Darius Delukas Mountain

Experience

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  RBC Global Asset Management

  May 2012 - Feb 2017

  Focusing primarily on Microsoft SQL Server, and sticking closely to the best practices, our responsibilities include maintaining disaster recovery instances, keeping all working instances up to date with the latest patches and service packs, assisting with deployments in all of our working environments, analyzing and optimizing performance where necessary, and collaborating with various teams throughout the business to both advise on and participate in any projects which may require database changes. Maintaining detailed documentation is also a requirement, and is kept up to date to reflect the latest processes and architecture of the database environment. A regular rotation of after-hours on call availability is a requirement in the case of incidents that require immediate attention. Show less The technical operations team provides 2nd line operational support to the business users of Phillips, Hager & North as well as RBC Global Asset Management. Responsibilities include support for in house and 3rd party investment management applications, workflow and issue investigation, break-fix type situations, and often working amongst several different teams within the technology group to address high priority requests and incidents within their established SLA. We regularly perform application/configuration data changes involving direct database updates while following a standardized process to ensure data integrity. Also required is consistent monitoring, proactive improvement and maintenance of ActiveBatch and MS SQL Server workflows/automated jobs, and a regular rotation of after-hours on call availability. Show less As part of the Phillips Hager & North desktop team, we are the front-facing first point of contact for our business users at the Vancouver location for any technical issues. We provide first-line support for desktop issues, telecom, BlackBerry, teleconferencing and video conferencing, workstation deployment, as well as incident ticket management. We handle most of the communication between other technology teams and our end users as a way of maintaining our position as the 'face' of the technology group for PH&N. Show less

  • Database Administrator

    Nov 2015 - Feb 2017

  • Technical Operations Analyst

    Nov 2014 - Nov 2015

  • Desktop Analyst

    May 2012 - Nov 2014
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  Houle

  Feb 2017 - Sept 2018

  Database Administrator

  Design, develop, and maintain Houle's SQL Server database infrastructure to support the needs of the business. This includes developing objects to be used in SSRS reports, proactive database performance monitoring and tuning, designing and implementing processes for cross-system data integration (including Sharepoint and CRM), recommending and implementing security best practices, participating in system upgrades and migrations, applying SQL Server patches and installing new instances, while ensuring the database infrastructure is highly available. We maintain detailed documentation of the database environment and all the processes listed above. Show less

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  British Columbia Securities Commission

  Sept 2018 - Aug 2024

  As part of the DBA team, we get to work closely with the software development and systems operations groups to complete many projects and improve the BCSC systems. Significant technologies we've leveraged to achieve success include Azure DevOps, SQL server 2016 (utilizing SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Always on availability groups), and Git, as well as many others.

  • Senior Database Administrator

    Mar 2023 - Aug 2024

  • Database Administrator

    Sept 2018 - Apr 2023
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  MongoDB

  Aug 2024 - now

  Technical Services Engineer