Redi Feyisa

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ABOUT REDI FEYISA

A Microsoft-certified SQL server (DBA) with almost 7+ years of IT experience: designing, coding, testing, and supporting next-generation database solutions in an SQL Server environment. Possess strong communication and problem-solving skills developed through a variety of projects. Offer proven ability in teamwork and proactive system support. Experience in Installing, configuring, administration, and Maintenance of mission-critical client databases in SQL server 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 versions. Good experience in configuring the SQL Server in AWS Relational Database Management system and in EC2. Extensive Experience in Upgrading SQL Server (In place Up and Side by side Upgrade) based on application compatibility and fixing orphan users. Experience in implementing SQL Server security and Object permissions like the creation of users, granting permissions, and assigning roles to users. Deployment, administration, and operational support of production, development, and test environments utilizing proper change management and other ITIL best practices using ticketing tools. Good experience implementing and troubleshooting High Availability of database servers using Replication, Log Shipping, Database Mirroring, failover clustering, and Always ON AG. Strong experience in understanding and creating server-level and database-level roles as per business requirements. Experience in Configuring and Scheduling SQL Server Agent Jobs, Alerts, operators, Maintenance plans, Database Mail Configuration, facets, and Transparent Data Encryption. Extensive experience with Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and analyzing DB performance issues. Strong experience in designing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies as per RPO and RTO values. Experience in configuring and maintaining Full backup, Transactional log backup, Differential backup, and creating the maintenance plans for index rebuild, and index reorganization based on fragmentation. Strong experience in identifying and troubleshooting database health, and integrity checks and fixing them. Experience in Microsoft Reporting Service (SSRS) with Report authoring, Report management, Report delivery and Report security. Created reports, sub-reports, charts, Tablix, Matrix, and Hyperlink reports. Created jobs and alerts to run SSAS, and SSRS packages periodically. Created the automated processes for the activities such as database backup processes and SSAS, SSRS Packages run sequentially using SQL Server Agent job.