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Knoxville, Tn, Us

Company provides IT expertise, Science R&D and miscellaneous ventures on many verticals and industries. This includes perspectives and hands-on work on many aspects, and roles, including distributed databases, corporate websites, related cybersecurity, performance & optimization and gap analysis, HADR and redundant site setup. It is a holding company to leverage proprietary hardware & software inventions, patent registration, intellectual property, and other legal necessities in the technical industry and others. We also develop and run other ventures in other fields, real estate, entertainment, human services and more.* These are off-hours initiatives and never interfere with the primary business projects, roles or other employment. Activities are done by associates and consultants, to minimize or remove any logistical and focus factors.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Short-term contract role doing technical management for clients like the D.C. Government, Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP). Project management of major projects, reporting directly to D.C. Government CIO. Technical project manager leading DLCP Business Licensing ERP modernization and migration effort. Software is on an Azure stack with Angular and C# frontend and Azure SQL Server backend, utilizing Azure DevOps for change management. SME of multiple environment layers (NW, HW, OS, DB, App & Web). Liaison with COTS support and 3rd party vendors. Technical project manager leading legacy FileNet document repository…and other major softwares and hardware. All projects use PMI protocols and Agile standards. Accomplished Performance tuning and optimization on softwares & underlying database platforms. Evaluate and integrate High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) including cloud considerations, as well as real-time monitoring, gap analysis and risk management. Created a real-time auditing tool with no performance impact like tracing, to observe workflow and data flow for both legacy and new platforms. Analyze software dynamics to resolve bottlenecks, errors, and fine-tune resources, as well as cybersecurity risk remediation to Best Practices and national standards. Mentor staff on platform mechanics and T-SQL capabilities and performance impact. Recommend structure, software and environ improvements to increase efficiency. Weekly reporting to CIO with 1 on 1 in-depth discussions. Work is performed both on-site and remotely.

Short-term contract on a contract for the office of National Labor Relation Board (NLRB). Leading a complex migration for their NxGen modernization effort and development. This is in both a Windows and Azure environment, migrating the on-premises Siebel and Documentum Data and Content over to Azure Dynamics 365 and SharePoint. This includes analysis utilizing MSSQL to verify the structure of a customized Siebel legacy platform which is fully integrated with Documentum as their content repository. Mapping this to Dataverse and ETL from Siebel to the just developed new cloud backend and making sure the content in Documentum is bulk extracted, tagged automatically and relates to their Cases and more, in a complex matrix that can be retrieved in the new application and audited to make sure all documentation was carried over. This also includes developing an integration and replication design that leverages Azure Synapse or other CDC and Transformation capabilities to their EDW reporting warehouse. Update configurations and code within Azure DevOps and GitHub. Mentor junior team members. Conduct meetings on status to government stakeholders and executives at NLRB HQ.

San Francisco, California, Us

Long-term position in Enterprise Database Security (EDS) Engineering group at Wells Fargo. Platforms are on Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Oracle, MSSQL, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Teradata and more. EDS Engineering is designated to do testing, monitoring and consulting on cybersecurity and control procedures on database platforms and related applications and matters. Technical lead of creating and enhancing WF’s Database Security Strategy (3 year arc). Technical lead and project manager, engineering on national scale projects developing security solutions and coordinating IT groups, such as Data Isolation, restricting administrators from proprietary and regulated data in production and developed counter app to allow temporary privileged access, if necessary for business need, including logging in Service Now. Managed servers for the engineering team’s Lab environment and addressing the vulnerabilities and security compliance. Tested reporting and analytic applications with database and administration expertise, including coordinating load testing and research. Enhanced the Vulnerability Assessment configurations on multi-platform criteria, including continuous DB assessment process, utilities and applying KPI/KRI metrics against standards like NIST, STIG and CIS. Create security and team policy guidelines, and recommend improvements to production Security and Hardening control procedures for various DB platforms. Evaluate and recommend enterprise database cybersecurity softwares, including advanced analytics and risk gap reporting. Evaluate granular platform commands for Separation of Duty and role scope division to implement no trust methodology. Execute risk assessments and develop risk matrices for various databases. Baseline reviews and enhancement with many SMEs including compliance code review to make sure systems vulnerabilities were scanned.

Reston, Va, Us

Position on a long-time contract for the office of Community Oriented Policing Systems (COPS) at Department of Justice. Optimize capacity and performance for COPS and acting as Infrastructure Manager. Utilized as Configuration Manager, Security Coordinator and alternative Build Master. SME of databases and interaction of multiple environment layers (NW, HW, OS, DB, App & Web). Load-testing newly released software and its underlying platform for capacity & performance, preventing a high-volume malfunction, as seen in the Obamacare software scenario. Drill down and analyze software dynamics to resolve bottlenecks, errors and fine-tune resources to Best Practices standards. Mentor staff on platform mechanics and T-SQL capabilities and performance impact.

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Short-term contract, as Lead DBA for SCI at Treasury- Office of Financial Research (OFR) a new office with a mission to help large global financial entities in risk management and prevent adverse conditions. The DBA group’s efforts are in maintaining the databases which focus on large scale data analysis. Brought in as a SME on Big Data platforms to recommend best practices for the environment and provide QA for organization and management. Environment is at Terabyte scale prepping for Petabyte scale. Using platforms as MSSQL 2012 and 2014, Hadoop (Hive & Impala), PostgreSQL, MySQL, SAS and more. Execute changes and mentor staff on VLDB setup, config and maintenance. Advise on security and auditing. Create processes and reporting for real-time performance stats and tuning. Troubleshoot long-time issues with distributed functions and resolved issue with server links in a multi-domain high security environment. Enhance processes for automation and standardization.

Project Manager on short-term contract for Baltimore County Public School (BCPS) system...currently a $1.3 billion annual entity with over 25,000 staff. Running two projects of some complexity...the Dept-Unit project to resolve long ongoing issues and coordinate synchronization of Organizational fields and datasets for their ERP software between various office roles and department focus. The Data Integrity project is to address issues occurring between many BCPS interconnected systems and push forward on resolution. Participate on the Data Governance group which is to assist standardizing data definitions, processes and protocols.

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

Position with established federal contracting firm with projects throughout the nation. Utilized as equivalent of Director of Software Development and CTO, reporting to the CEO. Advisor & SME of IT industries for company to allow business development to have more knowledge of current and potential contracts and other aspects of the technologies utilized. Primary software POC either resolving items or delegating to others as necessary. Make company more contemporary, originating new ideas & approaches to leverage technology.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Short-term contract through Teksytems doing large scale data loading and performance tuning & optimization of MSSQL 2008 R2/2012 environment on VM/SAN with fiber bus for economic analysis client for specific large scale national legal cases. Environ scales up to 1 petabyte, with various databases tuned and import loads up to multiple terabytes. Recommend various solutions to increase performance and reliability. Optimized code with embedded T-SQL. Mentored analysts and data scientists on how to increase performance on their statements and interactions against their “big data” sources.

Columbia, Md, Us

Position managing production operations of various clients’ customer relationship marketing (CRM) platforms and processes. Also managed several other operation analysts in their capacity serving other clients’ solution platforms and executing various initiatives for the Technology Solutions Group (TSG). Platforms are on MSSQL (2005/2008), Netezza and Teradata on Linux and Windows servers. Primary contracts are for Nike, Clorox & Urban Outfitters. Most solutions’ requirements are 24/7 monitoring with datawarehouses easily reaching 30+ TB. Team interactions with various staff over Boston, Little Rock, Denver, Shanghai China and more. Working on optimizing performance on datawarehouses and related processes to significantly reduce daily and weekly production runtimes, including advising staff on performance techniques and workflow auditing.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Special Project as Dell’s team lead on an augmentation project for the FY2011 budget managing all databases for the White House’s budget department. Platforms are on DB2 LUW (9.5, 9.7) on Linux RHEL and AIX servers in an environment with Federation, Replication, HADR and Single Sign On. Also brought in as SME for alternative platforms including Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Access, etc. Maintaining and improving 2 core environments for nationwide use for all government agencies of complex, layered and often legacy design, including being SME resource for senior developers supporting many apps working against these backends.

Courbevoie, Ile De France, Fr

Position managing and supervising all databases and DBA group for Oberthur in North America and South America. Oberthur Technologies is an international firm specializing in the manufacturing and personalization of credit cards, smart cards and identification cards. The region includes large scale manufacturing plants and offices throughout the 2 continents. The environment maintained is mainly Windows based, however includes some UNIX (Sun), Linux and other OS’s. The distributed database platforms include 15+ Oracle (8i, 9i, 10g, 11g) servers, 50+ MS-SQL servers (7, 2000, 2005, 2008), DB2, Access and other varieties of RDBMS’s with totaling 100+ TB and individual platforms multiple TB+. The instances number into the hundreds and up to Terabyte size and accessed 24/7 internationally by clients including both corporate and government entities.

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Position in charge by self of 24/7 production database environment that handles high-performance activities, configurations & authorizations for all WRX mobile terminals throughout North America. WRX manufactures mobile modem terminals that transfers data from portable computers through satellite & terrestrial telecommunications back to the home offices of companies like FedEx, UPS & Sears and manages & monitors through a NOC. The multiple DB instances ran on clustered Oracle 9i on Win2000 servers. The various OLTP and DSS databases have objects of high capacity and performances of over 2400 reads per second, over 150 writes per second and can grow significantly daily. In charge of DB administration of Testing & Development environments (Oracle & MS-SQL).

Masters Of Data Analytics, Data Science And Forensics.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology Management / Cybersecurity

Associate'S Degree, Physics, Computer Science

Art, Physics

High School Diploma, Art And Computer Sciences