IT Consultant with focus on insurance industry.Served several roles throughout such as technical product owner, business relationship manager, portfolio manager and senior developer. Gained valuable experience working with the business to create their roadmap to future success and help them accomplish their goals with IT solutions.Having a great relationship with the business and having a strong technical background allowed me to be hands on throughout all phases of the SDLC. Was able to plan solutions that would utilize best practices and would streamline processes for the business, mentor other developers to help them solve more complex tasks, develop new applications and optimize existing technologies.

Responsible for installing, configuring, upgrading, monitoring and supporting SQL Server and MySQL for a variety of clients. Support daily activities such as monitoring, script execution, space management and user troubleshooting. Involved in designing, building and migrating of servers and data to new datacenters. Configure and monitor transactional replication for production mirror and reporting servers. Ensure that daily and weekly jobs completed successfully including backups and restores. Create new maintenance plans for backup, restore and index maintenance.

Wore many different hats throughout this time. Primarily was a software engineer but gained solid experience with web development and other languages such as PHP and Javascript. Also gained a great deal of experience with Linux system administration and MySQL database administration.