Senior Database Engineer Resume

SUMMARY:

I am an accomplished IT professional with demonstrated skills in designing in - house business applications, problem solving, and have extensive experience working with vendors. I have skills including but not limited to; database development and support, team lead troubleshooting, strategic planning, and implementation of new technologies.
I have worked with a many different vendor, including Aderant, Compulaw, Thompson-West (Westlaw) and Hummingbird, to name but a few. I have a diversified technical background including Enterprise System Solutions. I have proven skills in designing workable solutions that reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase performance.
Experience working in a major law partnership (Bowman & Brooke) handling their attorney time and billing, the firm financial systems, Westlaw’s Knowledge Management (West KM) and other Westlaw products and docketing applications.
Extensive experience working with all versions of Microsoft SQL Server, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008, 2005, 2000, versions 7, 6 and 4.21.
Extensive experience working on implementation of various Software or hardware projects.
Extensive expertise working with all aspects of in-house development and vendor application management.
Expertise in SDLC using SCRUM methodologies.
Deep understanding of technology with a user-friendly focus to deliver solutions that will benefit all.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Database Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

I standardized the HealthEast SQL backups too ensure that all production applications would be recoverable.
I have analyzed to see where a more proactive SQL Server monitoring can be implemented.
SQL server patching to comply with the latest versions of SQL and to ensure that all sunset SQL versions are migrated to a new version.
Lead the SQL Server security audit.

IT Database Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

As Project Lead of an AS400 application conversion to SQL 2008 with all of its web interface, I provided project directions for all SQL server issues and worked to improve any performance issues, and guided the vendor in the usage of the UHG standards.
I am now working to upgrade the previously mentioned application to SQL 2014 and working with the applications vendor to redesign the system.
I design a new backup strategy for Healtheast that brought in a more stable and verifiable recovery environment.
Working in our Military Health Insurance program (Tricare West) I have worked with SQL 2012 Always-On gathering all the required STIG documentation. I have built SQL 2012 Always-On in our Tricare environment and worked with our networking infrastructure team to build firewall rules to allow Always-on to work in the Tricare Enclave.

Senior Database Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

I provided DBA project support to a project called Freshstart, this project was a database migration project that moved about 40 databases from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008R2. This included project planning, support, database migration plans, updating the databases to UHG database security standards.
I worked with the applications teams to remediate all SQL issues caused by SQL version differences, I updated the SQL collations to the UHG standard for SQL Server. I worked with the Application owners to determine what databases were still needed and migrated only the databases there were still in use.