Developed strategic recommendation for operational lineage. Advised Product, Marketing, and executive team on market needs, business needs, and opportunities.• Successfully advocated for adopting OpenLineage, saving on integration costs and providing a natural expansion for our data observability product line.• Managed the ETL lineage product roadmap, adding GA tools for 4 new ETL tools, overseeing significant rewrites for another 4, and maintenance of an additional 3 tools.• Awarded the internal "Innovation Award" for driving meaningful innovation through calculated risks.• Contributed to over USD $2.5 million dollars in new ARR annually

Achieved 303% YOY growth as the sole Product Manager for MongoDB’s Consistent UserExperience, collaborating with design, engineering and product from five departments.• Sole Product Manager for the O-FISH app, a collaboration with a not-for-profit to showcase MongoDB features while creating foundational software that protects world waterways.• Drove O-FISH strategy, mobile and web app development, across Design/Eng/partners.• Established a continuous discovery process; worked with design on industry and userresearch. Analyzed and synthesized quantitative and qualitative research data.• Collaborated with Product and Community teams to create impactful keynote demonstrations.• Product manager for sharding for the MongoDB database server.

Saved $3 million over 8 months by applying data science techniques to capacity planning to maximize existing nodes. This work also streamlined early detection of performance issues.• Together with Engineering, Product and Support – built, maintained and monitored the infrastructure for our SaaS platform; developed/implemented new DB tools and processes.• Pioneered the compilation of PHP to authenticate securely with LDAP against MySQL• Automated the migration of 800 MySQL servers from a data center to AWS EC2 instances• Created unique graphs of MySQL internals so developers could see code impact• Designed schemas for, optimized and maintained a large MySQL/PHP environment

Managed the business intelligence, data integration, data warehouse and database teams.• Saved $500,000 per year by delivering data visualization and data integration solutions for C-suite down to individual contributors. This required collaboration with Marketing, Finance, HR and Engineering to develop and deliver.• Determined critical success factors (CSF) for business needs; automated KPI reports.• Pioneered a MySQL migration to AWS process; implemented the first set of migrations andhanded the rest over to operations. Virtualized 80% of the MySQL databases.• Automated MySQL set-up, complete with monitoring and backups – just update 3 files.• Administered Tableau; updated the single point-of-failure Tableau server into a redundant cluster w/automated, synchronized backups, and a documented + tested failover process.• Implemented automated data quality via checksums on all 400 MySQL databases.

Summary: Managed the DBA team and hundreds of databases in dozens MySQL clusters, plus a half dozen Postgres clusters. Created processes and configurations by which a new cluster could be created by editing a few files, complete with monitoring and backups.• Responded to incidents and impacts relating to performance, stability, availability, data quality and business continuity/disaster management issues.• Implemented automated data quality via checksums for all MySQL clusters, with alerting.• Created a MySQL configuration management lifecycle - including business continuity through backup slaves, availability by making n+1 architecture the default, and easy transition to AWS. • Created MySQL standard operating procedures and streamlined them through automation.• Led the effort to virtualize 80% of the MySQL databases over a 2-year period.• Led bug triage for the team – including delegation and follow-up.

• Managed client expectations and relationships, including bringing on new clients.• Responsible for the administration of MySQL databases for over a dozen clients. • Responsible for the public face of PalominoDB, via public speaking, blogging and tweeting.• Tuned MySQL; Wrote and optimized queries; Troubleshot abnormal events.• Administered a 10-node Cassandra cluster for Tapulous/Disney Mobile.• Designed logical and physical schemas with corresponding queries.• Upgraded clients in different environments from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1• MySQL skills utilized: backups via mysqldump/xtrabackup/ZRM, server/client connectivity, monitoring, replication, security, query optimization, views, stored code, debugging internals.• Developed a Nagios plugin for MySQL to perform calculations using arbitrary variables (see http://palominodb.com/about-us/projects)

• Managed the team of 2-4 other DBAs ranging from junior to senior-level.• Managed client expectations and relationships, including bringing on new clients.• Responsible for the administration of MySQL databases for over a dozen clients. • Tuned MySQL; Wrote and optimized queries; Troubleshot abnormal events.• Designed logical and physical schemas with corresponding queries.• MySQL skills utilized: backups via mysqldump and InnoDB hot backup, server/client connectivity, MySQL Proxy, MySQL Cluster, monitoring MySQL, replication, security, query optimization, views, triggers, stored procedures. The Pythian Group - Database Administrator Dec 2007 – Mar 2008• Responsible for the administration of MySQL and Oracle databases for a dozen clients. • Tuned MySQL and Oracle servers; Wrote and optimized queries; Debugged abnormal events.• Designed logical and physical schemas with corresponding queries.• Oracle skills utilized: RMAN, server/client connectivity, general query support.• MySQL skills utilized: backups via mysqldump and InnoDB hot backup, server/client connectivity, monitoring MySQL, replication, security, query optimization.

• Responsible for the administration of MySQL databases for an extremely busy (3000 qps, 1000 ups per server normal load) database-driven personal ad website. • Managed the 6-person Systems Team.• Created architectures and implemented migration plans; Created monitoring systems and procedures. • Provided database knowledge to developers, managers, and quality assurance personnel. • Tuned MySQL servers; Wrote and optimized queries; Troubleshooted abnormal events. • Designed logical and physical schemas with corresponding queries. • Filled in gaps by mentoring Unix sysadmins, project management and code review. • Created and managed a data warehouse. • Provided technical support for Customer Service.

• Installed, maintained and configured operating systems and database servers. • Provided database knowledge to developers, managers, and quality assurance personnel. • Tuned MySQL queries. • Implemented system and database software upgrades; Troubleshooted abnormal events. • Responsible for the physical and logical networking of the heterogenous test lab. • Created monitoring systems and procedures.

• Responsible for the administration of large-scale, heterogeneous shared computer systems that provide information technology services, including databases, e-mail, world wide web, directories and security. • Installed, maintained, tuned and configured operating systems, databases and web servers. • Created monitoring systems and procedures; Created documentation systems and procedures. • Installed and administrated ticketing system. • Troubleshooted abnormal events; Provided third tier technical support. • Created architectures and implemented migration plans.

• Maintained a network of 100 workstations utilizing the RedHat Linux, IRIX, and Macintosh operating systems. • Installed and configured RedHat and IRIX systems. Maintained consistency among packages and crucial files (ie, password files).• Responsible for day-to-day user support including remote access support. Implemented and maintained ticketing system to track tasks.