Florence Ouedraogo
Houston,TX
Summary
Objectives Dedicated and hardworking with over 12 years of working experience with 5 years as a Database Administrator and 8 years as Finance Officer. Good working experience in managing large databases, backup/recovery, configuring and managing HA/DR solutions, Performance Tuning, etc. Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills. Bringing strong work ethic, interpersonal skills and customer service expertise .exceptional communicator with fluency in both French and English. Contributing to the company’s team while multi-tasking and producing prompt results Top-notch Administrator with solid background in designing and implementing data management solutions. Collaborative and dedicated to improving and optimizing database performance.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
MS SQL Database Administrator
KiawitechIT Consulting
Houston, TX
09.2019 - Current
- Achieved high-efficiency system operations with nearly 100% uptime
- Maintained and monitored business continuity and disaster recovery systems to ensure efficacy and availability of databases and applications
- Brought company technology current by assisting with upgrade from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2019
- Performed migration from on-premises architecture to cloud-based Azure hosted databases and Managed Instances
- Maintained performance tuning and monitoring through automated jobs, scripts optimization and execution plans
- Also ensured, through index optimized jobs that indexes are reorganized, rebuilt and statistics updated
- Utilized monitoring tools to optimize and expedite database and application administration
- Minimized downtime by optimizing and monitoring high availability for SQL Server, including Database Mirroring, Log Shipping, Traditional Failover Clustering, and AlwaysOn Availability Group
- Mitigated security and software concerns by thoughtfully managing and pushing patches and other updates to production and non-production servers
- Automated jobs, Configured alerts and ensured 24/7 Database and project support
- Upgraded SQL Server from SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016 to SQL Server 2019
- Installed all Microsoft Patches that is Cumulative updates as well as Microsoft hotfixes
- Migrated database-using backup and restore, detached, and attached, log shipping and database mirroring
- Managed indexes to improve performance, alongside database security and Identity
- Ensured robust monitoring Using SQL Monitoring tools and other external tools like Redgate
- Aided in establishing and monitoring always-on availability groups and alerts
- Liaised with developers and application teams to deliver reports
- Deployed backup and restore from on-premises to Azure using data migration assistance, replication, export/Import data- tier application, deploy database to Microsoft Azure database
- Setup backup retention policy in Azure and Setup Always on availability solution on Azure VMs
- Created Azure Domain controller, added Azure VM`s to active directory, installed SQL server on VMs.
SQL Database Administrator
McKesson
Houston, TX
04.2018 - 08.2019
- Configured High Availability Solution- Clustering, AlwaysOn, Database Mirroring and Log Shipping
- Involved in ensuring data recovery, maintenance, and data integrity and space requirements for physical database
- Creating and Modifying Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, Indexes, User-defined Functions and Triggers etc as requirement on SQL Server Environments
- Planning and implementation of Database backup/restore and disaster recovery
- Installed SQL Server 2012 on advanced servers, applied security fixes
- SQL Server Profiler, Extended Events, Query Store and Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) for performance
- Configured and supported replication and log shipping in both SQL 2008 and 2012
- Maintained database response times in 24/7 Production environments
- Monitoring standby Databases to ensure high availability
- Automation of DBA Tasks and monitoring
- Configured and managed Contained Database
Finance Officer
SNV BF
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso
05.2006 - 06.2014
- Verified compliance of financial policies and accounting procedures against federal regulations.
- Established and enforced controls on revenue and expenses to protect company assets.
- Introduced software tools and process improvements to mitigate loss and drive operational growth.
- Enhanced internal control systems and procedures to mitigate risk and support opportunities.
- Prepared monthly reconciliation of bank accounts and took corrective actions on deviations.
- Analyzed financial statements against forecasts to prepare high-level variance analysis.
- Monitored budget and revenue trends, compiling reports for company leadership to inform decision-making.
- Partnered with IT and operational leadership to develop financial business plans with detailed benchmarks.
- Improved resource utilization with data management systems, reducing costs through strategic coordination and contract analysis.
- Generated financial and operational reports to assist management with business strategy.
- Analyzed financial data regarding product performance and customer performance and developed reports for key stakeholders.
- Collaborated with team leaders to define standards, policies and procedures to meet company revenue goals.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Business and Administration
06.2012
Bachelor’s Degree - computer Science
2024
Skills
- Setting up SQL high Availability and disaster recovery technologies
- Experience with SQL versions from 2008 to 2019
- SQL performance Tuning with both SQL in-build and external tools
- Database monitoring
Certification
MTA Database Fundamentals certified
Pursuing AZ104: Microsoft Azure Database Administration
Timeline
MS SQL Database Administrator - KiawitechIT Consulting
09.2019 - Current
SQL Database Administrator - McKesson
04.2018 - 08.2019
Finance Officer - SNV BF
05.2006 - 06.2014
ESCO University - Bachelor’s Degree, Business and Administration
University of People - Bachelor’s Degree, computer Science
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