OVERVIEW

Entrepreneurial technology management professional with rare mix of extensive leadership background and deep technical knowledge of information systems with true hands-on experience with enterprise-level systems management and development, and a passion for innovation. Goal-oriented team leader with a commitment to continuous quality improvement and a proven ability to innovate, prioritize, analyze, plan, manage and motivate within a multi-project, multi-technology environment.

Project Management: Experienced in multiple project management methodologies, including Rational Unified Process (RUP), waterfall, Agile, Extreme Programming (XP), hybrid, rapid prototyping. Hands-on experience as project manager, scrum master, and team lead. Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Change Management (CM) process, and ITIL-based methodology
Systems/Databases: Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux (Enterprise, WS, AS, ES), FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, Windows Server Family, MS Exchange 2000 / 2003, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server
Technology Management: Business intelligence, Data warehousing (20+ terabytes), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Online transaction processing (OLTP), data and system architecture, capacity planning, large volume replication, ITIL process definition and policy
Soft Skills: Strategic planning and analysis, process analysis, cross-functional teams, coaching / mentoring, business merger / partnership integration, excellent written and verbal communication

Confidential,Ft Lauderdale, FL 11/12 – Present
Database Manager
Manager for database team for the most popular casual gaming website on the internet (Alexa Top 1000). Website has 40+ million users, and has supported 100,000+ concurrent active users. Manage all data-related activities for the company. Work directly with executive management to align database architecture strategy with short and long term company goals. Provide database architecture and design for all current and future database systems. Hands-on database management for all data systems, including relational and non-relational database platforms. Actively optimizing entire platform to better position the company to react quickly to a rapidly evolving industry. Manage team of 5 direct reports. Manage very large database environment in an SOA configuration. Support 15 independent data services, most consisting of over 200 database servers in master/slave read-write configurations. Hands-on management of databases, stored procedure/function development, data schema layouts. Managing over 30+ terabytes of data, including user profile data, active game data, image data, leaderboards, and in-game transactional data. Environment contains of MySQL/MariaDB on CentOS, Oracle on CentOS, SQL Server on Windows, ElasticSearch, Sphinx, Redis, etc. Management tools consist of Percona Toolset, Zenoss, rundeck, SVN, etc.

Confidential,Sunrise, FL 6/08 – 11/12
Manager, Data Systems Architecture
Company is undergoing a major project implementation as part of a legacy system upgrade, designing and building a very large and complex customized technology platform using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), to be utilized first by the company\'s internal systems, then later made available to external clients. System is expected to support dozens of applications, many with an international reach. Assumed management responsibility for driving data architecture efforts for the project. This includes supervising a team of 4 FTE resources and 5 external contractor resources (IBM), and coordination with internal infrastructure and development teams. Design deliverables include logical data models, component process flows, and data process flows for all major service components in the platform, such as event tracking, metadata data store, logging services, etc. All data modeling done in Embarcadero ERStudio. Coordinated data system integration with web-based services using SOAP, WSDL, and REST. Implementation deliverables include provisioning of database servers/clusters with appropriate capacity and scaling in preparation for Release 1 "Alpha", as well as backup system design, disaster recovery system design, and data replication considerations. Scale of system is expected to reach multi-terabytes in storage and support many thousands of concurrent users. Scope of responsibilities include business / technology alignment to ensure fulfillment of requirements, design of all data-related systems and data movement components, candidate software selection, profit & loss (P&L) management, and project management through realization and implementation phases.

Confidential,Atlanta, GA 6/07 – 4/11
BI Solution Architect / Developer (contract)
Glenridge Solutions, LLC is a consulting company that has created a drop-in solution to address Business Intelligence challenges for Peoplesoft ERP installations. Their product, BIMarts, provides a comprehensive data management solution that provides the end user with the tools to easily develop their data warehouse and data marts to suit their business needs. Provided direct BI solution architecture design and PL/SQL development to redesign and develop the next generation of this product. Rearchitected underlying data flow process to move away from Oracle’s Change Data Capture mechanism to use a more streamlined process using strictly PL/SQL. Designed and implemented all PL/SQL routines to prepare, stage, and move data from Peoplesoft into an operational data store (ODS). Data is then mapped to a customer-specific data mart structure using end-user defined metadata. PL/SQL routines dynamically extract, transform, and load (ETL) all data into the data marts based on this pre-defined metadata. All data movement processes preserve data element timestamping to allow snapshot reporting of data for any historical point-in-time. Product is successfully deployed to multiple clients, primarily higher education institutions with large Peoplesoft Financials and Student Administration modules.

Confidential,Hallandale, FL 7/07 – 6/08
IT Director / Systems Architect
Manage all technology aspects within the company, an internet marketing company focused on search marketing, paid search advertising, and search engine optimization (SEO). Manage the department with three direct reports and a staff of twelve. Responsibilities include human capital, budgeting, profit and loss (P&L), maintaining all production infrastructure, determining strategy for system development efforts, maintaining vendor relationships, and establishing new relationships with strategic technology partners. Engage with executive management on a daily basis. Establish strategic vision for overall technology direction, then drive towards that goal and measures successes. Maintain alignment between business objectives and IT strategy. Adept in creating short term successes to motivate team members to reach long term goals. Easily comfortable communicating at all levels of an organization. New product development includes automated website content optimization for improved search engine rankings, semantic keyword generation tool, website path analysis application with comprehensive link maps and click-through indicators, and ad serving to mobile devices.

Confidential,Houston, TX 8/06 – 7/07
Manager, DBS Team / Senior Technical Consultant (contract)
Employed by Stonebridge Technologies, assigned to Calpine Corporation as Manager, Database Services Team. Calpine, a major energy trading company, partnered with Stonebridge as the service provider for all database technology management for the company. Provide management and technical direction to rescue a failing database services team in a very challenging technical environment in preparation for a large-scale data center outsourcing project. Quickly assessed current environment and developed short-, mid-, and long-term plans to realign Database Services Team direction with company objectives. Transformed DBS team from a task-focused, reactionary group to a full-service, customer-focused, interactive database services team. This involved personnel changes, instituting ITIL-based DBA best practices to stabilize systems, along with fostering teamwork, continuous improvement, and improved communication and interaction with business units. Was successful in increasing overall system availability, greatly reducing administrative overhead, and increasing the overall efficiency of the team while reducing overall size of team staff. Critical areas of improvement were the repair of a seriously damaged reputation of the DBS team over a very short period of time, and vastly improved customer satisfaction for application engineering teams and functional business units.

Confidential,Miami, FL 1/06 – 8/06
Senior Data Systems Architect (contract)
Lead DBA for Florida’s largest non-profit health benefits provider. Scope of contract included applying leadership and hands-on technical skills to revamp the database environment and improving database administration methodology. Client’s goal was improved availability, automation, and simplicity in administration. Participated in a major upgrade of several critical applications (Amisys Advance, Softheon, Kronos) from legacy systems to an Oracle platform. This involved providing support for several large databases exceeding 300gb each, all of which had multiple copies to support various conversion efforts. Designed and initiated a one-year road map to implement several major enhancements to the database environments, directly leading to vastly improved efficiency in administration of a quickly growing environment. Environment includes Oracle 9i-10g, Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, Oracle Internet Directory (OID)/LDAP, Oracle Application Express (HTMLDB), Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

Confidential,Miami, FL 8/03 to 1/06
Manager, Database Administration / Sr. Data Architect
Directly manage all data and database-related activities for a global financial services company for the marine and aviation industries, including production and development database support, database architecture, and backup and recovery. Directly lead a team of 4 administrators responsible for the Oracle Applications environment, and several large databases that support custom-built applications supporting hundreds of users worldwide. Regularly interface with both executives and users on all aspects of corporate data management, including short and long term strategy planning, application design and development, budget management, human resource management, staff training, and user satisfaction. Manage and implement all data and database related projects for the company. Act as technical lead for Oracle Apps upgrade from 11.0.3 to 11.5.10. Participate in application design sessions leveraging extensive knowledge of business requirements and Oracle database systems to provide input on both database and application architecture. Ensure all database environments and processes comply to Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) requirements. Environment includes Oracle Database Server 9i-10g, Oracle Applications 11.0.3-11i, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle OID / LDAP.

Confidential,Boca Raton, FL 6/02 to 8/03
Senior Oracle DBA
Manage and maintain very large data warehouse/search engine exceeding 20 terabytes. Data is processed daily through a custom ETL system into a Sun E10000 server, cleansed, then moved into production database using Oracle’s partitioning and transportable tablespace features. Data warehouse supports 10 business-critical applications accessed by hundreds of external users. Utilized extensive knowledge of the Oracle database architecture to suggest and implement several improvements to the ETL process, data movement, and overall performance of the database. Participated in major research project to assess the feasibility of deploying Informatica and a four-node Oracle RAC as primary ETL management system. Provide SQL tuning, PL/SQL development, and development support to ETL, data quality assurance (QA), and application development teams. Other database requirements supported include data modeling, capacity planning, load balancing, and replication. Database backups are managed with RMAN and Veritas NetBackup in conjunction with transportable tablespace exports. Environment includes Oracle RDBMS 8 through 9i, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux (ES), Sun SAN storage network, Websphere, and Quest monitoring and performance tools. Application front end was designed and built in J2EE and ASP.

Confidential,Miami, FL 11/01 to 5/02
Senior Oracle DBA (contract)
Supervisor of the DBA group, managing all database technologies for Telefónica Data’s world-class data center, providing support and managed services for over 10 major clients. Responsible for managing and monitoring all aspects of database systems for all external and internal clients, including capacity planning, performance tuning, and backup and recovery requirements. Managed over 20 database systems, including OLTP, data warehouses, and CRM databases on both Oracle and SQL Server platforms. Designed and implemented data-center wide backup and recovery system for all Oracle databases using a central backup repository using Oracle’s Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and Legato NetWorker. System has been so successful that managed database backup services have become part of Telefónica Data’s standard offering for clients. Operating systems include HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, AIX,and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

Senior Oracle DBA
Senior Oracle DBA responsible for large, global data warehouse spanning three continents. Data warehouse consisted of 8 database servers totaling over 500 gigabytes in size, with instances located in North America, Europe, and Australia. Operating systems included Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Oracle environments range from Oracle 8.0.4 to 8.1.7 (8i). Data is extracted from Point-of-Sales (POS) systems (JDA) on AS/400 and PeopleSoft on Oracle using InfoPump and manual scripting. Front-end reporting system is Brio Query Explorer with Enterprise Broadcast Server. Applied thorough tuning and troubleshooting skills and in-depth knowledge of Oracle internals to fine tune primary warehouse databases, to include implementing replication features for materialized views with fast refresh, and new indexing and partitioning strategies to support queries against very large tables.

Confidential,Atlanta, GA 10/00 to 4/01
Oracle DBA (contract)

Confidential,Atlanta, GA 8/00 to 10/00
Oracle DBA (contract)

Confidential,Alpharetta, GA 4/00 to 8/00
Oracle DBA

Confidential, 10/92 to 4/00
Senior Non-commissioned Officer
Served as Petty Officer Second Class. Responsibilities included office management and special project coordination in various environments. Routinely managed small and large teams ranging from 3 to 25 individuals in various situations. Acted as departmental Information Systems manager, providing multiple levels of technical support from PC troubleshooting to database design and implementation to asset management and acquisition. Served as technical advisor to upper management on critical information management policies such as security and system configuration.
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Author, OCP Millennium Series Confidential,Rochester, NY 9/00 – 7/07
Designed and authored six Oracle Certification training courses for Element K Press (formerly Ziff Davis Publishing). Training courses include:

• Oracle8i: Fundamentals (Introduction to Oracle8i, non-OCP requirement)
• Oracle8i: Architecture and Administration (OCP 8i exam #1Z0-023)
• Oracle8i: Tuning and Troubleshooting (OCP 8i exam #1Z0-024)
• Oracle8i: Network Administration (OCP 8i exam #1Z0-026)
• Oracle9i: New Features for Administrators (OCP 9i exam #1Z0-030)
• Oracle9i: Fundamentals II (OCP 9i exam #1Z0-032)

The training courses are sold to Element K’s clients as textbooks for Oracle Certification training and accredited college degree programs worldwide, including Miami-Dade College, Broward Community College, and Brevard Community College. Also provided technical editing services for the 10g and 11g line of courseware, which were based on my original 8i and 9i courses.

Instructor, Oracle Certification Confidential,Lawrenceville, GA 6/00 – 4/01
Provide Oracle Certification instructor services to individuals and corporate customers. Topics included all subject matter required for the OCP DBA program. Total student load for this time period was over 100 students, with a 99.7% completion rate. Of the students that completed the course, over 90% took and passed the four Oracle Certification exams.

Co-Author, Virtual Test Center Confidential,CA 2/01 to 05/01
Co-author of the Oracle Certification Virtual Test Center (VTC), Sybex’s Oracle Certification preparation software. Software is a simulated testing environment providing 200 questions for each of the five Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) exams. Acted as primary author and subject matter expert for the Oracle8i Network Administration certification exam simulation. VTC software is sold through various venues, including Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobles, and Sybex’s e-commerce website.
EDUCATION
Associates of Science in Computer Science

Oracle Certified Professional Database Administrator (OCP DBA)