Monica Rathbun Email & Phone Number

As a key member of the Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting (DCAC) team, I specialize in resolving critical database performance issues and ensuring systems are optimized for stability, scalability, and success. Here's how I make an impact:Performance Tuning & Optimization: Address acute database performance challenges through architecture enhancements, database logic/code adjustments, and strategic hardware recommendations.SQL Server Implementation: Design and implement SQL Server Database Engine solutions tailored to client specifications and business needs.Health Checks & Recommendations: Conduct in-depth assessments of client systems, delivering actionable recommendations to improve performance, stability, and data redundancy/recoverability.Proactive Support: Provide long-term database administration and support, ensuring potential problems are mitigated before they occur while maintaining peak system performance.High-Availability & Disaster Recovery: Collaborate with clients to design and deploy HA/DR architectures for SQL Server, aligning with overall business continuity plans.At DCAC, my focus is on delivering results that not only solve immediate challenges but also build robust, future-proof systems that drive business success.

Suffolk, Va

Sole DBA responsible for all SQL and Oracle related instances. Business Intelligence Developer fluent in the full Microsoft stack (Database Engine, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Power BI, Power Pivot, Power View).

Responsible for performance tuning, managing and monitoring for company's entire SQL Server farm consisting of over 50 servers ranging from SQL 2000 to SQL 2012. Disaster Recovery and high availability implementation and planning, backups & restores, system monitoring, database mirroring. Maintain and implemented policies and procedures for SQL Security & Audit Compliance.

Acted as liaison between IT and Billing, Finance and Risk management departments. Project leader for Billing and AR system migration to UNIX. Planned and coordinated user testing provided IT with the system knowledge, documented testing results and validated all test data. Oversaw end user transition to new system and addressed any issues that were recognized. Documented specifications and pseudo code for programmers for system development