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11/02 - present DataVelocity West Paterson, NJ 07424
CIO
- Determined and lead implementation of server and database technologies
- Negotiated with vendors for network security implementation, co-location contracts, and phone and wireless services
- Facilitated weekly meetings with the business heads to discuss strategic solutions
- Established monthly IT summary reports for the business areas to keep them informed
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7/01 - 10/02 Lord, Abbett & Co. Jersey City, NJ 07302
Director of DataWarehouse
- Managed Database Administrators, Database Developers, and Java Developers that made the central database team (Oracle)
- Met with business groups to determine database needs and solutions
- Established database design standards and educated the application developers of their benefits
- Wrote utility programs in PERL for Oracle tasks including - graphical trend analysis of batch processing
- Prepared budget for database aspects of IT
- Performed ROI and made presentations for larger purchase requests
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2/99 to 7/01 Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. / Alliance Capital New York, NY 10022
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Database Manager (AVP)
- Manage Central MIS Database Administrators (SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle -- with replication)
- Coordinate database projects and needs with each of the business MIS groups
- Promote dissemination of knowledge by having DBAs give presentations
- Structured DBA support staff to reduce production response time to an average of under 5 minutes
- Created internal DBA web site framework and templates that holds all DBA related information (including meetings, presentations, and problem resolutions) thereby promoting dissemination of knowledge
- Wrote utility programs in perl for database administration tasks including:
- CGI system to navigate database structures and sample data for SQL Server (6.5 and 7.0) and Sybase (11.5 and 12.0)
- CGI system to record unplanned work efforts that may be queried by staff or department
- CGI system to interactively view data server health and trend statistics for SQL Server (6.5 and 7.0), Sybase (11.5 and 12.0), and Oracle (8i)
- Train staff in groups and one on one as appropriate (perl, replication, etc.)
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Database Administrator
- Migrated servers from SQL Server 6.5 to 7.0 (required the creation of custom utilities to identify objects using non ANSI SQL logic)
- Responsible for insuring databases Y2K ready
- Worked with developers to establish the first phase replication scheme for London
- Wrote utility programs in perl for database administration tasks including:
- Establish database replication environment for SQL Server 7.0 [merge and transactional]
- CGI system to receive and validate production turnover requests for business developers
- Compare / synchronize logins and passwords between SQL Server 7.0 data servers
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11/97 to 2/99 D. E. Shaw & Co. New York, NY 10036
Database Administrator / International Team Coordinator
- Database Administrator for Sybase (11.0 and 11.5) on Sun Solaris 2.6
- Wrote utility programs in PERL for Sybase tasks including:
- Establish database replicas (using Sybase Replication 11.0.x)
- Database deployment that generates DDL from comparison of databases.
- Account creation based on HR list within database.
- Above utilities are implemented at four global offices.
- Trained Hyderabad (India) database staff both remotely and individually in NYC.
- Assigned tasks to and managed the Hyderabad (India) database staff.
- Part of team that developed the enterprise databases shared by all internal business units.
- Created business rule triggers and stored procedure API for enterprise databases.
- Consulted by internal business units for database design, tuning, and support.
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2/96 to 11/97 Capital Reinsurance New York, NY 10019
Database Administrator
- Database Administrator for Oracle7 system; installed on Novel 3.12 and Sun Solaris 2.5
- Automated tasks including population of database FX rates from internet.
- Wrote C++ programs to run on NT/ UNIX for data massaging (to enable loading to database).
- Wrote SQL scripts that create HTML Data Dictionary of database schema on intranet.
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1/95 to 2/96 Output Technologies New York, NY 10001
Systems Analyst/ Programmer / Database Administrator
- Head Designer/ Programmer of major year end project; a 5 million+ record database application written in Visual C++ on Windows 3.1
- Designer/ Programmer of internal QC/ billing system that handles 60,000 images per week; used Oracle's Designer and Developer 2000
- Designer/ Programmer of client ordering application using PowerBuilder.
- Database Administrator for Oracle7 system; installed on Novel 3.12 and NT 3.51
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4/94 to 10/94
Fulfilled personal goal of traveling independently overland from London, ENGLAND to Cape Town,
SOUTH AFRICA through Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Eastern and Southern regions of Africa. |
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5/91 to 3/94 Apartment Management & Realty Chicago, IL 60613
Computer Consultant
- Designed and wrote original C++ applications that automated daily business activity.
- Taught personnel how to use both the computer system and their business software; created macros, etc.
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SQL Server
System Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 |
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Sybase
Performance and Tuning: Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5 |
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Oracle Corporation
Introduction to Oracle: SQL, SQL*Plus and PL/ SQL
Administer the Oracle7 Database I
Oracle Forms I (v4.5) [Developer/ 2000]
Designer/ 2000: Design and Build Database Objects [CASE]
Performance Tuning the Oracle Database
Backup and Recovery |
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
B.S. Degree in Physics, Minor in Philosophy GPA: 3.4/ 4.0
B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering Jan. 1994 |
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Hough Transform -- London, ENGLAND -- Major Qualifying Project (EE) -- Fall 1993, GRADE: A
- Won First Prize in the Xerox Junior Quality Project Competition.
- Designed and wrote expansion routines for KHOROS in C on a SPARC station to locate either lines or circles within images.
- Wrote tutorials for both the Hough Transform and the KHOROS software package.
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Mock Lens Design -- Worcester, MA -- Major Qualifying Project (Physics) -- Spring 1993, GRADE: A
- Designed and wrote an innovative program (353K) in object oriented C++ to analyze the focal accuracy of single or multiple optical stage systems in three dimensions.
- The program allows easy construction of an optical system by using general text files for input.
- Will be extended in the following year and subsequently used by faculty of WPI and other schools.
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Action for Blind People -- London, ENGLAND -- Interactive Qualifying Project -- Fall 1992, GRADE: A
- Interviewed visually impaired homeworkers, members of the Action for Blind People Homeworkers' Scheme, to learn their business needs and discuss possible ways for improvement.
- Researched hypothesis to determine their validity; including addition of business line, advertisement, etc.
- Composed a substantial report of findings (100+ pages) along with a business guide and accompanying audiocassette that serve as instructional and reference material for the homeworkers and supporting staff.
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Programming languages: C++, Visual C++, C, SQL, Oracle PL/ SQL, Sybase T/SQL, SQL Server T/SQL, HTML, PERL (v5 object oriented), ASSEMBLY, and PASCAL.
Database: Sybase [11.0, 11.5, 12.0], Oracle [7, 8i], SQL Server [6.5, 7], ERwin (v3.5.2) and ModelMart, Oracle Forms (v4.5), Oracle Reports (v2.5), Oracle CASE, PowerBuilder (v4)
Chip design packages: MAGIC, CAzM, IRSIM
Operating systems: Windows NT, UNIX, Windows 98, DOS, Novel (v3.12)
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| Interests: |
Photography, travel, scuba diving, skiing, robotics... |