I am the principal Senior Database Administrator at BCLC. My role entails mentorship, technical leadership, point of escalation, technical guidance, and development of all 8 DBAs within the corporation. My role also consists of defining database standards, evaluating new and emerging database technologies, driving the evolution of the database platform, cloud adoption, automation, source control and setting strategic direction. I give regular training and technical sessions to peers and… Show more I am the principal Senior Database Administrator at BCLC. My role entails mentorship, technical leadership, point of escalation, technical guidance, and development of all 8 DBAs within the corporation. My role also consists of defining database standards, evaluating new and emerging database technologies, driving the evolution of the database platform, cloud adoption, automation, source control and setting strategic direction. I give regular training and technical sessions to peers and support teams to develop understanding of new and existing database technologies within the corporation.I was put forward by my management team to develop my skills in technical leadership with an internal program called Emerging leaders, this is a program to identify and grow leaders within BCLC.Currently, I work in a team that follows the Agile methodology for approximately 75% of my time. This team manages the Casino platform infrastructure. I design and architect new and existing database solutions, I also supervise and assist the other DBAs with traditional DBA tasks. The rest of my time is to consult with other lines of business, and offer my expertise as needed on all database technologies.Some of my achievements are to act as the database lead on designing and building a new anti-money laundering system (AML). This is be built within AWS on EC2 instances and RDS utilising SQL Server. I also introduced SQL code deployments and automation using Redgate Flyway\Jenkins and database provisioning with Redgate SQL Clone. I am assisting the giving advice to a new Lottery system using AWS Aurora MySQL.I am the database design lead on an initiative to migrate the Casino infrastructure to Microsoft Azure, focussing on innovation and modernisation on this major cloud project. I am also setting direction and standardisation of BCLC’s database journey to the cloud with AWS and Azure. Show less

I was the Senior DBA at the Corporation, I was also the principal DBA working in the Casino line of business, this business generates over $3 billion in revenue and a large portion of money BCLC provides to the province of British Colombia. The role entails total responsibility and ownership of all the database infrastructure within the Casino division including performance tuning, design, maintenance, code release,availability and system upgrades\replacements. The Casino Production… Show more I was the Senior DBA at the Corporation, I was also the principal DBA working in the Casino line of business, this business generates over $3 billion in revenue and a large portion of money BCLC provides to the province of British Colombia. The role entails total responsibility and ownership of all the database infrastructure within the Casino division including performance tuning, design, maintenance, code release,availability and system upgrades\replacements. The Casino Production Database environment includes 50+ SQL Server 2012 to 2019 instances, I also manage non-production environments consisting of approximately 200 SQL Server instances. I have been the technical DBA lead and successfully completed 3 major Gaming Management System (GMS) replacements, this entailed all aspects of design, build, migration and implementation of brand-new SQL Server infrastructure, each time leveraging new SQL server technologies producing Highly available, secure, and optimal performing systems. My last major project was the GMS replacement encompassing 40+ SQL servers with SQL Server 2016 and 2019 and implementing full HA\DR with full site independence using Always-On Availability Groups and implementing new features like in-memory and TDE encryption.As the senior DBA in the corporation, I am responsible for defining new database standards and procedures for existing and new database technologies across the corporation, now embracing cloud technologies. I am the primary technical resource for my manager in driving strategy and innovation. I act as a mentor and escalation support for the other Database Administrators within the corporation, the team consists of 7 Database Administrators. Show less

Responsible for the provision and day-to-day database administration for SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005. Support and monitoring duties include resolution of database problems, performance tuning, installation, release management, server troubleshooting, IIS Web farm management and provide 24/7 out of hours callout support. The server environment comprised of Production, Pre-Prod, system test, development and UAT environments, there were approx. 500+ servers across all environments (100+ production… Show more Responsible for the provision and day-to-day database administration for SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005. Support and monitoring duties include resolution of database problems, performance tuning, installation, release management, server troubleshooting, IIS Web farm management and provide 24/7 out of hours callout support. The server environment comprised of Production, Pre-Prod, system test, development and UAT environments, there were approx. 500+ servers across all environments (100+ production servers). Main Duties:* Root cause analysis, working with service, problem and incident management.* Daily administration tasks such as database backups, database restorations, disk space monitoring, system maintenance and database optimization.* Installation and configuration of SQL Server, SQL Server clusters, SSAS, SSRS and SSIS in all environments using automated builds and standard installations. * Support and implementation of high availability and fault tolerant solutions; Log shipping, transactional replication; Database mirroring, Replistor (replication) and Microsoft Clustering.* Manage and administrations of VLDS’s, Data warehouses and ODS systems.* Develop and maintain new standards for all releases of SQL, including documentation management.* Administer BI servers and solutions, SSAS, SSIS\DTS and SSRS.* Assist Support and development teams with performance issues and query optimization.* Develop SQL scripts for database and SQL server maintenance.* Audit all servers for any SQL or OS security vulnerabilities.* Release and quality test all application upgrades, including SQL scripts, DTS packages, Schema changes, ASP, ASPX, HTML, RDL’s in a controlled release management framework. Show less

Member of the Head office infrastructure support team, this role managed and maintained the Active directory Forest, Exchange and the Windows Infrastructure at Marks and Spencer Head Office and Data Centres.Main duties:* Maintenance of all domain controllers, Exchange 5.5\2003 Servers and all operating systems.*Troubleshoot issues with the AD domain, Exchange Servers and all operating systems.* Advanced administration and reporting of Active Directory (LDAP) and Windows… Show more Member of the Head office infrastructure support team, this role managed and maintained the Active directory Forest, Exchange and the Windows Infrastructure at Marks and Spencer Head Office and Data Centres.Main duties:* Maintenance of all domain controllers, Exchange 5.5\2003 Servers and all operating systems.*Troubleshoot issues with the AD domain, Exchange Servers and all operating systems.* Advanced administration and reporting of Active Directory (LDAP) and Windows servers (WMI) using vbscript, Jscript, SED\AWK.* Work closely with the IT security team and Internal Audit regarding matters of IT security. * Group policy implementation and troubleshooting.* Certificate server maintenance and support using Radius Server.* Support of bespoke Helpdesk AD user administration application (includes SQL Server, VB and Web components).* Liaise with Service, problem and incident management for escalated issues and RFC’s.* Adhere to strict SLA’s and provide 24\7 on-call support.* Maintenance and administration of all File Servers, management of all shares and permissions *User\data migrations using various methods; including EMC Celera. * Support and administration for the infrastructure, including DHCP, Wins, DNS, login scripts.* Windows Server and Mainframe connectivity using SNA, CA Xcom and FTP; this involved internal\external transactions within M&S infrastructure and external suppliers.* Management and support for the anti virus infrastructure using Sophos Anti-Virus across the Enterprise.* Support for all printing solutions (Mainframe and NT print servers). Show less

* Manage the data centre at Baker Street head office* Install, configure and upgrade Server Hardware and Operating Systems* Break fix for all Server hardware(24/7 on call)

* Desktop support for installing and configuring software and hardware* NT 4.0 rollout