Steven Valkov

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CEO and Co-founder @ Budget Vampire
Toronto, ON, CA
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Greater Toronto Area, Canada, Canada
About Steven Valkov

Solid and superior IT Expert with over 25 years as a Business and Industry Leader, Hi-Tech Enterprise Solutions, Data and AI, Senior Architecture and VP with a Legacy of over 50 Enterprise Projects worth 50M+, with 10 to 100+ Teams.● Conducted - Process and Architectural blueprints for Governance, Risk, and Compliance with Zachman, TOGAF, etc● Coached - Security, Privacy, and Technical App Development, Mobile, Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle)● Managed - Real-time massive amounts of data, maintaining high predictable throughput, low latencies & rapid-development● Designed - Application and Data, and Network Architecture with Security and AuditsWell rounded IT Expert with solid managerial and hands on experience with numerous world-known clients, diverse projects, different teams, state of art technologies and tools. Experienced mentor, excellent communicator and motivator with exceptional analytical, interpersonal and problem solving skills.Specialties: • Data Warehousing, ERP, SDLC, VOIP, PBX• Banking/Finance, Capital Markets, Risk, Insurance, Government, Telecoms, Entertainment, Food Industry• PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Experian, Murex, MaRRs, Encompass, Infor, Vista, Cognos, DataStage, Much-Net PMS, BAWAG, MicroStrategy• Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, DB2• Erwin, Visio, Toad, Idera, • PL/SQL, T-SQL, Java, .Net, C/CGI PHP, ASP, HTML/JS, VBS/Cmd/Bash/ETL,SSAS/SSIS/SSRS• VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM• Windows, Linux, UNIX

Steven Valkov's Current Company Details
Budget Vampire

Budget Vampire

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CEO and Co-founder
Toronto, ON, CA
Steven Valkov Work Experience Details
  • Budget Vampire
    Ceo And Co-Founder
    Budget Vampire
    Toronto, On, Ca
  • Isratech Capital Partners
    Advisor, Head Of Capital Introduction
    Isratech Capital Partners Mar 2024 - Present
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 4Br - Professional Services And Enterprise Solutions
    Hi-Tech Lead (Ai/Blockchain/Gaming); Security(Training/Algos/Prevention);
    4Br - Professional Services And Enterprise Solutions Aug 2012 - Present
    Toronto, Canada Area
    ~~World-Changing Tech Portfolio~~- Hi-Tech (AI/Blockchain/OpticalHardware)- UX (Aircoins/PlayAPI/Traveling/Leagues)- Trading (Quants/Signal/Algos/OTCs)- GreenTech (CarbonCapture/StonePaper/Growups/Recycling)~~Trading and Liquidity~~- OTC BitcoinCoin/Crypto Trading, Buy and Sell Deals- Coin forensic, escrow and attestation services - OTC Services with Large Gold, Arts, Diamond, Antiques Deals ~~Consulting and Business Development~~- Security and Technical Training · Security Awareness, Privacy and Compliance · Application, Mobile, Cloud, and Network Security- Business Consulting · Business Training · Process Development and Architecture · Risk and Security Management and Compliance- Architecture and IT Consulting · Application, Data and Network Architecture · Security Architecture and Governance- Development and Support · Application and Mobile Development · Security Development, Support and Audit
  • Aircoins Metaverse - The #1 Metaverse Reality Experience
    Strategic Advisor
    Aircoins Metaverse - The #1 Metaverse Reality Experience Jul 2022 - May 2024
    Aircoins uses the latest augmented reality, geolocation and blockchain technology innovations to provide the #1 Metaverse Reality Experience. Immerse yourself in Augmented Reality with Virtual Real Estate, Collectible NFTs, and popular digital asset.Download Aircoins now: https://www.aircoins.ioJoin us on telegram for a live chat: https://t.me/aircoins
  • Aircoins Metaverse - The #1 Metaverse Reality Experience
    Chief Financial Officer
    Aircoins Metaverse - The #1 Metaverse Reality Experience Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Aircoins uses the latest augmented reality, geolocation and blockchain technology innovations to provide the #1 Metaverse Reality Experience. Immerse yourself in Augmented Reality with Virtual Real Estate, Collectible NFTs, and popular digital asset.Download Aircoins now: https://www.aircoins.ioJoin us on telegram for a live chat: https://t.me/aircoins
  • Berkeley Payments
    Senior Technical Lead
    Berkeley Payments Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Berkeley's is a Leading Fintech Global Payments Platform that enables over 2000 enterprise-class organization make seamless real-time payments around the world and is responsible for over 80B payments▪ Directly managed a team of 8 people in building an Enterprise A-grade enterprise and data practise and coached and trained 6 interns allowing them to gain valuable experience and making them defacto valuable team members▪ Designed Business Process, Conceptual and Data Architecture in par with the best world practises and usable to the business ▪ Advised on OCI to AWS migration and synchronization project with dozens of systems and multiple database and end points and program language as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, Aurora and planned/tested Snowflake data warehouse/marketplace▪ Built and managed Data Governance and Metadata practise allowing knowledge generation, defining Critical Data Element (CDE) and Sensitive element increasing dramatically the compliance readiness and enforcing best security practices overall LOBs▪ Optimized and troubleshooted of existing database code, ETL imports and API orchestrations with often 5-10 times boost
  • Ci Financial
    Strategical Data And Integration Project
    Ci Financial Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
    CI Financial is the largest investment management firm in Canada with a total of close to $300.0 billion in AUM (Assets Under Management) and is listed on the TSX: CIX, NYSE: CIXX and is a part of the highly influential globally S&P/TSX Composite Index.▪ Defined architecture supporting Salesforce CRM implementation with 100s or thousand to millions of clients, potentially 100s of billions of AUM, and dozens of sources making it one of Canada's most challenging projects in this area in the last many years▪ Enforced guidelines and checklist for 100s of stakeholders in proving business requirements, data access, data schema modeling, and KDE element governance allowing marketing and customer management as per the world’s best practices ▪ Data Profiling, KPIs, and Dashboards Design, of a full inventory of Data and Business attributes while cleaning and deduplication the records allowing ingestion and warehousing in MDM/Golden Source of Record with complete history and auditing▪ Overall draft of Cloud, real-time enterprise ingestion architecture following future proven design pattern allowing stable design and if completed and expanded with real data, can bring having stability and potentially trimming years off of the project
  • Smartificial Research & Technology
    Chief Data Infrastructure Officer
    Smartificial Research & Technology Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    SMARTIFICIAL (TM) is an International R&D Innovation network, virtual accelerator and technology fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain business solutions. The company is an Intel Technology Provider acting as a business accelerator through various R&D innovation centers ("innovation as a service") sponsoringhigh potential companies in disruptive AI Technology, Neuroscience, FinTech, Cyber Security, Healthcare, Genomics, Transportation, Real Estate, e-Education and Online Retail. The portfolio includes several early-stage technology companies under the umbrella of a distributed AI Center of Excellence.SMARTIFICIAL (TM) also provides AiaaS ("AI as a Service") and BaaS ("Blockchain as a Service") to various companies in the industry with an emphasis on partnerships with International Universities and Research Labs through Crowdsourcing.
  • Deloitte
    Senior Mainframe Migration And Cloud Modernization
    Deloitte Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
    Deloitte is one of the big four and serves 4 out of 5 Fortune Global 500® companies through a network in more than 150 countries. With more than 100,000 professionals, Deloitte provides global technology, tax, audit, risk, and financial advisory services.▪ Established workshops and series of meetings to build a documentation and requirement inventory of the current systems as UX front end and background legacy systems and mainframe program for migration and business improvement ▪ Review the lowest level database information while building a blueprint and plan for modernization to Cloud and other future-proven solutions, allowing in the process build-up of better business practices, massive savings, security and privacy benefits ▪ Advise of Internal and External Integrations/Dependencies where mainframe programs or jobs being or becoming dependencies from upstream or downstream apps ▪ Distilled Risks and Issues with legacy program logic need documentation and SME knowledge available while addressing Input/Data Quality, masking of secure stay/flight of sensitive data, and performance and timeouts▪ Overall draft of Cloud, real-time enterprise ingestion architecture following future proven design pattern allowing stable design
  • City Of New York
    Mdm And Big Data Architect And Lead
    City Of New York Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
    New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States. The city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass with an estimated population of over 23 million residents. New York City is the headquarters of the United Nations and has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon politics, commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. ▪ Created component diagrams and reviewed current data attributes and current to be upgraded solution▪ Investigated high-level requirements and deliverables, considering assumptions, solutions, and recommendations ▪ Established additional enhancements desired in the light of the impact on the existing solution ▪ Designed persistent Golden Records for Individuals, Householding, and Organization Parties with added Cases domain with entitlements at the user and attribute levels and related expanded attributes in the MDM data model▪ Introduced Enterprise ID, REST API, Virtualized / Shared MDM instances, Geocoding, CASS/AVI, Global Name Recognition (GNR)▪ Installed IBM Red Hat Linux, set up local user id and groups, file systems, and directories, configured kernel parameters, and packages on all servers with fully redundant backup and restore systems▪ Upgraded IBM MDM Server, InfoSphere Information Server (IIS), IBM QualityStage & DataStage with Standardization Rules Designer and Data Quality Exception Console and Information Analyzer Thin Client▪ Designed Information Governance Catalog (IGC) dashboards, administration console, and Metadata Asset ManagerEnvironment: Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, BPM, Enterprise Architecture, Sparx EA, ETL, Data Quality, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Big Data, Virtualization, Oracle, Oracle Cloud (OCI, CCS), SQL Server, SSIS, EDW/ODS, Visio
  • Canadian Tire Corporation
    Big Data, Migration And Bi Analytics
    Canadian Tire Corporation Jun 2018 - May 2019
    Toronto, Canada Area
    Canadian Tire is one of Canada's 35 largest publicly traded companies and an almost 100 years old legend of its own. With over 55,000 employees the Canadian retail sells a wide range of automotive, hardware, sports and leisure, and home products.Responsibilities: ▪ Led Big Data and Hadoop EDW adoption and migration project working with Business SME and Stakeholder and Technical Team to implement scalable and holistic EDW, Analytics and Reporting using the latest and greatest technologies available▪ Enabled Data Modelling improvement and optimizations achieving in-time scalable and optimal low-cost solutions ▪ Improved upon Enterprise Data Practice and Data Governance participating in steering and joint committees, working directly with data owners and data stewards and vendors as EPAM and NESS▪ Advised on usage and implementation of framework and tools improving business bottom and transparent decision making▪ Negotiated business requirements and business process and guidance in terms of building a bridge between IT-Data-BusinessEnvironment: Enterprise Data Modeling, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Big Data, Hadoop/Hive, Virtualization, HortonWorks/Cloudera, Oracle, Netezza, MySQL, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Business Process Modelling (BPM), Enterprise Architecture, ETL, Business Glossary, EDW/ODS, Erwin, Enterprise Data Profiling, Metadata, Visio
  • Rogers Communications
    Mdm And Enterprise Data Management Lead
    Rogers Communications Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
    Brampton, On
    Rogers Communications is Canada's largest wireless provider with over with 10 million voice and data subscribers. Rogers Media owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications, 52 radio stations and a number TV broadcasts. Rogers Cable is Canada's largest cable provider with over 2 million customers.Responsibilities: - Led Business Customer Master MDM implementations from grounds up with onsite/offshore teams and covering the dozen source and over 20 million of records- Support and implement initial and ongoing Data Quality proving means for the business to improve the source systems – both as information and as process logic- Initiated across board Enterprise Data governance including establishing steering committee, data owners and data stewards - Defined enterprise level data modeling initiate and advice metadata management framework - Discovered requirements and consulted business process improvement in the way the client are registered and the billing system operate, allowing as well high success in new marketing opportunities Environment: Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Business Process Modelling (BPM), Oracle, SQL Server, Visio, Enterprise Architecture, ETL, Business Glossary, ELDM, Semantic Modeling, Enterprise Metadata Repository, Data Profiling(DP), EDW/ODS, Oracle Data Enterprise Quality (OEDQ), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Siebel CRM / UCM, Oracle Customer Hub
  • Ehealth Ontario
    Enterprise Data Management And Data Conversions
    Ehealth Ontario Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
    Toronto, Canada Area
    eHealth Ontario is a leading Ontario provincial government agency developing and supporting the Electronic Health Record facilitating patients, hospitals, and health providers. eHealth Ontario aids physicians and clinicians in accessing and exchanging patient information, health history, diagnosis and hospitalizations, drugs prescriptions, lab results and diagnostic imaging. Responsibilities: - Implemented Date centric and mission critical Data Management, Data Governance and Data quality centric healthcare projects- Utilizing HL7 data standards and models with the ministry, the hospitals and other physicians, clinicians, regulatory organizations - Managed DataStage ETL dynamic heterogeneous environment, working with higher management, internal teams and the IBM - Revamped business process in complex MDM multimillion projects utilizing IBM BPM/BPEL, IBM IGC and IBM MDM- Adopted Governance IBM Framework from business process, metadata and business glossary compliance with full data lineage- SparX with highly evolved Solutions and Data modelling practices and Repository usageEnvironment: IBM Data Governance, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, Business Process Modelling (BPM), BPEL, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Z/OS, OS/390, Batch Processing, SparX with highly evolved Solutions and Data modeling practises and Repository usage, Erwin, Visio, Enterprise Architecture, CA TDM, ETL, Compliance, IBM iLDM (Industry Standard Models), IBM DataStage, Business and Data Lineage, Business Glossary, ELDM, Semantic Modeling, Asset Control, Enterprise Metadata Repository, Data Profiling(DP), Data Quality(DQ), Data Cleansing , EDW/ODS
  • Td
    Enterprise Data And Regulatory Compliance Lead
    Td Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
    Toronto, Canada Area
    TD Securities is Canada's leading provider of advisory, liquidity and capital markets, part of Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) Group, the second-largest bank in Canada by market capitalization and deposits and the sixth largest bank in North America. Responsibilities:- Pioneered Volcker Rule (Dodd Frank) Regulatory Compliance definition of physical and logical complex business requirements- Built Securities Data Warehouse (STARS) - ETL, models, architecture, data quality for Volcker near real-time BI and reporting- Communicated with vendors obtaining data definition and mappings for data acquisition from Wall Street, Murex, Calypso, etc. - Implemented and extended real-time messaging using JSON files, XML/XSL/XPath packages, data and text files. - Interfaced and support Volker/Dodd-Frank and BCBS239 artifacts feeding custom regulatory compliance Data Warehouse- Extended party and securities MDM solution for near-real time golden data source and fast-changing ETL and messaging Environment: IGC, MDM, BPM, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, SparX, Power Designer, Erwin, Volcker Rule, FACTA, Dodd-Frank, Basel III/BCBS 293, Risk, Wealth Management, Capital Markets, Compliance, Business Glossary and Data Lineage, EDW/ODS, Data Vault (DV)
  • Cibc
    Enterprise & Data Architecture Principal
    Cibc Feb 2014 - Nov 2014
    Toronto, Canada Area
    The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) serves more than eleven million clients and has over 40,000 employees. CIBC was named the strongest bank in Canada and North America, and the 3rd strongest in the world, by Bloomberg Markets, in May 2012.Responsibilities:- Designed Industry Models and Glossary using IBM Banking and Financial Markets Data Warehouse (BFMDW/BDW) with over 30,000 elements and over 400 categories for Basel III/BCBS 239 ontology and taxonomy and lineage, using IBM Infosphere Business Glossary and Metadata Workbench (Information Governance Catalog or IGC) as well Informatica Metadata Manager & Business Glossary (Informatica Power Center) for multi-year strategic directions- Defined OFSAA and IBM DG and BDW (BFMDQ) and Information Metadata Management POC and build interface and business and data lineage between semantic models and risk domain BCBS239 report CDE and reporting structures exploring TOGAF- Designed and support large Enterprise Data Lake/ Enterprise Data Hub implementation based on Hadoop and Cloudera defended by extensive ETL mappings and transformation utilizing IBM DataStage and Informatica using Sparx, Erwin and Visio- Utilized metadata from IBM DataStage and Informatica Power Center to supports the sourcing, integration and transformation of structures and big data (Hadoop distributed file system), self-serve BI, semantic modeling - real-time and near real-time Environment: OFSAA, SAS, Oracle, Oracle AQ, DB2, SQL Server, Z/OS, OS/390, AIX, Solaris, SparX, Erwin, Enterprise Architecture, Risk, Wealth Management, Capital Markets, Batch Processing, ETL, IBM Risk, RDA, Basel III/BCBS 293, Compliance, IBM BFMDW/BDW, IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary and Metadata Workbench, IBM Infosphere Governance Catalog (IGC), DataStage, Business and Data Lineage, Business Glossary, ELDM, Semantic Modeling, BPM/BPEL, Data Quality, Data Cleansing, EDW/ODS, Data Vault (DV), Hadoop
  • Olg
    Enterprise Information Data Architect & Modeller
    Olg Feb 2013 - Oct 2013
    Toronto, Canada Area
    Responsibilities:- Designed comprehensive business architecture with business owners and subject matter experts (SMEs) reflecting strategic direction and target state in line with decisions of the Ontario government and MOU with Federal institutions- Investigate an Enterprise architecture across all functional stacks (Client Services, PR/Promotion, Finance, Compliance, Investigations, Legal, HR, etc.) with Enterprise, Business, Process, Information/Data re-design - Delivered in-depth Business Processes (BPM) in collaboration with McKinsey Group and Deloitte across all business domains updating the Business Architecture across the enterprise achieving optimization and new channels and levels of services - Delivered world-class guidance for Data Warehousing and MDM projects utilizing IBM, Informatica and Teradata platforms supporting multiple terabytes of data and information for millions of clients and billions of transactions- Organized and review application dependencies, SLAs, RPOs, RTOs and related models- Optimized Enterprise Logical Models organization-wide at a high level allowing present and future state of businessEnvironment: DB2 9.5/9.7, SQL Server 2012-2008-2005, Sybase, Access, IBM Lotus Notes, Windows 2008-2005, AIX, Z/OS, OS/390, Aris, ER Studio, Visio, SparX, Enterprise Architecture, LDM, IDQ, MDM, Data Quality, IBM DataStage, PeopleSoft
  • Ibm Canada Ltd.
    Enterprise Data Center Architecture Project
    Ibm Canada Ltd. Mar 2012 - Aug 2012
    IBM is one of the largest technology, services and consulting organizations in Canada, home to the largest team of IBM software professionals outside of the United States.Responsibilities: - Defined enterprise system and solution architecture for business processes and application conceptualized continuity - Provide POF - Proof of concept for OTS with vendor selections and following implementation- Organized and negotiated application dependencies, SLAs, RPOs, RTOs - Advised application and database high-performance (HP), high-availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) patterns- Prepared high-availability (HA), disaster-recovery (DR) scenarios and combined overview patterns- Considered testing and recovery technologies in 24x7 environment - Developed a high level road-map for migrations and high level patterns and Data Centre support for over 3000 databases and more than a hundred of diverse mission critical systems - Optimized backup and recovery strategies and policies for availably and monitoring- Added recovery considerations and risk assessment for redundancy and TCO improvements- Proof of concept and business case scenario for custom and OTS decision and implementation processEnvironment: SQL Server, Sybase, VMware, Access, SharePoint, BizTalk, AIX, Visio, HA, DR, Enterprise Architecture
  • Rsa Canada
    Data Architecture And Modeling
    Rsa Canada Oct 2011 - Jun 2012
    Toronto, Canada Area
    RSA is world's leading multinational insurance group with almost 300 years of experience and over 20 million customers worldwide.Responsibilities:- Created comprehensive data infrastructures for global and specific market risks and reporting. With mark-to-market and value-at-risk processes, as well as the generation of end-of-day portfolio valuations and market risks.- Performed data quality analytical processing, define data dependencies and provide advice for data error, inconsistencies and issues - Organized high level enterprise architecture best practices, guidelines and standards for modelling and development - Defined mapping templates and usage samples over the life-time of the project, supported centralized KB structures and access procedures- Built and visualized logical multi-dimensional multi-layer model with metadata support, ETL migration objects- Conceptualized business requirements, support the performance of ETL and SQL programming tasks and engage in data migrations.- Supported building of a Teradata industry logical model based customized Enterprise Data Warehouse with multi-dimensional design for a major MicroStrategy implementation- Conducted migration between different databases and versions of the DB2, Teradata, and Access.- Developed customized scripts DB2/Teradata for data transformations and verification and reverse engineering of relational objects and constraints- Defined knowledge-base articles, templates and programming, modelling techniques- Visualized data flows and integrated procedures in the context of Teradata industry LDM- Explained historical warehouse procedure and delta changing dimensions warehouse- Documented and explained in team and one-to-one sessions good industry practicesEnvironment: - DB2, Teradata, MicroStrategy, Erwin, Visio, Access, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Solution, Data Architecture, Modelling
  • Recipe Unlimited / Cara Operations
    It Team Lead, Database Department
    Recipe Unlimited / Cara Operations Dec 2010 - Jun 2011
    Canadian legend with 125 year history, Canada's largest restaurant operator, Cara operates Swiss Chalet, Harvey's, Montana's, Kelsey's, Milestone's and other brands. Cara has 1200 restaurants and more the 35,000 employees with revenue of over 2 billion dollars.Responsibilities:- Managed an Data Center IT team of DBA, BA, networking and system support in a 24/7 production environment- Supported clustering and three tier HA/DR model with mirroring, backups and enterprise availability - Virtualized multiple production and development system and database environment- Developed systems and application architecture achieving competitive enterprise advantages- Led an IT support and development team in a 24/7 multi-terabyte production environment:- Supervised administration of hundreds of critical SQL Server databases version 2005 to 2008- Supported deployments and maintenance of hundreds of systems and multi-terabyte databases- Planned and created disaster recovery (DR) centers and migrated data in multiple locations- Coached a team of DBAs, BAs and database developers in SQL/T-SQL, ETL, SSIS, and SSAS- Supported knowledge-base articles and advanced documented programming objects and snippets- Defined data and systems standards and implementation policies- Negotiated and conceptualized enterprise business standards- Visualized system and application architecture for multi-dimensional and in-house systems- Defined archived historical warehouse with analysis data and achieved greater performance- Customized BI data workflow from various solution-oriented systems- Documented workflow processes and defined best industry practicesEnvironment: MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, SharePoint, Windows, Embarcadero, Idera, Red Gate, OLAP, Cubes, Hyperion, Large Scale POS, Inventory Applications
  • Td Securities
    Database Migration Expert, Etl Business Architecture
    Td Securities May 2010 - Nov 2010
    TD Securities is Canada's leading provider of advisory, liquidity and capital market services, part of Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) Group, the second largest bank in Canada by market capitalization and deposits and the sixth largest bank in North America. Environment: MS SQL Server 2005/2000, Red Gate, MS Sharepoint, CA workflow, Windows, MKS, CVS, Murex, MaRRs, Encompass, TOH/FX, Stress Limit, GPMResponsibilities:- Migrated 80 production databases between MS SQL Server 2000 to 2005 with complex scenarios, related business object keeping stable environment and optimizing dataflow- Responsible for security audit advanced scripting, thousands of objects, changing permissions and hardening security achieving company and government standardized compliance with the latest technologies- Organized and implemented sustainable restore and backup deployment templates for new and existing database deployment, maintaining communication with technical and business teams- Coached a team of database analysts in advanced enterprise SQL/T-SQL programming techniques- Defined new applications and reverse engineered existing programming code- Negotiated and conceptualized business requirements and optimized business rules for risk trading with Murex, Forex and 3rd party platforms- Prepared business documentation, specification and application diagrams- Conducted packages deployment, full patching updates and unit testing- Resolved software in-time issues increasing financial responsibility, up-time and stability - Updated GMO financial hierarchy and dynamic input from Murex, Marrs, Encopass and GRID- Prepared templates for security audit in accordance with industry and government standards- Defined data and coding templates as part of a knowledge-base for DB coaching - Coached database analyst in advance SQL and T-SQL techniques and technologies
  • Cineplex Entertainment Lp
    Senior Database Architecture And Governance
    Cineplex Entertainment Lp Oct 2008 - May 2010
    Cineplex is the largest Canadian entertainment corporation, with over 9000 employees & 140 locationswith over 1,300 screens serving more than 70 million guests annually. Environment: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, MS SQL Server 2000–2008, PeopleSoft/PeopleTools, Windows, INFOR/WorkBrain, VISTA, CognosResponsibilities:- Migrated Live PeopleSoft ERP from version 8.9 to 9.0 and upgraded Oracle databases from Oracle version 9 release 2 to Oracle version 10 release 2 with full patching updates and unit testing, achieving non-stoppable workflow and financial and organizational acceleration- Organized and achieved a stable and self-sustainable Oracle environment and delivered state of the art backup and daily automated restore bringing downtime from 85% to the four nines (99.99%)- Standardized design guidance and best practices for database and system architecture, naming and development, conceptualizing clients business goals and delivering model IT subsystems- Maximized performance and minimized costs for HR(Infor) and POS(Vista) MS SQL Server systems - Integrated PeopleSoft ERP from 8.9 to 9.0 version and optimized large Oracle databases (VLDB) - Migrated metadata and data for 150 thousand objects and more than 500 million records- Tweaked windows configurations and CMD/VBS scripting, Oracle internal and external jobs- Optimized financial and ledger operations- Conceptualized the data architecture for databases, operating systems and infrastructure- Defined database templates for setup, objects, audit, historization and metadata- Defined logical and physical multi-dimensional cube structures in both Cognos and SSAS - Administered Oracle 10g and 160 MS SQL Server instances for development, testing and production- Defined automated backup, restore and standby strategies and Rman and hot backup scripts- Migrated data and metadata between Oracle 11g/10g/9i and MS SQL Server 2008/2005
  • Bawag P.S.K.
    Senior Technical Portfolio Management Architecture
    Bawag P.S.K. Feb 2006 - Apr 2008
    BAWAG P.S.K. is one of the largest European financial group with 7-10 million customers in 7 countries. The group has banking units in Germany, Malta, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Libya. By 2004, the bank had assets of 56.2 billion euros, and a 170 million-euro annual profit.Environment: Oracle 10.2/9.2, MS SQL Server 2005/2000, Linux Red Hat (CentOS), SolarisResponsibilities:- Defined architecture and negotiated requirements for the Central Oracle Data Warehouse compiling via complex customized proprietary ETL/BI/Risk and Credit modules from half a dozen systems- Optimized operations on tens of billions of records with time efficient ETL with up to 500.000 records per minute, allowing BI engine calculations, statistics and limit hierarchies- Coached a dedicated team of five DBAs and defined best practices allowing fast deployment and system optimizations thus ensuring the adoption of our solution versa external vendors as SAP- Conceptualized the entire Central Banking Data Warehouse, subsystems KOKU, KOLI, used by seven million clients from seven countries - Headed database development of a multi-terabyte (10 billion records) Centralized Banking Warehouse - Fulfilled the needs of the financial group B.A.W.A.G. P.S.K. and being preferred as the ASP provider versus very popular names like S.A.P- Successfully implemented two stages of the project for less than three years saving million in software development costs and protecting the client from further negative credit exposure- Scaled database and interfaces for 15-20 million of customers with UTF conversion, ETL, data matching and cleansing of multi-lingual financial and client data from seven countries- Developed architecture for import of ~500.000 rows per minute with Oracle external templates - Migrated data and metadata between Oracle 10/9 and MS SQL Server 2005/2000- Managed 12 Oracle 10/9 and seven MS SQL Server 2005/2000 databases for development and testing
  • Sysmaster
    Voip Billing Data Lead
    Sysmaster Aug 2005 - Nov 2005
    Achieved interactive Sybase billing and quadruple play expansion for the world's largest VoIP Company Environment: Sybase ASE 11.0.3, Red Hat Linux 7.2, Fedora 6/7, Windows, C/C++/CGI.
  • Société Générale Eb Bank
    Vp Of Business Intelligence And Database Architecture
    Société Générale Eb Bank Nov 2001 - Aug 2005
    SocGen EB is a division of Société Générale which employs 120,000 people in 80 countries and is the 3rd largest corporate and investment bank in the Eurozone and the 20th largest retail bank in the world. In France, Société Générale is active in retail banking with more than 2,700 branches (including its Crédit du Nord banking division). Société Générale (Euronext: GLE) is one of the main European financial services companies totalling in 2009 a revenue of €21.73 billion. Environment: MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i, Windows, Exchange, VMware, Virtual ServerResponsibilities:- Managed and coached DBAs and Application Developers leaving a stable and wholesome of trained MS SQL Server and Oracle team minimizing downtimes to less than 5%- Conceptualized and managed Central Bank Data Warehouse with over five million transactions daily, 120 locations, complex BI and management decisions reporting- Organized database implementation of Core Experian Credit Risk Scoring (Transact/PPI)- Setup all minor banking subsystems as debit/credit card payments and assets- Managed development of a terabyte (2 to 3 billion records) SGEB Banking Data Warehouse VLDB - Led a team of two Database Programmers and four (to six at times) Front-End Programmers developing a Banking Data Warehouse based on MS SQL Server 2000, DTS, VBS, CMD between 2002 and 2004 - Consolidated partition ranges through views, complex triggers (800 million records) and federated tables allowing centralizing ETL input from 120 location with error-handling and notifications- Headed a DBA department team DBAs, BAs, .NET and Delphi Developers - Hired, trained and coached junior and mid-level DBA personnel Defined task and assessed employee performance and professional profiles, Authorized purchase of hardware and software - Established in-house Business Intelligence (BI), DSS and OLAP databases for events and trends- Organized databases for five Experian Credit Risk Scoring systems (Transact/ PPI)

Steven Valkov Education Details

  • University Of Economics
    University Of Economics
    Computer Science
  • School Of Economics
    School Of Economics
    Market Economics
  • University Of Economics
    University Of Economics
    International Business

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