Alireza Zare

(U.S Citizen)

**** ****** **. *** ***

Greer, SC.29650

864-***-****

ac1ck7@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

Experienced SQL Server DBA with a very strong problem solving and project management skills seeking a position to improve my skills further.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

● SQL Server database administration and tuning

● High Availability and Disaster Recovery planning

● Amazon Web Services (AWS)

● SQL Server Performance Tuning

● Windows O.S. management and tuning

● Diagnostic and monitoring tools (Idera, Redgate, Logic monitor, StackDriver)

● PowerShell programming

● Problem solving and project management skills

● Ability to learn new technology quickly

● Ability to work in a team

● T-SQL and automation skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SQL Server Database Administrator

Infor Global solutions.

Greenville.SC

July 2015 - Present

Responsibilities:

● Responsible for day to day management of production environments in the Amazon cloud.

● Responsible for multi-node AG clusters in Amazon AWS Cloud.

● Extensive SQL scripting to facilitate installations, management and monitoring.

● Responsible for performance improvements and server consolidation.

● Responsible to create, install, and patch database servers, RDBMS software, related utilities, and OS software.

● Performing daily checks to ensure system availability and health to include successful jobs completion, database integrity, existence of backups, and resource availability.

● Responsible to identify poor performing SQL and develop strategies for mitigating its negative effects on performance.

● Responsible to identify and resolve host related performance issues.

● Testing the restore process and the integrity of database backups on a quarterly basis.

● Documenting procedures to support business processes and training other team members in the execution of these procedures.

● Automating common tasks, implementing scripts to handle routine business processes. Projects:

● Deployed a dynamic automation with a flexibility of migrating any number of databases from an AWS account to another.

● Deployed a dynamic automation with a flexibility of backing up any number of databases before a major application upgrade and capable of restoring back to the point in time.

● Wrote a database decryption script as a working solution for the certification issue (thumbprint error -- Microsoft known issue) that encounter time to time when decrypting and restoring databases in different environments.

Graduate Research Assistant

Virtual Auditory Environments Lab

Human Centered Computing, School of Computing, Clemson University Clemson.SC

January 2013 - May 2015

Teaching Assistant

Database Management, Eastern Mediterranean University Famagusta, Cyprus

September 2007 - February 2009

Sales Associate

Sprint

Easley.SC

March 2012 - December 2012

EDUCATION

Clemson University, Clemson, SC. May 2015

Master of Computer Science

Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus. February 2009 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Technology RESEARCH

S occer for People with Visual Impairments

This research aims to discover methods to help persons with visual impairments play soccer more efficient and safely. Virtual Spatial Sounds will be used to help players with visual impairments navigate in the soccer field.

H RTF Subjective Selection

T he present study describes an HRTF subjective individualization procedure in which a listener selects from a database those HRTFs that pass several perceptual criteria. U ndisclosed Research Sponsored by Intel and Cable Labs CONFERENCES AND TRAININGS

● SQL SATURDAY, Spartanburg, SC. September 2015

● PASS SUMMIT, Seattle, WA. October 2016

● SQL Server Performance Tuning by B RENT OZAR, San Diego, CA. March 2017

● ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, ON. April 2014 PUBLICATIONS

Zare, A., McMullen, K., Gardner-McCune, C. “D esign of an Accessible and Portable System for Soccer P layers with Visual Impairments.” I n CHI’14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 26 April - 1 May 2014, T oronto, Ontario. ACM, 2014.

Wan, Y., Zare, A., McMullen, K. (2014 - in press). “Evaluating the Consistency of Subjectively Selected Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) Over Time.” In AES 55 th International Conference, 27-29 August

2014, H elsinki, Finland. AES, 2014.

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