• Acted as hands-on DBA manager providing oversight of database steady state duties, including upgrades, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery for 700 Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and NoSQL databases.• Developed and executed capital projects using Agile and Lean methodologies for AWS and Azure cloud migrations.• Reduced infrastructure spending by $400K/yr by modernizing on-prem hardware and migrations to cloud all the while increasing capacity and performance.• Communicates technical topics effectively with a wide audience by tailoring the level of detail.• Managed over $2M in project capital project, cloud and software maintenance spend each year.• Reduced teams’ incident tickets and improved SLAs by 30% by ensuring proactive and enhanced monitoring and alerts.• Named key member of architecture team developing corporate hardware and software standards as well as recommending and executing process improvements, reviews, and approvals for IT project requests.

• Maintained 24/7 application and enterprise DBA services to 200 Oracle databases (v11x-19c) as well as 500 SQL Server (v2008-2019) databases running on assorted AIX, Linux, and Windows servers supporting 10,000 users. Supported variety of database types, including large financial, manufacturing, and data warehouse systems in U.S. and 12 countries worldwide. • Act as Lead DBA and Database Manager for seven DBAs and contractors on installs, upgrades, patches, cloning, security, performance tuning and general database requests. • Develop new standards, processes and procedures as part of continuous improvement in order to manage a large number of databases with a limited staff. • Managed the migration of over 250 SQL Server, 22 Oracle and entire domestic SAP footprint to the Azure Cloud as part of a data center consolidation project. • Designed and implemented a Disaster Recovery plan for the critical systems in the cloud using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and Oracle DataGuard.• Managed and successfully executed the IT Disaster Recovery test for 3 years for all business critical applications and databases.• Installed and configured an on-prem Exadata with Oracle 11.2 RAC configuration for a 18TB JDEdwards and 10TB Data Warehouse environment.• Reduced teams incident tickets and improved SLAs by proactive and enhanced monitoring and alerts.• Manage and comply with FDA, HIPPA, SOX, GDPR, SOC2 database standards, audit reporting and change compliance.• Performed and managed full database lifecycle duties for JDEdwards, E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft Financials, Teamcenter, Websphere Commerce/Portal, Weblogic, Cognos, Informatica, SOA, Hyperion, Vertex and multiple other homegrown and engineering applications.

Provided Enterprise DBA and system architecture services in a variety of industries. Installed and configured Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 on Red Hat Linux for Dayton Community Blood Center. Performed application and database administration, including application refreshes, patching, troubleshooting and backups. Provided DBA support for large catalog company. Facilitated DBA support for large Frontgate e-commerce retailer. Provided DBA and application support for Cincinnati Milacron manufacturing organization. Facilitated DBA support for Cincinnati Health Alliance healthcare organization. Provided DBA support for Cincinnati MLS provider. Consulted for Fidelity Investments, providing Oracle DBA support for custom development project and Oracle E-Business Suite installation.