TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud & Virtualization: AWS, VMware, Hyper - V, Ansible

Operating Systems: MS Windows and Linux (Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian)

Programming: PHP, Perl, BASH, HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, JAVA, C++

Architecture: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL,PHP/Perl)

Databases: MySQL 5 & 8, Memcache, Oracle, SQL, and Cassandra

Monitoring: Nagios, Custom Scripts (Crons, Shell, Application logs)

Backups: LVM, mysqldump and replay of binary logs, SQL server

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Beachwood, OH

MySQL Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performance tuning of production systems; identify, evaluate, and create solutions to application bottlenecks
• MySQL Enterprise administration: replication, configuration, version upgrades, and server resource management
• User access control, audit logs, keyring encryption, backup encryption
• Systemd unit programming: multi - instance systemctl, notifications, monitoring
• Code review, mentoring, QA testing, production deployments
• Alternative database evaluation (MariaDB)
• Bash scripting: custom libs, tools, crons, and monitoring programs
• Stored routines for partitioned table maintenance and data updates (8 TB)
• ON-Call and Disaster recovery

Confidential, Wadsworth, OH

Senior Database Administrator & Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Performance tuning of production systems; identify, evaluate, and create solutions to application bottlenecks
• General MySQL administration: replication, configuration, version upgrades, and server resource management
• LAMP stack engineering of architecture and topology in Virtualized and dedicated server environments
• Stored routines, reporting, BI tools integration, and related application and data design
• Manage developer environment and deployments to production
• SQL code review, establish code standards, and mentor developers
• Version control with SVN, schema design with Agilian, GIT
• Utilize and administer Nagios for a customized monitoring solution; notifications, escalations, custom scripts
• Backup & restore with point in time LVM or AWS snapshots, mysqldump and replay of binary logs

Confidential, Kalamazoo, MI

Senior Online Systems Programmer and Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Architected and programmed the MVC framework for the web application API and Request servers
• Trained all new hires and interns for PHP programming
• Installing, configuring, maintaining, security, designing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and training for large, highly available and robust MySQL databases
• Responsible for NOSQL Cassandra integration, laying the framework and guidelines from MySQL to a distributed Cassandra data layer
• Ability to utilize and operate various flavors of operating system: Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Windows
• Highly proficient PHP web application programmer
• Performance logging, tuning and understanding across all levels of LAMP and Cassandra architecture
• Worked with outsourced personnel in product integration, including custom PHP and Apache modules, payment API and partner services
• Scripting languages: BASH, PHP, Perl, Javascript
• Custom logging and performance monitoring solutions