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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Hanover, Md, Us

Serving as the technical expert in SQL Server technologies. Serving as lead for the SQL Server Production team.Serving as the database sme in P2V Operations of entire environment.Serving as DBA Liason in DR Setup via VMWare (SRM).Participating in SQL Server database systems physical design and operations.Participating in software upgrades, revisions, patches , and fixes mandated by the vendor.Assisting in the resolution of complex problems in support of production; including on call support.Ensuring that the detailed physical design of database and data structures comply with data policies, standards, principles, and meets the established level of service agreements/goals for the system.Managing the corporations, Licensing and Elections systems for the state of Georgia.Participate in disaster recovery strategizing for the Secretary of state’s office.Maintaining solid technical skills in R/DBMSs, products, utilities, protocols, and techniques.Managing and monitoring SLAs for uptime and performance of SQL Server databases.Demonstrating experience in working on root cause analysis for SQL Server database issues.Flexible, adaptable, and able to managing multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.Proactively monitoring the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.Project management for Database technical projects.Provide on call support on a rotating basis.Migrate all database systems from SQL server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008r2 to SQL server 2012 in a virtualized and consolidated environment.Other duties as assigned

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Serving as the technical expert in SQL Server technologies. Liaise with functional and development teams.Serving as lead for the SQL Server Production team.Participating in SQL Server database systems design and operations.Participating in software upgrades, revisions, patches , and fixes mandated by the vendor.Assisting in the resolution of complex problems in support of production; including on call support.Ensuring that the detailed physical design of database and data structures comply with data policies, standards, principles, and meets the established level of service agreements/goals for the system.Working to make sure the team can Create, develop, and review the physical data model created from Logical data model.Maintaining solid technical skills in R/DBMSs, products, utilities, protocols, and techniques.Managing and monitoring SLAs for uptime and performance of SQL Server databases.Demonstrating experience in working on root cause analysis for SQL Server database issues.Flexible, adaptable, and able to managing multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.Proactively monitoring the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.Mentor and provide technical support to all team members.Project management for Database technical projects.Provide on call support on a rotating basis.Other duties as assigned.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Serving as the technical expert in SQL Server technologies. Liaise with functional and development teams.Serving as lead for the SQL Server Production team.Participating in SQL Server database systems design and operations.Participating in software upgrades, revisions, patches , and fixes mandated by the vendor.Assisting in the resolution of complex problems in support of production; including on call support.Ensuring that the detailed physical design of database and data structures comply with data policies, standards, principles, and meets the established level of service agreements/goals for the system.Working to make sure the team can Create, develop, and review the physical data model created from Logical data model.Maintaining solid technical skills in R/DBMSs, products, utilities, protocols, and techniques.Managing and monitoring SLAs for uptime and performance of SQL Server databases.Demonstrating experience in working on root cause analysis for SQL Server database issues.Flexible, adaptable, and able to managing multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.Proactively monitoring the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.Mentor and provide technical support to all team members.Project management for Database technical projects.Provide on call support on a rotating basis.Other duties as assigned.

• Managing a team of 6 DBAs supporting client and in-house database systems (SQL Server and MySQL) on various infrastructure projects improving service level agreements by reducing time to deliver database solutions to business.• Developed stronger ties between customers and Infrastructure team resulting in collaborating and working together to effectively use IT for business. • Conducted interviews and participated in hiring decisions along with HR in order to retain the best talent in the organization.• Participated in quarterly meetings with Senior Management to discuss technical infrastructure and market recommendations assisting in the formation of the technology roadmap• Lead database compliance effort in accordance with sas70 and iso20k and participate with internal and external audits resulting in fulfillment of FDA requirements.• Managed technical review board (TRB) meetings ensuring that changes to production environments are validated and thoroughly tested. This effort reduced the number of outages by over 25%.• Responsible for promoting team bonding among members of my team.• Responsible for tracking and inspiring the career growth of team members.• Responsible for scheduling and presiding over team meetings and making notes to senior mgmt on the progress of my team.• Responsible for driving the consolidation and upgrade efforts of all database systems into sql server 2012.

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for installing the SQL Server database instances in all environments including but not limited to development, QA and Production Responsible for supporting the SQL Server databases and ensuring their performance, availability and security. Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system. Work with the team to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high availability and optimum performance. To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime. Responsible for providing trend analysis to the service management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management. Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include Deployments and upgrades. Responsible for implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the development teamResponsible for security and non-security patches based on company approved maintenance schedules

Mcdonough, Ga, Us

SQL Projects:• Used SQL Profiler for troubleshooting, monitoring, optimization of SQL Server and SQL code.• Performed various data migration tasks for mission critical databases.• Worked with a team of 6 to manage over 2000 databases ranging from 350GB to 2.3TB.• Worked with BI teams in the full development lifecycle of the SQL Server 2005 and 2008r2 enterprise data warehouses and report servers.• Worked with Powershell for performance enhancement and security audits.• Made use of Powershell and SMO to manage SQL Server databases for high availability.• Maintained large data warehouses (multidimensional and relational).• Worked with development team in analyzing data obtained from prod systems and massaging them into more readable format using SSAS.• Set up policies to guide database usage in SQL Server 2008r2.• Performed DBA duties including: database backups, restores, performance tuning, and capacity analysis• Worked with bi team and reporting group in generating the weekly, monthly, and quarterly report by using SQL Reporting Services.• Developed, modified, and optimized complex stored procedures, triggers to handle complex business rules, history data and audit analysis.• Worked with teams with 13 other Database Administrators, 5 database developers and 6 application vendor consultants to ensure quality deliverables to our clients.• Successfully engaged in various DR (Disaster Recovery) efforts for my customers.• Made recommendation on systems hardware and software implementation for management approval and took responsibility for complete and timely implementation.• Organized and co-ordinates daily operations and project delivery meeting to identified all possible problems and ensure they are rectified to keep project on schedule and report any project variance to the appropriate upper management personnel.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Serving as the technical expert in SQL Server technologies. Liaise with functional and development teams.Serving as lead for the SQL Server Production team.Participating in SQL Server database systems design and operations.Participating in software upgrades, revisions, patches , and fixes mandated by the vendor.Assisting in the resolution of complex problems in support of production; including on call support.Ensuring that the detailed physical design of database and data structures comply with data policies, standards, principles, and meets the established level of service agreements/goals for the system.Working to make sure the team can Create, develop, and review the physical data model created from Logical data model.Maintaining solid technical skills in R/DBMSs, products, utilities, protocols, and techniques.Managing and monitoring SLAs for uptime and performance of SQL Server databases.Demonstrating experience in working on root cause analysis for SQL Server database issues.Flexible, adaptable, and able to managing multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.Proactively monitoring the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.Mentor and provide technical support to all team members.