I have a vast amount of experience administrating and getting the most out of mysql.skills and technologies include - mysql configuration and tuning- SQL query development and optimization- database normalization / denormalization techniques- mysql replication- E-R modeling- security issues- data management-backup procedures- binary and source installation- data mining- data cleansing- partitioning- sharding- Memcached- handlersocket- Galera- Sphinx full text search- Maatkit/Percona toolkit-Percona Server and Xtrabackup. Familiar with other data storage solutions such as mysql clustering, galera, hadoop, mongodb, cassandra.