Viorel is a Senior Database Administrator with more than a decade of expertise in administering different database platforms and finding solutions to complex database problems on projects. He uses automation to reduce drudgery on databases and SysAdmins; churning out solutions that ensure that databases are secure, scalable, compliant and optimized for end-user performance - adhering to consistent architecture standards/best practices.
Developed and maintained the inventory, configuration and documentation for deployed database systems and tools.
Applied database security baselines, policies, standard procedures and best practices; cross-training other production, integration and development teams for ResMed.
Identified operational and infrastructure risks; working out corrections, mitigating risks and troubleshooting issues and alerts.
Provided database development, integration, and maintenance solutions to increase performance and stability for multiple business environments.
Handled all monitoring, alerting and backup operations on projects; isolating and tuning queries, troubleshooting and resolving critical performance issues.
Identified and resolved bottlenecks on solutions; creating database maintenance plans and validating SQL best practices.
Acted as a technical resource for all SQL Server DB related performance, security, backup and configuration issues.
Troubleshot and resolved MS SQL Server DB availability, SSRS reports, DB and OS backup related issues.
Supported the certification and accreditation process - running system requirements reviews, handling findings, documenting solutions/workarounds and providing justifications for exceptions.
Handled databases through multiple product lifecycle environments; monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast query responses to 'front end' users.
Provided technical support in solving, and correcting issues in real-time; testing programs or databases, correcting errors and making modifications.
Handled the commissioning and installation of new applications, controlling access permissions and privileges.
Ingenico is the global leader in seamless payments; providing smart, trusted and secure solutions to empower commerce across all channels: in-store, online and mobile. Architected and implemented all HA and DR tasks for the databases used by the ePayments platform. The solution took advantage of multiple data centres and allowed for automated and autonomous failovers; ensuring business continuity and service quality during complete datacenter outage.
Architected and implemented tasks for the migration of 70+ TB of data with a downtime of under 7 minutes for Ingenico. Actively communicated, planned and interacted with various teams, either at the management or on the technical level in implementing the solution.
Oversaw all database automation tasks using the latest DevOps methodologies and tools. Implemented the solution with a security-first approach and the principle of least privilege to make teams more efficient and sustainable in their daily operations on the database systems.
