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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Working in a team of database and infrastructure specialists, developing solutions for customers as well as managing internal standards and promoting best practices within other teams.Key Responsibilities:* Providing database/solution architecture services to clients* Developing and maintaining internal architecture standards* Architectural oversight and.

Wellington, New Zealand

Team Leader of the Domain Architecture team for the Unix, Database & Middleware group.Key responsibilities:* Business development* People management and mentoring* Management reporting and communications* Prioritizing and scheduling team work* Developing roadmap for internal architecture standardsThis was a shared responsibility along with traditional.

Wellington, NZ

Support for Datacom's Sybase clients.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Leading a team of Sybase experts delivering outsourced DBA services to Datacom customers.

Wellington, NZ

Leading a team of 6 people supporting Sybase, Informix, DB2, Postgres & MySQL.

Joined Red Rock as Senior Sybase Consultant, helping with the transistion of the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) account from the previous outsourcer. I have also contributed to security and health-check audits of other customers, such as Tower Insurance and ASB Bank.Key Skills: Sybase ASE 11.9.2 to ASE 15.5 on Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms..

Client lead on the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) account. 24/7 support for the corporation’s key systems, as well as the DBA representative to the corporation for technical issues. Skills involved include (among others) design, build and deployment of new db systems, analysis and design of disaster recovery plans, monitoring, performance tuning.

24/7 support for the bank’s market and credit risk systems. Responsibility for maintaining all areas of the system, including incoming and outgoing data streams, monitoring and enhancing performance of database and non-database objects, checking and correcting data integrity. Also responsible for developing departmental intranet site using HTML.

Responsible for the management and enhancement of the data model for the Equity Sales IT department. Responsibilities included the enhancement of the data model to include new applications and feature. Also responsible for the redesign of the legacy data model to conform to current standards and best practice (the system was very old).Technical environment.

Support and development for the bank's credit risk system. Data feeds and extracts in Perl on HP-UX and database development on Sybase ASE 11.9.2. Database activities include database design, stored procedure development and performance tuning.

24/7 support of the main trading system running on Sybase 11.0 on Solaris. As well as the standard DBA duties, I also did considerable development on automating DBA activities to free up the DBAs for more productive tasks - something I have continued in all future engagements.

Joined DRA from university as a 50/50 office assistant and scientific officer in the Land Systems (LS1) division. Having passed PV(S) (Positive Vetting - Secret) checks, was moved to full-time on techincal work, mostly in the database area using SuperBase, MS Access and Sybase (on VMS!)