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Burbank, California, United States

• Re-engineer whole staff from DBA to DBREs with Scrum/OKR/Workboard practices and integrated developers the team. Successfully lead a team of 18 Senior DBA’s in 3 regions worldwide supporting 7 major business segments.
• Extended OneID to EMEA region by automation using Terraform to deploy RDS Aurora Global Database to Frankfurt, Ireland regions. Modernizing MyID/Keystone with MSSQL 2019 and new HP Gen 10 hardware.
• Architected Modernization of Database As A Service(DBAAS) Platform based on Security, Reliability, Cost Optimization, Performance and Operational Excellence principals. Added Encryption at Rest and In transit, audit.
• Expanded Archive Platform to archive Fox Peoplesoft, eBiz, JDE AS400/DB2 applications and added Oracle Cloud autonomous DB to hold archives. Front-end integration with Tableau.
• Converted Netbackup long term storage solution to Rubrik.
• Collaborated with Architecture and Global Security teams on Database Encryption Standards.

Burbank, CA

Successfully lead a team of 11 Senior DBA’s in 3 regions worldwide supporting 6 major business segments within Disney. Manage over 2000 databases. Collaborate with Dev teams and tools teams to deliver best breed of solutions.Positive net total after expense for Year 2017. Achieved cost savings reduction with Annual Operating Plan AOP 2018/2019Improved.

Glendale, CA

• As a NOSQL DBA, working in Distributed Data Services group in DTSS primarily supporting production operations environments: managing MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra in 2 remote data centers and on AWS. Implement DR.
• Plan, implement, upgrade Couchbase 1.8.1 to 2.5.2. Generate keys and healthcheckmonitor for daily monitoring and capacity planning. Day to day swap rebalance to de-fragment memory for Disney Park and Recreations.
• Implement cross region AWS MongoDB using shard tagging for Disney Movie Anywhere for data locality between East and West coast for Disney Studios.
• Benchmark MongoDB 2.6.x versus TokuMx 2.0 for ESPN and setup monitoring tools with Zabbix, MMS and internally developed Dashing dashboards.
• Optimize Mongo Queries using mtools, explain and index query plans for ESPN under 10ms response time. Recommend shard key strategies.
• Successfully implemented Python utility to restore Terabyte data using pre-split/move chunk mongorestore across 6 shards, multi Data Center in 24 hours for Disney Unified Messaging.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Successfully designed, architected and migrated Mysql 5.5 InnoDB to Mysql Cluster NDB 7.2 environment. Optimized, tuned and benchmark using Tpcc, IOPS metrics collection by Dell DPACK, and long query and pt tools on InnoDB and NDB engines for 10 X performance increase. Implement fault tolerant system with Cluster NDB and Replication. Total 130 Gigs of data.

El Campo, Texas

Sucessfully design, setup, deploy, customize mobile banking system with mobile payment emphasis. P2P, merchant payments on POS interface on Android tablet. Android mobile app. Request for payments on web and by SMS.Setup secure datacenter with VM servers and VPN, SSL/REST to and from SMS gateway and payment gateway.Develop multi-band authentication system.

San Francisco Bay Area

Security audit, database and code optimization on Informix 11.50 HPUX server. Verify, modify PHP(Smarty forms), shell scripts, ACE reports and sql scripts on company wide patch management system for all desktop/servers.Develop, analyze migration plan from legacy Unix system to SQL Server 2008. Database design, normalization, optimization.Created testsuite.

Setup complete network, system, office documentation application for SMEs.Designed, implemented network, storage requirements for Hollywood animation studios using NetApp, Riverbed, Dell PowerEdge, ML6010 Tape Library and CA Brightstor arcserve.Designed and deployed storage architecture for VDI using Hyper-V, VmWareSetup, maintained and support HA High.

Developed the First Metropolitan Wireless ISP (WISP, Hot Zone) in Los Angeles.Designed and Created 2 square miles of Wireless Internet Network Cloud using pre-WiMax technology in Miracle Miles location.Design and tested the largest Hot Spot; 5zone.netDesigned and deployed FreeY5 WISP user accounting and payment gateway using Pronto, Airspot, Bluesocket.

Developed Wi-Fi information web portal.Lead Wi-Fi Site Survey consultant team on the field.Act as business development manager working with various Wi-Fi vendors such as Cisco, 3Com, Trapeze, Aruba, Vivato, Motorola Canopy, Linksys and Netgear.Setup Wireless Internet systems for clients using 802.11b/g/nSetup secure 802.1x, WEP, WPA Wi-Fi systems for.

Founded the first Asian Search Engine company for the Asia market.Created the first Asian Search Engine for both Internet and Intranet Markets.Extended core technology into E-Commerce, Customer Relation Management, Content, Document Management System and Wireless.Created largest search database in Asia to search over 2 million websites in localized.

Created ODBC Unix testsuite product for Visigenic Software (Borland /Inprise). Tested database connection to Informix, Sybase, Oracle and MS SQLserver.Created Informix Universal Server Database monitoring tools. Architected SNMP agent for Informix Software to monitor database performance, availability and statistics.Established and setup Informix databases.

Created DataExtract product line for Mainframe data connection.Network specialist responsible for managing Informix-Net product line.Managed AT&T technical porting account for all Informix products.Ported Informix product lines to Sun, HP, IBM, Digital, and Unisys.

Programmed in C and Informix report writers for automated report generation of Investigation cases.