Contract-to-hire or permanent positions in Houston, TX or via telecommute
Work with Internet/intranet database application or Data Warehousing projects
Contribute to projects as part dynamic, collaborative and energetic technical team
Career development through education and new experience opportunities
Design Extract, Transformation, and Load (ETL) processes and methods
Logical and Physical database design
Relational database programming with SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle
Develop corporate design/administration standards, best practices and processes
Application requirements gathering, analysis and architectural design
Client/Server and Web application development projects
Integrating third party applications into existing infrastructure
Windows, UNIX and Linux OS platform experience
Experience with application layer protocols from IP suite (SMTP, FTP, and HTTP)
1827 Foxwood
Houston, TX 77008
713.269.5763 jason@iparray.com
12/2007 – Present
DBA on distributed infrastructure team supporting global resources for the firm. Regular duties involve backup and recovery, disaster recovery setup, data replication, database upgrades, failover testing and implementing audit controls per the firm’s regulations.
(Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft DTS, Visual Studio.NET, SQL Server 2005,
SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, Break Glass,
LiteSpeed, Citrix)
1/2007 – 12/2007
Data Architect providing deployment standards, validation and automation PropertyInfo
Corp, Inc (PIC) division of Stewart Title. Routine duties involve designing data structures for new development projects, transformation processes, extraction transformation and load (ETL) strategies, disaster recovery policies and data integration methods.
(Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft DTS, Visual Studio.NET, Idera Compliance
Manager and Diagnostic Manager, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Integration Services,
SQL Server Reporting Services, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server)

10/2006 – 1/2007
Contract DBA providing database support services to the Revenue Accounting division of Continental Airlines. Services provided included database administration, ETL development, SQL 2005 upgrade testing and upgrades for the production database cluster.
(Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft DTS, Visual Studio.NET, SQL Server 2005,
SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, Oracle RDBMS 9i, HP
Clustered Packages)
10/2005 – 10/2006
Data Services Administrator providing database support to the Real Estate Information
(REI) region of Stewart Title. Services included database design, database administration, ETL development and monitoring. Additional duties involve creation of change control procedures, environment setup and maintenance, standards validation, deployment standards and automation for in-house applications and data warehouse.
(Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft DTS, Visual Studio.NET, Idera Compliance
Manager and Diagnostic Manager, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Integration Services,
SQL Server Reporting Services)
10/2003 – 10/2005
Enterprise DBA for a cross-division team that provided database administration, performance tuning and monitoring to corporate and regional development teams.
Additional responsibilities for this role included design, installation, disaster recovery planning/testing, creating and executing application/database deployment procedures and developing ETL processes and design for OLAP cubes for regional data warehouse.
Team provided 24x7 on-call support to the organization through primary and secondary rotation.
(Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services, Microsoft DTS, Visual Studio.NET,
Embarcadero ChangeManager and DBArtisan, Vertias Indepth and Networker, Oracle 9i)
08/2000 – 10/2003
Programmer on an in-house web application for the career placement center which scheduled campus recruitment visits, student resume posting and company job postings.
Additionally, coded applications for document management and reporting as well as provided end user support for users in the division and developed ETL procedures for data conversions.
(Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Basic 6, ASP, Cold Fusion, PHP, JavaScript, Vertias
Backup Exec, Microsoft DTS)

01/2000 – 08/2000
Developer for in-house dental management reporting system. Used client/server and web technology to provide external reporting off of the main dental management system to company management, as well as serving as database administrator for reporting database.
(Microsoft SQL Server, ASP, Citrix, Powerbuilder, Perl,)
11/1998 – 01/2000
Support Manager with three direct reports as well as remote contractors, providing support to 100 dental centers in across the country. Developed end user training policies and programs for proprietary dental management system as well as office suite applications.
(Microsoft SQL Server, Citrix, MS Office, Microsoft Exchange, Platinum SQL,
Powerbuilder)
08/1997 – 11/1998
Network Administrator , responsible for administrative headquarters office and two training centers, as well as for developing custom training and application education for end users. Provided user base of 12 clients with support, design, installations and training on all IT software and hardware.
(Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange)
Bachelor of Business Administration 2003
Major: MIS
Minor: European Studies
2003

06/2002 - 07/2003 http://www.career.uh.edu
Upgraded web system that provided campus recruitment visits along with student resume posting and company job postings to a newer version of database engine and migrated application code to new scripting language. Additionally served as ETL developer for database conversions, data feeds from both parent organization and corporate partners.
(ASP, Cold Fusion, Microsoft SQL Server)
01/2003 - 05/2003
Created internal CRM web system to record donor information and donation history; providing import, entry and reporting functionality.
(ASP, Microsoft SQL Server)
06/2003 - 08/2003 http://www.robertburtonlaw.com
Designed web-based content management system and designed web site for Houston law firm.
(PHP, MySQL)
11/2003 – Present
Created DBA-specific policies and procedures for enterprise wide Shared IT Services migration, in addition to documenting legacy applications for transitioning. Created plan to transition database support from business units to EIT.
(MS Office, Visio, Microsoft SQL Server)
01/2004 - 03/2004
ETL and cube developer for data warehouse use for in depth patient drug utilization and trending.
(SQL Server, DTS, SQL Analysis Services)
03/2004 - 06/2004
ETL developer on single sign-on system for Pharmaceutical division of Cardinal Health that interfaced multiple user sources.
(Active Directory, VB Script, SQL Server, DTS)

01/2004 - 11/2004
DBA for project to implement enterprise CRM solution, primary duties included designing environmental architecture and developing customized ETL procedures for initial and analytical data loads.
(Siebel, Microsoft SQL Server)
06/2004 - 11/2004
DBA developing disaster recovery plan for SQL Server databases in J. D. Edwards application group.
(SQL Server, Sun Guard, NetBackup)
5/2004-8/2005
Created DBA-specific policies and procedures for enterprise wide Shared IT Services migration, in addition to documenting legacy applications for transitioning. Created plan to transition database support from business units to EIT.
2/2005-4/2005
DBA for project to develop company control concepts developed through collaboration with internal auditors then created scripts and reports for risk assessment.
(SQL Server)
4/2005-7/2005
Senior DBA tasked with developing, based on risk assessments, remediation scripts, control test scripts, control exception report scripts. Project involved working heavily with development teams during environment testing.
(SQL Server)
10/2005-2/2006
Lead DBA on project to implement a centralized SSRS architecture for all divisions of
REI, including development of change control and deployment standards.
(SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Reporting Services, .NET CLR Procedures)
12/2005-5/2006
Served as DBA on project to migrate regionally managed data center to VeriCenter.
Primary duties involved creating and documenting server environments, migrating databases to new hardware and auditing user permissions for data center compliance.
(SQL Server)

4/2006-Present
Lead DBA on project tasked with developing SOX database controls, implementing third party auditing tools and creating exception alerting policies for the REI region
(SQL Server 2005, Idera Compliance Manager)
4/2005-Present
Serving as part of a DBA team that works with business units and technology group to develop a set of standard policy and procedures for the REI Region Data Services group.
Scope of the project includes creating deployment procedures, backup and recovery strategy and standard automated maintenance.
(SQL Server, SQL Server 2005)
3/2005-5/2006
Lead DBA on project to implement third party database monitoring and alerting solution for SQL Server databases in the REI region. Monitoring scope included scheduled processes, performance statistics and regular maintenance.
(SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, Idera Diagnostic Manager)
10/2006-1/2007
Upgraded the production SQL server for the Financial Systems Group from SQL 200) to
SQL 2005. This upgrade was applied to all environments (DEV, STG and PRD).
1/2007- 6/2007
Re-architected existing Portal infrastructure to include a scalable administration interface that would meet the companies needs. This project included data structure design and object creation, transformation scripts for initial data imports and procedure modifications/additions.