I am a SQL Server Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist with over twenty years of experience working as a SQL Server Database Administrator, Data Analyst, Database Specialist, Team Leader, BigData and Machine Learning Consultant.
I have done many projects, mostly for very large multinational companies from a wide variety of industries such as medicine, healthcare, banking, pharmaceuticals, automotive, aviation, and others. Amongst my list of clients we can find names such as General Electrics, DeLaRue, Volkswagen, TAP Air Portugal, Merck Pharmaceuticals, BNP Paribas and Danone, just to name a few.
I have good communication, soft and hard skills, pro-activity, large experience working in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish professional environments with people from many different cultural backgrounds.
I have been responsible for implementing and maintaining very large SQL Server database infrastructures with High Availability, Disaster Recovery, monitoring, backups, performance tunning, database and data migrations between MS SQL Server and other RDBM's such as Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
I first started working with Microsoft SQL Server in the mid 90's with version 6.5 and continued from there with every new release: 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 (MSSQL 2017 on both Windows and Linux), 2019, 2022, SQL Azure and Amazon AWS EC2 and RDS.
I have also been responsible for leading and coordinating multinational teams of database administrators in different parts of the world and managed my own company specialized in Database Administration and Software Products.
Although I have indeed focused mostly on SQL Server, I have also carried on my database technology ventures with other Relational Database Management Systems such as MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL and Sybase.