SUMMARY:

Digital Scribe with over 2 3 years of industry experience across a wide array of disciplines. His experience includes work in the following industries: Events Marketing Management, Fine Art, Education, Entertainment, Application Software Development, Electronic Commerce, Medical, Telecom, Energy and Finance. He is a F ull Stack Software Engineer focusing on Cloud Apps, DevOps Architecture, Server Side Database Programming and Middleware.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

RDBMS: Postgres, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, MySQL

NoSQL: MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra

Programming: SQL, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java, ECMA Script, Unix/Linux Shell

Data/Object Modeling: ER/Win, Embarcadero, Case Studio, Together, Rational

IDE s: Eclipse, Komodo, Net Beans, JBuilder

Project Management: MS Project, Primavera Team Play, Base Camp

Source Code Control: GiT, CVS, SVN, Clear Case, PVCS, Star Team, Visual Source Safe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Middleware Application Developer

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with synchronizing Volunteer Management Data contained in Rosterfy with Tough Mudder Salesforce Contacts.
• Utilized PostgreSQL to validate data assertions essential to accurately synchronizing data in batch between the 2 systems.
• Wrote a Ruby/REST Api Application to automate daily syncronizations between Rosterfy Volunteers and Tough Mudder Salesforce Contacts.
• Technologies utilized: PostgreSQL 9.6, Ruby 2.3.1, Restforce, AWS RDS, AWS EC2.

AWS Data Solutions Architect/Enterprise Data Hub Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initiated the BigR Big Cloud Consulting practice focused on Enterprise Data Hub, Data Lake Design and Big Data engineering utilizing Amazon Web Services.
• Devops consulting and engineering to the BigR Data Science team developing an in house Natural Language Processing application called Jaxson (Formerly RioVoice). Upgraded the main GPU and installed TGen and TreeX Open Source Natural Language Processing applications for package comparison/evaluation to internal NLP/NLU applications being developed by BigR data scientists using the Python Keras/Tensorflow Machine Learning Libraries.

DBA/DevOps Consultant

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Responsibilities:

• Consulting on scaling Postgres in Amazons RDS for Confidential . RPM is a leads broker who has re - positioned themselves as a Leads Distrubution Network-Platform as a Service (LDN-PaaS) provider. Their flagship product, Confidential is live in production, currently serving a growing market place on AWS.
• Integrated a new connection pooling strategy utilizing PG Bouncer to decrease connection latency/contention with the goal of downscaling the size/cost of their current Postgres RDS infrastructure.
• Reduced DB connections and resource usage by 90%.
• Evaluated and Installed Data Dog as a Monitoring and alert solution for their growing AWS Microservices Systems architecture.
• This project was inspired by the 12 Factor Application Philosophy and Cisco’s Mantl Project. Please see 12factor.net and mantl.io for technical details.

Data Systems Architect

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked as the Data Systems Architect on the Edware/Smarter Balanced/PARCC Data as a Platform Service Project.
• The Smarter/PARCC system is a national assessment data warehouse reporting platform targeted to report on standardized Common Core 3 rd - 12 th Grade Student English and Math Assessments. The system serves report cards to a user base of over 100 million teachers and students. in the Smarter/PARCC reporting Stack include but are not limited to the following Open Source Software Solutions…

Technologies Utilized: Postgres 9.2.x, PgBouncer/Pgpool, Python 2.7 & 3.3, Pyramid 1.4, SqlAlchemy, Redhat CentOS 6.3 Linux , Nagios, Eucalyptus, Splunk, Ganglia, VM Ware, Open Stack/KVM, Bcfg2

Postgres DBA/Mongo DB/Systems Admin

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Postgres/Enterprise DBA for Vonage: Stabilized a Postgres/EDB annuity contract between the Confidential and Vonage in the wake of a sudden Sr. DBA departure.
• Engineering, Change Management and Analysis responsibilities over all of Vonages Development, QA and Production EDB Clusters running on Sun OS and EMC/3Par Storage Arrays.
• Daily Monitoring, Incident Response and Change Request Management responsibilities for over 20 QA and Production Database instances replicated over multiple environments, with sizes ranging from a few Gigs to the Vonage CRM Datamart which is currently over 2 0 Terabytes in size.
• RHEL Systems Administrator ( Confidential ): Rackspace RHEL VM application running NodeJS, Mongo DB, Wordpress, ActiveMQ and Redis
• Came in prelaunch to assist in the cut over from development to Staging and Production. Spun up required infrastructure components across the staging and prod environments in accord with Confidential specifications to float the brand new bouncing Confidential Baby in the Rackspace Cloud running on Centos 6 Linux .
• Re-launch Project was probably the most flawlessly executed software project I have ever worked on.

Data Warehouse Analyst/Systems Programmer

Confidential, Hicksville, NY

Responsibilities:

• Package Evaluation Management Consulting for the Confidential Statistics and Metrics Department.
• Reviewed and evaluated IBM’s Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance.
• Identified the Core Talent requirements necessary to bring fully Netezza Online at Confidential .
• Designed and wrote a UBR device spider application to gather cable modem statistics from every live modem on the east coast and load it into a MySQL ETL S&M ODS grain silo within a 15 minute real time window of opportunity.
• Reduced a batch legacy cron-job currently performed by 6 parallel SAS servers to run on a single linux lamp server, slashing the load time in half, by applying a simple multi-threaded/forked Perl data capture persistence pattern.

Sr. Database Administrator

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Hired on as the TFA Sr. DBA to Upgrade, Maintain and Enhance TFA’s Corporate and Departmental Databases. These include 20 departmental instances of MS SQL Server running a variety of turnkey/custom departmental applications, DB2 for the IBM Websphere Project, a MySQL Kona Library Database, as well as Development, Test and Production Instances of the Corporate IMPS Recruiting database running on PostgreSQL.
• Upgraded TFA’s IMPS recruiting database from Postgres 7.2 to version 8.3.
• Managed the SDLC of ORM Level IMPS database change requests between development, test and production.
• Rapidly developed an Excel Peer Review Performance Assessment Application (PMS) at the request of Sr. Management. Tied it into the Business Objects reporting infrastructure using Active State Perl to Batch ETL the Excel Data into MS SQL Server Tables to report on data germane to the internal TFA Performance Management Process.
• Upgraded the initial Perl/Excel 1.0 version of PMS to digest data captured in improved Adobe XML Forms using Active State Python.

Programmer/Analyst & DBA

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Management Consultant on site/inventory cut over project from ebaykeywords.com to ampkeywords.com.
• Served as MySQL DBA responsible for database maintenance, ETL, programming and reporting analysis for DB systems running on Centos Linux version 5 .
• Wrote PHP/Python/BASH scripts to report on disparate data found in the database and on the file system.
• Scripted a data validation gauntlet for click stream fraud analysis and prevention.

Technical Writer, Manageability Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Authored a core feature Manageability Study between The Newly Released Oracle 10G and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. This paper was published on the home page of Oracle for over 10 months after publication, eventually becoming the retread template for many similar studies published long after the initial paper was complete.

Tech Writer, Operating Systems Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Edited and Upgraded Microsoft Services for Unix Documentation from SFU 3.0 to SFU 3.5. This paper was consumed and published under the name Charles Russel, the manager of MS SFU at the time of publication.