1984 B.S. Aviation, The Ohio State University. B.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, The Ohio State University. Skill Set Database architectural design where performance and scalability are critical for web-based, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. Able to diagnose and resolve difficult database and application scalability and performance problems. Able to tackle difficult database software development projects that require high performance, strong knowledge of database internals, and DBA skills.
Good communication skills both vertically and horizontally throughout an organization.
Effective and efficient at training and mentoring. Formed Engineering Solutions, Inc. as a partner in 1989. Responsibilities included management of the business and projects, proposal and report writing, and software and database development. Most projects involved database and application design, and performance tuning. Technical papers were written for application developers and DBAs to disseminate features, problems, and solutions.