David J. Briles, MCITP
543 Brookfield Drive
Centreville, MD 21617
[Send email to request phone number] 58-7908
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MICROSOFT SQL SERVER DATABASE
ADMINISTRATOR ● DEVELOPER ● MANAGER
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Over a dozen years experience with a proven track record of achieving all
database administration and development objectives that cover a multitude of
environments spanning multiple industries. A strategic thinking,
results-oriented professional with strong problem solving and crisis management
skills. Able to guide technically diverse teams as well as work collaboratively.
Equally capable as an administrator and/or developer. Dedicated and
self-motivated with excellent interpersonal/communication skills.
Core Competencies
• MS SQL Server 2005,2000,7,6.x
• Project & Team Management
• Dev / QA / Production Administration
• Hardware/Software procurement
• Disaster Recovery
• Fault Tolerance
• High Availability / Failover
• Security & Compliance
• Capacity Planning
• Full-text indexing
• Performance Benchmarking, Monitoring, Tuning
• Replication (all forms)
• Data Modeling (logical/physical)
• Transact SQL
• Clustering
• Analysis Services
• Datawarehousing, OLAP
• Reporting Services
• DTS / SSIS
• Windows 2003, 2000, NT, XP, Professional
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Professional Experience
Manager, Database Administration, FTI Consulting (Annapolis, MD), 3/06-present
• Manager for the Technology Services DBA team.
• Production Operations support for 50+ SQL 2000/2005 production servers hosting
mission critical applications serving hundreds of external clients on multiple
continents
• Heavy performance monitoring and tuning
• SQL Server 2000, 2005 installations of x86, x64 and ia64 standalone servers,
active/passive clusters, and active/active/passive clusters
• Key contributor in many different capacities, such as revamping security
policies, automating administrative tasks, enhancing our monitoring and reporting
capabilities, creating and documenting standard operating procedures, etc.
• Project Management
• Transactional replication administration
• Full-text index management
• Server upgrades: SQL 2000-2005
Sr. Database Administrator, Citigroup (Jacksonville, FL), 5/02-3/06
• Database Manager for the Citigroup Employee Services Global Projects
division.
• Support 30+ intranet based applications that service 300,000+ users,
globally.
• Major initiative to identify and resolve production database related
performance bottlenecks.
• Provided t-sql mentoring to development staff.
• Key participant in growing infrastructure from 1 SQL server with one database
to 30+ SQL servers residing in two geographically disparate locations.
• Focus on overall operations has attained consistent gains in uptime,
performance, manageability, security, recoverability and auditability.
• Collaborated on numerous management initiatives, including: Data Security,
Data Management & Classification, Data Retention, Capacity Planning & Resource
Tracking, Change Control, Disaster Planning / High Availability, and Continuity
of Business solutions.
• Contributed to Capital Expenditure Planning efforts as it relates to hardware
and software procurement for data management.
• Established best practices and standards.
• Championed the introduction of BI and OLAP technologies to link “silo’d” data
and better meet corporate reporting requirements.
• Upgrades: SQL 7-2000 & 2000-2005, OS NT-2000 & 2000-2003.
Database Engineer, Financial Insight Systems (Rockville, MD), 10/00-10/01
• Technical lead for project that produced readily accessible financial data via
the internet to several clients (e.g. Nasdaq.com)
• Closely integrated with subject matter experts to ensure business objectives
were met in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Performed all database development and administration through the entire
lifecycle with minimal supervision.
• Frequently lent assistance to other projects under difficult time objectives.
Consultant / Sr. Database Developer, Virtualogic (Bethesda, MD), 6/98-9/00
• Served as consultant to Discovery Communications (Discovery channel)
• Lead database developer for custom built Sales Information System.
• Leveraged Crystal Reports to facilitate a robust reporting solution.
• Developed ad hoc reports for senior management decision support.
• Worked directly with internal clients and management to ensure application
functionality met all business objectives.
• Upgrades: SQL 6.5 to 7.
Database Developer, Green Spring Health Services (Columbia, MD), 7/96-6/98
• SQL Server developer for client/server based application.
• Tightly integrated with front-end development staff to meet application
objectives.
• Heavy T-SQL development.
• Administered transactional replication from production server to thirteen
remote servers located across the country.
• Created and maintained DDL & DML scripts.
• Significant efforts in stress testing, monitoring and tuning of databases.
• Upgrades: SQL 6.0-6.5
Education / Certification
Bachelors of Business Administration - Management Information Systems, Loyola
College of Maryland, 1996
Microsoft Certified IT Professional – SQL Server 2005
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
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