Chin C.

About Chin C.

Big picture thinking Cloud Engineer with over 20 years’ experience excelling at solving complex problems and delivering efficient solutions. Contributed to designing, implementing, and managing 50+ on-premises and cloud-based solutions and driving innovation. Excellently led successful on-premises and cloud-targeted migration projects, optimizing infrastructure, and delivering scalability and highly available databases services and solutions. Increased efficiency by 25% by designing improved installation, configuration, performance tuning, query optimization, migration, high availability, disaster recovery and troubleshooting processes and scripts. CAREER GOALS Passionate about exploring new avenues in Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, Database Engineering, Database Administration or Site Reliability Engineering. Seeking opportunities to leverage my skills in optimizing database and cloud environments and contributing to the success of dynamic organizations. I am particularly interested in roles that allow me to: 1. Contribute to the development and maintenance of high-performance cloud and database solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance data accessibility and integrity. Implement robust security measures to safeguard sensitive information. Optimize database performance through efficient query design, indexing, and caching strategies. Utilize emerging technologies and trends to drive innovation in cloud and database management. TECHNICAL SKILLS: • Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012 to 2019. • Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure. • DBMS: SQL Server 2012 to 2019. • Database Migrations: SQL Server 2012 to 2019. • ETL: Azure Data Factory, SSIS. • Cloud Services - AWS: EC2, S3, RDS - SQL Server, DynamoDB, NoSQL, VPC, IAM, Network Security Groups, ACLs, Route 53, Lambda. • Cloud Services - Azure: VMs, Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, VNet, Azure AD, NSG, App Services. • Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC): Terraform, CloudFormation. • Scripting/Programming: PowerShell, Bash, Python Scripting. • Monitoring & Logging: SolarWinds, SQL Sentry, Idera SQL DM. • Data Reporting: SSRS. • Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) • CI/CD Pipeline Automation • Security Best Practices • Monitoring and Optimization • Disaster Recovery • Troubleshooting

Experience

1. Cloud Database Administrator (Remote)

   Shiftwizard By Healthstream

   Sep 2019 — Present · Nashville, TN, US

   Install, configure, and validate SQL Server Failover Cluster instances and AlwaysOn Availability Groups setups. • Create 120 Extract Transform & Load (ETL) processes using Azure Data Factory and SSIS packages for data import and transformation. • Wrote complex T-SQL scripts to perform data migrations between instances, resulting in a 60% reduction in errors and downtime during the migration process. • Revamped SQL Server performance monitoring system with SolarWinds and Idera to identify and resolve database issues; reduced critical database errors by 75% and improved system availability by 30%. • Configured and scheduled 20+ jobs and alerts using PowerShell and T-SQL scripts; reduced downtime by 40% and increased system availability by 25%. • Verified code in lower environments with development team, increasing release times by 30% and improved production quality by 25%. • Collaborated with Cloud/DevOps teams, solution architects, and enterprise architects to develop and deploy secure cloud-based products; reduced service downtime by 15% and increased product reliability by 20%. • Optimized database performance by leveraging SQL Server Profiler, Performance Monitor, Database Tuning Advisor, and Dynamic Management Views (DMVs); reduced query execution time by 40% and improved overall efficiency by 50%. • Streamlined performance of SQL queries by implementing best practices in query coding that reduced database response time by 35% and increased system performance by 25%. • Successful migration of 120 on-premise customer SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Databases and AWS RDS Instances. • Co-ordinated with cross-functional teams to diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues; implemented solutions that reduced average resolution time by 30% and improved customer satisfaction by 20%.

Education

• Federal University of Technology Owerri Nigeria

  Bachelors of Engineering, Electronics & Computer Engineering

  1991 — 1997