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Willie Favero is currently a Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist working with the Data Warehouse for System z Swat Team at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab, a member of IBM's zChampion team, a representative for System z with IBM's Academic Initiative, an IBM Certified Solutions Expert for DB2 9 for z/OS and DB2 for z/OS Version 8, DB2 UDB, and DB2 for OS/390 Version 7, and a participant in the zNextGen program at SHARE. Between IMS/VS DB/DC, Cincom's Total and Supra, IDMS, and DB2, he has over 30+ years experience working with database. However, Willie has spent his last 24 years working primarily with the DB2 family. His responsibilities include consulting to IBM's customers on Data Warehouse running with DB2 for z/OS. He has performed DB2 subsystem, performance, and security health checks, performance tuning for the DB2 subsystem, performance analysis for DB2 applications and SQL, design reviews, data modeling, general DB2 consultation, CritSit resolution, DB2 installation assistance, migration planning to DB2 for z/OS Version 8, all forms of DB2 education, and dables in z/OS and System z hardware. Willie currently has the top DB2 for z/OS blog on the internet, This is Willie's second career with IBM. Before rejoining IBM, Willie was a Principal Consultant for BMC Software, Inc. With 7+ years at BMC Software, Inc., Willie's responsibilities included consulting to BMC's R&D groups and to BMC's customers on issues relating to both the IBM DB2 family (all platforms) and the BMC products that support the DB2 family. He spent a great deal of his time presenting at conferences (locally and internationally), user groups, seminars, and taping product videos for customer distribution. Prior to his stay at BMC, Willie was a Senior Instructor with IBM education for 11 years. He developed and delivered DB2 courses for IBM's Customers, IBM System Engineers, IBM internal sites, and for the DB2 developers and DB2 Level 2 Support at the IBM Santa Teresa Lab (now Silicon Valley Labs). Previous to joining IBM (his first IBM career), Willie spent over ten years as an IBM customer. During the last two years of this period, he held positions as a Systems Programmer in the Manufacturing industry supporting MVS, VTAM, NCP, and IMS. Prior to that, Willie worked five years as an IMS DB/DC Systems Programmer in both the Finance and Manufacturing industries. He started in IT performing duties as an Application Programmer and Application Analyst using IMS in the Finance industry for three years. He entered the industry in 1973 after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Information System Management from the State University of New York College at Buffalo (aka Buffalo State College).
Willie has been a technical reviewer for all the DB2 product publications and SRA DB2 self study courses. While working for IBM, he had the opportunity to contribute to several DB2 "Redbooks" published by the IBM International Technical Support Centers (ITSC) on packaging, performance and distributed processing. Willie currently acts as a technical reviewer for books covering DB2, DB2 UDB, application development, data warehouse, and Object Oriented Design for several major publishing companies. He volunteers his services as a technical editor, reviewing articles on IMS, Parallel Sysplex, the DB2 Family of database managers, and numerous other topics for a variety of nationally published magazines. He has donated his time to Giga Information Group , search390.com and searchDATABASE.com Internet Web sites and Quest's DB2 Pipeline answering questions about database. In addition, Willie has published over a dozen articles on DB2 and client/server in numerous magazines and authored the TidBit column and Face Off column in the IDUG Solutions Journal.
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Willie is a recognized worldwide as a DB2 expert and is a highly sought after speaker on a variety of DB2 for z/OS, Client/Server, Object Technology, z/OS, System z, and specialty engine topics. He presents at numerous conferences including the North American, European, and Asian Pacific International DB2 User Group (
As an IBM Instructor, Willie developed and taught courses on DB2 Release Transition (for Version 2.2, Versions 2.3, and Version 3), DB2 Advanced Recovery, DB2 Database and Systems Administration, DB2 Application Programming, SAA SQL, DB2 Design Reviews, SQL Performance Analysis, DB2 Performance and Tuning, DB2 Application Performance Tuning, DB2 Application Design Review and DB2 Distributed Processing. While with BMC, Willie developed and taught courses (and seminars) on DB2 Recovery and Restart, DB2 Version 3 Implementation, DB2 Version 4 for MVS/ESA Implementation and Planning, DB2 for OS/390 Version 5 Implementation and Planning and DB2 for OS/390 Version 6 Implementation and Planning. He has also written numerous presentations, seminars, and classes for BMC products that support DB2. Most recently, in his last role as a consultant for IBM Lab Services, he has taught the 