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Florida, United States

Clearwater, Florida, Us

• Design, implement, and optimize AWS database infrastructure including RDS, AWS Aurora, AWS Redshift, and NoSQL DynamoDB.• Uphold database system uptime by crafting and refining platform tools that enhance availability, reliability, and observability.• Swiftly identify, troubleshoot, and rectify database-related issues, focusing on performance bottlenecks, data corruption, and query optimization.• Create, oversee, and fine-tune backup and recovery blueprints to safeguard data integrity and reduce system downtime.• Innovate by automating recurring database administration tasks using scripting languages and configuration management tools.• Engage with developers, system architects, and other key stakeholders to comprehend and action upon database platform requisites.• Remain abreast of emerging database and data warehousing technologies, ensuring our systems are at the forefront of innovation.

Tampa, Fl, Us

• Ultimately responsible for all database technologies on premise and in the cloud including SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, and Microsoft Azure.• Lead new database project initiatives including working with key stakeholders to gather requirements and assist with defining recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO\RPO) for disaster recovery.• Duties include capacity planning to right size infrastructure, database software installation including SSIS, SSAS and SSRS as well as instance and database creation and configurations, database migrations, and decommissioning legacy database systems. • Serve as the data governance steward and primary gatekeeper managing user and application login access as well as applying the principle of least privilege and incorporating best practice to protect data.• Work closely with system administrators to test and administer server and instance level upgrades and patches while standardizing processes and defining the database architecture road map. • Developed T-SQL database maintenance scripts to validate data, managing database growth, mitigate corrupted data, optimize indexes, update statistics, perform database backups, and more. • Own the Data Warehouse and develop SSIS packages, stored procedures, PowerShell scripts, Agent Jobs and other ETL processes that allow us to deliver reports each day to our business partners.• Develop Python scripts and integrate processes that ingest data internally from external websites.• Supervise the database administration Jira ticketing queue and resolving escalated issues. Achievements Include:• Standardized database environments and authored SQL Server and PostgreSQL deployment guides.• Serve as a stakeholder on the Change Advisory Board (CAB).• Pioneered the database road map. • Overhauled the data warehouse ETL process and increased performance by over 50%. • Reduced database related licensing fees by over 25%.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Worked closely with global project teams, gathering requirements, capacity planning, and database design including the review and approval of Technical Architectural Diagrams for development, test, and production servers in data centers around the world. SQL Server: • Installed and configured SQL Server versions 2012, 2014 and 2016 on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 Core virtual and physical servers.• Configured business continuity and disaster recovery plans using multi-node clusters, Availability Groups, Listeners, and AlwaysOn replication for high availability redundancy.• Leveraged Multi-Server Administration (MSX/TSX) to push out SQL Agent Jobs to multiple instances.• EMC DDboost and Networker NMM database backup configuration, as well as created Utility Control Point (UCP) and Utility Management Data Warehouse (UMDW) to collect, store and manage data in data warehouses. • Imported, evaluated and cleared failing policies, troubleshooted connection issues with application teams, database migrations, backup/recovery, performance tuning, patching, and providing documentation.• Development of T-SQL and PowerShell scripts. • Created documentation and provided training to other DBA's. PostgreSQL:• Installed and configured PostgreSQL versions 9.x, 10.x and 11.x on Linux servers with Ubuntu operating systems in development, test and production environments.• Configured external databases systems as well as connected with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.• High availability business continuity using replication across multiple data centers.• Performance tuning and query optimization.• Developed PSQL scripts as well as Linux command scripts.• Created documentation and provided training to other DBA's.

• Waterfall and Agile Development Methodologies.• Planned, analyzed, designed, developed, implemented, and supported a mobile payment platform from the ground up.• Developed feasibility analysis, data dictionaries, Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), Unified Modeling Language (UML) Diagrams, and Relational Schema Diagrams.• Work closely with key stakeholders to consistently deliver, on time and within budget, projects that meet or exceed expectations.• Duties included systems architecture and alignment for websites, apps, social network integration, Content Management System (CMS) and Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). • Hands on experience integrating payment processing solutions into major payment gateways such as Authorize.net, Global Payments and the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network. • Experienced in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance rules and policies.• Received certificate from Citigroup for AML and Intelligence Analysis.• Named Inventor of Record on U.S. Patent No. 8,521,649 “System, method and apparatus for funds transfer” (https://goo.gl/78KQ1G).

• Responsible for the development and deployment of hundreds of projects including apps, websites (front-end and back-end), CMS's, RDBMS's, hardware integration, and much more. • Worked closely with key stakeholders to ensure a proper plan and recommendations to develop and improve business processes and ultimately increase and deliver value.• Business Process Management (BPM) practices and process re-engineering with clients seeking to improve their business processes. This was done by defining and mapping the steps in a business process, creating ways to improve them, eliminating steps in the process with no value, and creating workflows to match the improved process maps.

Master'S Degree In Management Information Systems, Concentration In Database Systems, Business Intelligence, And Data Science

Bachelor'S Degree In Finance