I love to design and build useful, data-centric applications, and as a database and middleware administrator, I can build and support them from end to end.
I never anticipated being a developer and database administrator, but have found that I am perfectly suited for this work, and it is well suited for me. I love the order and precision of a well-modeled database. And I love designing and building elegant, efficient, and effective applications that can turn data into actionable information.
I started in IT as a data miner and database developer, supporting marketing people who needed answers from their databases and data warehouses. I learned a lot of important business questions to be asked of data, and built the technical skills needed to answer them. I moved into being a database developer and database administrator supporting teams of web developers, where I learned how best to design data models and build efficient OLTP databases. It was exciting to work with older programmers who gave me the foundation in Unix, Oracle, and old-school programming techniques, as well as newer programmers who new all the cutting-edge techniques. Over the years I've worked in many different environments, small, medium, and large, watching the web grow up, and working with increasingly large and complicated applications and data warehouses.
I am an expert with SQL, PL/SQL, Transact SQL and Unix shell scripting. I am proficient in and prefer to program in Java for web applications, but I have familiarity with .Net and C#. I also am expert with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, as well as XML and XSLT.
I love finding the right solution for every problem, and I've built up a lot of skills and techniques to handle just about any situation.
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Hours of operation: as needed
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