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Kevin Flanagan
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Kevin has 25 years of information technology experience. His background includes application design and coding, database design and implementation, systems programming and the delivery of intensive educational seminars to systems professionals.
Recent Success Story
Kevin taught Oracle8i Application Tuning at JPMorganChase to the following review:
“I would love to take another class with Kevin.”
“Kevin is great, one of the best.”
“We need more instructors like Kevin, he was great!”
Skills
- Introductory and Advanced Java Subjects
- Introductory and Advanced Oracle Subjects
- XML
- BEA WebLogic
- Visual Basic
- CORBA
- Introductory and Advanced DB2 Subjects
Industry Experience
- SkillBuilders (1996 - present) Senior Instructor
Teaching Introductory and Advanced Java Subjects, Introductory and Advanced Oracle Subjects, XML, Visual Basic, and CORBA. - The New York Presbyterian Hospital (1997 - 2000) Consultant
Provided DB2 and Oracle DBA skills to a large medical complex. Responsibilities included; training new DBAs, design of a new data repository using Erwin, installation and testing of Oracle8, migration of MVS/ESA DBMSs (IMS and DB2) to OS/390, evaluation of DB2 Universal, and the development of Web applications accessing Oracle and DB2 databases. Web applications written using Java Servlets, JDBC and JSP on the server side and presented using HTML and XML. - General Electric Capital Corporation (1994 - 1997) Consultant
Worked on a client-server interface for Tax and General Ledger applications. The project required design, testing, and implementation of programs, JCL PROCs and Gupta RPLs in test, user acceptance, and production environments. Also responsible for the conversion of a Gupta SQLBase application to PowerBuilder as well as developing PowerBuilder/Oracle systems for tax applications. - Avon Products (1992 - 1995) Consultant
Provided expertise in an emerging DB2 environment on logical design, data modeling, physical design and performance issues to Application Development groups and provided performance and tuning recommendations to the DBA and Systems Programming areas. Aided Human-Resources area in implementation of client/server technology. Provided Access, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, and Syabse support to several development groups. Also designed, coded and implemented GUI systems for tailored management tasks. - Chemical Bank (1993) Consultant
Provided Technical support to application teams migrating their development platform from the mainframe to the PC. Advised team members on product usage for Microfocus COBOL, XDB, MCO (Microfocus CICS Option), and MF370ASM (BAL emulator). - Manufacturers Hanover (1982 - 1992) Consultant
Provided both DBA and systems programming skills to the client in a large-scale corporate environment. Responsibilities included: implementation, maintenance, and performance monitoring of IMS (under CICS), DB2, QMF and related program products. - Bell Telephone Laboratories (1981 - 1982) Consultant
Designed and coded an IMS/DC based analog of SMP4 for Bell System companies. The functions performed by this package replaced the editing facilities of TSO and the install and audit features of SMP4. - Salomon Brothers (1979 - 1981) DBA / IMS Systems Programmer
Assignments focused on logical and physical database design with emphasis on secondary indexing and IMS logical relationships. - City of New York (1978 - 1979) Data Base Administrator
Tasks were concentrated on IMS recovery procedures using IMS utilities such as log accumulation, image copy, forward recovery, batch backout, SMU-II, and data base reorganization. - Equitable Life Assurance (1975 - 1978) Applications Programmer
Coded COBOL programs for large pension valuation systems with an emphasis on analysis eventually replacing coding tasks.
Education
- Sacred Heart University - candidate for MA in Comparative Religion, June 2001
- University of Connecticut, B.A. with Honors in Philosophy, June 1972
Teaching Philosophy
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." - Mark van Doren
