Database Administrator Database Team Brisbane City Council

24 th

4 Years 3 Months March 2009 28 th June 2013

Administration of Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 & 2008 Physical/Virtual Servers and over 400 Production Databases (Clustered and Non-Clustered) Account creation and password resets Database refreshes from Prod to UAT and Dev Maintenance Weekend participation patching of OS and SQL Participation in the development of run-sheet for maintenance weekend Monitor the email mailbox looking for alert emails, mirror database failovers etc Monitor the ITSM Incident Queue Rerun backup jobs that failed Monitor Spectrum for any alarms related to disk space, CPU or memory use Procedure improvement Mentoring Junior Oracle DBA on basic SQL Administration Recover databases from backups Capacity planning to ensure performance Ensuring that the Change Management Process is followed i.e. not making any changes unless an approved Change Request exists Develop sound database best practices and implement them Monitoring of performance making suggestions as to how this can be improved Ensure database maintenance is being performed on a regular basis Write Transact-SQL scripts to perform a wide range of tasks, including monitoring and maintenance tasks Decommissioning databases and SQL logins Writing scripts to export data and copy it to other systems for importing Provide support for development of Disaster Recovery Plans for specific application databases Limited Administration of Oracle 9i Databases Account creation and password resets Database refreshes from Prod to UAT and Dev Monitor the ITSM Incident Queue Rerun backup jobs that failed Monitor Spectrum for any alarms related to disk space, CPU or memory use Ensure database maintenance is being performed on a regular basis Participate in projects as Lead SQL DBA as work assignments require Capturing the database requirements for a new application and documenting in the Wiki Making recommendations to the architects on the draft high-level and detailed-design documents e.g. how HA and DR are to be implemented Making suggestions for hardware configuration based on Best Practice Making sure that our standards are adhered to in terms of database names, SQL login names and permissions etc.

Database Administrator Database Team Brisbane City Council

24 th

4 Years 3 Months March 2009 28 th June 2013

Introduction of new technology via project work as Lead SQL DBA Download, install and test new SQL versions from MSDN Installation of SQL server on new hosts Implement mirroring and log shipping Implement SQL in a Cluster Environment Support the Developer during development stage through to UAT and Prod Analyse vendor provided scripts and then run them against databases after backing them up, providing feedback to vendor of success or failure Maintaining a version history of scripts run against databases Installation of new databases through Dev, UAT and Prod as per Project Capturing the database requirements for a new application and documenting in the Wiki Post-installation of SQL server on new host e.g. set up backup jobs, maintenance plan, alerts Investigate and resolve complex technology problems Documentation of installation of software and resolution of problems Documentation of installation of SQL and post-installation procedures and placing in wiki Documentation of Application Specific information e.g. DNS aliases, SQL settings etc. Documentation of problem resolution Define and document standards and processes Participation in On-call Roster Participation in Team Meetings