Responsible for designing and developing Ansible-based automation solutions for deploying self-healing and highly-available PostgreSQL clusters with built-in monitoring. Led a team of automation engineers and collaborated with other technical teams, solutions architects, and the product team to ensure the successful delivery of automation projects. Work closely with the product team and customers to understand their requirements and translate them into technical specifications. Provide technical guidance and support to automation engineers through participation in code reviews, design reviews, and other technical discussions to ensure high-quality deliverables. Continuously evaluate and improve automation solutions to optimize performance, scalability, and reliability. Utilize agile methodologies to manage projects and ensure timely delivery of automation solutions.

Co-developer of Crunchy High Availability PostgreSQL, an Ansible-based solution for deploying self-healing resilient database clusters across single or multi-datacenter environments. Principle author of the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) as well as the Center for Internet Security's Benchmark for PostgreSQL. Provide architectural design and review of database environments (OLTP, OLAP, data lake, data warehouse).

Serve as a subject matter expert in the assistance of understanding, documenting, maintaining, and controlling of enterprise data throughout its lifecycle; creation and revision of enterprise conceptual, logical, and physical data models; providing leadership and guidance with enterprise data strategies; revising data dictionary definitions, governance practices, and standards; partnering with security architects to ensure compliance with data security and privacy mandates; end-to end data lifecycle management activities; evaluation and recommendation of new and emerging data management and storage technologies and standards; ensuring of consistency between data management, enterprise storage and all other technical system components. Assist with managing the OpenSCG social media accounts.

Assist customers in defining, implementing, and verifying backup and recovery procedures. Implement database monitoring and trending. Advise on database tuning and scaling. Define and implement replication and high-availability solutions. Architect and assist with migration from non-PostgreSQL databases to PostgreSQL. Work with Engineering team to provide feedback on customer needs and prioritization of feature development. Provide remote PostgreSQL DBA services. Participate in and advocate for the PostgreSQL community..

Infrastructure Specialist in the GDO Capabilities group. Day-to-day duties include Linux Systems Administration (RHEL, CentOS), database administration (PostgreSQL), SCM administration (Subversion, CVS), Apache administration, and application support. Currently focused on performance tuning, scalability, and disaster recovery.

(Acquisition from VA Software (below))Transitioned the Technical Support services, assets, procedures, etc to CollabNet as part of their acquisition of SourceForge from VA Software. Managed a geographically disperse team of Support Engineers in providing email, web-based, irc, and phone support to growing customer-base; participated in product development roadmap planning; various process definition and refinement activities; continued all responsibilities previously handled at VA Software.

Managed a geographically disperse team of support engineers in providing email and phone support to growing customer-base; directed offshore engineering team in their development efforts and product maintenance; participated in product development roadmap planning; various process definition and refinement activities.(Acquired by CollabNet, Inc (above))

Lead Unix/Linux admin for Ohio federal agency Network Operations group; responsible for installation, patching, configuration, and upgrading of core operating system (HP-UX, Solaris, Red Hat, SuSE) on various hardware platforms (HP PA-Risc, Sun Blade 100/Sparc 5 ultra, Intel x86); co-responsible for software installation, patching, and upgrading (Oracle 8.x, HP OpenView, HP Network Node Manager, CUPS, Apache); designed and implemented backup/disaster recovery procedure; architected enterprise-wide email solution; upgraded DNS to Bind 9 and assumed DNS administrative duties

Production Oracle DBA; 24x7 pager on-call; Oracle installation/configuration; database design/creation; performance monitoring/tuning; database reporting; backup and recovery implementation; responsible for systems administration of all DBA desktop machines (generally Sparc 1, 5, 10) as well as development servers (HP "K" class). assisted in administration of production servers (HP "K" class).

Twenty-two month assignment to Sterling Commerce as a Gentran:Server for Unix specialist. operated as EDI administrator for Managed Care Services, Inc; responsible for designing, implementing, and troubleshooting electronic data transfer between EDI systems and 56 partner managed care organizations; assisted in specifying, installing, and configuring IBM RS/6000 machines for EDI processing; monitored and tuned Oracle database used for EDI transaction history; developed and maintained multiple reporting mechanisms against Oracle database and EDI software.Two month assignment to Opentext as a Basis developer. Utilized FQM, Unix shell, JavaScript, and some Perl to customize Basis interfaces for specific client needs and requests.

Developed and maintained Unix shell scripts for data extraction, manipulation, reformatting, and conversion from legacy VMS systems to Unix Oracle databases; developed data extraction routine to move data from Oracle database to mainframe CICS system; modified Oracle Forms applications; various run-time report generations; responsible for index/view/table creation on Oracle databases; tuned SQL code for better performance; maintained multiple Unix termcap entries for Oracle Forms application use on Intel PCs and Sun workstations .