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United States

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Louisville, Kentucky, US

• Led two engineering teams: one of Java developers focused on data-driven backend applications, and one of Database Reliability Engineers (continuation of previous position) building and maintaining PostgreSQL and.
• Proposed and drove business-wide initiative to consolidate disparate data sources into a cloud EDW for faster, more cost-effective, and accessible reporting
• Streamlined and categorized incoming work requests so a smaller team could manage as effectively
• Improved employee engagement and motivation (and therefore productivity) by focusing on 1-on-1’s and protecting what engineers find most important for their work
• Managed annual budget, cost analyses, capacity planning, and vendor licensing and relationships
• Implemented and maintained security best practices at hardware, software and user layers

Louisville, Kentucky, US

• Led operations team toward a cloud-first, automation-first mentality aligned with department vision
• Adapted processes to maintain availability and reliability for a rapidly growing number of flexible data stores that serve data-driven events and notifications
• Reevaluated and tuned critical alert rules, resulting in reduction of after-hours pages to DBA’s by 80%
• Used change management methods to integrate new team responsibilities following company re-orgs
• Used project management methods and Atlassian tools to ensure IT projects were delivered efficiently
• Implemented KanBan board for team workflow as part of an initiative to adopt Agile methodologies

Louisville, Kentucky, US

• Worked on a team of DBA’s to provide day-to-day 24x7 mission-critical operational support and maintenance for 100 Oracle and PostgreSQL databases
• Administered all aspects of database instances including configuration, installation, upgrades, patches and migrations according to business and application requirements
• Maintained logical and physical replication solutions for Disaster Recovery. Regularly tested recovery of backup solutions.
• Developed database packages, procedures and functions with PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL
• Developed shell scripts to automate all routine maintenance, maintaining changes in the code with Apache Subversion
• Collaborated with application teams to migrate on-premises PostgreSQL databases to AWS RDS

• Independently researched, designed and developed predictive proprietary algorithms that had a direct impact on the company’s revenue stream
• Utilized WAMP stack and Oracle to integrate historical data from diverse sources with near-term statistics to facilitate in-depth analysis
• Developed dynamic web-based user interfaces that allowed employees with limited computer skills to easily query data sets and analyze and visualize what-if scenarios
• Designed and implemented tools to extract and convert information from public web-based databases
• Designed and maintained extensive local relational databases to back-test and optimize models
• Employed data mining techniques to analyze data sets to recognize and extract patterns and correlations

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration

Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering