• Lead a team that will identify, conceptualize, plan, and execute initiatives related to documenting, maintaining, and creating technical solutions for internal United Therapeutics customers• Build value-added relationships within the stakeholders within the organization to become a trusted technology and solution advisor• Assume responsibility for the development standards, hosting, maintenance, security, and compliance levels for all Company websites• Identify opportunities for… Show more • Lead a team that will identify, conceptualize, plan, and execute initiatives related to documenting, maintaining, and creating technical solutions for internal United Therapeutics customers• Build value-added relationships within the stakeholders within the organization to become a trusted technology and solution advisor• Assume responsibility for the development standards, hosting, maintenance, security, and compliance levels for all Company websites• Identify opportunities for and establish frameworks to champion global data warehousing standards to democratize data access, visualization, and correlation• Socialize, provide, and maintain business process automation, data integration and data visualization services and solutions for the organization• Formalize and lead architecture documentation, review, and maintenance programs for IT practices to ensure up to date IT architectural references exist and are available for use in business solution design• Discover, document, and maintain pertinent reference information and artifacts on all applications and dependencies in use within the organization to facilitate reduction of duplicative systems and general IT Operations• Facilitate creation, publication, and maintenance of technology road maps at a business and/or functional level• Lead the analysis of the existing database and business intelligence environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement• Formulate and execute plans for the long term data and business intelligence strategy at UT including future use of data lakes, data warehouses, and Big Data• Optimize IT involvement in a decentralized technology ownership paradigm by proactively identifying, initializing, and maintaining programs and processes to enable IT to offer technology consultation services before technology design and procurement is decided Show less

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- Senior Solutions Architect - Manager of Data Processing- Creator of Team Magic and Good Times- Data Analyst and Metric Developer- Town Crier of Present Inefficient Systems- Project manager and lead for externally and internally developed data management and work flow funneling systems.- Hater of the Mondays- Expert in relational datasets and RDMS systems- Solutions engineer for whiskey and beer disposal systems.

• Help to plan as well as execute project and day-to-day activities associated with the data warehouse including building new tables, querying existing tables and linking the data warehouse to external applications as needed• Provide input and collaborate with other team members to ensure that projects stay on task and meet requirements• Interact heavily with the Data Warehouse Manager to ensure that all tasks are being executed in accordance with the overall project plan… Show more • Help to plan as well as execute project and day-to-day activities associated with the data warehouse including building new tables, querying existing tables and linking the data warehouse to external applications as needed• Provide input and collaborate with other team members to ensure that projects stay on task and meet requirements• Interact heavily with the Data Warehouse Manager to ensure that all tasks are being executed in accordance with the overall project plan • Participate in design and development meetings with business stakeholders to resolve issues related to specific project • Learn new systems and data sets as needed to ensure that the department can meet new requests and requirements as dictated by the business Show less

Worked as a Microsoft Sql Server Database Administrator in 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2014 environments –installed, configured and maintained MS SQL server software , created new databases using MS SQL server management studio, added maintenance plans, executed SSIS packages to import and export data, created stored procedures, configured security, preformed database refreshes/restores and setup an SMTP mailing service for notification of critical alerts.Served Oracle database… Show more Worked as a Microsoft Sql Server Database Administrator in 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2014 environments –installed, configured and maintained MS SQL server software , created new databases using MS SQL server management studio, added maintenance plans, executed SSIS packages to import and export data, created stored procedures, configured security, preformed database refreshes/restores and setup an SMTP mailing service for notification of critical alerts.Served Oracle database Administrator for OCFS Data warehouse creating backups, running refreshes, executing scripts sent by developers and other routine activities in production, development and testing environments. Assisted in diagnosing and troubleshooting critical database issues through use of tracing, performance monitoring and analyzing metrics using OEM and SQL Server Profiler. Tuned SQL queries to optimize application performance, reduce execution time and resource overhead Created several jobs to run off hours updates in Unix environments through use of Korn shell scripting and scheduled them to run on a regular basis through the cron.Served as the on call support for the NYS-OCFS Database management team; was called on site off hours countless times for my technical expertise and skills in troubleshooting.Applied patches, performed upgrades and failed over file systems on production applications and database servers during off hours maintenance windows and build nights.Configured an HP Superdome server for production and assisted in the migration of several Oracle 10g databases to the new HP Superdome production server. Show less