OSEZUA JEREMIAH
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Athens, GA.
Technical Skills Summary:
• Over Six years' experience in SQL Database Administration, System Analysis and Design, Development & Support of MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012 and in Production, Development & VMware Environments.
• Experience in MS SQL Server installation, configuration, performance tuning, client/server connectivity, query optimization, backup/recovery, running DBCC Commands.
• Experience in SQL Server performance monitoring, through Profiler, and performance monitor - Analyzing the performance of queries.
• Experience in Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Database consistency checks using DBCC Utilities, Database Tuning Advisor, Hardware I/O Operations, Recompiling Stored Procedures and Index Maintenance.
• Devised data models with ER/Studio, and tuned queries and designs and implements backups and restore database policies.
• Experience in implementing many types of High availability and Disaster Recovery solutions like Clustering, Database Mirroring, Cold Standby, Warm Standby, Log Shipping, and Replication.
• Setup, Reconfigure, and Monitor log shipping of production databases and also carried out role changes, role reversals, and positioning the monitor server
• Performed physical database analysis and feasibility requirements. This involves performance, security, archival, maintenance and recovery requirements.
• Experience working with Production (24 x 7) and Development environments
• Created Database users, controlling access to SQL Server and making sure right people get access to right data and looking after security issues.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and communication skills. Hardware:
Microsoft Server’s Enterprise and Express Edition, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco ASA Firewall.
Software: SQL Server 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2014, C++, Object Oriented Programming... The TechEdge Group August 2014 - Present
Principal SQL Server DBA
Lead a team of 4 DBAs supporting client and in-house database systems (SQL Server and MySQL) on various infrastructure projects improving service level agreements by reducing time to deliver database solutions to business.
• Conducted interviews and participated in hiring decisions along with HR in order to retain the best talent in the organization.
• Participated in quarterly meetings with Senior Management to discuss technical infrastructure and market recommendations assisting in the formation of the technology roadmap
• Lead database compliance effort in accordance with sas70 and iso20k and participate with internal and external audits resulting in fulfillment of FDA requirements.
• Managed technical review board (TRB) meetings ensuring that changes to production environments are validated and thoroughly tested. This effort reduced the number of outages by over 25%.
• Responsible for promoting team bonding among members of my team.
• Responsible for tracking and inspiring the career growth of team members.
• Responsible for scheduling and presiding over team meetings and making notes to senior management on the progress of my team.
• Managed datacenter with over 120TB of data and set up various measures to manage the said data including; partitioning, transactional and peer to peer replication, log shipping, mirroring and clustering.
• Supporting production environments and mission critical databases on a 24/7/365 basis including on-call responsibilities.
• Finally, Presale role on Microsoft packages like SharePoint, Severs, Office etc. With Value targets running into thousands of dollars in a calendar year. Pierscon Group
Database Engineer October 2012 – October 2014
• Used SQL Profiler for troubleshooting, monitoring, optimization of SQL Server and SQL code.
• Performed various data migration tasks for mission critical databases.
• Worked with a team of 6 to manage over 2000 databases ranging from 350GB to 2.3TB.
• Monitoring Transactional Replication and trouble shooting in necessary conditions.
• Updating Service packs and Security patches for the Servers.
• Testing the Data Backup by restoring as test database in a test server.
• Performance Tuning - Tune, analyze and optimize costly queries to reduce logical disk I/O for effective performance.
• Monitoring of server performance by profiler during peak periods of server utilization.
• Create and re-evaluate Indexes and made needed modifications for better performance.
• Scripting stored procedures and creating DTS packages for varied purposes as and when required in the project.
• Creating and Reviewing Security features for all the servers.
• Documentation of Server Builds specifications and Security features. Participating in process, application and database audits.
• Perform proactive maintenance of all mission critical databases (small and large).
• Coordinates physical changes and performance monitoring of two replicated production servers, one development and the other reporting server, all Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
• Showed the developers how to use and take advantage of the SQL Server Index Tuning Wizard and the SQL Server profiler.
• Configure as well as test backup recovery of database instance.
• Maintained the proper use of storage space requirements as well as adding new storage space (disk drives)
Business Connexion
SQL Server DBA November 2009 – November 2011
• Presale role on Microsoft packages like SharePoint, Severs, Office etc. With Value targets running into thousands of dollars in a calendar year.
• Used SQL Profiler for troubleshooting, monitoring, optimization of SQL Server and SQL code.
• Performed various data migration tasks for mission critical databases.
• Worked with a team of 6 to manage over 2000 databases ranging from 350GB to 2.3TB.
• Monitoring Transactional Replication and trouble shooting in necessary conditions.
• Updating Service packs and Security patches for the Servers.
• Testing the Data Backup by restoring as test database in a test server.
• Performance Tuning - Tune, analyze and optimize costly queries to reduce logical disk I/O for effective performance.
• Monitoring of server performance by profiler during peak periods of server utilization.
• Create and re-evaluate Indexes and made needed modifications for better performance.
• Scripting stored procedures and creating DTS packages for varied purposes as and when required in the project.
• Creating and Reviewing Security features for all the servers.
• Documentation of Server Builds specifications and Security features. Participating in process, application and database audits.
• Perform proactive maintenance of all mission critical databases (small and large).
• Coordinates physical changes and performance monitoring of two replicated production servers, one development and the other reporting server, all Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
• Showed the developers how to use and take advantage of the SQL Server Index Tuning Wizard and the SQL Server profiler.
• Configure as well as test backup recovery of database instance.
• Maintained the proper use of storage space requirements as well as adding new storage space (disk drives)
Education 2011- 2012 Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, United Kingdom MSc-Software Technology with Network Management
(key modules: object oriented programming, cisco network academy, data mining, project management, software engineering, relational database). 2004-2009 Covenant University, Nigeria.
BEng-Electrical Electronics Engineering
Professional Certification:
• Cisco Network Professional
• Cisco Network Design Associate
• Websense Security Expert
Referees: Available on Request