SETH T. BUXTON, MS

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SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

AWS and Microsoft certified, seasoned, and accomplished SQL Server database administrator with MySQL\PostgreSQL on the side. Extensive experience in designing, installing, configuring, managing and maintaining relational database systems to drive data integrity, security, and high availability. Background in monitoring and optimizing database performance, executing and enforcing data security, developing and executing backup and recovery strategies and routine database maintenance.

Competencies include:

Database Administration Solution Development Leadership Performance Management Security

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

S&P Global, Denver, CO 4/2019 – 7/2023

Database Administrator

Evaluate, review and manage database resources and service.

Reduced AWS costs by manually pruning database backups in S3 storage, implementing and automating a retention policy.

Migrated an integral process from remote data center (Flexential) to the AWS cloud.

Upgraded from SQL Server 2012 to 2017, SSRS/SSAS. Actively involved in closing our downtown office and moving to DTC office, planning, logistics, and more.

Good Sam, Denver, CO 10/2015 – 4/2019

Senior Database Administrator

Managed care and feeding of all SQL Server databases in all of Camping World, Good Sam, Roadside Assist, Travel Assist, and Ford Extended Service Plan environments.

Troubleshot and streamlined applications’ interactions with databases hosted on VMware virtual machines. Implemented automated monitoring and alerting mechanisms.

Migrated all environments from SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 to 2012.

Implemented Power BI, increasing availability of data and reducing report development time, some element of self-service.

Statline, Denver, CO 9/2014 – 10/2015

Database Administrator Release Administrator

Used Powershell and HP 3par SAN to perform frequent code releases to environments from development through production.

Participated in AGILE development practices, crafting T-SQL code to work with other developer’s efforts.

Managed and maintained over 30 different, highly customized transactional replication topologies.

Mercury Payment Systems, Durango, CO 5/2012 – 8/2014

Database Administrator III

Supported credit card processing with SQL Server 2008 R2 at multiple datacenters.

Leveraged MySQL to support customer loyalty applications.

Provided 24x7x365 on-call support and after-hours code deployments. Implemented Mercury Payment Systems’ first SQL Server cluster.

Designed high-availability and disaster recovery solutions for implementation.

Created VMware environment to test a SQL Server cluster solution.

Virtualized select production SQL Server instances on VMware vSphere hosts.

EDUCATION

Master of Science (MS), Information Systems, University of Colorado-Denver Denver, CO

Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration, University of Kansas Lawrence, KS

CERTIFICATIONS

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (via Coursera, certificate earned), Cloud Computing Concepts

Microsoft Certified DBA (MCDBA)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

Microsoft Certified Professional-DBA

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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