As Director of IT and Distinguished Engineer, direct strategic vision and database technology roadmap. Oversee creation and implementation of reference architectures and direct database engineering and support of business-critical database platforms including payments, order management, supply chain and logistics and appliance delivery, and more.Highlights:➥ Migrating, modernizing and transforming the database ecosystem with an emphasis on cloud and hybrid compute architectures for both established and open-source database offerings – both managed and self-hosted. ➥ Continuously modernizing database hosting strategy and providing hosting solutions appropriate to the workload and SLA / SLO requirements that leverage bare metal, modular servers for scale-out database workloads, VMWare, containers, microservices, and multi-tenant use cases. ➥ Introduced multiple open-source database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL and Redis.➥ Complemented the database portfolio to leverage a scale-out, hybrid cloud and cloud native multi-cloud distributed SQL database platform for use-cases requiring very low latency, very high availability and geographically sensitive data residency. ➥ Evolving database hosting strategy to leverage Kubernetes and IaaS/3rd party managed services in the cloud. ➥ Provided a strategy for and directed the implementation of a flexible and user-friendly DBaaS application, enabling self-provisioning of over 1,000 databases greatly enhancing developer productivity and speed to market. ➥ Establishing a data movement framework to streamline self-service data migrations and create an “any to any” model for database upgrades, migrations, and transformations. ➥ Initiate and oversee proof-of-concept activities with compute and database platforms, messaging and streaming technologies, in-memory and memory-first database solutions and cloud | datacenter to edge compute strategies.

Supported large development and infrastructure projects, administration, and directed 35 DBAs and storage engineers leading multiple business segments across the U.S. and Canada, with $15M Capex and OpEx budgetary allocations.Highlights:➥ Architected, proposed, and implemented consolidation and upgrade of database and storage infrastructure featuring Oracle Exadata, Oracle ZFS (file), HP 3PAR (block), and all flash 3PAR arrays. ➥ Designed and implemented backup, disaster recovery, and High Availability solutions using Oracle RAC, Oracle MAA architecture and Oracle Advanced Data Guard.➥ Provided advanced troubleshooting and performance tuning across entire infrastructure stack, spanning storage layer through all levels of the technical environment and end-user experience.➥ Conducted in-depth database and storage environment analyses to identify and resolve significant technical deficiencies, misconfigurations, and tuning opportunities at multiple levels. ➥ Established and successfully implemented interim stabilization tactic for existing database and storage infrastructure on Linux / RAC and Solaris HA environments.

Empowered team of more than 30 DBAs and server and storage engineers supporting crucial database and server and storage infrastructure initiatives sustaining $500B in assets across multiple data centers. Center of focus was data warehousing, business intelligence, and high-volume OLTP trading systems in Oracle RAC infrastructure. Highlights:➥ Architected, planned, sized, internally marketed, and justified $7M investment in Oracle Exadata and ZFS appliance to support significant growth in data warehouse footprint and increased user base and ETL load.➥ Designed and implemented backup, disaster recovery, and High Availability solutions using Oracle RAC, Oracle MAA architecture and Oracle Advanced Data Guard.➥ Provided database and data architecture, modeling, logical, and physical database design support in large data warehouse environment.

Served as Technical Manager with expertise in business intelligence and data warehousing. Designed, developed, and implemented enterprise data warehouses for Benjamin Moore and for Georgia Pacific; and provided high-level technical and performance consultation to several Fortune 100 companies.Highlights:➥ Served as primary data warehouse architect, data architect, and development and production support specialist for database and UNIX system administration.➥ Guided and advised key managers in optimal system installations, upgrades, performance tuning, and environment evaluations recommendations.