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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 consulting for technical teams* Advice and consulting for account teams* Contributing to new business development and contractual (re)negotiationsSignificant projects include:* Platform Migration (several) - SPARC/Solaris to Linux/x86* Hardware Refresh - Oracle M8000 to T7* Cloud Migration - to AWS EC2 and Datacom DCSG IaaS* Complex Data Replication - between migrated system, heterogeneous database types, etc.* Cloud Service Design - Datacom Database as a Service

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 architecture work.

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. Replication Server 12.6 to 15.5 on Solaris and Linux. Also continuing development work for management and monitoring toolsets in Perl, SQL, Java, Shell Script and whatever else is needed ;)

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, and capcity planning. Responsible for both the ongoing continuous improvement of DBA services to the client, as well as participation in incident and problem management forums to resolve issues and prevent future problems.Technical environment was a system of large Solaris server platforms (E25k) and some smaller ones, hosting 20 Sybase servers (ASE 12.x & 12.5.x) with instances of Replication Server (12.6) using both warm standby and replication definitions. Front end applications in Visual Basic & Java, mostly through application server middle layers, and some interface to/from Oracle databases (no heterogeneous replication though).

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, JavaScript, CSS and Perl for CGI-enabled applications.Technical environment was a system of multi-gigabyte (250+) Sybase 11.9.2 databases on an HP-UX 11 platform with front end applications in Visual Basic and intranet Perl/CGI. Back end applications in a mixture of Perl, Intranet/CGI, C, C++ and Unix shell.

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 was several medium-sized Sybase 11.9.2 databases on a Solaris platform. Front end applications were in Visual Basic and also web-based (internet and intranet) with a middle tier transaction server for database connectivity.

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!)