Rene Fernandez

Rene Fernandez has over 17 years of work experience in various roles related to data management and database administration. Rene started their career as an Auxiliary Finance Officer at CCL in 2003 before moving on to roles such as Systems Analyst Cobol at Grupo Protege - Consoft Consultoria and BI Consultant at Softtek. In 2009, Rene joined IBM as a DB2 DBA and System Support for z/OS, where they supported global customers and IBM's internal accounts. Rene worked at IBM for seven years before transitioning to a Data Architect role at Indra, where they were responsible for managing the data assets of the CAIXA Credit Cards Project. Rene then joined IBM again in 2016, this time as a DB2 DBA and System Support for z/OS, supporting accounts such as AMEX, Whirlpool, and FedEx. In 2021, they worked at Qintess as a Senior Database Specialist and later joined AtScale as part of their Professional Services team. Currently, Rene is a Solutions Architect and Analytics professional at Triade LLC.

Rene Fernandez's education history includes the following:

1. Rene obtained an MBA degree in Data Science (Big Data) from IGTI, where they studied from 2018 to 2019.

2. In 2008 to 2009, Rene attended FIAP - Faculdade de Informática e Administração Paulista, where they specialized in High-Performance System and Mainframe Systems.

3. From 2005 to 2007, Rene studied at Universidade Paulista, focusing on Information Systems, although a specific degree was not mentioned.

Additionally, Rene has obtained several certifications throughout their career, including:

1. Cloud Lakehouse Data Management Foundation Series from Informatica, obtained in May 2022.

2. Data Governance and Privacy: Data Democratization from Informatica, obtained in May 2022.

3. Data Governance Champions from Informatica, obtained in June 2021.

4. IBM Db2 for z/OS V12.x Database Administration - Intermediate from IBM, obtained in December 2020.

5. Hands-On Snowflake - WebUI Essentials from Snowflake, obtained in July 2020.

6. Interskill - Basics for ZoweTM from IBM, obtained in July 2020.

7. IBM Mentor, obtained in August 2017.

8. IBM 612, DB2 10 for z/OS Database Administrator from IBM, obtained in December 2013.

9. IBM 732, DB2 9 for z/OS Database Administrator from IBM, obtained in December 2012.

10. IBM 730, DB2 9 Fundamentals from IBM, obtained in December 2011.

11. SnowPro Core Certification from Snowflake, obtained in September 2020.