JAMES F. COREY
120 S 183 St
Seattle, WA 98148
206-242-4994
jimc@msn.com
OBJECTIVE: A career as a SQL database administrator / developer or
Windows Engineer.
QUALIFICATIONS:
4 years experience
as a SQLServer Database Administrator progressive to Sr. Database
Administrator:
Experience with SQL
Server versions 6.5, 7 & 2000, all service packs and many hotfixes.
24x7 administration, monitoring,
troubleshooting and notification of SQL Server issues, events and alerts.
Extensive experience installing and upgrading
all versions of SQL Server.
Authored and maintained updates of detailed
SQL Server installation checklists for use by Windows technicians at remote
data centers in the U.S. and overseas.
Extensively manage Vision7 database
maintenance system for managing nightly DBCCs, database dumps and backups to
tape for every database in the enterprise.
Manage databases as large as 2 Terrabytes in
size.
Fulfill as needed database backup and restore
special requests.
Extensive use of SQL transactional
replication.
Implement and monitor log shipping warm
backup solutions per customer requests.
Adapt monitoring to include support of
clustered SQL Servers using Microsoft Cluster Service.
Initiate and interpret performance and tuning
data using NT Performance Monitor and SQL traces created using SQL Profiler.
Provide suggestions to engineering teams on
configuration requirements of SQL Server and required hardware.
8 years experience as a Microsoft corporate
professional:
Deep exposure to Microsoft products and the wide range of its uses and
functions.
Heavy use of email and dependance on Microsoft Office suite of products
for management of work.
Expectation to support Early Adopter Program and beta versions of
software.
High customer demand/expectation for assumed/expected in-depth
knowledge of product line and features.
Data center enterprise of over 2000 NT-based servers including 400 SQL
Servers worldwide in 8 locations.
Heavy reliance on tools that allow remote access to servers over
networks of varying quality, speed, distance and congestion.
Support Microsoft s largest
Internet Data Center housing ist most vital web products including 5 of the
www s 10 largest sites: msn.com,
microsoft.com, expedia.com, homeadvisor.com,sidewalk.com,
msnbc.com,carpoint.com and others.
SQL Server and ASP Programmer / Application
Developer:
Including familiarity
and use of Microsoft Front Page, Active Server Pages, ODBC, IIS and NT command
files
Author SQL stored
procedures to ease common SQL troubleshooting tasks.
Author web application
for status page to manage log shipping streams
Author web .ASPs and
related stored procedures to offer team a quick on-click snapshot of SQL Server
alerts
Author web .ASPs and
related stored procedures to offer team and customer a quick one-click access
to maintenance schedule and maintenance history
6 years experience as a WindowsNT systems
administrator:
Experience administering systems running Windows NT versions 3.51, 4.0,
2000 Advanced Server and xp beta versions.
Extensive experience with NT systems forwarding application events
through central monitoring systems using:
o
CA-Unicenter
o
CA-Unicenter TNG
o
NetIQ
o
SeNTry
Experience on enterprise-quality, high availability servers from Compaq
Proliant, Dell PowerEdge and Hewlett-Parkard to offer no
single-point-of-failure solutions within the data center enterprise.
WORK
HISTORY/EXPERIENCE:
Database Administrator (SQL Server) (Oct.
1994-Present)
Compaq
Computer Corporation, Bellevue Washington
Maintain
administration, monitoring and troubleshooting tools for SQL Servers serving
web content to a Windows NT Enterprise of thousands of servers worldwide. Senior member of troubleshooting and
notification team responsible for the core of Microsoft s most critical web
communities.
Responsibilities include daily troubleshooting and resolution of
alert able operational problems, constant process improvement, simplification
of tool use and notification procedures and implementation of monitoring needs
as our users (MS web development teams) needs change. Develop and create HTML-based monitoring
solutions as Microsoft corporate directives dictate.
Product Support Services Technician (Feb. 1994-Oct. 1994)
RhoTech,
Redmond, Washington
Attn: Mr. Evan Windham 425-882-8080
Support
Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft Product Support Services. Take telephone calls from Microsoft customer
base regarding all aspects of MS PowerPoint for Windows versions 3.x, 4.x and
Microsoft Office Manager 4.x.
Software Product Support Technician (Sep. 1993-Feb. 1994)
SCS/Compute,
Bellevue Washington
Attn: Ms. Barbara J. Gall 206-223-0488 x6614
Supported "Tax Machine" software product for
technical issues. Scenarios included
various levels of technical problems in a user-specific environment including
multiple x86 platforms. working both standalone and/or network (supporting
Novell, UNIX & Banyan Vines) in a DOS and UNIX environment. Various hardware configurations include use
of HP laser printers or compatible, CD-ROM, multiple hard disk, floppy or
Bernoulli drives.
Technology
Support Center Representative (Sep.
1988-Aug. 1993)
Airborne Freight Corporation, Seattle, Washington
Information & Technology Services, Technology
Support Center
Attn: Ms.
Connie J. Graham 206-286-1515
Responsibilities included troubleshooting hardware
and software problems with Airborne's PC-based, high volume customer shipping
systems-Libra II. Also assisted
customers, Airborne sales representatives and Airborne field automation
specialists via telephone and electronic mail to resolve technical problems
with Turbo Pascal and MS-DOS applications operating on Hyundai and
Memorex/Telex hardware.
EDUCATION:
Colorado Technical
College - Colorado Springs, Colorado (Lowry AFB Extension) GPA: 4.0.
USAF Computer
Operator's Course (200 hours) Overall course average: 92%.
Olympic Community
College - Bremerton, Washington
Associate
Degree of Technical Arts, Data Processing Technology
Graduation
Date - June 1984.
SPECIAL SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS and CERTIFICATIONS:
Type 55 wpm.
Available immediately.
Able to travel and
relocate.
PERSONAL
INFO:
Enjoy personal-computing, gourmet cooking,
bird watching, hiking, racquetball, softball and various other sports.
REFERENCES:
Kelly Roark (Microsoft)
Data Center Manager
US-ITG GNS Field Implementation Global
Hosting
CP-IDC/1059
425-936-1456
kroark@microsoft.com
Operations and IDC SQL teammate for 5
years under Digital and Compaq
Barry Dezarn (Microsoft)
Sr, SQL DBA, IDC SQL Team
US-ITG GNS Field Implementation Global
Hosting
CP-IDC/1057
425-703-2255x27700
v-barryd@microsoft.com
Team Lead and IDC SQL teammate for the
past 4 years
