Gervais Leotaud Email & Phone Number

United States

Masimo acquired Sound United

Partnered with executive leaders to develop and deliver a comprehensive BI strategy for the organization that involved migrating to the cloudArchitected a new financial data warehouse consolidating sales from multiple ERP systems (SAP & MS Dynamics NAV)Improved existing and deployed new BI systems including implementation of interactive web and mobile reports/dashboards for business leadersEmpowered business users by providing guidance and support on self-service reporting and ad hoc analysis capabilitiesManage a team of business analysts, developers and external partners to deliver projects in time and within budget

Routinely implemented new releases and completed various database maintenance tasksParticipated in product roadmap discussions and identified key areas for database improvements in the product, including re-architecting identity fields on main tablesMaintained database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters. Also, tuned indexes and stored procedures after reviewing execution plans

Lead a team of 11 individuals supporting 3 database technologies: MSSQL, Oracle, MySQLResponsible for a performing, secure, scalable and highly available database environment supporting $1.2B businessCreate and manage annual budget forecast for the database organization within targeted guidelinesEstablished a change control process for the entire IT organization to meet the new demands of combined companyDeveloped multi-year roadmap to drive database strategy that included datacenter move, DR, upgrades and SAN migration

Directed and executed data integration projects for product management, fulfillment, financial and customer applicationArchitected and implemented multi-node availability group cluster in SQL 2012 to support ecommerce platformManaged Microsoft SQL Server licensing strategy to provide best business valueReduced resource utilization by performance tuning which allowed for additional growth with limited cost increase

Proflowers | Redenvelope | Sharis Berries | Cherry Moon Farms

Provided 24x7 on call support for production database systems supporting ProFlowers ecommerce siteAssisted in upgrade of database platform from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008R2 including SSIS package upgradesImplemented daily processes to review all SQL Server logs, errors and job status for over 100 production serversBuilt interfaces to migrate data between 3rd party applications and in-house ecommerce platform

Experienced in replication, DTS packages, backup strategies, automated restore and data recoverySupported daily requests in a 24x7 setting for several 200 GB SQL Server 2000/2005 boxes running Server 2000/2003Resolved production issues by analyzing existing systems proposing solutions to re-occurring inefficienciesRe-designed database process to reduce server load while maintaining data feed to Microsoft Identity Integration ServiceAutomated the daily monitoring process to allow quick review and recovery of nightly database processingRepresented DBA team in defining and enforcing company policy for Software Development Life CycleCoded business solutions utilizing stored procedures, views and triggers in small and medium sized projects