Michael Scheel Email & Phone Number

Pennington, NJ, US

• Lead team of between 3 and 10 database administrators.
• Triage and remediate production issues, including hardware and query performance issues.
• Manage operations and deployment for MSSQL instances across 6 data centers.
• Design, deploy, maintain and troubleshoot OLTP, data warehouse, and mixed systems.
• Initiate and participate in strategic and tactical planning between the GWIM SQL DBA team, client organizations and partner teams.
• Lead processes and systems migration from legacy Merrill Lynch to Bank of America standards.

• Troubleshoot, monitor and report capacity and performance on multiple mission critical 24x7 systems, up to 2 terabytes, on SQL Server 2000 and 2005 clusters.
• Design, establish, test and review disaster recovery procedures and mechanisms for production systems.
• Monitor and maintain log shipping, replication and database mirroring.
• Review database code and design from development through production for new and existing systems.
• Advise and assist with system and database engineering.
• Create and update documents for recovery procedures and changes to servers and databases.

• Troubleshoot problems with Microsoft SQL Server versions 7.0, 2000 and 2005 for desktop through enterprise editions in 24x7 production and development environments.
• Resolved problems and projects including SQL and OS performance tuning, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, replication, log shipping, DTS, database security, stored procedures and triggers.
• Advised on installation, configuration, upgrade and deployment projects, including clustered servers.
• Beta tested versions of software, including Microsoft Office, Windows Server and SQL Server.
• Created new and edited existing internal solution documentation and interview materials.
• Interviewed and trained prospective team members.

Mt Laurel NJ

• Database/Systems Administrator (2001 – 2002)
• Modeled and deployed SQL databases for new equipment tracking and sales programs.
• Monitored server performance and stability.
• Debugged and deployed custom Visual Basic programs.
• Extracted, manipulated and presented data using Crystal Reports and Excel.
• Created, deployed and maintained new servers and desktops, including Windows 2000/SQL 2000 clustered server.