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A graduate of Carleton University, Timothy Paul Valihora studied math, commerce, film, and computer science. He leverages his training to lead TVMG Consulting, Inc., as it’s current president. An IBM Information Server certified consultant, Timothy Valihora maintains an interest in a diverse array of IT topics, including IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC.)
IBM Information Governance Catalog helps organizations establish a consistent data governance program that dictates how data should be structured and stored. The Catalog also helps businesses glean useful information from their data – which can then used to feed major initiatives such as Master Data Management (MDM), lifecycle management, big data integration – as well as security and privacy projects.
Further, IBM Information Governance Catalog helps businesses establish a common vocabulary and understand how their various types of data are connected across the organization. The Catalog also helps cut back on technical training by giving team members a strong understanding of their business’s information and what it means as well as how the business uses the information.
In terms of leading-edge Data Governance – Mr. Valihora’s most recent specialization in IGC includes the following expertise:
• Over 120 Successful installs of IIS
• Installation and configuration of IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) for use as a “Stewardship Center” with IIS v11.5 IGC
• Coding of over 6600 DataStage and QualityStage jobs
• Expert in SMP, GRID/MPP IIS topoligies – High Availability, Clustering, Mirroring…
• Open IGC (bundle.zip) definitions of technical information assets
• IMAM scripting via imam.sh
• ISTOOLS scripting via Istools.sh
• Programming of over 200 DataStage jobs which utilize the IIS REST API (query, create, modify, map and delete Information Assets in IGC.)
• Coding of multiple IIS Service Oriented Architecture (ISD) “Real-Time” Jobs (i.e. exposing the functionality of DS/QS jobs as a web service)
• ESSBASE PACK for DataStage installs, configuration and programming
• Information Analyzer – Workbench and Think Client (including Data Rules and Data Quality Scoring)
• IisAdmin.sh scripting for managing and fine tuning IIS Installations for scalability
• Dsjob scripting with integration to CA7 and Control-M etc.
• IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility (LSF), Sun Grid Engine (SGE) integration with the Grid Toolkit for DataStage
• Operations Console (DSODB) implementations (DSAppWatcher.sh)
• Flow-Unit.xml document creation via DataStage jobs (define accurate Data Lineage reports for Open IGC Objects.)
• MetaDex Implementations (reverse engineer stored procedures for Data Lineage reporting)
• Expertise in the IIS Hadoop, Hive, Amazon S3 Connectors
• ODBC Connectivity
Mr. Valihora is considered one of the foremost experts in IIS in North America with over 18 years of full-time sustained consulting for IBM Software Group (SWG) – Ascential Software Inc. – amongst other premier consulting companies such as Time well Inc., Stream Integration and Prolifics Inc.
When out of the office Mr. Valihora enjoys fishing, guitar, golf and tennis.
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