Sam Wegner Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Enable business success by creating strategic technology vision. Build secure, scalable, and cost-effective hybrid cloud solutions while improving operational efficiency and enhancing reliability. Develop teams of technically proficient, customer-oriented professionals.Foster collaborative relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and service providers..

Houston, Texas, US

Responsible for leading Waste Management's corporate data center strategy and operations, integrating a private hosted cloud with multiple public cloud providers. Oversee all aspects of infrastructure operations and infrastructure software administration, including all database, middleware, and DevOps platforms.

Houston, Texas, US

Providing technical and organizational leadership for teams that provide operational and development support for Waste Management's database (Oracle, SQL Server, NoSQL) and middleware (Websphere, JBoss, Weblogic) platforms, including infrastructure support for ERP applications (Peoplesoft, Siebel).

Houston, Texas, US

Providing technical and organizational leadership for the Oracle and SQL Server database administration teams for Waste Management

Austin, Texas, US

• Principal DBA on a global team providing 24X7 operational support for both the database and middle-tier environments for Oracle’s Content Management Services, including Oracle’s external website, www.oracle.com.
• Integrated newly acquired software stacks into Oracle's highly-redundant, highly-available architecture using Oracle database 11g and the Fusion Middle Ware 11g stack, with full redundancy and clustering at all levels.
• Achieved marked improvements in stability and performance of websites managed by Content Management Services through database performance tuning and application re-design.
• Architected and wrote PL/SQL code to create application performance metrics and monitoring information for applications which did not have adequate monitoring capabilities and integrated these with Oracle Enterprise.
• Experienced in troubleshooting and resolving complex problems, working closely with development and support organizations to improve the quality of Oracle's products.
• Leader and mentor on a global team of 20+ engineers, with an established track record of achieving goals through cooperative effort and improving the quality of work of others.

• Key member of the team supporting the IRI account after IRI outsourced their IT operations.
• Recognized leader in migrating IRI's databases to Acxiom's datacenter and consolidating operations.
• Designed and wrote a set of stored procedures to monitor and administer an enterprise of more than 400 SQL Server databases and customized MSAS cubes.
• Consistently able to identify solutions for problematic SQL and PL/SQL that improved performance by orders of magnitude.

• Involved in data modeling and re-architecting IRI's factory for producing multi-dimensional analytic cubes for the consumer packaged goods industry.
• Built, tuned, and administered a 30 TB Oracle 9.2 Real Application Clusters. Optimized loads of up to 5TB of fact data on a variety of server, storage array, and operating system combinations.
• Created a “virtual DBA” -- a collection of PL/SQL packages that dynamically created schemas, tables, and indexes, intelligently gathered statistics, and automatically managed storage on both raw and cooked devices.
• Wrote an extension to Oracle’s partition exchange feature which enabled the rapid exchange of data and indexes between two partitioned or between two non-partitioned tables, even across schema boundaries.
• Successfully implemented advanced Oracle technology in real-world production situations (partitioning, advanced queuing, RAC, object-relational features, materialized views with and without query rewrite, windowing.
• Provided development, test, and production support for multiple projects simultaneously, including periodic rotations on primary on-call support for all 300 instances in the enterprise. Assisted in data modeling, then.

Developed over a dozen databases in Access in order to provided company executives with customized business analyses. Migrated data accurately from a proprietary ISAM database using SQL, ODBC interfaces, and a variety of creative data migration techniques.Administered the company's entire telecommunications package. Saved the company over $10,000/yr in.

Improved and protected data consistency, in conjunction with inventory control responsibilities, by implementing better standards for data entry and enforcing proper procedures. Performed system maintenance, installed PC hardware and software, and performed PC repair.