MS-DOS, Btrieve, Novell NetWare

Tuapsenefteproduct
Tuapse, Russia, 03/94 - 10/94
Position: Software Developer

  • Developed oil sales calculation system;
        Microsoft C/C++ 7.0, MS-DOS, Btrieve, Novell NetWare;
    * Developed functions for forming requests to Btrieve;
    * Developed functions for row selection conditions forming
       (translation of user queries, designed in screen forms, to Btrieve requests);
    * Developed functions for printer control and report printing

Yerevan Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines
Yerevan Control Systems Institute nowadays. Just poor remains of YerSRIMM
Yerevan SRIMM
Yerevan, Armenia, 11/83 - 03/94
Position: Senior Software Engineer 1990 - 1994
Position: Software Developer 1983 - 1990
  • Designed and developed personnel registration and badge printing system;
        IBM PC/AT with VIGA+ card, connected digital video camera and colour video printer, Windows, Paradox, ObjectPAL, Borland C++ for interface libraries with colour video printer and VIGA+
  • Developed universal installation program for software systems for IntSoft Ltd. (Yerevan, Armenia);
        IBM PC/AT, MS-DOS, Borland C++ with PCX graphics library
  • Created PostScript Level 1 interpreter (with reduced command set) for Nareg Ltd. (Sydney, Australia);
    * Designed general architecture;
    * Designed and developed scanner and some groups of operators.
        PC version: IBM PC/AT, MS-DOS, Turbo C;
        Nareg computer (Motorola 68030, VME bus), UNIX V, AT&T C
  • Armenian screen/keyboard driver;
        IBM PC/AT, MS-DOS, Turbo Assembler
  • Designed and developed a Database for Armenian Red Cross warehouse;
        IBM PC/AT, MS-DOS, Clipper 5.0
  • Designed and developed a Database for Armenian Red Cross patient registration;
        IBM PC/AT, MS-DOS, FoxBase+ 2.10
  • Designed and implemented a complete Database management system supporting nested relations;
        Nairi-4 (PDP-11 compatible), UNIX, C;
    * Designed general system architecture and database structures
    * Designed external and internal representation of the nested relations
    * Designed data storing structures, data space pagination;
       page structure and page links; records storing method on pages
    * Designed QBE modification for nested relations
    * Designed syntactical and semantic analysers of data manipulation language
    * Designed internal representation of queries
    * Designed and developed selection part of queries
    * Designed and developed some service shell scripts


EDUCATION: MS, Applied Mathematics, Yerevan State University
Yerevan, Armenia, 1983
TRAINING: Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas, Woodbridge, NJ 05/00
Informix Enterprise Replication, Informix, San Francisco, CA 10/97
Supporting OS/2 DB/2, IBM, Moscow, Russia 12/95
REFERENCES: Available upon request
Well, check Informix-FAQ -- Credits Page or
search comp.databases.informix Usenet group

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