Chris Baker Email & Phone Number

Ventura, CA, US

Manage a team of database engineersApply Database Reliability Engineering methodology across the data platform.Build automated solutions for self-healing complex issues.Ensure adherence to database best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures. Promote data management methodologies and standardsSolve problems, debugging.

Ventura, CA, US

• Build automated solutions for self-healing complex issues.
• Apply Database Reliability Engineering methodology across the data platform.
• Determine viability of No-SQL or SQL solution based on performance metrics.
• Solve problems, debugging, and optimizing code to ensure optimum performance and security
• Responsible for the quality and state of the database scripts, model, package delivery pipeline and guiding the team to improve it.
• Ensure adherence to database best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures. Promote data management methodologies and standards

Charlotte, NC, US

• Work directly with the product development team to plan implementations of data resources in the AvidXchange ecosystem
• Work with performance engineers to monitor system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Design future-state data platform including Azure PaaS solutions and other technologies
• Refine and automate processes, track issues, and document changes
• Assist developers with complex query tuning, schema refinement, and determining differences between releases/environments.
• Provide on-call support for critical production systems.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Improve and maintain database operational efficiency
• Automation of daily tasks using Powershell
• Utilize Azure Storage Accounts for Hybrid environments and backups
• Use of DevOps tools like Desired State Configuration and Puppet to automate installation and configuration of SQL Server
• Architect Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions for SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Help clients with schema, role based security and encryption techniques for data and backups at rest.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Responsible for the 24/7 availability of mission critical Data Warehouse, Operational Data Store and Data Mart databases
• Environment is built upon the Microsoft data platform utilizing Windows clustering, multi-subnet failover and SQL Server AlwaysOn technology.
• Performance tuning utilizing indexing, partitioning and optimized T-SQL.
• Responsible for the design, build, ongoing maintenance, failure avoidance, detection and repair of the SQL Server databases.
• Utilization of System Center Operations Manager and Spotlight for monitoring and performance tuning and recovery tasks.
• Projects focus on writing and optimizing T-SQL ad-hoc queries, stored procedures and views for.Net and Java developers.

• Database Administrator for Duke Energy's IMA Hub...
• Responsible for the 24/7 availability of mission-critical Data Warehouse, Operational Data Store and Data Mart databases.
• The environment is built upon the Microsoft data platform utilizing Windows clustering, multi-subnet failover, and SQL Server AlwaysOn technology.
• Performance tuning utilizing indexing, partitioning, and optimized T-SQL.
• Responsible for the design, build, ongoing maintenance, failure avoidance, detection and repair of the SQL Server databases.
• Utilization of System Center Operations Manager and Spotlight for monitoring and performance tuning and recovery tasks.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Key technical leader and influencer in shaping customer decisions to buy, architect and adopt Microsoft Data Platform solutions.
• Provide technical presentations, demonstrations, help execute proof of concepts, design and implement solutions.
• Directly support the market share and revenue growth of Microsoft Data Platform through technical leadership in designing and implementing mission-critical solutions for customers.
• Participate in internal Microsoft technical communities and in the broader industry events.
• Influence the Microsoft Data Platform go-to-market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements and sales blockers you encounter.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Business advisor to Microsoft’s Premier Support customers, providing Premier Services aligned to the customer’s priorities to maximize the business value of their Microsoft investment.
• Responsible for the overall growth, quality, and satisfaction of the customer’s services relationship.
• Strategic relationship with key stakeholders within customer organizations, including the IT Directors, CTO, CIO, and Line of Business leaders as well as technology professionals.
• Deep understanding of the market forces affecting our customers and offers insight into new ways Microsoft can provide greater value in helping our customers meet their business goals.
• Change agent by articulating the case for change and helping our customers evolve their IT maturity, drive productive use of Microsoft products and enable IT to make the business better.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Solve technically complex problems, involving broad, in-depth product knowledge of the SQL Server data engine and other related products
• Help fellow support engineers with politically charged situations requiring the highest level of customer skill.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills, while working with diverse audiences including highly technical IT professionals, developers, architects, and executive management.
• Responsive to customer needs which may sometimes require outside of normal business hours or on-call rotation.
• Use trace analysis, debug skills, source code, and other proprietary tools, to analyze problems and develop solutions to meet customer needs; this may involve writing code.
• Maintain strong working knowledge of released products, take ownership for product improvement, and participate in pre-release activities and BETA programs.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Redmond, Washington, US

SQL Server Product Support

Management Essentials

Bachelors Of Science, Business Administration/ Management