Personal details

Amir A.

Timezone: Sydney (UTC+10)

Summary

An experienced Doctor (Ph.D. holder), motivated and committed professional with over 20 years of experience in the industry. My extensive skills were acquired in the private and academic sectors.

Technical skills

Top 3 skills

Microsoft SQL Server・20 yrs Microsoft Power BI・5 yrs AWS (Amazon Web Services)・5 yrs

Other skills

AWS DynamoDB・6 yrs Amazon RDS・6 yrs Amazon EC2・7 yrs SharePoint・10 yrs Excel・25 yrs Database・20 yrs Microsoft Word・25 yrs Swift・5 yrs Android・5 yrs

Work Experience

Senior Database Administrator

The university of New South wales | Nov 2019 - Present

MySQL

Excel

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Power BI

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Maintaining current Data center and AWS Cloud SQL server infrastructure and databases • Designing and implementing database security standards. • Designing, Planning and implementing changes required for current and future SQL database installations. • Planning SQL 2008, 2008R2 upgrades. • Decommissioning and Consolidating SQL 2005 and 2008 servers. • Enhancing and optimizing SQL server performance. • Testing DR solutions and verifying replication. • Planning, Designing and Implementing a new database and website to collect information about database Servers.

Database Specialist

The university of Sydney | Aug 2010 - Nov 2019

Excel

SQLite

Azure

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Power BI

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Maintaining current SQL server infrastructure and databases including sharePoint, IRMA, ECHO...etc. • Designing and implementing database security standards. • Designing, Planning and implementing changes required for current and future SQL database installations. • Planning SQL 2000/2005 upgrade to SQL 2008, 2008R2, 2012 and 2016. • Decommissioning and Consolidating SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 servers. • Patching SQL server with the latest Microsoft patches. • Testing DR solutions and verifying replication. • Planning, Designing and Implementing a new database and website to collect information about database Servers.

Personal Projects

SQL Reports

2021

HTML

Microsoft SQL Server

Created colourfull email reports, sent daily that highlight tasks assigned to employees when delayed as red, in risk of delay as amber, and on track as green.

Mobile Appliecation with AWS Backend

2022

Java

Amazon S3

Android Studio

Swift

AWS DynamoDB

iOS

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Developed a mobile application (Android and iPhone) with its backend AWS services. This included authentication, Database, Notifications, and file storage