Daniel Huls, Director, Data And Analytics

Experience

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  United States Air Force

  May 1990 - Jan 1997

  Team Lead, Database Administrator

  • Ensured availability and integrity of the Strategic War Planning System (SWPS) DBs valued in excess of $1.2 billion; maintained all CA-IDMS and Sybase DBs for the United States Strategic Command.

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  White House Communications Agency

  Jan 1997 - Dec 1998

  Systems Engineer

  • Provided support of data communications equipment in direct worldwide travel support of the President of the United States, White House staff, and National Security Council.• Led the development, installation, and configuration of Windows NT 4.0 Servers in a heterogeneous Novell 4.11/Windows NT 4.0 Network Operating System to replace legacy AIX systems, including configuration and upgrade of over 800 workstations.

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  Greyhound Lines, Inc.

  Dec 1998 - Dec 1999

  Database Administrator

  • Installed, configured, and administered Oracle, Sybase, CA-IDMS, and MS SQL Server DBs. Supported COBOL and PowerBuilder developers, testers, helpdesk personnel through all phases of software development life-cycle.• Led the upgrade of the Greyhound Lines Revenue System (CA-IDMS) DB from V10.2 to V14.0. Ensured year 2000 compliance of all DB system software. Provided technical support for year 2000 remediation efforts and compliance testing.

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  IChoose

  Dec 1999 - Dec 2000

  Oracle Database Administrator

  • Developed automated system to load production audit data for creation of historical, marketing, and distribution summary tables and reports. Also included archival of data.• Wrote numerous kornshell scripts to aide in daily price/availability updates for partner merchants, backup/recovery, scheduled reports, staging of data, and data replication.• Supported Java, C++, SQL, and XML developers, testers, Quality Assurance (QA), and helpdesk personnel ensuring data integrity and availability of all Oracle DBs. Show less

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  GroceryWorks

  Dec 2000 - Jul 2001

  Team Lead, Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  • Analyzed and corrected performance related issues pertaining to the GroceryWorks Warehouse Management System DBs and transportation system DBs including reorganizations and SQL tuning.

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  Deloitte

  Apr 2001 - Nov 2003

  Team Lead, Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  • Installed, configured, and tested Oracle 9i RAC on a multi-node AIX 5L cluster utilizing an EMC CLARiiON 4700 SAN. Enabled load balancing of apps and transparent failover.• Migrated Oracle 7.3.4 and 8i DBs from HPUX to Oracle 9i on Linux. • Wrote and maintained kornshell scripts to automate daily tasks, refreshes, and demos.

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  Dell Technologies

  Nov 2003 - Jul 2004

  Data Warehouse Architect / Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  • As an expert in Oracle PL/SQL development and data warehouse architecture, led effort to migrate from DataStage ETL processes. Designed architecture and coding of PL/SQL programs improving ETL processing runtimes by over 400 percent.• Worked directly with data stewards and business managers to determine reporting needs; facilitated business users in the migration of home-grown MS-Access DBs and Excel spreadsheets to globally shared data stores within the data warehouse. Migrated data from a data dump into a modern enterprise solution tuned for Business Objects. Show less

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  Texas Health and Human Services

  Jul 2004 - Nov 2004

  Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  • Ensured data warehouse database availability, data integrity, performance/tuning, and problem troubleshooting and resolution; Included 24x7 support including pager duty.• Installed, configured, and administered Oracle 9i instances including the following: installing Oracle binaries and building initial instances, monitoring table space, backup/recovery, DB reorganizations, performance tuning, data modeling, security, PL/SQL, triggers, functions, and stored procedures.

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  Dell Technologies

  Nov 2004 - May 2012

  Lead, Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  • Led global team of DBAs in Americas, APJ, and EMEA. Provided assessments to executive management and completed reviews and calibrations of global team members. • Managed global project resource allocations, participating in yearly roadmap planning and interlock sessions. Developed life-cycle tools aiding in more effective resource planning.• Worked closely with internal and external SOX auditors to ensure that DBs were compliant. Led virtualization, consolidation, and life-cycle management efforts.• Managed effort to migrate all 8i, 9i, 10gR1 Oracle DBs to the latest 10gR2/11g standards.• Led global effort to improve Oracle DB standards by advocating patching and implementing security compliance through automated processes and reporting.• Managed global change ticket resource allocations ensuring staff awareness of upcoming production changes. Led weekly change reviews. Managed quarterly patching sessions, failover testing, and pro-active maintenance sessions for DB systems. Show less

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  AT&T

  May 2012 - Sept 2019

  Associate Director, Technology

  • Managed SDBA team responsible for Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra DBs and Big Data (Cloudera/Hortonworks) infrastructure.• Managed DB Security Governance team. Responsible for the governance of DB security policies, audit compliance, DB security tools, tracking/reporting/notification of non-compliance, and security-related communications to executive leadership.• Managed SDBA team responsible for AT&T hosted DBs for premier customers.• Managed team of on-shore and off-shore Production Data Warehouse ETL and Infrastructure Support staff providing 24x7 support of Informatica Data Warehouse feeds.• Led the formation of AT&T Wi-Fi Big Data Support team responsible for application-level support of Flume/Kafka ingestion processes, Spark streaming, and batch processing.• Architected and managed development of AT&T Wi-Fi’s Big Data Hadoop (HDP) infrastructure from proof-of-concept to a 2 PB HDFS production scale across 3 Data Centers (DCs).• Led the design and implementation of AT&T Wi-Fi’s Lambda-based infrastructure for batch and real-time data ingestion consisting of highly available Flume and Kafka/Spark clusters, merge layer with a 100 TB 50-node Cassandra NoSQL multi-DC cluster, and an Oracle 12c (In-Memory) Data Warehouse db.• Directed agile application development of analytics and real-time reporting environment with batch ETL and real-time processing utilizing Scala within Spark.• Led first team (in the world) to successfully implement Oracle 12.1.0.2 columnar In-Memory Database (IMDB) functionality in a production environment. Show less

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  Kyndryl

  Sept 2019 - Aug 2023

  Director, Global Technology Services

  • Technical Director of global teams supporting Database (DB) Infrastructure Services for Kyndryl clients.• Managing DB Security team responsible for governance of security policies, audit compliance (SOX, PCI, SPI, internal), DB security tools, reporting/notification of non-compliance, and security-related communications to executive leadership.• Managing System Database Administration (SDBA) team responsible for 24x7 operational support of Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra DBs and Big Data (Cloudera/Hortonworks) infrastructure. Show less

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  Nobilis Group, Inc.

  Jan 2024 - now

  Director, Data and Analytics