Steve Hindmarsh. Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Baden, CH

Returned to Axpo to work on an Openlink Endur v 16 and SQL Server 2016 migration project. - and also to help the in-house team respond to an increasing and changing workload within their data and database management team.Work here included working on the development of PowerBi dashboards for use by the DBA team, supporting application upgrades and.

London, England, GB

Working occasionally for the KWA consultancy when specialist database management skills and experience required. This included health checks, troubleshooting and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle mission-critical database installations. Work completed included short-term engagements at client sites across Europe or remotely as required..

London, Greater London, GB

Sql server SME working on Openlink Endur trading platform implementation. Work was initially focused on stabilising and optimising a recent trading application migration - was then extended to work on the project team preparing and implementing Endur across different business locations. Most recently involved in an Endur v17 / SQL 2016 upgrade.I was able.

A short part-time engagement at a London-based Energy trading company, working with LNG risk analysts to configure, develop and deploy a series of reports and dashboards as part of a PowerBi proof-of-concept project.

London, London, GB

Brought in on a short-term/part-time basis to support a mission critical trading platform upgrade - Openlink Endur v16 - and Sql server 2008r2 to 2016 migration.Role involved planning, implementing and supporting upgrade - as well as supporting developers and infrastructure teams during the transition. Part of team working on go-live weekend.

Austin, Texas, US

Returned to Trailstone to help them transition through a period of organizational restructuring and systems change.Managed the successful transitional of operational SQL Server support activities from an internal team to a 3rd party vendor. Investigation and resolution of Endur Trading platform application and SQL performance issues. Included analysis of.

Middlesex, England, GB

Returned to Sky to work as part of a large-scale Datacenter Migration Project.Work here includes PtoV migrations, SQL Server upgrades, performance tuning and troubleshooting and liasing with third-party application vendors. Working on SQL Server versions 2005 to 2014 - including AlwaysOn multi-subnet clusters.

Providing part-time/occasional bespoke SQL consultancy skills to CWJ Consulting - a consultancy working in the Openlink Endur application arena - with particular emphasis on SQL Server performance tuning issues.Work for CWJ consulting has included on-site consultancy at TrailStone Inc in London, performance tuning assignment at Axpo AG in Zurich.

Austin, Texas, US

Working for a US-based Energy Trading Company at their London offices. Working as the sole SQL Server SME / DBA with global responsibilities covering SQL infrastructure, support, development and architecture/design.Working on multiple projects including PtoV migrations, geo-clustering, system upgrades, implementation of SQL Server best practices, implement.

Gogarburn, GB

Part of a 7x24 follow-the-sun global DBA support team at one of UK's largest SQL server sites - supporting over 3,500 SQL instances - covering versions from 6.5 to 2014 ! Providing escalation/level 3 support for SQL Server issues across the RBS investment bank, retail bank, and subsidiary organizations.

Middlesex, England, GB

Working as a project resource assigned to a number of application and technology implementations. Main accomplishments at Sky include:-- Lead DBA on Datacenter Migration and decommission project. Complex database migration project completed on-time and to-budget.- Lead DBA on the introduction of SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Cross-Site clustering.- Lead DBA on the.

London, GB

Working in the IT Service Operations Database Team - supporting Sainsbury's production SQL Server estate.Main achievements at Sainsbury's involved the troubleshooting of overnight Batch ETL performance - working with a number of teams to stabilise and improve application batch window times.

London, GB

Initially taken on as sole SQL SME I was involved in the expansion of this role until when I left I was managing a team of 4 DBAs. We supported Gazprom Marketing and Tradings SQL Server estate. Team was responsible for all SQL environments at Gazprom - includes support of mission-critical production trading applications, Openlink Endur, SAP, SSRS,SSAS and.

Cambridge, England, GB

Working at the Cambridge Assessments division of Cambridge University.Work here included:--SQL Server DBA\consultant on SQL 2008 upgrade project. Supporting 32 and 64 Bit SQL clustered implementations on Windows 2008.- Performance tuning Biztalk implementation.- Improving DBA processes, standards and documenation.- Defining SQL 2008 database security.

London, England, GB

Lead SQL server DBA working at the London Stock Exchange.Supporting mission critical Trading application - Tradelect - running initially on SQL 2000 and later migrated onto SQL 2005.Tradelect is one of the most high profile SQL Server based applications in the UK - handling up to £18billion worth of trades on busy days. SQL Server stability and performance.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, US

SQL Server DBA on a Unisys outsourced contract. Supporting initial transfer of IT contract for Metropolitan Police Force from EDS to Unisys hosted SQL 2000 environment.

London, England, GB

Working for one of the biggest law firms in the UK as a SQL DBA on a SQL 2005 upgrade project

Dublin 2, IE

Accenture NHS project based in leeds. Production support SQL dba working 12 hour shifts on SQL 2000, large scale SAN environment using snapshot backup technology.Supporting over 1,500 live databases, running on 200+ servers. Use of MS Cluster Services, supporting both two & four node instances, including four node BizTalk installs. One of the largest SAN’s.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

SQL DBA/consultancy role using SQL 6.5, 7 and 2000. Some on-site consultancy and troubleshooting performed at customer sites on behalf of IBM - including Boots, NTL and Arqiva.

Redmond, Washington, US

Production support DBA on SQL 2005.

Houston, Texas, US

Team leader of HP EMEA production support SQL team in Munich. Managing DBA teams in Germany, UK and Bangalore. Supporting internal HP systems running SQL 6.5, 7 and 2000, and also several outsourced HP partners including Tetrapak and Japanese Tobacco Industries.

GB

Development SQL 2000 DBA role. Work here included: logical and physical database design, implementation of a virtualized SQL develoment\test environment and performance troubleshooting.

Zurich, CH

SQL DBA team/project leader based at CSFB HQ in Zurich. Managed team of 3 SQL Server DBAs supporting all mission-critical systems hosted in Switzerland.

Houston, Texas, US

SQL DBA at EMEA HQ in Munich - SQL 6.5 and 7.

SQL DBA/consultant working at small software house. SQL 6.5 and 7 migration...

Tralee, Kerry, IE

SQL DBA at JRI Inc - IT offshoot of Sumitomo Bank in London.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, DE

SQL Server DBA at Deutsche Bank in London.

CA-Datacom Database Administrator

Started out as a Trainee MVS Systems Programmer. At the age of 19 became a trainee database administrator working on the CA-Datacom DBMS - also supported the IDEAL 4GL programming language. Other Skills at the time included JCL, PL/1 and CICS programming. Eventually left MEB after working as a DBA for 5 years, and also gaining my Software Engineering.

Bsc Hons, Software Engineering

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