My responsibilities include: - Managing all SQL Server related projects including upgrades, P2V, migrations, HADR implementations and database consolidations - Responsible for the customer's most critical and profitable database systems- Team lead responsible for managing team initiatives including system audits, process documentation, incident trending and automation

• Installed, configured and support multiple SQL Server 2012 environments with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups. Created concise install and configure documentation that is referenced throughout the organization.• Manage over 100 mission critical databases consistently meeting SLAs of 99.95% uptime on a variety of database platforms including MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase.• Worked collaboratively with team to migrate 50+ database instances to attain hardware refresh, data center consolidation and standardization of database server and storage configurations all while minimizing risk and downtime.• Received On-The-Spot award for stabilizing existing custom backup and recovery solution for 30+ PostgreSQL production databases that continually had issues running backups and maintaining warm standby databases. Decreased backup incidents by 60%.• Developed scripts to proactively monitor database systems and to streamline system audits. Familiar with monitoring tools such as BMC Proactive Monitoring and Nagios.• On-The-Spot award for leading a Winning Culture initiative to host success celebration events in locations worldwide.• Experience with Microsoft SSIS, SSAS and SSRS

• Self-taught Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS and SSRS as well as Visual Basic, Oracle Forms, PL/SQL and Microsoft Access• Monitor and optimize performance of database servers and related applications, manage database backups and recoveries and optimize database jobs, applications and queries.

• Solely constructed and managed multiple relational SQL databases used for website management, prospect generation, telemarketing, sale processing and reporting.• Developed complex coding algorithms to automatically merge and process contact data for over 6 million small business companies across over 100 data sources. The merge process was the basis of smarter business decisions in that it presented understanding of which industries in which geographic areas the company’s product could be marketed to.• Worked with CEO and Vice President to strategize and deploy product growth pushing the company away from dependency on outside clients and toward revenue streams solely managed by the company.• Trained 2 team members in T-SQL for writing stored procedures for reporting.• Awarded Employee of the Year 2007