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- performance tuning of database systems, quality assurance of code written by application developers;- adherence to organisational data/information flows, i.e. corporate data model by ensuring database integrity and enforcing developers adhere to those boundaries;- identification of problem areas and potential threats to the database system;- development of new entities and relationships within corporate systems, including updating system models and ER diagrams, maintaining data dictionaries, etc.; - performance monitoring and analysis, often from the point-of-view of determining cost-benefit of current systems and proposed alterations;- product maintenance and upgrades, capacity management, change management and security access management to ensure the continuous provision of service of database environments; - liaising with the application development teams during systems development and provide technical advice on complex support and system design issues pertaining to the database environment; - providing advanced skills in the areas of fault diagnosis and failure and initiating remedial action as required in the database environments;- performing complex backup and recovery tasks for database environments. Design the database recovery and backup policy and procedures in accordance with client requirements; - technical lead with several major large scale data conversion/migration and data matching projects- programming complex software applications, mainly batch processing and administration utilities related to the data disciplines - technical writing encompassing document control processes.- high level negotiation and communication skills with vendors and clients to obtain business requirements, functional requirements and data requirements during product procurement and design processes. - training & mentoring, team leadership, and project management.Specialties: • Database Productso Sybase ASE 11.92/12.0/12.5.x/15.0.2o Sybase ASA 5/8/9/10o MS SQL SERVER 7.0/2000/2005/2008o Oracle 9io Sybase IQ 12.6 / 2.7o Ingres 2.0/II• Related Productso Sybase Replication Server 12.6/15o Sybase OpenSwitch 15 o CA ERWIN Modeller 7.1o Sybase Power Designer 12• Operating Systemso Apple Mac OS X – 10.3/10.4o MS Windows 95/98/2000/XPo MS Windows Server 2000/2003 & Clustering, o HP-UX 10.20/11o Sun Solaris 10o RedHat / Fedora Linux

Listed skills include Databases, Microsoft Sql Server, Data Migration, Sql, and 22 others.