Boise, Idaho, United States
I have numerous years of programming & database administration experience. Technologies include Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgresSQL, and Oracle. Programing languages include Perl, Java, PowerShell, C, & C++. I have experience working with customers on a regular basis, conducting pre-sales and post-sales activities, providing top-notch customer service. I have been responsible for mentoring junior engineers, performing knowledge transfer activities to engineers, developers, and managers. I have served in a role of architect where I have designed solutions for high throughput systems. I've implemented self-service BI solutions to perform analysis on hundreds of millions of business records looking for ways to improve business processes or solve problems that otherwise would be almost impossible to solve. Technical Specialties: High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Replication, Performance and Tuning, Scalability
• Provided enterprise support for Microsoft Data Products and Services to large customers • Participate in implementing projects for department and region benefit • Scope customer engagements • Engage with account sales teams to help find opportunities with existing or new customers • Provide proactive services to prevent problems • Train customers • Assist customers with their on-premise to public cloud migrations
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• Provided enterprise Microsoft SQL Server support for large customers • Participate in implementing projects for department and region benefit • Scope engagements • Engage with account sales teams to help sell services • Provide proactive services to prevent problems • Train customers • Assist customers with their on-premise to public cloud migrations • Provide public data and AI cloud expertise to customers
• Administrated mission critical relational database systems • Ran project responsible for beta testing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 o Worked with the vendor to resolve several bugs o Collected and analyzed metrics to determine if performance of the new database platform was satisfactory to meet the needs of the manufacturing environment o Created and presented training material to 25 other Database Administrators about Microsoft SQL Server 2005 • Designed statistical process control database system used to reduce the cost of the manufacturing process • Wrote enterprise database backup solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, which was deployed to several hundred database instances worldwide • Developed high availability solutions for both Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Sybase ASE that are used to support semiconductor manufacturing in a 24x7x365 environment • Evaluated metrics periodically to ensure database instances retain satisfactory performance • Assisted application developers regularly with tuning SQL queries to achieve optimal performance • Wrote utilities in either Perl or C# to assist other Database Administrators with routine database maintenance tasks • Developed unattended software installation • Supported Microsoft and Sybase transactional replication • Developed the checklist used for setting up and maintaining SQL Server 2005 database mirroring • Evaluated new features of Oracle 10g
• Sole database engineer supporting Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostGres, Oracle, & Sybase • Trained service desk agents to be able to handle initial support calls and escalate if issue was more advanced • Wrote extensive documentation for customers • Implemented oncall rotation that was shared between with Network, Systems, & Database engineers • Implemented technical solutions for customers to solve IT or business needs • Responsible for bringing new customers online with service • Troubleshot database, SharePoint, Unix, Linux, and Windows issues • Participated in scoping calls with sales • Wrote statements of work • Performed pre-sales activities • Let group of advanced engineers to develop technical strategy for automating the onboarding of new customers • Supervised junior engineers and mentored their technical growth • Conducted technical interview screens for perspective employees
• Provided enterprise Microsoft SQL Server support for large customers • Participate in implementing projects for department and region benefit • Scope engagements • Engage with account sales teams to help sell services • Provide proactive services to prevent problems • Train customers
• Used C, C++, and Perl programming languages to complete software projects used by engineering and manufacturing • Maintained and enhanced a mission critical relational and flat file database system used by engineering and manufacturing
• Administrated mission critical relational database systems • Had 1500% data growth over two years • Implemented and maintain full disaster recovery environment utilizing database mirroring and log shipping solutions • Trained developers on techniques for optimizing SQL • Implemented Reporting Services to develop dashboards used by management • Standardized security by applying common roles and using Active Directory groups • Employed and maintain transactional replication • Automated daily database restores to test backup reliability • Built and maintained PostGres database to support several open source tools used internally • Standardized software installation process • Developed Java applications used by the customer service group • Possess extensive knowledge of Microsoft transactional replication • Possess strong Transact SQL skills • Developed and maintained SQL Server Integration Services jobs for moving data