Nov 2024 – Apr 2025 · 5 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

Sep 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

Apr 2023 – Aug 2023 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid

• Founder and Strategic Technology Consultant at Cloud Ultra Pro Consulting. I help businesses craft cloud strategies, design scalable architectures, and deliver official cloud training. Combining strategic vision with hands-on expertise, I enable organizations to achieve their technology goals and empower their teams for success.

Nov 2022 – Aug 2023 · 9 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Aug 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

• Providing advisory services to enterprise organizations around cloud adoption, business alignment, and digital transformation.

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

• Freelance Microsoft Instructor

Nov 2020 – Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr · Seattle, Washington, United States

• As a client-facing Healthcare Cloud consultant, I work with healthcare industries’ CEO/CIO/CTO/CSO to lead multiple cloud architecture and maturity projects: Hybrid cloud, multi-cloud (Azure/AWS), Security/HIPAA/HITRUST compliance, Cloud migration, and Cloud maturity.
• As a Technical Account Manager, I interact with IT managers, software architects, and developers daily; I perform system tuning and cost optimization, improve and resolve clients’ operations challenges.
• Architect AWS infrastructure for my clients from 5 people startup team to 10,000+ employees’ enterprises. Design and develop solutions using microservices/server/serverless architecture and the latest cloud platform technologies
• Preform AWS Well-Architected Reviews (WARs) and improve clients’ cloud maturity level

Nov 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• As an internal AWS Cloud consultant, I work with CIO/CTO/CSO to lead multiple cloud projects: Hybrid cloud, IoT, Security compliance, cost reduction, and Electronic Medical Record data exchange.
• Architect database infrastructure for Breg’s Commercial Software department: design and develop solutions using microservices architecture and the latest AWS data platform technologies
• Managed AWS Cloud Infrastructure, including data tier, networking, and security. Reviewed AWS cost usage, reduce and automate cost reduction process - lowered Breg’s AWS operation cost by half in 2019

Oct 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater San Diego Area

• Designed architecture and oversaw database infrastructure for Operations Software department: design, develop, deploy and upgrade software system modules
• Managed over 100 SQL DB instances: local enterprise data warehouse, central DB servers, local station SQL express instances, and remote/contract manufacturers’ DB servers
• Provided 24/7 DBA support to Dexcom’s manufacturing process: remote site data integration; local ETL/data sync between OLTP and OLAP; high-performance local stations data collection; database maintenance monitoring and tuning; system upgrade and patching; Dexcom DB upgrades
• Responsible for daily ETL processes using SSIS data pipeline to sync data between 100+ local testing stations and the centralized Manufacturing DB for all Dexcom Sensors, Transmitters and Receiver units
• Worked with Document Control and QA to ensure DB systems meet FDA class 3 compliant

May 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• Managed over 1000 large databases across 50+ geographically distributed enterprise-class MS SQL servers with full SSD SAN storage backend. Some VLDBs have 16+ billion rows with size to 5 TB. Some SQL instances had transaction volume over 10,000 batch request/sec
• Provided 24/7 DBA support to Rockstar’s online division - Social Club Service supports over millions of concurrent online players globally including gameplay, profiles update, authentication, leaderboards, match-making, and user content upload and download
• Developed, monitored, and optimized daily ETL processes using SSIS to extract data from 100 TB HP Vertica system to refresh 10 TB SQL DB for BI teams’ daily data consumption
• Developed a new high volume data pump pipeline to extract MS SQL data using BCP/SSIS to produce data exchange packages to feed Hadoop and Vertica data platforms
• Developed an automatic data sync process to sync all game clients’ DB tables with SSDT
• Mentored developers on advanced database programming, reviewed and enhanced all stored procedures performance before weekly production deployment

Sep 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• Designed and developed automated daily stock exchange/securities transaction extraction and matching process for the new P.S.T. Compliance product
• Led DevOps and DBA team and oversaw flagship product’s data center migration project
• Led and mentored developers, QA and database operations staffs and performed peer-to-peer reviews of colleague’s work
• Reviewed and optimized ETL processes for NRS’ clients: Major financial firms are Ameriprise, LPL Financial, Mass Mutual, Wells Fargo, and Morgan Stanley
• Monitored and maintained database infrastructure. Audited and resolved database performance issues with an emphasis on root cause identification

Apr 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• Led daily scrum/status meetings. Reviewed and assigned tickets to team members to balance team members’ workload
• Mentored junior DBAs and developers and provided onboarding and training to all SQL DBAs
• Worked with globally distributed team members and coordinated shift handover
• Performed SOX user audit. Supported high-security database servers in PCI and PII zone
• Provided 24/7 flagship SQL DBA support for Active Network’s cloud-based applications
• Supported over 100+ Active Network’s unique product lines; 6 distinct market segments; over 100 production servers; 200 non-production servers.
• Managed over 10,000 live databases with many databases over 1 TB in size
• Consolidated legacy data centers into a single high availability data center

Dec 1996 – Apr 2012 · 15 yrs 4 mos · Fresno, California Area

• Sole Data Architect/SQL Developer in charge of three tax collections projects for City of Detroit, City of Los Angeles, and City of Philadelphia with total tax over $500 million
• Improved the company’s major revenue regenerating software - License Management system to support over 100 client cities’ Local Tax Compliance Projects
• Streamlined data interchange between the company’s data warehouse and the City of Los Angeles and generated $4+ million income to the company
• Architected enterprise data warehouse to support over 5 million complex data integration transactions daily
• Managed 1000+ SQL databases in various environments across multiple Windows domains and developed ETL/ELT processes to extract data from 1000+ unique data sources
• Solely designed, developed and supported Detroit tax collections program in .NET/ SQL Server and recovered over $48 million tax for City of Detroit
• Managed Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Accounting Software
• Developed GIS mapping software using ESRI ARC stack and SQL Server
• Enhanced data collection (ETL) process and reduce processing time from weeks to days
• Re-engineered command-line name/address matching and integration processes to be hosted in the new Oracle backend. Led and driven Oracle 8i data warehouse project
• Modernized DOS-based app to Windows-based with multiple database backend support

Jan 1995 – Dec 1996 · 1 yr 11 mos · Fresno, California Area

• • Developed systems tools and code generators to support the company’s flagship agriculture accounting software in C/C++

Jan 1993 – Jan 1995 · 2 yrs · Fresno, California Area

• • Developed debugging tools in assembly and built in-house code compiler in C