SUMMARY:

• Resourceful, decisive problem - solver with over 20 years’ experience as a DBA and 12 years as a network and systems administrator for Confidential 100, 500, 1000 insurance, finance, ratings, telecommunications, and multi-billion dollar international corporations.
• Currently looking for FT, or RTH jobs (DBA, network, SA, Support, Tech Writer) to utilize my diverse and extensive experience and technical skillset, to help people and be of value to a company in New Jersey within 30 miles of 07726.
• Completed 6-month full-time Server Specialist course at Confidential.
• My strong work ethic and ability and strong desire to help and support people and companies have made me the preferred first contact for many people in many different organizations.
• These included end users, developers, administrators, auditors and managers up to CIOs, throughout my career.
• My e xperience enable d me to quickly find answers to their question/issue if I d id n’t already know them.
• I understand priorities and urgency, multi-tasking & completing tasks quickly and well, working independently or in groups.
• I strongly believe in mentoring others, collaboration and information-sharing, creating mails or technical/training documents with useful or important information when appropriate.
• My verbal and written skills are excellent, and I tailor my responses and documents to the target audience.
• I’ve installed, used, configured and supported many types of hardware and software/applications.
• These included multiple incident, problem & change management systems, throughout my career, on various versions of Windows, Unix and Linux machines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware/Operating Systems: AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu Linux, Windows, Unix, Twin Fin and Mustang Netezza appliances, IBM RS/6000, Sun and IBM workstations, Windows PCs and Servers with many processors/cores, HP, Confidential, IBM and other printers, tape drives, and other peripherals, Windows: NT, 2000, XP, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012 R2

Software/Applications: VMWare, Wireshark, C, C++, Unix Shell programming, Linux, PL/I, PL/C, Aqua Data Studio, Remedy, PVCS, SCCS, svn, Patrol, Tivoli, Autosys, SCOM alerting system, MS Office(Word, Excel, Project, Access), Sybase Central, Control Center, Monitor Server, Open Client, Open Server, SDKSQL-Backtrack to disk, tape and ADSM, White Sands’ ProActive DBA, Solarwinds Orion and Database Performance Analyzer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newark, NJ

DBA

Responsibilities:

• Consultant, supporting groups including Fixed Income, CRM and Investment Management, from development through production, supporting heterogeneous replication from Confidential to MS SQL Server. MS SQL Server versions from 2008 to 2017, and Confidential versions from 15 through 16, including replication on Sybase and SQL Servers.
• Performance and Tuning, configuration parameter suggestions, and problem solving are some of my skillset.
• Perform backups and restores using full, differential, and transaction log backups, Availability Groups and Log Shipping.
• Also performing data extraction and loading(ETL).
• Received many positive comments regarding my responsiveness, helpfulness, and efficiency.

Confidential

DBA

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to Confidential to identify/fix months-long issues causing IQ server crashes and slowdowns.
• Identified and fixed most issues by upgrading to latest version of IQ 15.4.
• Remotely supported them in Texas.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

DBA

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained over 150 local and remote Sql Server and Sybase servers.
• Was project leader for, and expeditiously solved, a major issue with Confidential ’s multi-exabyte ECS storage arrays in Toronto, causing numerous production and non-production backup and restore failures.
• Supervised and c ommunic ated daily with vendors’ developers, tech support and management, as well as RBCCM stakeholders, when issues occurred, until all issues were eliminated.
• Have a reference letter from my manager.

Confidential, New York, NY

DBA

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained SAP/Sybase ASE & Repserver and Microsoft SQL Servers, using Always On Availability Groups on SAN arrays, and installed and administered SSIS, SSAS and SSRS servers .
• Created and maintained VMWare virtual machines . Helped in DR recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy hit .

Confidential, New York, NY

DBA

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained over 80 DB servers.
• Supported SOX applications and auditing requirements, as well as Confidential Clusters, SAN disks and SRDF replication.
• Solely responsible for a data masking/data obfuscation/Tokenization project with Proof Of Concept/evaluation of masking products.
• Implemented solution to fulfill the auditing requirement.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

DBA

Responsibilities:

• Supported 70+ Confidential and RS servers(versions up to 12.6, with many DBs up to 1TB) on Solaris and Linux worldwide for 4 high-profile, critical Fixed Income applications.
• Insured SOX compliance for applications, as well as used Confidential Clusters, SAN disks and SRDF replication.

Confidential, New York, NY

DBA

Responsibilities:

• Supported over 100 Confidential servers and web-based applications with thousands of users worldwide, for Investment Banking.

Confidential, NJ

DBA and Systems Director

Responsibilities:

• Improved performance and uptime by 50% after identifying performance issue and implementing my proposed solution: migrated to new servers using Veritas Volume Manager for Confidential, with Confidential SAN disk arrays.
• Streamlined Sybase training for in-house custom courses, saving the company $160,000.
• Reduced disk usage by 50% and improved performance by developing and implementing scripts to purge and archive data of critical applications.
• Provided proofreading and technical suggestions to Rob Verschoor, senior Sybase technical evangelist and widely-known author and consultant for ASE, RS and IQ, for the 1 st & 2 nd editions of his Repserver Quick Reference Guide (my name was included in the foreword).
• Administration/Configuration of Database Servers including Netezza, MySQL, SAP/Sybase ASE, IQ, and Replication Server(RS)(Helped Rob Verschoor with the first 2 versions of his Replication Server Quick Reference Guide), (SQL Anywhere(SQLA), MS SQL Server(MSSS) with Always-on Availability Groups.
• Also did Performance and Tuning, Replication, installs, migrations, upgrades, data import and export, and ETL. DevOps Tools/Agile Releases including Subversion(svn), JIRA, and Delphix, SSMS, Configuration Manager, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MS Project, Office, Excel, UNIX, AIX and Linux shell scripting and internals. Installed and ran VMware Workstation 10 to install and administer multiple VM guests running Windows Server 2012 R2, SUSE Linux and RHEL 7.1 and 7.4. Installed MSSS 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2017 on VMs, including cloning, snapshot backups, restores, etc.
• Worked closely with internal and external auditors and security teams, for SOX and non-SOX audits, with application, development, DB, DR, Unix, Linux and Windows SAs, and networking teams, installing and running scripts or applications for audits, as well as for IR management, DR tests and failovers.