Michael M. Lawell, MCDBA, MCSE
2390 Langstrath Lane, Cumming, GA 30041
678-749-7409 mikelawell@gmail.com
Strategic & Innovative Leader of Enterprise Systems seeks position such as
DIRECTOR OF IT, SENIOR DATABASE ARCHITECT, SQL SME & DEVELOPER
using over12 years experience that includes the following achievements:
Directing Development for Software Firm with Service Revenue up to $16M Annually
Increasing System Capacity Workload 60% & Increasing Disk I/Os Per Second by 26%
Managing 38-Member Team Across High Production & Development Departments
Controlling Budgets & Decreasing Development Hardware Costs by $552,000
Leading Offshore Development, Project Planning & Research
Serving as Software Engineering Manager, Senior Database Architect & Server Administrator
Engineering Complete Product Line & Ensuring Revenue Producing Servers Met 99.999%+ Uptime
Increasing Performance up to 1500% & Decreasing DTS Execution from 10 Min to 10 Sec
Managing Development, Requirements Definition, Builds, Quality Assurance, Testing & Documentation
Serving as IT Manager of Support, Design & Security
Cutting Build Time by 8-10 Hours & Solving Production Performance Bottlenecks
Being Experienced in Infrastructure Planning, Server Purchases & VPN Creation
Developing Website, Intranet Site & FCC Database
Administering Large Distributed & High Transactional Database Systems (24/7/365)
With Extensive SQL, Application Hosting, Data Center, Support & SAS70 Compliance Experience
SQL 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, Transact SQL, SQL Profiler, Data Modeling, Replication, Enterprise Environments Tuning, Expert in Store Procedure Programming, Performance Monitoring & Optimization, Migrating to SQL Improving T-SQL Performance, Mentoring & Leading Developers
MortgageHub/ISGN 2/2008-Present
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
MANAGE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT … for Software Firm Generating up to $16 Million Annually– Oversee high transactional production environment for leading mortgage software company generating up to $16 million per year. Firm specializes in enterprise level, residential originations, default/loss mitigation, construction and residential loan servicing software with monthly service up to $600,000. Ensure excellent relationships are maintained with major accounts.
§ Increased System Workload Capacity 60% – Designed and implemented SQL Server Reporting Services in a scaled out deployment and replicated reporting data server which decreased transactions on primary Online Transaction Processing application achieving a 60% increase in workload capacity.
§ Increased Development Staff by 69% – Increased development staff by 69%, including increasing the database development staff from 1 to 7 DBA’s through hiring of offshore India resources.
§ Increased Disk I/Os Per Second by 26% – Increased disk I/Os per second by 26% through implementation of best practice of proper disk partition alignment and increasing File Allocation Unit Size to 64kb from default of 32kb.
§ Decreased Development Hardware Costs $552,000 – Decreased cost of development hardware through virtualization of 184 servers and workstations using VMWare Infrastructure 3.
DIRECT 38-MEMBER TEAM … Led Offshore Directive for Development Group – Direct 38-member team, across Production and Development with responsibility for all production database servers. Led offshore corporate directive for Development Group through project planning, research and interviews. Directed 40-member team responsible for development of 7 products (Development Managers, Database Administrators, Architects, and Technical Writers).
MortgageHub/ISGN (formerly Fair Isaac Mortgage Division) 5/2007-2/2008
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - MANAGER
ENGINEERED COMPLETE PRODUCT LINE … Working with Product, QA & Development Management Team – Managed software engineering of all products from requirements definition through technical documentation. Coordinated developer resources and work items for team, and assured project milestones were met. Continued development of stored procedures, triggers, schema changes, and SSIS packages on all SQL Server products as needed. Successfully implemented upgrade and certification of all products on SQL Server 2005.
Michael M. Lawell, MCDBA, MCSE 678-749-7409 mikelawell@gmail.com § Ensured Revenue Generating Servers Met 99.999%+ Uptime – Managed production database environment including DBA staff tasked with administration of 8 servers and 52 databases. Ensured primary revenue generating database servers met 99.999% + uptime in 24/7 environment.
§ Planned & Managed VMWare ESX Server Migration – Planned, designed and managed migration to 5 Quad/Quad-core host servers from Minnesota to Georgia. Created new server naming convention, VMWare host admin, user security standards, and web access user security.
§ Liaison for IT Infrastructure Planning – Worked closely with IT staff as liaison between Development and IT for planning of server purchases, VPN creation, and laptop refreshes.
Fair Isaac Corporation 6/2005-5/2007
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING – MANAGER
MANAGED DATABASE DEVELOPMENT … for Worldwide Corp Known for FICO Score – Managed database development of originations software product, RFC and fault reports. Led team of 2 DBAs for SQL Server and Oracle; also served as SQL Server SME for all products. Fair Isaac is best known for the FICO score with 12 worldwide locations.
§ Increased Performance up to 1500% … Decreased DTS Execution from 10 Min to 10 Sec – Increased stored procedure and function performance by as much as 1500% through index redesign, fixing deadlock sources and query re-write. Decreased DTS execution times from more than 10 minutes to less than 10 seconds.
§ Managed Development, Builds, QA & Testing – Managed DTS package development, XML generation using XML EXPLICIT and 2005’s new XML PATH functionality. Implemented changes to database schema objects. Completed all builds to Release Candidate, QA and Install Testing environments, maintained Release and Field environments. Developed database upgrade and install packages for individual clients with up to 250 nationwide offices.
§ Senior Database Architect – Ensured coding standards were followed and supported in database development for default/foreclosure management system, construction lending system, BizTalk database and other products.
§ Server Administrator – Primary VMWare ESX Server Administrator for Development & Quality Assurance Groups. Built, managed and migrated 106 virtual servers on 4 hosts. Completed OS installation for Windows NT to Windows Server 2003 R2.
Matria Healthcare 5/2003-6/2005
SENIOR DATABASE DEVELOPER
LEAD DATABASE ARCHITECT … for $352 Million Company – Lead Architect of 2 new .net applications and existing highly complex workflow based classic asp web application. Managed all database development, version build, production support, QA support. Oversaw projects totaling up to $1.2 million annually and supervised 5-member team. Worked with VP of Software Development to work through production issues, product design and technology recommendations.
§ Cut Build Time by 8-10 Hours & Solved Production Performance Bottlenecks – Implemented build procedures which decreased time by 8–10 hours and decreased implementation bugs to almost zero. Solved production performance bottlenecks causing work stoppage encountered when OLTP number of transactions reached peak level by redesigning stored procedures, tables and indexes.
IT & Security Management - Independent Contractor for Maritel, Inc. 6/2002-5/2003
Database Design & Development - Contractor for Conoco Oil 11/2001-2/2002
IT MANAGER – SUPPORT & DESIGN
IT & SECURITY MANAGEMENT – Managed administration and development of IIS, Windows 2000, SQL Server, DNS, Active Directory and Exchange 5.5. Served as primary contact for T1 connection management and DNS maintenance. Designed an effective disaster recovery and data back-up plan.
§ Website, Intranet & FCC Database Design – Developed website, Intranet and FCC database used to query data based on Frequency, Channel and Radius, plot frequency use and overlap. Built Database driven Maritime Mobile Service Identity registration process that automatically notifies US Coast Guard of changes with data file download link.
DATABASE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT – Completed database design and development for requested system enhancements. Handled additional query tuning to increase response time. Created production based Crystal Reports.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
B.S. Degree, Ball State University 1991
MCDBA, MCSE