SUMMARY

• I have been working in IT since 1987 creating solutions for multiple industries and technologies including developed solutions for small business owners and fortune 500 companies alike.
• Success included communicating with sponsors, stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• I am skilled in development and have the vision to see the marriage of business needs and technology solutions.
• I am SQL Server DBA, developer, and evangelist but fluent in multiple technologies and disciplines.
• I have a great sense of responsibility in dealing with operations projects and understand the value of uptime.
• Further, I have a sense of legacy, so I always leave projects well documented and automated so that they remain healthy even in my absence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Senior SQL DBA, DEVOPS SRE, Windows Systems Engineer ( Confidential )
• Daily triage of 8000+ servers, mostly SQL servers, managing the accounting and billing for aZure. SQL Versions from 2008 through 2019.
• SQL SME Consultant (60 - day contract with Brooks Running through AIM Consulting)
• Troubleshoot and optimize Daily transaction financial SSIS Solution. Several independent SSIS Packages that required validation and Error trapping modifications. < -- SSIS on SQL 2012 -->
• Senior SQL DBA, Windows Engineer | Axon (YDPages Confidential C2C)
• SQL Database administration, Windows Engineering, Audits and automation. Provided PowerShell and SQL Scripts for automation with puppet and terraform. Conducted Audits across Government Agency implementations.
• SQL Database Engineer, Data Quality | GoDaddy (Pactera)
• Data Quality efforts on production fulfillment environment. Product Creation and backend support for ecommerce operations. SQL, PowerShell, Swagger, windows Services, C# Debug
• Windows, SQL, and DevOps SRE SME / Starbucks (AIM consulting)< -- Mimic of Deconstructed SSIS packages -->
• Short Term Consultation for Creating SQL Load tests from XE Event Session replay traces using PowerShell for performance testing. Provided insights into DevOps / Engineering best practices. Demonstrated the differences between monitoring and auditing enterprise solutions. SQL Server Architecture review and recommendations for extreme OLTP Environment.
• Windows, SQL, and DevOps SME / Sur La Table (Insight Global)
• Short term SQL SME to review and solidify SQL Administration tasks after quick departure of Previous DBA. Fully Automated solution provided after 3 months.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed service in support of Windows Device Group Test and Execution.
• The team’s primary responsibility was to manage the infrastructure that automatically tests 9000+ versions of windows across all supported hardware times and with a large variety of test goals, Daily.
• SQL DBA and tier III engineer for 1000+ Servers as well as internal tools and automation efforts.
• Extensive use MSSQL and PowerShell on physical as well as Azure based servers.
• Evaluated Azure DB across Express routes.
• Architect and developer of large scope SSIS ETL of server configuration and compliance audits across both physical and azure resources.
• SSRS report creation as well as SQL2HTML custom report constructs.
• Principal Architect of Asset Inventory management system maintaining 4000+ servers both Physical and Azure based.

Environment: Team Leadership / Project Management / MS SQL Server 2012, 2008, 2005 / MySQL / Windows Servers 2012, 2008, 2003 / Windows 8 / AWS EC2/ Windows Hyper-V / Operations Management / PowerShell

Promethean / Head of Data Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Principal duties involved development staff in database best practices.
• Evaluating database performance and implementing solution and implementation changes to increase performance and scalability.
• Over the year my duties expanded into production operations management.
• Additionally, I provided management of local development environments and production environments hosted at Confidential .
• Managed and Maintained ETL Processes for student assessment software.

Environment: MS SQL Server 2008, Windows Servers 2008 / Windows Hyper-V / Team Leadership / Cross Team Support.

Confidential

Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Level 3 engineering support of support.xbox.com.
• Focused on implementation of FAST Search of SharePoint Servers, SCOM implementations and Product Deployments using Octopus.

IT Soft - Director of Operations / SQL Server DBA, Developer

Responsibilities:

• I created a formal team structure and outline.
• The support team was in chaos and became a smooth-running engine of productivity in a matter of days.
• Leveraged SharePoint to create a formal management structure.
• This enabled each team to have a clear understanding of their responsibilities and expected timelines.
• Drove initiatives for better communication practices including; Distributed VOIP across the US and India teams. Support Ticketing Systems, CRM tools and Contact lists as well as issue tracking.
• Implemented new programs and concepts to provide for stability.
• Implemented a formal backup schedule and retention policy to prevent collisions and network disruption, also decreased required capacity by identifying key resources vs. backups of redundant data.
• Implemented formal disaster recovery plan and scheduled fire drills.
• I implemented in system performance monitoring and new methods of administration.
• I Drove programs to eliminate single points of failure from the production environment including; Clustered terminal servers for client access.
• Added redundant network infrastructure in case of hardware failure common in Linux systems.
• Implemented Roaming Profiles and DFS for file and desktop recovery Implemented SQL Server Mirroring for transaction by transaction disaster recovery of Key Databases.
• I demonstrated SDLC standards and practices creating formal production, test and development environments.
• I Drove development team to focus on automation, documentation and implementation of processes; Implemented PowerShell as a tool for file and system management.
• Implemented SSIS packages and scripting for automated import processing of customers B2B data.

Environment: Business Leadership / Team Leadership / Customer Support Management / MS SQL Server 2008, Windows Servers 2008 / Windows Hyper-V / Windows Remote Terminal Services