Paul D. Hunter

• Develop & Streamline database release process.
• Reduced deployment time for ~30 databases from multiple developers + days to a 90-minute window
• Improved release process to handle > 300 databases in approximately 60 minutes
• Develop SOC Compliance & Auditing

• Design and deliver new features for the legacy Order Execution system.
• Introduce best practices, naming/coding convention which improved overall code quality.
• Evaluate data types for appropriateness to relieve memory and I/O pressure and reduce storage requirements.
• Introduce TDD and continuous integration practices to improve code quality and achieve repeatable delivery.
• Reduced database contention and blocking improving system availability

• Resolve performance bottlenecks, research & correct operational issues across five databases.

• Design and integrate enterprise systems to complete projects within budged and on-time.
• Reduce time needed to deliver new business processes/features by over 30%.
• Automate manual processes reducing costs, errors and time to market.
• Create system/data architecture plans, cost/budget estimates, staffing requirements to meet strategic needs.
• Establish, plan and administer the overall policies and goals for the department.
• Conduct due diligence analysis of 3rd party vendor products and the software used/developed by acquisition targets.
• Manage a team of six .NET & SharePoint developers with various backgrounds and capabilities.
• Mentor team to increase their experience across multiple development paradigms (SQL, OO & SOA).
• Adopted Scrum and applied Agile practices/principles to provide visibility, promote customer involvement and achieve predictable delivery of projects.
• Create a flexible integration framework to consolidate and automate repetitive processes.

Owner and sole proprietor specializing in custom database design, development and maintenance.

• Develop a strategy to migrate a monolithic Visual Basic 6.0 application into a scale-out n-tier distributed architecture.
• Collaborate on designing data engineering standards to migrate to new architecture.
• Design security architecture to facilitate compliance with HIPAA regulations.

• Company Overview: This position required the ability to integrate written and oral information from technical and non-technical managers for the design and implementation of the systems necessary to meet their business requirements.
• Major projects include:
• Certicom Securiy – Data Architect/DBA for a distributed, multi-tenant, redundant, web-enabled system.
• GTE/Verizon – Assist Microsoft Consulting Service to design & develop their in-house billing application.
• Simmons-SIRVEY – Lead developer of automated fuel tank monitoring system.
• Eatzi’s – Lead developer converted Food Cost application to an n-tier platform.
• Texas Instruments – Develop e-commerce calculator software module to create installable downloads for Windows and Macintosh computers.
• This position required the ability to integrate written and oral information from technical and non-technical managers for the design and implementation of the systems necessary to meet their business requirements.