George Smith Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Solutions Architect supporting exchanges and hedge funds as they migrate workloads to AWS

Greater New York City Area

• Senior executive leading Global Database Infrastructure, Messaging and Job Scheduling supporting engineering, operations, data governance, vendor management and development teams for each platform.
• Completed multiple DevOps POC's using virtualized storage plus on-demand database containers leveraging VMWare linked clones, Delphix and SAN based clone technology reducing cost of development environment setup by 80%.
• Led the development and implementation of high-speed backup and recovery for production data utilizing SAN based copy. Reduced the backup/restore time for our larger databases from 35 hours to minutes.
• Led the Data Governance Committee, which approved next generation database technologies for use at Morgan Stanley and introduced enterprise support for Open Source Postgres providing a zero cost license option for.
• Integrated a managed services model for database L2 workload. Reduced by 50% the cost of fielding the team with internal staff in core locations.
• Worked closely with Prime Brokerage to stand up and expand an Application Aligned database support model that reduced implementation times by half and allowed a more agile and responsive technology platform for the.

• Senior Manager leading a Global Database Organization tasked with supporting all aspects of databases engineering, administration and production support for the both the Treasury Services and Worldwide Security.
• Migrated the database clusters away from a VERITAS active-passive cluster to an Oracle RAC active-active cluster for the high availability design standard that reduce failover time to less than 30 seconds from 30.
• Worked with JPMC engineering and Oracle Inc. on the Maximum Availability Architecture for Oracle. This enabled the database infrastructure to be resilient against physical corruptions with near zero data loss.
• Built a 24*7 offshore Global Database Services team in India to provided L1/L2 on-site production support for all database issues at a cost 60% less than performing the same function on shore.
• Led efforts to automate and standardized database builds and developed a Database Portal for operational inventory, data collection, configuration reporting and access controls saving hundreds of hours per year of.

• Global manager leading a Database Infrastructure team tasked with designing and building the infrastructure supporting global database technology and an Operational Quality Control team which performed auditing.
• Directed the design and development of infrastructure to support the registration, installation, upgrade, configuration, statistics collection, reporting, developer automation and developer access controls which saved.
• Designed the Production Access Controls (PACT) system to enable developers to promote access within the database in an approved, controlled and audited fashion. Developers now manage migrations independently saving an.

• IDMS Systems Programmer supporting all aspects of Database Administration for the NY office.
• IDMS developer supporting HR and Financial System