Benjamin Maxwell has over 11 years of experience supporting databases for various clients. His core specialties include database installation, configuration, maintenance, backup/recovery, migration, high availability solutions, security, upgrades, and performance tuning for SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012. He has skills in database administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, disaster recovery planning, and database programming. His experience includes roles as a senior database administrator, database architect, and junior DBA at various companies.

1. BENJAMIN MAXWELL
Atlanta, GA
maxgoziri@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: 678-558-2999
Over the past 11 years have been supporting databases and their applications for a variety of clients both
public and private in and outside US. Core specialty is in the area of Installation, Configuration,
Maintenance, Backup and Recovery, Data Migration, Disaster Recovery, Performance Tuning, Database
Security, High Availability Solutions, Database Upgrades patches, Reporting Services, Integration Services,
Monitoring, , ETL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008R2/2012.
Skills Summary:
SQL SERVER Experience Summary:
• Database administration including installation, configuration, upgrades, capacity planning, performance
tuning, backup and recovery in managing clusters of SQL servers.
• SQL DB monitoring – Home grown Scripts
• Installation and Configuration for SQL server 2000/2005/2008/2008R2/2012.
• Ability to ensure the technical integrity of corporate databases by protecting against the loss or misuse of
information and designing backup/recovery strategies.
• Troubleshooting and solving problem of SQL Server 2005/2008R2/2012.
• Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include release rollout, upgrades and
Service Parks.
• Supporting SQL Server environments and ensuring high availability, performance, and security, Replication,
Server Migration for all environment.
• Work cooperatively with other IT Specialists in other job roles to ensure that hardware resources are
operating to high resilience and top performance.
• Specialists in job role, pro-actively monitor database infrastructure to ensure secure services with minimum
downtime, patching, and Deployment of SQL packages.
• Administers SQL Server production databases.
• Coordinates backups and restore functions.
• Monitors SQL Server jobs.
• Programming in T-SQL.
• Installs and configures SQL database setups.
• Troubleshoots SQL Server production issues.
• Handles capacity planning and monitors database growth.
• Manages SQL database Cluster, SSIS, replication & Mirroring.
• Manages SQL Server security and logins.
• Upgrade of older versions of SQL Server
• Designs disaster recovery strategies.
• Deals with performance issues on production SQL Servers.
• Moves objects from staging to production databases.
• Tests all patches before deploying to production.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Strong self-sufficiency and initiative working on database projects and windows.
• Experience with data restoration, backup, and Decommission of databases.
• Excellent SQL Knowledge, Performance tuning & Capacity planning, using T-SQL and SQL queries
• Proficiency in Liaising with Microsoft Support team to resolve issues
• Managing the internal and external SQL database security.
• Capacity planning, performance tuning, backup and recovery and managing clusters of SQL
• Configuring and Maintaining Log shipping, Replication and Mirroring
Building and Configuring SQL Server Cluster server.

2. • Sound knowledge of Backup and Recovery using TSM, online and offline backups, export/import is
mandatory.
• Configuring and Maintaining Backup strategies using Client Project, SQL Maintenance Jobs.
Experience on Performance Tuning using SQL profiler.
• Sound experience in DB creation and setting up backup using.
• Sound experience in DB creation and setting up backup using and applying patches and sort out bugs.
• Experience in Database upgrades between various versions is mandatory.
• Good knowledge of Change Management process and Configuration Management.
• Knowledge in Space and Backup Monitoring.
• Troubleshooting DBA tasks.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
RDBMS: SQL 2000, 2005, SQL 2008, 2008R2 Database Administration, Replication, Enterprise Environments, Tuning,
SQL Profiler, Clustering,
SQL Server Integration Services, Sql Server Analysis Services and SQL Server Reporting Services
Operating systems: UNIX (Hp, Linux); Windows ME/NT/2000/2003/2008/2008R2/Xp/Vista/7; Os/2
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Honeywell Information Technology Enterprise Services (ITES)
7/2013 to Current
HITS Ops (Service Operations) DBA Responsibilities
Principal Database Administrator
• Supplier Management
– Track daily aging incidents, escalate aging incidents and drive resolution
– Track daily Change management tickets, escalate aging tickets and drive resolution
– Conduct CR(Change review) review meetings with Ops leads and Fujitsu, assist with
reprioritization and address implementation issues
– Ensure Fujitsu, WIPRO, CapGemini is executing database level changes with accuracy
– Attend MI and Tech bridge to help expedite resolution
– Consultant to the customer for data recovery and data integrity at a physical level
– Assist Fujitsu to resolve complex issues
– Audit backup reports, escalate failures and drive supplier to resolve it
– Assist to help bridge operation process gaps
– Ensure supplier is performing to SLA
– Ensure Fujitsu is administering appropriate database management tools
– Participating in the Change Management meetings to review database changes
– Attend Supplier Review meetings
Steady State Support
• Database Maintenance & Monitoring
• Assuring DB availability and performance
• Monitoring database availability and performance of shared hosting
• Monitoring accuracy of (add, change, delete) of physical database objects in the production
environment
• Maintaining the integrity and the availability of the database system
• Monitoring backups and recovery of database
• Assuring appropriate level of security standards are in place in support of compliance
– Responsible for controlling access to the database
– Review of ITIM access requests
Conduct Annual Privilege Account Validation
• 24 x 7 On-call rotation supporting production issues
• Attend MI and Tech bridge to help expedite resolution

3. • Address customer and supplier escalations
• Liaison for customer and supplier to coordinate DB upgrades, patches and refresh for steady state
environment
• Review, update and conduct DR test for AH shared SQL databases
• Database Administration
• Assist with activities associated with the maintenance and support of existing and future
databases
• Consultant to the customer for data recovery and data integrity at a physical level
• Assist with database performance and DB tuning
• Drive and coordinate DB upgrades and patches
Assist to remediate enterprise CAPs in support of audit compliance
Database Architect
• Assist Sr DBA and Team leads on the following requirements:
– Creating/refreshing/cloning of databases
– Archive and decommission database
• Assist customers with capacity planning
• Assisting customers in disaster recovery planning and testing coordination
• Collaborating with storage and backup teams to optimize performance
• Collaborating with cross functional teams to optimize Operation processes
• Participate in Business meetings as required
Assist to evaluate new tools as it relates to Service Operations
Current Projects
• Migration/Mass Migration project( HW Legacy Server Database Remediation
• SQL DB refresh
• SQL DB monitoring – SiteScope
• SQL DB monitoring – Home grown Scripts
• SQL DB patching
• Annual privileged account validation - SQL
• Shared SQL DB DR testing
• SQL DB backup audit validation
• DCW shared SQL DB server migrations to Hitachi
• SQL Single Service account remediation
• SQL DB monitoring scripts rollout for Honeywell Environments
• SQL DB support service remediation
Remedy Uses
• SQL DBA Support
– SQL DB support transitioned to Fujitsu as of Nov 2012
– Monumental support issues
– Have engaged Supplier Governance to remediate the support
SOFTTEK Information Technology
SQL Database Administrator
Responsibilities:
• Database Monitoring/Performance Tuning:
• Monitored, troubleshoot and tuned database performance.
• Monitored server activity and solved problem as needed.
• Setup scheduled jobs to automate different database related activities including backup,
monitoring database health, disk space and backup verification.
• Monitored SQL Server Error Log, space usage.
• Applied DMVs and DBCC to resolve memory, CPU overhead and to optimize queries.
• Created alerts and custom components for disk threshold, file growth, jobs failure etc.
• Database High Availability:
• Configured and maintained database mirroring using automatic fail-over option in SQL Server
2008R2/2008.
• Installed SQL Server instances in Fail-over Clustered environment.

4. • Decommission databases:
• Validate, review and decommission SQL databases
• Decommission SQL Instances as needed
• Backup/Recovery:
• Performed multi-type database backups and restored databases in multiple servers.
• Documented and Implemented the Disaster Recovery (D/R) solution with PIT recovery model.
• Scheduled automated backup jobs based on company policy.
• Applied different recovery models for development, test and production environment.
• Database Upgrade:
• Upgraded databases (in the development, test and production environment) from SQL Server
2000 to 2005/2008 and from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008/2008R2.
• Used upgrade advisor to analyze/detect issues and to find-out deprecated features/functions.
• Patch Management:
• Applied SP (Service Pack) on SQL Server 2005 and 2008/2008R2.
• Applied Hot Fixes on SQL Server 2005 and 2008/2008R2.
• Database Programming:
• Written T-SQL scripts and Stored-Procedures.
• Worked with Database developers to optimize SQL queries.
• DTS/SSIS:
• Configured, managed, created and deployed SSIS package.
• Exported & Imported data from Flat file, CSV file to SQL Server by using DTS, SSIS and BCP.
• Exported & Imported data from/to Oracle, and Access to/from SQL Server.
• Database Maintenance:
• Created and modified tables, indexes (clustered/non-clustered), constraints (unique/check),
views, developed different maintenance plans for database monitoring.
• Automated database tasks (created jobs, alerts and schedules for database maintenance tasks)
IBM CORPORATION 10/2011 --- 7/2013
• Install, configure and support SQL Server Instances in single or cluster environment on physical or virtual
HW.
• Two Node and Three Node Cluster Build.
• Management of multi-terabyte production CLUSTERED systems using ACTIVE-PASSIVE Clustering.
• Interact with Microsoft in resolving unknown bugs.
• Design SQL checklist, build documents for SQL 2005?SQL 2008R2
• Participate in planning and establishing a database design Center of Excellence.
• Provide database administration leadership.
• Work on build procedures and documentation.
• Assist in database NTI efforts.
• Develop and modify scripts as needed to automate provisioning process.
• Setup and provide support for database backup and recovery.
• Develop and modify scripts as needed to monitoring database and jobs/tasks.
• Work with application groups during reviews, project engagements, and consultations.
• Attend and schedule meetings as required for task completion.
• Gather, investigate and analyze requirements.
• Assist in identifying and mitigation of risk in database design on different platforms.
• Help in building technical spec and document procedures.

5. • Manage new process introduction.
• Work and document test and implementation plans.
• Resolve customer issues and offer professional advisees.
INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY SERVICES .INC
• Design SQL checklist, build documents for SQL 2005/SQL 2008R2/2012R2
• Design scripts to minimize duplicate alerts in Production environment.
• Design and implementation of backup/recovery strategies.
• Ability to ensure the technical integrity of corporate databases by protecting against the loss or misuse of
information and designing backup/recovery strategies.
• Experience supporting design and implementation of databases for sql server 2005 and 2008r2.
• Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of SQL Server.
• Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include release rollout and upgrades.
• Maintenance and tuning of the databases.
• Experience with setup and administration of SQL Server Database Security environments using database
Privileges and Roles. SQL Migration, Disaster Recovery, Performance Tuning, Backup and
Recovery, High Availability Solutions, Database Security, Database Upgrades patches
• Install Win 08R2 OS.
Pacific Systems Inc. 2007 - 2011
Snr. Database Administrator
• Used SQL Profiler for troubleshooting, monitoring, optimization of SQL Server and SQL code.
• Performed various data migration tasks for mission critical databases.
• Worked with a team of 6 to manage over 2000 databases ranging from 350GB to 2.3TB.
• Worked with BI teams in the full development lifecycle of the sql server 2005 and 2008r2 enterprise data
warehouses and report servers.
• Worked with powershell for performance enhancement and security audits.
• Maintained large data warehouses (multidimensional and relational).
• Worked with development team in analyzing data obtained from prod systems and massaging them into
more readable format using ssas.
• Set up policies to guide database usage in sql server 2008r2.
• Performed DBA duties including: database backups, restores, performance tuning, and capacity analysis
• Worked with bi team and reporting group in generating the weekly, monthly, and quarterly report by using
SQL Reporting Services.
• Developed, modified, and optimized complex stored procedures, triggers to handle complex business rules,
history data and audit analysis
Managed the products and development databases including performance tuning, capacity planning, SQL
Server clustering, database security configuration, and database continuity
• Designed, implemented and upgraded SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2008r2 databases for mission-critical
business
• Developed and optimized stored procedures, triggers, and SSIS packages
• Troubleshoot databases and custom application issues
• Developed and created stored procedures, advanced queries, triggers, views, indices, and functions for
databases.
• Work with end users to define, implement, and maintain their reporting requirements.
• Develop and maintain SSIS packages.
• Configured the physical design of the database by implementing OFA compliance that suites both OLTP and
Data warehouse applications.
• Configured various logical database structures such as table spaces to store application objects and rollback
segments for transaction processing.
• Implemented change management controls, processes and practices to deliver quality services that increase
client bottom line results.
• Worked with teams with 13 other Database Administrators, 5 database developers and 6 application vendor
consultants to ensure quality deliverables to our clients.

6. • I have successfully engaged in various DR (Disaster Recover) efforts for my customers.
• Made recommendation on systems hardware and software implementation for management approval and
took responsibility for complete and timely implementation.
• Organized and co-ordinates daily operations and project delivery meeting to identified all possible problems
and ensure they are rectified to keep project on schedule and report any project variance to the
appropriate upper management personnel.
• Developed a problem tracking applications that assigned all related systems errors/problems to appropriate
database and / or application personnel using remedy.
• Designed the backups and recovery strategies for SQL SERVER databases to meet our customer SLA
requirements.
• Managed entire project to which were assigned in accordance with the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and
Statement of Work (SOW) to ensure all departmental related cost and expenses are keep on track with the
project schedule.
• Managed the entire database environment visibility and accountable for every database decision made to
upper level management.
IBM CORPORATION 03/2003 --- 02/2007
JUNIOR DBA
• Configured the physical design of the database by implementing OFA compliance that suites both OLTP and
Data warehouse applications.
• Configured various logical database structures such as table spaces to store application objects and rollback
segments for transaction processing.
• Implemented change management controls, processes and practices to deliver quality services that increase
client bottom line results.
• Lead a team of 13 other Database Administrators, 5 developers and 6 application vendor consultants to
ensure quality deliverables to our clients.
• I have successfully engaged in various DR (Disaster Recover) efforts for my customers.
• Made recommendation on systems hardware and software implementation for management approval and
took responsibility for complete and timely implementation.
• Organized and co-ordinates daily operations and project delivery meeting to identified all possible problems
and ensure they are rectified to keep project on schedule and report any project variance to the
appropriate upper management personnel.
• Developed a problem tracking applications that assigned all related systems errors/problems to appropriate
database and / or application personnel using remedy.
• Designed the backups and recovery strategies for Oracle and DB2 UDB and SQL SERVER databases to meet
our customer SLA requirements.
• Managed entire project to which were assigned in accordance with the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and
Statement of Work (SOW) to ensure all departmental related cost and expenses are keep on track with the
project schedule.
• Managed the entire database environment visibility and accountable for every database decision made to
upper level management.
Education:
Covenant University (Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering)
Certification:
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (2000 & 2005 MSDBA)
Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE, NT, 2000, 2003)