Who I am

Personal Details

Professional Profile

Expert in Database Administration & Security, T-SQL, VLDBs, Data Analytics, DB Architecture, Performance Tuning and Optimization, High Availability & Disaster Recovery, ETLs, Unix/Linux & Windows systems, coding and Shell scripting.

5 years of Professional Services Consulting, Pre-sales and Post-sales Support. Expert in IBM Guardium Data Activity Monitoring (DAM). Applications background in Trading Systems, Financial, Legal, Insurance & eCommerce.

Professional Background

Work Experience

      Selected Accomplishments  

• Administered Production Servers 24/7, Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instance, and Replication ensuring 99.98% uptime.

• Optimized database performance by tuning SQL code, indexing strategies and Server Configurations, resulting in up x100 faster processing.

• Expert in Troubleshooting and resolving issues with long running processes, blocking, locking, deadlock & concurrency, tempdb & logs, storage and other resource contentions, applications, I/O, Memory, CPU, and Optimizing Index Strategies.

• Conducted server consolidations that reduced physical server count by 60%, resulting in a significant reduction in licensing costs and energy consumption.

• Accelerated the Backup & Recovery strategies by shortening their time objectives by 55%.

• Headed a migration project that successfully transferred 110 TB of critical data to SQL Server 2016, improving data processing speeds by 30%.

• Directed the implementation of an automated data quality management system using SQL and Powershell, slashing error rates by 70%.

• Collaborated with business analysts and project managers to deliver a custom reporting module using SSRS that increased reporting efficiency by 35% for key stakeholders.

• Provided outstanding customer service during Professional Services Consulting engagements by troubleshooting complex technical situations, and resolving customers' issues and concerns, and got highest Performance Reviews for 3 years in a row.

• Developed trading systems for the Futures, Forex, Options, and Equities for a Hedge Fund. Applications included Price Collection, Trading Signal and Order Generation, Slippage and P&L reporting.

• Wrote complex T-SQL and performed Code Review and Releases using Agile Project Development Methodologies, directed and mentored 4 junior DBAs.

• Received the prestigious ‘Star Award’ at Howrey LLP for developing an Application for 'Patent Tracking', implementing all the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Developed security protocols that decreased potential data breaches by 80%, instilling client confidence and safeguarding sensitive information.

• Was a major technical influence at IBM for the sale of DB2 software solutions to Prudential, and the reengineering of mainframe insurance apps & VSAM to run on AIX.

Work Experience

EMPLOYERS

Contractor     (from 9/15 - present)
HRSA                    -- DBA/ Developer
Monat Global       -- DBA/ Architect
Microsoft Corp.    -- Data Engineer
New Classrooms  -- DBA/ Analyst
Pro Teck Valuation Intel   -- Sr. DBA/ Data Analyst


Full/Time     (1/95 - 9/14)
J.P. Morgan        -- Ops Tech Lead
Howrey LLP       -- Sr. DBA/ Developer/ Architect  
Guardium Inc     -- Professional Services Engineer  
Mint Investment -- Application Engineer/ DBA  
IBM                      -- Professional Services Consultant  

University

Education

Boston University

M.S. Computer Science

Concentration in Information Systems

Northeastern University

B.S. Computer Science

Graduated with Honors

Académie de Nancy-Metz

Diplôme de Baccalauréat

References

  • George Spence

    IT Architect - IBM

    George served as Team Lead at IBM, consulting Prudential on its migration from Mainframe CICS/Cobol/VSAM to Client/Server (DB2/AIX/ MPP Architecture).

  • Themis Papageorge

    VP, Services - Guardium

    Themis (PhD, MIT) served as the VP, Professional Services at Guardium, Inc. and was key in the sales of this start-up to IBM.

  • Ben Byrne

    Director, IS - Howrey

    Ben served as Director of Enterprise Architecture at Howrey LLP, managing networking, information security, and application development.

  • Marios Timotheou

    Director, Software Engineering

    Marios managed local and remote software engineering at New Classrooms Innovation Partners (SRE, DevOps).

Technical

Skills & Knowledge

Software

SQL Server 2000 - 2022 95%
MySQL 5.0 & Sybase ASE & PostgreSQL 80%
IBM DB2 & Oracle 10 75%
IBM Infosphere Guardium 95%
Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux 85%
RedGate, VMware, ER/Studio 80%
Datawatch Monarch + DPS 90%
SolarWinds DPA, New Relic, SQL Sentry 95%
Quest Spotlight & LiteSpeed80%
Performance Tuning & Optimization95%


Programming Languages

T-SQL
Advanced
PowerShell
Experienced
Power BI
Intermediate


Knowledge

  • Database Administration
  • Professional Services
  • Pre-sales and post-sales
  • VLDBs, Data Modeling
  • MS Access, VBA
  • SSIS, SSRS, Informatica
  • Azure DevOps, Data Factory
  • Unix & Windows Systems
  • Tech Support/ Training
  • Git, BitBucket, Jira
  • Blackbaud CRM
  • SAS Administration
  • AWS RDS, S3, EC2
  • Azure SQL, Synapse Analytics

Hobbies & Interests

  • Sports

    Sports

    Skiing, biking, hiking, sailing.

  • Photography

    Photography

    People, travel and landscape.

    :: some travel photos ::

  • Knowledge

    Knowledge

    A day without learning is a wasted day.

  • Movies

    Movies

    Comedies, dramas, indie & foreign films.

  • Social

    Social

    Not into online socializing... prefer the old-fashioned way.

  • Technology

    Technology

    Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication -- da Vinci.

  • Travel

    Travel

    A feast for all senses -

    :: some places I've been to ::

  • History

    History

    Fascinated by history and what it can teach humanity.

  • Music

    Music

    All types and world music (except Country/Western).

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