Sr. Database Administrator | Team Lead
North Carolina, United States
Database AdministrationResponsible for Teradata Database Administration group task assignments for project support and senior level consulting.Provided proactive Teradata database analysis for capacity and workload planning, infrastructure design, implementation and maintenance.Served as the Lead Teradata Database Administrator since the introduction of Teradata to Lowe’s.Responsible for overseeing 3 major Teradata upgrades and 2 major Teradata migrations.Served as the Teradata database performance tuning specialist and physical design subject matter expert.Assisted with the performance evaluation of the testing results and the implementation of TDCM/Teradata Demand Chain Management for Seasonal Profiling.Responsible for the analysis of the mixed application workloads for developing the appropriate Priority Scheduler Facility resource partitioning, allocation group and performance group weightings, settings and modification scheduling.Coordinated the design, development, implementation, execution, and results collection evaluation of Teradata application benchmarks and stress tests for a very large hardware upgrade from a coexistent system of 48 - 5250 Nodes and 8 - 5380 Nodes with 18+ Terabytes of usable disk space to a system of 36 - 5380 Nodes with 38+ Terabytes of usable disk space then followed by an upgrade of an additional 12 - 5250 Nodes to return to a coexistent system with 45+ Terabytes of usable disk space.Additional accomplishments include Teradata V2R5 upgrade planning, new feature analysis and application support as well as training and mentoring of Project Managers, Sr. Developers, Teradata Junior Database Analysts and Database Administrators.