Leading a small team of 4 (including myself) within our core platform area helping improve our overall database, ETL, and BI infrastructure. This includes, but not limited too, solutioning and implementing HA architectures, migrating to different operating systems, and migrating to the cloud. As part of this role, I'm also able to research, PoC, and see if new technology or features will help drive our area forward.Also working on implementing large, corporate wide project initiatives around security and regulations.1. PII Remediation - working with the Delphix suite (Virtualization and Masking) to reduce potential PII exposure in our non-prod environment.2. CCPA - working with our data engineering team to design and deploy infrastructure relating to CCPA regulation efforts (Collibra and Manta). 3. Designing our target state architecture for our data, ETL, and BI landscape.

As a member of the Application Platform team, I am responsible for researching, architecting, building, and automating the deployment of cloud infrastructure technologies to help on-board application development teams so they can start deliver faster. I am also responsible for setting direction of our current cloud environment as far as best practices, release levels, automation, self-service, etc.MySQL:Highly Skilled in native MySQL replication technologies (Master-Master, Master-Slave, XtraDB Cluster. binlog, and GTID)Built Docker images for Percona MySQL, Percona Xtradb Cluster, HA ProxyDeployed Percona XtraDB Cluster and other images inside Kubernetes via HelmEnsured 99.999% availability in productionKnowledgeable on how to make changes while maintaining availability of the systemExperience in MySQL 5.6/5.7, Ansible, Satellite, ELK stack, Zabbix, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, PortworxAWS:Currently responsible for the DBMS related deployments in our AWS cloud environment which server our client website and other internal tools for our financial advisors and home office customers.Experience in RDS, Route53, EC2, EBS, Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch, AWS CLI.Other:Experience with Gitlab, Liquibase, Flyway, Zabbix, PagerDuty, Agile Development, Automation

As a member of the data services team, I was responsible for researching, architecting, building, and automating the deployment of our DBMS technologies. I was also responsible for setting direction of our environment as far as best practices, release levels, automation, self-service, etc.MySQL:Designed, built, and deployed NM's first AWS cloud platform which supports our client website Proficient in Ansible automationHighly Skilled in native MySQL replication technologies (Master-Master, Master-Slave, XtraDB Cluster. binlog, and GTID)Ensured 99.999% availability in productionKnowledgeable on how to make changes while maintaining availability of the systemExperience in MySQL 5.6, Ansible, Satellite, ELK stack, Zabbix, Docker.AWS:Experience in RDS, Route53, EC2, EBS, Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch, AWS CLI.DB2 LUW:Worked closely with our capacity and unix teams to increase the realized capacity on P7 frames.I am a key player in editing, authoring and implementing many korn shell scripts which has taken advantage of our auto-ticketing functionality to detect problems before they become outagesGo-to person for investigating and resolving high priority incidents and problems.Brought in, built automation, and deployed Flyway for automating and versioning schema changes to our database environmentImplemented and tuned DB2 BLU to one of our warehouse databases to increase response times for end usersSkilled in supporting IBM Websphere and BPM backend databases.Performance tuned many systems to results never achieved by the application(s) previously; including Warehouses, Marts and OLTP.Well-versed with IBM's Infosphere Data Replication (IIDR) tool to replicate data from our data center to the cloudExperience in v9.1,9.7,10.1,10.5(BLU) as well as AIX.SQL Server:Limited experience in SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012 and Windows 2003, 2008, and 2012.Other:Experience with Github, Liquibase, Flyway, Zabbix, PagerDuty, Agile Development, Automation

I was responsible for updating the telecommunications diagrams and support of our telecommunications systems. I had to trace each line from the MDF through each IDF to the jack. I was also responsible for running new cat 5 cables, installing new jacks and setting up new phones.Supported and installed Avaya products.