Eli Perl has over 25 years of experience as a solutions architect and data management consultant. He has worked for major financial institutions designing data warehouse architectures and implementing governance, compliance, and security solutions. His experience includes roles at Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, and other large companies where he managed teams and led projects involving data warehousing, analytics, governance, and infrastructure.

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ELI PERL
eliperl.ny@gmail.com
(C): (845) 517-7021
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Solutions Architect
Hands-on technical architect/manager with extensive experience in all phases of data-related project delivery
from inception; application and infrastructure architecture, development, deployment, governance, support,
maintenance and decommissioning.. Over 25 years experience in understanding business requirements,
analyzing problem areas, engineering solutions and driving project to conclusion. Formerly member of IBM
Customer Advisory Council for Distributed Database Products,
Professional Experience
Data Architecture Consultant 02/14-Current
Clients: Bay Dynamics, Bank of America, WebMD, JP Morgan Chase,
Morgan Stanley, Global Atlantic (formerly Goldman Sachs)
 Worked with major corporate entities to designed solutions for integrating corporate asset information with
audit and security logs (AD, Palo Alto, Symantec DLP, Bluecoat, Qualys, Websense) into a SQL Server-
based risk-analysis and scoring platform (RiskFabric)
 Built prototype to enhance SQL Server performance by 10-20x.
 Designed and built data warehouse architecture for managing and controlling risk (Market Risk, Credit,
Liquidity, Operational) and monitoring compliance to international standards such as Basel 3 and Dodd
Frank) across all the client bank’s product lines
 Performed evaluation and comparison testing to provide full stack solution for data warehouse solution
(Oracle Exadata, DB2 v11 DPF/BLU, SQL Server, Actian Matrix, Hadoop, Informatica, Datastage, SynSort)
 Lead architect for project to build self-service analytic warehouse to provide significantly enhanced
capabilities for the marketing VP. This included requirements definition, integration and ELT, physical
system design (Vertica and Hadoop), logical and physical table modeling, optimizing storage placement,
query tuning, designing dashboards with Tableau, building QA procedures, management reporting, and
retiring legacy warehouse applications.
 Designed and developed ELT process for incorporating paid-search data into a marketing data warehouse.
 Led Implementation of Guardium Database Access Management, VA, audit and governance solution for all
databases and warehouses in the firm; heavy emphasis on cloud-based, automated system deployment
and integrating with Hadoop-based behavioral analysis technologies. Developed policies, workflows, issue
resolution methodologies, reporting, DLP integration and provided extensive training for internal personnel
 Reporting into the CFO, managed Implementation of infrastructure services to meet the newly created
firm’s complete data management requirements. Managed conversion and migration of OLTP, data
warehouse, BI and analytic systems from legacy systems to the new enterprise’s internal-cloud-based
(VMware) infrastructure.
 Worked with outside auditors to develop processes for SOX , PII and other regulatory compliance,
Established data governance, stewardship and support escalation procedures
Merrill Lynch/Bank of America 02/06–02/14
Vice President: Global Data Engineering/Product Management
Managed processes and teams to architect, engineer, build and integrate standardized deployments and
infrastructure for OLTP systems and Big Data Warehouses including hardware, governance, compliance, storage,
ILM, deployment automation, monitoring, infrastructure tools, security, policies, procedures and all aspects of
database architecture.
• Primary interface between the firm and IBM for all database tools in the LUW ecosystems. Worked directly
with IBM lab engineers on several enhancements to database and data movement products to support
bank requirements.

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• Developed solutions for data retention architecture, data obfuscation and archiving based on IBM’s Optim
DLM. Worked closely with business line architects to design and data archive strategies for distributed,
Mainframe and Windows databases. Headed up archive implementation team for about a year.
• Built multi-tiered storage architecture in support of ILM initiatives, based on EMC Centera and Data Domain
as well as low-cost NAS solutions by Netapp and HP.
• Created an internal service offering for Data Warehousing projects throughout the firm. Served as an
internal architectural consultant for driving Data Warehousing development projects throughout the firm.
Determined requirements, designed ETL and migration processes (Informatica, Pentaho, Bash scripts,
SSIS), Warehouse products included HP Vertica, SAP/Sybase IQ Multiplex and HANA, Pivotal Greenplum,
Hadoop, ParAccel/Matrix, Teradata/Aster, MS PDW, Netezza, DB2 DPF/BLU and Oracle. Major
contribution was to provide suitability to task analyses, multi-tenancy and data protection services for the
entire big data management stack. Published installation guides, runbooks, security guidelines and best
practices documents
• Led team in implementing security and auditing standards and deploying Guardium for real-time Database
Activity Monitoring, auditing and vulnerability assessment on all Merrill Lynch databases containing PII and
sensitive data. For non-sensitive data implemented scripts feeding database audit logs into Splunk.
• Led global teams to manage full engineering life-cycle support for all SAP and IBM database–related
products in the firm. Responsibilities included version certification, third-level support, upgrades, hardware
and environments (including cloud) vetting, monitoring and tuning, security and audit processes, scripting,
automation, DBaaS and SaaS solutions, defining architectural guidelines and standards, documentation,
managing global rollouts, implementing support policies and negotiating SLAs.
Deutsche Bank NA 2001 – 2005
Vice President: Global Information Management Engineering
Database Engineering and Architecture manager responsible for all the Bank’s global deployments of Sybase
and SQL Server, monitoring all DBMS’ used in the Bank. Performed cost-benefit analysis, planning and
direction assisting DBA teams to migrate database servers from large high-end UNIX servers to low-cost Linux
commodity boxes and blades
• Managed enterprise-wide deployment of Quest Foglight for global monitoring and auditing of the Bank’s
entire database environment enabling establishment of a follow-the-sun support model. Produced
schedules for production roll-outs and progress reports for management
• Evaluated ILM products (Princeton Softech/IBM Optim and Outer Bay/HP), defined corporate archive
policies and procedures and implemented a number of migrations and
• Matrix-managed multiple projects using dedicated staff with support DBAs, UNIX and Windows SAs,
particularly Market Risk, HR, and internal infrastructure apps
• Developed system and data architecture for managing the Bank’s data-management infrastructure.
• Created deployment standards for software builds, operational procedures, file system and directory
layouts, security and auditing policies, monitoring, backups, workflows, and defined roles and
responsibilities
• Developed, tested and implemented disaster recovery plans using various hardware and software
replication solutions such as EMC SRDF/A, Veritas and database replication
Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Investment Banking 1999 – 2001
Vice President: Senior System/Data Architect
Chief Architect for IB: Responsible for full SDLC for IB and Private Banking division. Directly managed all
database design and group of 8 database developers, designers, operational DBAs and administrators.
Reviewed and approved design of all Intranet development projects.
• Managed team of outsourced consultants building SOA-based development architecture for entire division
• Instituted processes for internal development projects and for all database support and instituted policies
and procedures for data and application security
• Implemented Cognos infrastructure for reporting and cube creation.
Blackberry Technologies (outsourcer at DLJ IB)
Director: Senior Data Architect
Managed staff of 7 data modelers, database administrators and programmers
• Re-architected single physical database into logical business-oriented databases using ERwin
• Alleviated performance bottlenecks caused by inadequate design and poorly written queries
• Developed data models for extranet e-commerce applications, introduced Quality Assurance as a formal part
of the development life-cycle and introduced a formal development methodology

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American International Group 1998 - 1999
Consultant: Data Warehouse Architect
 Designed and developed Oracle Data Warehouse. Developed data feeds from a MVS/DB2 ODS and
Sybase OLTP; built ETL models with Informatica
Bear Stearns, Inc 1997 - 1998
Sybase Production Support DBA
 Oversaw group of DBAs that provided support for Equity, Fixed Income and Asset Management
applications running on Sybase dataservers, replication servers, IQ servers and Mainframe gateways
Marsh & McLennan Inc 1996-1997
DBA
 Lead DBA, maintained and administered strategic corporate Sybase and Oracle database applications.
American International Group 1996
DBA
 Provided all aspects of database support for over 100 production Sybase and Microsoft SQL Servers.
Bank of New York 1992-1996
Client/Server Systems Designer, Sybase DBA
 Managed group of four programmers re-engineering the corporate securities processing database to a
cross-platform repository that supported reporting on mainframes as well as distributed systems using DB2,
SQL Server, Sybase and Microfocus Workbench
Various Mainframe Programming/Consulting Assignments 1987-1992
Worked in multiple industries including BASEL I compliance for Investment Banking, Insurance, Retail Banking
and Human Resource Management, MSA CRM
Technical Skills
Storage EMC (DMX, VNX, Centera and Clarion), Netapp NAS, HP EVA, Data Domain
OS Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, Azure, VMWare, MVS, JCL
OLTP Database DB2/UDB/LUW. Sybase ASE, MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2/MVS, IMS, VSAM
Big Data DWs Sybase IQ, Vertica, Greenplum, Matrix/ParAccel, Netezza, Hadoop, Teradata, NoSQL
Replication/DR SRDF, IBM CDC, Oracle GoldenGate, Sybase Rep Server, F5, Snapshots, Netbackup,
RHCS, VCS, Sybase MA, MS Clustering, ESM
Other Software Risk Fabric,MS Office Suite, Foglight, Guardium, BMC Clarity, PowerDesigner, ERwin, JIRA,
Optim, Informatica, Datastage, Cognos, Pentaho, Tableau, SAP Business Objects, Cognos,
Autosys, Control-M, Precise,
Languages SQL, Ksh, Bash, Expect, Visual Basic, COBOL II
Methodologies/SDLC Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, RAD/JAD, UML, ITIL, TOGAF, DLP, Data Lifecycle Management
Education
Cope Institute, Certificate in Data Processing; 1985
Telshe College Master of Talmudic Law and Rabbinic Studies; 1984
Telshe College, Teacher’s Certificate, 1976