Professional Summary

Technology Specialist: Expertise in Technical Writing, Information Security, Project Management, and Database Administration in Sybase, MS SQL Server and Oracle. Extensive experience in documentation, integration, migration, certification, quality assurance, development and testing on Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and Intel based platforms. Languages include Unix shell script, Perl, Transact SQL, SSIS, Java and 'C'. Excellent Writing and Communication skills with a wealth of experience in Data Processing. Non-Technical articles published in NY's Photo News, Journal News, LoHud News, Iqrious and HubPages.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Database Administration

Pharma/Health Care Sector Technical Writing Consultant for a Global Information Security PCI Compliance Project, interfacing with various functional and IT teams to conduct and validate compliance testing, document test cases, protocols, discrepancies and remediation. Participated in an ArcSight evaluation and implementation project, related to PCI compliance requirements. Also researched and wrote a variety of required project documents for the Global Execution Framework, an adaption of six sigma management protocol. Documents include Risk Assessments, Training Strategies, Audit cross reference document, Traceability Matrix and various Power Point Presentations for Management.Reporting to a Global Database Management team, researched and wrote Database Security Standard documents for Oracle and MS SQL Server. Additional deliverables included IQ Validation, Patch Management and Security Remediation Strategy documents. Interfaced with Global Information Security and Global IT contacts for research, discovery and formulation of updated security procedures, based on audit results and remediation plans.

Confidential

Database Administration/Application Development and Support

Confidential Care Sector Application support for health care and pharmaceutical marketing solutions. Provided extensive technical writing, administration, reporting and software development and testing. Completed extensive documentation of legacy database procedures, automated client extract procedures using TSQL and Perl, provided QA for new software releases and provided technical production support and reporting for all Pharmaceutical clients.

Confidential

Technical Writing

Health Care Sector - Technical Writing of online tutorials related to health care and stress management, utilizing specialized templates with custom website interfaces, targeted for web publication for Iqrious.com.

Confidential

Senior Technology and Database Administration

• Chief Editor and Writer for the Global Database Management Group's DBA Maintenance Newsletter, reviewing and editing all submissions, as well as provided content, writing two to three articles per edition in a team environment and on deadline. Utilized Microsoft Word, FrameMaker and HTML.Garnered a 'Best in Class' award.Interfaced with Audit and Information Security Departments to materialize and document all security guidelines and remediation activities to achieve a total overhaul of all DB related security processes. This included audit requirement gathering, design, documentation, tracking and training of new internal teams and offshore teams on all new data security guidelines and reporting requirements.
• Award winning management, support, documentation and training for the GDMG Configuration Management Team as part of the 'separation of responsibilities' security initiative.
• Provided content for Disaster Recovery Repository: Documented and Diagrammed all supported Production and Contingency platforms in Visio, including storage, performance and expansion capacities and contingency synchronization modes, including precise, step by step DR instructions.
• Project Management on multiple projects including Database Portal Project, Contingency tier planning, Municipal forecasting application design, implementation, documentation and testing. Outage reporting for Management wrote, packaged and transported process, then trained offshore support team.
• 10 years - Senior Database Management, supporting Real-Time Trading systems for Asset Management, Equities, Municipals and Futures Applications on Sybase and MS SQL Server with Secondary and Group line DBA support for Oracle. Also provided performance tuning, replication server setup, support scripting, reporting installs and data modeling using PowerDesigner.
• Supported multiple migrations, upgrades, rollouts, audits, and security remediation's while meeting aggressive build and implementation schedules. Acted as global liaison between departments and regions. Conducting weekly meetings and managed all communication through central contact persons in each team with extensive management and vendor interface.
• Administered Sybase IQ Proof of Concept project after in-depth Sybase IQ training. Used SharePoint and PowerPoint to present design phases and results to management and Users.
• Coded using Unix Shell scripts, SQL and regression tested database maintenance scripts and custom report programs. Participated in evaluation of BMC Patrol for firm-wide use, test drove and participated in migration effort of all Database monitoring scripts.
• Managed scheduling for all configuration and patch releases as well as major rollouts and maintenance changes through BMC Patrol. Headed up scheduling and release team to Patrol through the Corporate Change Management System.

Confidential

Certification and Database Administration

• Rollouts of Sybase SQL Servers for bank-wide usage, which involved extensive documentation. Certified Sybase Replication Server for preliminary Bank wide usage. Served as member of the J.P. Morgan Replication Consortium that developed and documented Sybase Replication Server best practices. Managed in-depth relationship with Sybase technical support with weekly meetings to address bugs encountered in certification process for SQL Server, Replication Server, RSM, Web SQL and SQL Monitor, all of which were certified firm wide by our team.
• Sybase Database Administrator on Sun Solaris platform, supporting the Equity trading floor, including builds, implementations, maintenance, performance tuning and script and reporting development in 'C' and Perl.

Confidential

Database Administration

Database Administrator for OASYS Production Trade Capture system for swaps and options: 450 users in New York, London, Tokyo and Frankfurt. Managed a migration project from SUN 690 with 4.9.2 SYBASE, providing all security administration as well all coding and integration for a number of crucial reporting systems.