Christopher Newman Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

* Lead and manage a global team of 10, fostering a culture of trust and transparency.* Develop career growth plans and provide ongoing training to enhance team knowledge utilizing Udemy Business, Crowdstrike University, and AWS Skill Builder / Security Training.* Implement an engineering-driven, security first, human-centric approach to security. *.

Minnetonka, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Define hardware or software technical approach and design of product or major feature;Implements complex portions of product design.
• Anticipates, identifies, and solves a wide array of database and system problems whereinformation is available and data analysis is required.
• Provide database design direction and work as a design leader of a large, complex project. Plansand organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity
• Participate in the definition and implementation of database-related goals, objectives, policies andpriorities; Recommend and implement resulting policies and procedures.
• Ensure adherence to database best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance policiesand procedures. Promote data management methodologies and standards
• Identify opportunities for improving service delivery methods and procedures; Identify resourceneeds; Review with appropriate management staff to implement improvements

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Complete ownership of Oracle Production, Test, and Development environment.Responsible for Oracle 11g and 12c RAC Architecture, Configuration, and Administration.Plan and execute all necessary Oracle patching and 12c upgrades.Perform day-to-day database administration and performance monitoring tasks.Ensure availability, performance, security, and.

Minneapolis, MN

Design, administer, tune, and support Oracle 12c, MySQL 5.7 Enterprise, and SQL Server 2008/2014/2016 databases. Architect database infrastructure to comply with federal HIPAA Regulations and University Security Policies.Provide database encryption for data at rest and encrypted backups as well as secure encrypted connections via SSL for data in.

Bloomington, Minnesota

 Perform daily administration of Oracle 11GR2 and 10GR2 Databases, including RMAN backups, purge jobs, space monitoring, and statistics. Deploy new database environments and maintain/upgrade existing. Execute daily migration of development software code to QA. Responsible for packaging software for GA, maintenance release, and hot patch. Maintain data.

Plymouth, MN

* Validate Audit control wording and evidence gathering for SSAE-16 SOC1 and SOC2 audits.* Support delivery of risk and compliance services by performing gap analyses, assessments, and audit to meet client and business security requirements.* Translate privacy and security requirements into implementable technical, process, and organization controls.*.

Plymouth, Minnesota

DBA Team Lead (Apr 2011)Senior Database Administrator (Mar 2009)Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance management including annual reviews of 2 direct reports.Manage workload and service requests, streamlining processes for operations and engineering teams.Manage database infrastructure including database strategy, capacity planning, version and.

Directly responsible for two 8T data warehouses and 63 OLTP databases. Support full UDB AIX/Solaris environment of 66 servers, 112 databases. Largest supported data warehouse is 97 partitions sized for 130T.Effectively improved ETL and reporting queries 50-99% via SQL tuning and database configuration analysis utilizing Query Patroller, DB2Advise, DB2.

Lead a DBA team to install, replicate, monitor, and maintain over 200 databases in production, development, unit test, and integrated test environments. This DB2 UDB V8.2 EE/EEE (multi-partition) AIX environment is spread over 17 servers, 9 multi-terabyte storage systems, and operated in a multi-version global warehouse architecture.Develop implementation.