Bjorn Lindstrom Email & Phone Number

United States

Providing best in class solutions for large scale databases, specializing in Snowflake and Vertica platforms, focusing on performance, security, and disaster recoverability, with certifications in AWS, Snowflake and Oracle.

Branson West, Missouri

Assisting clients with their Vertica Database Projects.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Currently providing leadership to global IT database teams, in the areas of Oracle, Vertica, MongoDB, MySQL, Cassandra, SQL Server and Redshift technologies, including security analysis, problem solving, performance tuning, capacity planning, upgrades, disaster recovery planning, change management, problem ticket management, backup and recovery, cluster and replication management, and production support. Provided thought leadership, strategy, and direction recommendations in the areas of both traditional as well as new big data platforms for effective data storage and management.Developed enterprise-level definition of database standards, including issues specific to hardening and audit compliance.• Helped drive best practices and improving scalability and stability of client onboarding and ETL by automating unwieldy high-touch human processes, for Vertica and MongoDB database clusters.• When enterprise monitoring fell short, successfully lobbied for and gained server resources for native monitoring of Oracle and MySQL databases, to facilitate more granular detection of issues before they become a problem.• Drove MySQL Vendor Support Contract agreements across the enterprise.• Worked with application owners to ensure at-risk legacy applications have effective backup and recovery solutions in place to ensure they are able to recover from outages.• Took ownership as point of contact for new database requests and requirements, to ensure the proper resources aligned and effective solutions implemented.• Generated reports on database metrics and KPI’s to provide accurate, high level perspective on performance and recoverability, as well as tracking progress against goals and risk management.• Assisted in remediating issues as needed during outages and IMT conference calls, to ensure any database outages are resolved as quickly as possible.• Tuned and diagnosed performance and availability issues in large AWS hosted Vertica clusters.

Provided enterprise level DB Architecture, Design and Management of both stand-alone as well as clustered databases, including security analysis, problem management, capacity planning, upgrade solutions, disaster recovery planning, change management, problem ticket management, backup and recovery, clustering, RAC / ASM / Data Guard design and management, and data center migration. • Managed six separate database teams, ranging in size from two DBA’s to twenty. • Mentored and encouraged DBA’s to learn new skills, motivated DBA’s who needed a reason to raise the bar, and when required, dealt with personality conflicts within the teams. • Provided thought leadership on asset tracking, monitoring, security, database standards and best practices, as well as knowledgebase management.• Advised larger clients on issues related to database technology, in both face to face meetings as well as remote conferencing settings, continually seeking out win-win opportunities.• Provided training and supporting documentation on Change Management processes for the database team.• Provided incident management during critical and extended outages, guiding the recovery of database services for the companies’ larger clients.• Served as Lead Architect and Subject Matter Expert in a variety of key initiatives:o Wrote white papers on topics ranging from Operational Readiness and for deploying Incident Response Teams (IRT) with highest efficiency, lowest impact, lowest cost, and future growth.o Designed best practice methodology for critical live production database upgrades which was later adopted by Oracle Corporation as their solution of choice for critical systems.o Defined standards for tracking databases as assets within CA Configuration Management Database (CMDB).o Defined Best Practices and Guidelines, and provided management of Disaster Recovery exercises for larger clients, helping drive solutions when issues were encountered.

Managing multiple teams of DBA's, and overseeing Oracle database migrations between disparate data centers for a leading financial services provider, through their partner Acxiom Corporation.

Provide enterprise Level DB Management, including security analysis, problem solving, performance tuning, capacity planning, upgrades, schema analysis and design, disaster recovery planning, change management, problem ticket management, backup and recovery, RAC design and management, and top tier production support. Develop enterprise-level definition of database standards, including issues specific to hardening and audit compliance.• Saved WaMu millions of dollars in potential taxes and fines. Enabled the rapid correction of a large volume of inaccurate financial data by placing a fix into a PL/SQL package within the database for the data load.• Served as Technical Lead and Subject Matter Expert in a variety of key initiatives:o Enabled DB Hardening and stringent audit compliance. Improved Oracle database compliance from 28% to 100%. Personally developed standards and requirements while creating solutions for enterprise level reporting of hardening & audit/compliance. Developed scripts to identify any hardening, audit, and compliance issues. o Created a comprehensive plan to develop and launch an enterprise-level system used to monitor and report on backups for multiple platforms and backup methods, while providing effective management KPI's. o Dramatically improved the performance of a Recon/Frontier Application by channeling the migration away from a Microsoft Server platform to UNIX. Provided guidance and recommendations that improved performance 90% while providing better enforcement of security and compliance.o Played a key role in the decommissioning of databases no longer needed after JP Morgan Chase’s acquisition of WaMu. Provided definition around the process used for the decommissioning of databases.o Recipient of the 2005 Corporate ACE (Achievement in Corporate Excellence) Award, as well as numerous WaMu WaHoo Recognitions, which are a project-level recognition of effort and dedication.

As an Oracle DBA, supported the following projects for Washington Mutual -- FAS133: Provided database administration and support for developers. PEZ: Oracle SME (subject matter expert) for XP rollout project. GL Mapper: Oracle DBA supporting development of the system. Frontier: Oracle DBA and SME in planning phase of the Recon Plus / Frontier upgrade.

As Director of Information Technology, facilitated continuous systems availability and up-time. Developed the corporate technology road map while providing direction to Systems Administrators.As Senior DBA, delivered core products schema design and database tuning. Ensured security of systems and databases while providing backup and recovery of all data bases. Conducted PL/SQL package development supporting the Java middle-tier of the company’s primary product. • Created and implemented the database architecture that was the foundation of all services offered by HitHive. • Rescued data center operations during 2 outages traced to SAN hardware failures. Resolved issues in less than 4 hours each, representing an up-time ratio of approximately 99.95% during the life of the company.

Promoted Database security and uninterrupted availability. Provided database backup and recoverability. Authored web-based reports for management to enhance visibility into company performance.• Ensured continuity of business and customer services through the Y2K event, with zero loss of services throughout. • Developed web-based business and performance metric reports for management using recursive Perl CGI.

Managed space and storage requirements by balancing I/O across all disks and controllers. Provided regular backups and Oracle performance tuning. Completed and monitored security upgrades. Maintained partitioned indexes. Compiled and delivered management reports on performance and other database related metrics.• Provided 24x7 non-stop remote support for a 1 terabyte Oracle7 Data Warehouse running on SGI Challenge XL platform, as well as a 500 gigabyte Data Mart, running on a similarly configured Challenge XL. • Generated project cost estimates with more than 88% accuracy for 3 projects.

Provided day-to-day mid-level support for multiple Oracle7 read only databases (up to 20G), running on a Sun 4000 server. Performed disk layout and capacity planning, I/O load balancing across devices, installation, upgrades, as well as backups and recovery. • Documented the system architecture and provided users with SQL tuning support.

Provided Database Administration and Project Management while closely guiding the efforts of team members tasked with the support and upgrade of the COA Tracking and Archival projects. Hosted worldwide user group conferences.