MY WORK
I've worn a number of hats during my professional life. After graduating from college, I found that since I no longer aspired to professorship, my rarified Liberal Arts degree qualified me for administrative work in a state agency. This I did for a couple of years while trying to decide what I really wanted to do with myself. During this period, I discovered the emerging World Wide Web, and it wasn't long before I hurled myself into it.
Since the beginning of 1996, I've held a number of positions in web development, web application development, and database development and administration. I've created web sites for both public and private sector clients, taking them from initial concept to a database-driven dynamic sites and maintaining them after deployment. I've developed web applications using a variety of technologies, particularly ASP pages coded in VBScript and JavaScript connected to SQL Server databases. My work with web applications got me involved in developing and administering relational databases, which I've done in SQL Server, Access, and Visual Foxpro. For the past eight years, I've worked largely in the database arena, doing such things as OLAP reporting using the web and custom data exports, database problem diagnosis and performance tuning, and data replication and ETL processing. For my current employer, Multimedia Games, Inc., I participate in the Database Team, a group of database administrators who provide 24/7 support for a network of roughly one hundred SQL Server 2000 database servers scattered across the world in casinos and state or national lottery facilities. This is a particularly demanding task, as these servers handle significant transaction volumes (up to several million per hour) in often difficult environments, and since much of the data is financial, there is no margin for error whatsoever. It's been challenging, but the job with Multimedia Games has given me the opportunity to learn like none I've ever held before.
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