Curriculum Vitae

Skills Summary
More than 10 years of experience specializing in designing, analyzing, implementing and supporting enterprise-wide Solutions. Extensive experience delivering IT services at a consistently high standard

Experience

Mutual of Enumclaw,

Senior Database Administrator

  • Participating in the Enterprise Architecture Design Team, High Availability for designated Class 1 systems, BC/DR infrastructure & processes, Facilitating data flow & modeling of all critical systems, Provide database design support and architecture
  • Participating in multi-platform Data Warehouse/data marts –Installation, configuration, management, loading and reporting of VLDB’s, Microsoft BI stack (SSAS OLAP,SSRS 2005/08, SSIS) data replication, extraction, loading and cleansing, interfacing with mainframe, Iseries, DB2, Oracle, MySql
  • Implemented High availability, Best practices, monitoring, standard builds, standardized logic based maintenance, sustaining capacity and performance whilst consolidating servers including virtualization. Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database performance, integrity and security.

    Allrecipes.com,

    System Architect, International

    • Praised by the CEO of Readers Digest as the first IT project under budget and on time. FACE award from Allrecipes.com, Quarterly award for growth from Readers Digest
    • Reporting to the Director of New Business giving technical leadership and providing direction to software development regarding standards, security, authentication and database design. Worked with a variety of third party and internally developed applications developing and documenting ETL data transformations as well as designing integration points.
    • Responsible for design, implementation, monitoring and administration of a new high availability, high performance windows Active Directory authenticated, .NET, SQL 2005 OLTP web farm
    • Improving the Allrecipes.com design currently serving 35 million annual unique visitors with 500 pages per second at peak by improving redundancy, increasing security, enhancing monitoring and adding reporting

    King County,

    System Architect- OIRM

    • One of 5 IT Architects supporting King County
    • Team lead responsible for security, performance standards, technical design and architecture supporting one of the nation’s largest counties web.
    • Architected a major improvement program, Increasing availability and providing geographical failover, load balanced intranet, Active Directory forest implementation, Improved backup strategy and implementation, improved hardware and software monitoring. Introduced standards, procedures, change management and documentation utilizing the ITIL Framework reducing the cost of IT
    • Final point of escalation for infrastructure and database related issues
    • Member of the county wide incident response team
    • Implemented patch management across multiple Forest/domains. Designed and implemented hardware and software monitoring. Improved high availability architecture.
    • Administered high availability multiple location internal and Internet facing web environment
    • SQL 200x Administration, design, reporting services, migration and hardware optimization including countywide migration to SQL 2005
    • Implemented health record tracking system with HL7 to IIS 6, SQL interfaces
    • SQL 2005 administration designed and implemented Reporting Services implementation to replace Crystal reports.
    • Monitored and maintained secure FTP, firewalls, migration and hardware optimization
    • Automated support tasks such as system monitoring and recovery
    • CIRT/ Virus and Incident Response
    • Innovation/Outside the Box Award – King County Executive

    Senior System Engineer- OIRM

    • Implemented patch management across multiple Forest/domains. Designed and implemented hardware and software monitoring. Improved high availability architecture.
    • Administered high availability multiple location internal and Internet facing web environment
    • SQL 200x Administration, design, reporting services, migration and hardware optimization including countywide migration to SQL 2005

    Senior Information Systems Specialist – Dept Public Health

    • Implemented health record tracking system with HL7 to IIS 6, SQL interfaces
    • SQL 2000/5 administration. Designed and implemented Reporting Services implementation to replace Crystal reports. Data modeling and design for relational data warehouse.
    • Monitored and maintained secure FTP, firewalls, migration and hardware optimization
    • Automated support tasks such as system monitoring and recovery
    • CIRT/ Virus and Incident Response
    • Innovation/Outside the Box Award – King County Executive

    Senior Lan Administrator – Dept Public Health

    • Subject matter expert for XP – 98 conversions to 1800 desktops at user level rights
    • Unattended and scripted image design
    • Project lead for Zenworks implementation
    • Group policy design and implementation
    • Leadership Award – King County Executive

    BB&T Bank,

    Field Engineer 09/00-09/02

    • Windows 9x to NT migration
    • Managed projects including installation of training lab, mergers, bank conversions, software migrations and rollouts

    Systems Proficiency

    Hardware Technologies

    HP Proliant, Dell, F5 GTM, LTM (BigIp), SAN – Equallogic,  VMware, clustering, replication, mirroring, geographic failover, load balancing, CDN’s

    Software Technologies

    SQL Server 2000 – 2008r2, Business Intelligence – Reporting Services, Analysis Service,s ETL processes- SSIS/DTS design and development, optimization, partitioning, Data analysis, VB, C#, T-SQL, MDX, Powershell, SAP BPC

    Windows servers NT4 – 2008R2, VMware 3.5 – Vsphere 4 ESX, Active directory, Insight manager, IT Assistant, Altiris, , SCOM 2007

    Education

    Certifications

    • MCITP Database Administrator SQL 2008 03,09
    • MCITP Database Administrator SQL 2005 01,08
    • MCSE 2003, 06
    • Network Analysis and Security – Laura Chappel
    • Zenworks for Desktops Administrator
    • MCDST Charter member
    • Network+ 04, 2003
    • MCSA Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator 08, 2002
    • Server+ 07, 2002
    • Compaq Accredited Platform specialist.
    • MCP 70-270, 2002
    • A+ 03, 2001

    Princess Marina College, Reading, England Major: Aeronautical Engineering, Minor: Basic military certificate, 03/ 1990

    Training

    • Over 20 Netdesk Classes including: SQL 2000, 2005, IIS, Active Directory, MCSE 2003, Intro 2008
    • Laura Chappel – Network analysis and security
    • Security+ Hipaa Compliance

    Activities

    • Cycling
    • Motorcycling
    • Home brewing

    · Participating in the Enterprise Architecture Design Team, High Availability for designated Class 1 systems, BC/DR infrastructure & processes, Facilitating data flow & modeling of all critical systems, Provide database design support and architecture

    · Participating in multi-platform Data Warehouse/data marts –Installation, configuration, management, loading and reporting of VLDB’s, Microsoft BI stack (SSAS OLAP,SSRS 2005/08, SSIS) data replication, extraction, loading and cleansing, interfacing with mainframe, Iseries, DB2, Oracle, MySql

    Implemented High availability, Best practices, monitoring, standard builds, standardized logic based maintenance, sustaining capacity and performance whilst consolidating servers including virtualization. Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database performance, integrity and security.

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