Robert Matthew Cook Email & Phone Number

Mesa, Az, Us

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

- Supported Cloudera data solutions including Puppet, MariaDB, Postgres and Oracle- Implemented Confluent data solutions leveraging Helm, Kubernetes, Prometheus and Graphana- Created educational data solutions exploring Glue, Athena, QuickSight, DynamoDB and Kinesis- Completed educational data assignments using OpenRefine, Tableau, R Studio and TensorFlow

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

- Completed innovation project replacing bookmarking with a lookup by configuration item portal- Used GitLab for source code version control- Supported Hadoop cluster distributions of Cloudera (CDH), Hortonworks and Hadapt- Maintained both multi-tenant and single tenant environments- Administrated clusters used for guided analytics, discovery analytics and operational workloads- Troubleshot products including: Cloudera Manager, Flume, HBase, HDFS, Hive, Hue, Impala, Kafka, Oozie, Sentry, Solr, Spark, YARN, Zookeeper- Ensured protection for data-in-transit and data-at-rest using SSL, Kerberos and other methods

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

- Practiced Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) patterns and principles- Created Splunk alerts, dashboards and saved queries for service management - Designed and administrated data stores in Riak, PostgreSQL and DB z/OS- Developed ETL processes as Informatica workflows- Maintained data movement schedules using Control-M Workload Automation- Performed VersionOne and SharePoint administration duties- Served as innovation committee member- Hack Day team member which developed a gamification mobile app using SQLite- Selected as a fully-funded award recipient for Solution Tank innovation completion- Conducted proof of concept using Kappa Architecture over Hadoop

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

- Performed internal cloud platform-wide support duties- Coordinated support on tech stack products from: Akamai, F5, Mule, VMware, EnterpriseDB, Basho, EMC, Avamar, OpenAM, Hyperic, Splunk, MediaWiki, etc- Completed service management responsibilities using IPcenter- Trained Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 support personnel- Conducted post impact analysis research- Developed reports to access service level availability of infrastructure products- Lead daily operations status meetings for first line leadership

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

- Served as data product subject matter expert for internal cloud built upon Vblock- Provided full life-cycle support for SQL Server 2008 R2 instances hosting Dell VIS and vCAC- Performed troubleshooting and recovery for PostgreSQL, Riak and Gemfire- Maintained database backups using Avamar devices- Controlled business continuity using F5 BIP-IP GTM and LTM devices- Wrote support procedural scripts in PowerShell- Administrated virtual machines using VMWare vSphere, vCenter and vRealize

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

- Provided PostgreSQL support for clients of 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit Windows 7- Provided PostgreSQL support for servers of 64-bit RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 for PPAS 9.1- Deployed high availability platform using Streaming Replication, Slony, rsync and F5 products- Completed PostgreSQL training provided by EnterpriseDB- Built on top of hardware products Vblock, EMC VG8 NAS Gateway and EMC VMAX SAN- Automated Postgres Plus Advanced Server (PPAS) install using Puppet and Subversion- Performed research on pgpool, Pacemaker, Corosync, TransLattice, vFabric Data Director- Administered databases using tools pgAdmin, ERstudio, VMWare vCenter- Monitored databases using Postgres Enterprise Manager (PEM), Splunk and IPsoft IPcenter- Maintained project information using SharePoint, MediaWiki and Trac- Shared data architecture knowledge through internal forums, conferences and study halls

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

- Provided Oracle support for clients of 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit Windows 7- Provided Oracle support for servers of 64-bit RHEL 5 for Oracle 10g to 11gR2- Deployed installations of Active-Active as RAC with Automatic Storage Management (ASM)- Deployed installations of Active-Passive as Data Guard with Physical Standby- Completed several Oracle Database 11g courses from Skillsoft- Testing and troubleshooting of RMAN backups during Disaster Recovery exercises- Automated installations for Oracle Database Client, ODBC driver and tnsnames.ora- Administrated databases with tools DBArtisan and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)- Installation of Oracle Database and Enterprise Manager Agent with tool Reflection X

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

- Involved in maintenance of published technical architect standards and guidance - Lead efforts to accomplish SQL Server upgrades and patches- Crafted an audit solution to meet Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard- Architected ETL solution for SQL Server configuration data using SQL Agent alerts- Supported large product implementations such as SCOM, SCCM, OCS and SharePoint- Composed script library containing a set of core reusable PowerShell functions- Constructed C# client program to use XML templates and user entries to write scripts

- Established naming and schema standards with invalidation and correction scripts- Generated reports with several tools, including Crystal Reports, Monarch and SSRS- Maintained EDI process consisting of MSMQ, BizTalk, XML and VB.NET AIC- Migrated Dynamics GP and custom solutions from SQL 2000 and Access to SQL 2005- Performed research and implementation of an iSCSI SAN solution from StoneFly- Enhanced integration with C# CLR functions and SSIS packages for separated data- Served as Technology Committee member and would conduct or record monthly meetings

- Administrated SQL Server 2000 Enterprise in multiple forest Active Directory environment- Used Windows 2003 Enterprise, Windows 2000 Advanced, Microsoft Cluster Service- Installed and supported SQL service, full text, log shipping and transaction replication- Recommended SAN storage capacity, hardware, high availability and scalability options- Provided backup and recovery procedures during testing and disaster recovery exercises- Created SQL Server Maintenance Plans for database integrity and optimization- Supported databases for both custom developed and vendor purchased systems

Bloomington, Il, Us

- Authored documents for standardization, training and peer reviews- Used Visio 2002 for database modeling, documentation and implementation- Wrote data driven process to collect performance counters using VB Script and WMI- Developed system solution to record job history and SQL-DMO reported database sizes- Formed process to capture and store execution plans for performance analysis- Configured replication, linked servers, ODBC data sources and SQL Server security- Generated time saving scripts for tracing tasks and multi-server deployments

Bloomington, Il, Us

- Conducted education classes on T-SQL and normalization- Improved database performance through denormalization and indexation- Implemented full text indexes and indexed views to boost query response times- Isolated locking and performance problems with Profiler and System Monitor- Worked extensively with DTS, packages ranging from file processing to OLAP ETL- Built stored procedures leveraging XML and OLE Automation extended stored procedures- Produced VBA utility to automate database change control for Visual SourceSafe

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

- Served as team trainer and mentor during high turnover period- Co-authored team design standards document- Modeled SQL Server and Access databases using ERwin- Tuned OLTP databases through third form normalization and T-SQL optimization- Coded then migrated queries, forms, reports, and VBA modules from Access 97 to 2000- Devised back-up/recovery and security plans for multi-million record payroll system- Automated the generation of common stored procedures using information schema views

Master Of Computer Science - Data Science, Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science

Computer Science

Computer Science

A.A.S., Computer Science

A.A.S., Electronic Systems