Experience

Department of Training and Workforce Development

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• ICT Database Administrator

  • Aug 2013 - Present

  Administration (DBA) for Technical and Further Education institutions (TAFE’s). Perform patch updates/schema package changes in accordance with agreed standards for all TAFE’s. Data refresh lower environments to keep consistency between environments for application developers. Monitor SQL agent jobs and rectify any morning check issues for all database environments. Key processors: • Manage SQL Server databases (>100 Nodes) including DTWD internal databases and provide DBA support for all TAFE's. • Assist application developers for application stack changes involving SQL changes as part of deployment. • Monitor storage requirements of databases running under VM/Ware and ensure capacity for exponential growth. • Ensure SQL clustering environment aligns with Disaster Recovery plan to recovery critical database systems for all TAFE’s. • Ensure security standards are adhered to as part of mixed mode authentication using Active Directory/SQL server authentication.



ISI Pty Ltd

• Australia
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UDB/DB2 Database Administrator

  • Apr 2009 - Aug 2012

  Administered database administration (DBA) assignments for insurance client. Enhance database performance, perform restores, implement recovery procedures, handle performance tuning and conduct regular system backups. Ensure technical and functional designs meet business requirements. Key projects: • Served as DBA and project lead in the completion of medium to large-scale implementations, managing projects from business requirements analysis to solutions delivery and support. • Managed a data-integration project for financial services department that consolidated information from core database to replicated database environment. • Developed and tested storage strategies and disaster-recovery plan to a point in time required by the client. Delivered solution that guaranteed recovery performance and high availability. • Assisted in design/cut over of large scale project to migrate data from mainframe to UDB platform. Ensured data integrity of this ETL process. • MQ series project to post urgent cheque run process between UDB and Oracle Financial systems.



KAZ

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• UDB/DB2 Database Administrator

  • Jan 2006 - Mar 2009

  Executed medium size environments for insurance and superannuation clients. Maintained storage/memory usage on complex systems within SLA targets agreed by the client. Ensured technical documentation and business processors to ITIL standards. Key projects: • Upgrade of database systems/operating system and all related third party products within timeframes and on budget. Ensured UAT was completed to satisfaction of client. • Technical lead of disaster recovery project of large database systems to a point in time agreed by the client. Maintained processors to ensure business continuity of systems. • Database project of applications to ensure web based reporting of data to multiple government clients to a single core database. • Transformation data project of superannuation client to merge data from numerous platforms to centric platform for finance department.



HBF Health

• Australia
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Programmer

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2006

  Coordinated medium scale environments for health insurance and general insurance system. Maintained environments for core business including remote health branches and provided 24 x7 on-call support within SLA targets agreed by the business. Key projects: • Upgrade of Database environments in conjunction with the DBA team. Ensured all third party product matrix systems where compatible with new system. • Disaster recovery of all core environments in Sydney BRC Center. Co-ordinated with business for remote testing of core systems from Perth. • Training environment project for call center to ensure isolation of system for training purposes. Provided training to the business in usage of environment and scrambling of data. • Warehouse ETL process to provide statistical analysis of data and system trends. Designed reports for warehouse team of transaction usage based on departments.