1. David E Baker
12 Heritage Lane
Clifton Park, NY 12065
dave@theDBexperts.com
518-210-1000 Mobile
DB2 for LUW and MongoDB Expert
Expertise in: Performance Tuning, Problem Resolution and Database Architecture.
Highly accomplished Database Administrator with over 16 years of experience in DB2 database
administration, design, and performance tuning in large OLTP and DSS environments. Proven success in
supporting large scale application implementations and migrations from other DBMS platforms. Experience
and expertise with many of DB2’s advanced features including: Database Partitioning Facility (DPF), High
Availability / Disaster Recovery, Automatic Client Reroute Facility, Table Partitioning, Multi-Dimensional
Clustering, Compression, Self Tuning Memory, Statistical Views, PureXML, and Materialized Query
Tables. Growing expertise with designing, implementing, and tuning MongoDB applications including
several of its advanced features including: Replication, Sharding, Authentication, MMS, and Map/Reduce.
Technical Strengths: DB2, MongoDB, SQL, perl, ksh, php, SAP (database administration), AIX, Solaris,
Linux and Windows. Extensive knowledge and experience with DB2 for LUW running on AIX, Solaris,
Linux, and Windows. Expert in SQL and DB2 for LUW performance tuning.
Professional Experience
Everbridge, Remote ~ 12/2014 to Present
Database Administrator Team Lead
Responsible for all aspects of database administration for all supported database platforms including:
MongoDB, ElasticSearch (Elastic), Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. Act as the team lead for the DBA
team. Act as the chief data and database architect for the firm including determining the correct database
platform and implementation for new applications.
• Implement a standardized set of maintenance jobs for all DBMS platforms.
• Design and implement Everbridge’s first BI data warehouse solution using MongoDB.
• Analyze and tune several DBMS related performance issues by changing the index schema and
rewriting queries.
• Replace the existing encryption at rest vendor with Vormetric encryption for all DBMS platforms.
• Develop and implement the ElasticSearch (Elastic) infrastructure for Everbridge.
• Analyzed and made recommendations to fix performance issues on the VM implementations for
MongoDB and ElasticSearch..
Metropolitan Life, Troy NY ~ 08/2000 to 12/2014
Lead Database Administrator
Responsible for all aspects of DB2 for LUW and MongoDB database administration including: installing and
configuring DB2, MongoDB and related software, implementation of database maintenance jobs, logical and
physical design, problem resolution, performance tuning, and mentoring of staff in DB2 technology. Some
specific accomplishments:

2. • Co-author of MetLife’s Uniform Maintenance Routines (UMRs) which are the enterprise standard
jobs for database maintenance.
• Implemented MetLife’s first NoSQL “Big Data” applications using MongoDB, including THE
WALL (MetLife’s first centralized view of all MetLife customers and all related data).
• Create and implement the MongoDB topology, including number of replicas, shards, shard keys,
configuration database and MongoS instances for new MongoDB applications at MetLife.
• Developed and maintain MetLife’s standards and best practices for DB2 for LUW and MongoDB
technologies.
• Educated and advised new applications on the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of MongoDB as
well as how to properly design an application to use a document oriented database.
• Migrated several applications from MS SQL Server and Oracle to DB2.
• Zero preventable outages for all applications supported while at MetLife.
• Supported all versions of DB2 LUW from V5 to V10.1 as well as upgrades to all of these versions.
• Migrated several applications from log-shipping and HACMP to High Availability / Disaster
Recovery greatly reducing hardware and software costs while reducing failover times and data loss.
• Implemented Multi-Dimensional Clustering in several OLTP, DSS, and mixed environments to
specifically reduce list pre-fetch and low-card sorting.
• Conducted several classes and presentations on DB2 technology, problem resolution and
performance tuning.
• Mentored several Jr. DBAs to Sr. DBAs.
• Implemented compression in several of the largest databases which reduced the physical size of the
databases by more than 50% while improving performance.
• Acts as 3rd
level support at MetLife for DB2 LUW and MongoDB issues.
• Acts as an internal consultant for performance tuning of DB2 LUW applications and databases.
Computer Science Corporation, Albany NY ~ 03/1999 – 08/2000
Sr. Database Administrator / DB2 System Programmer
Responsible for all aspects of DB2 for Z/OS and DB2 for LUW database administration of a brand new suite
of applications to support the NYS Medicaid program. Some specific accomplishments:
• Co-designed and implemented one of the first DB2 for Z/OS production data-sharing environment in
North America. This was a 2 member data-sharing environment designed for maximum uptime.
• Designed and implemented all of the DB2 for LUW databases for the NYS Medicaid project.
• Designed and implemented the DB2 Connect gateway infrastructure for the NYS Medicaid project.
Credit Suisse First Boston, New York NY ~ 02/1998 – 03/1999
Database Administrator / Technical Associate
As a member of the Technical Associate Program I was placed on the DB2 DBA team and was heavily
mentored and educated in DB2 technology and the role of a database administrator. Some specific
accomplishments:
• Supported the High Productivity System’s DB2 repositories.
• Created and supported maintenance jobs to support DB2 databases.
• Converted all indexes to type 2 indexes in all databases.

3. • Supported full offsite disaster recovery testing.
Education and Training
DB2 V10 for LUW IBM Certified Database Administrator
DB2 V9.7 for LUW IBM Certified Advanced Database Administrator
DB2 V9.7 for LUW IBM Certified Database Administrator
DB2 V9.7 for LUW IBM Certified Database Associate
DB2 V9 for LUW IBM Certified Database Administrator
DB2 V9 for LUW IBM Certified Database Associate
DB2 V10 for LUW Oracle compatibility Boot Camp
DB2 V10 for LUW Advanced Administration for Experts
DB2 PureXML Boot Camp
DB2 V9.7 Transition
DB2 V9.7 Performance Tuning for Experts
DB2 V9 for LUW Advanced Database Administration for Experts
DB2 V9 for LUW Advanced Database Administration Internals Workshop
DB2 V8 Multiple Partition Database Workshop
DB2 V8 Advanced Database Administration
Informatica V9.1 Administration 1
Informatica V9.1 Developers Workshop
ADP-II Security Clearance (Issue date: 4/20/2011)
State University of New York College at Plattsburgh – B.A. Mathematics May 1996