Bill Portman Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

Built, developed, and led a global team of database administrators responsible for entire global data server infrastructure. Strategically responsible for all database functions including team development, project management, policy and procedure development, process definition and re-engineering, end user support and corporate training. Serve as DBA team representative for senior leadership, development, IT operations, and client support teams. Main emphasis on production support, security, performance, backup and recovery, maintenance, problem resolution and root cause analysis.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Lead DBA responsible for the entire data infrastructure of a global data analytics firm. Our environment has over 400+ servers worldwide, 8.000 databases, and 200 terabytes of data. As the first official DBA for the company, I am responsible for the development of a global DBA team and data infrastructure department including, but not limited to policies, best practices, and procedures. Main emphasis on production support, backup, disaster recovery, high availability, database maintenance, performance tuning, problem mitigation and root cause analysis, policy setting, process reengineering.

Royal Oak, Michigan, Us

Assigned to Urban Science, 3 month contract to hire. Serves as lead DBA for a performance remediation project for high visibility client and software implementation. Analyzed data infrastructure, coding constructs, indexing, statistics maintenance, hardware, database design to tune application to reach performance goals. After the remediation project, I was promoted to the architecture team to serve as the company's first official DBA. See Urban Science for position description.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Served as lead data architect and database developer and for multiple eCommerce sites (www.fathead.com, www.tradeables.com), and supporting applications. Served as project manager on several application enhancements. Gathered business requirements, assembled appropriate resources, led design sessions, developed project plans, and managed project resources and timelines.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Development team lead for mission critical benefits administration application serving an annual revenue base of approximately eight million. Responsible for all application architecture, release planning, hosting, production support, quality control, project planning, and work breakdown structures. Manage a staff of up to eight development and QC staff members. Responsible for recruiting, mentoring, and motivating team members. Performed annual performance reviews. Worked with on-shore and off-shore vendors to recruit team members for various projects.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Responsible for the strategic direction of the company’s web presence including architecture, security, and development standards. Provided project and technical leadership and management for web developers. Performed code reviews and led design sessions.

Responsible for all for all web and database development efforts, including requirements analysis, design, construction, quality assurance, production rollout, training and documentation. Provide technical leadership to other staff members within the department.

Responsible for all office management duties including human resource functions, expense reporting, petty cash, orientations. Responsible for all network administration and software build duties including user managment and backup and recovery processes.