Matthew Boehm Email & Phone Number

Promoted to Principal!

Worldwide, Earth

As Senior Instructor, my responsibilities include curating, creating, and delivering world-class training for MySQL. I have traveled all over the world, delivering in-person, instructor-led MySQL training to companies of all shapes and sizes.

Houston, Texas (Remote)

As a Senior MySQL Architect and Senior Consultant, I assist many Fortune 500 companies with their MySQL woes. Anything and everything from performance tuning and backups and recovery to system design and query rewriting. I specialize in Percona XtraDB Cluster setups, integrating ProxySQL, Orchestrator, MHA, custom backup jobs, and in-depth training.

Houston, Texas (Remote)

- As leader on a team of 3, managed the day-to-day MySQL operations for 1,800 MySQL servers.- Designed, architected and implemented upgrades of all MySQL Servers from 5.0 to 5.5.- Participated in weekly-rotating on-call duties.- Designed and implemented data validation tools between master and slaves.- Managed a datacenter migration, requiring the moving.

Houston, TX (Remote)

- Managed the day-to-day MySQL operations for 200 MySQL servers in 3 different cities.- Project managed and executed the upgrade of those 200 MySQL servers to 5.1.54.- Project managed and executed core business MySQL servers' hardware upgrade without downtime.- Created monitoring scripts to preemptively catch bad queries, long running queries, etc..

As the Senior MySQL DBA for SoftLayer Managed Hosting department, I oversee the database needs for all things MySQL by provide consulting services for new, existing and growing customers and troubleshooting issues when they arise.I also develop new and innovative ways to increase efficiency within the Linux team by introducing new ways or improving.

- Designed, implemented and maintained fault tolerant network services in a co-location facility.- Used HP ProCurve 2800's to implement VLANs for separating layer 3 networks and STP to provide High-Availability to individual machines.- Used WatchGuard 750e Firebox's to create client VPN access, static VPN tunnels to branch offices, prevent DDoS attacks.

- Senior programmer for company website; PHP.- Initiated a refactoring of customer signup process to use the MVC architecture.- Designed and maintained company database using MySQL.

- Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining high-availability Linux-based, Apache and MySQL server nodes in a clustered environment thus providing 99.999% uptime of company websites and databases.- Implemented email-based customer support ticket system and knowledge-base forums, which reduced customer support calls by 75 percent.- Lead.

- Tested customer VoIP phones (Cisco 79XX, Polycom 501), T1 and PRI links to VoIP carriers and VoIP quality with nationwide carriers- Designed and maintained Cisco Powered Networks (7200, 2600, 5300 Series Routers)- Designed and maintained centralized MySQL database system- Created Web-based control panel for customers that allowed them manage their own.

- Performed daily maintenance and addressed security issues- Programmed in PHP with MySQL back-end- Created in-house Content Management System, Private/Public Calendar System, and website reports

- Researched and developed projects integrating PHP, Oracle and XML- Designed XML calendar export system for student use- Organized information on development of University-wide Frequently Asked Questions management sys- tem.

- Maintained 3000 Linux/UNIX servers in a team environment- Solved customer hardware and software problems- Built servers to accommodate customer demands