Todd West

About Todd West

Leadership: Directing a worldwide team of 35 database, schema, and application engineers who focus on the performance, uptime, and security of database systems.Vision: Make every critical transactional process scalable. Pioneer creative solutions to difficult problems. The problems you tackle are defined by the questions you ask, so ask better questions. Manipulate the problem space in flexible ways until answers start to appear.Acumen: You see patterns everywhere, in systems, in solutions, in languages, in people. Do not accept “good enough” when your standards are higher and you see the opportunity to do something brilliant.Determination: Don’t just fix it and move on. Understand it. Probe it, test it, prove it. Then move on.Domain Knowledge: Twenty years of experience with Oracle and its many capabilities and misbehaviors. Deep SQL knowledge and expertise in tuning queries, instances, and schemas.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Database Cloud Engineering at Oracle Netsuite

   Oracle

   Jun 2020 — Present · Austin, US

   Focused on core database performance, Cloud resilience, security hardening, and world-class application schema design. Make everything scalable. Solve the hardest problems in the best possible way. Pioneer great solutions. Deliver operational excellence. Enable the intelligence of your teams, your peers, and your customers. Evolve your technology infrastructure to prevent and correct errors. We\'re implementing Autonomous Database, Exadata, and RAC in Oracle Cloud. NetSuite is a customer, multi-billion dollar business unit of Oracle Corporation, and we\'re proud to achieve great things.

Education

• UC Santa Barbara

  Master of Arts (M.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters

  1991 — 1996

• UC Santa Barbara

  BA,MA,PhD (ABD), English Literature

  1989 — 1997

Skills

• Software Quality Assurance
• Data Warehousing
• Web Applications
• Javascript
• Xml
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Sql
• International Project Management
• Java
• Testing
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Test Planning
• Software Project Management
• Teaching
• Quality Assurance
• Performance Tuning
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Databases
• Integration
• Test Automation
• Oracle Database
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Pl/Sql
• Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Saas
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Team Leadership
• Perl