Sr. Consultant at Percona
Lansing, Michigan Area
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- Sr. Consultant at Percona
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- Solutions Architect at Sun Microsystems
- Senior Consultant at MySQL
- DBA at Jackson National Life
- Technical Director at Shandler Enterprises LLC
- Lead Database Architect at Penske
- Lead DBA at GE Industrial / Penske Logistics
- Managing Director at Chromosphere Entertainment LLC.
- Senior Consultant at Compuware
- DBA at The Iserv Company
- Education
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- Grand Valley State University
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Matt Yonkovit’s Summary
Yes I want to be a super hero. Like Superman and Clark Kent I live a dual life. I am able to seamlessly move from hands on very low level techno-geek to presenting to Cxx's and other stakeholders who are not technical. I have worked in both worlds, excelling in both. Maybe I am an enigma, maybe something else... email me and you can judge for yourself.
I have over 12 years of experience in infrastructure design and support. I am an expert in database technologies, have designed and built complex environments with 100's of servers, and touched just about every area in the datacenter. Additionally I have worked with application design teams designing some really cool, and some equally lame applications. I am considered one of the top performance experts in MySQL and am asked to frequently talk at various functions and serve on panelists of elite Open Source and Performance experts. Because I am a geek I am fluent in several languages and development environments. PHP & Perl are my strongest, but splashes of java, .net, C, C++, Ruby, and Lua take up hard drive space in my brain.
But my super hero identity also has powers to manage complex projects, budgets, vendor negotiations, and the like.
Matt Yonkovit’s Specialties:
*system architecture, administration, and design ( Linux, Unix, Blades, Vmware, Intel, AMD, etc )
*database architecture, administration, and design ( MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, AS/400)
*Storage Architecture and Design ( EMC, IBM, RamSAN, SSD )
*Application Infrastructure and Design ( PHP, Perl, Apache, Memcache,Websphere, etc )
*SAAS design & Implementations
*Web 2.0 design & Implementations
*Vendor Contract Negotiation
*Sox Compliance
Matt Yonkovit’s Experience
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Sr. Consultant
Percona
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Consulting & Development of MySQL & Web Based solutions... More to come:)
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Solutions Architect
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 3 months)
Recently acquired in the MySQL deal, I still do the same thing I used to do at MySQL. I help clients achieve their goals by designing and building high performance scalable web 2.0 infrastructures.
-Tune and optimize web/app/database stacks for high end Alexa 500 clients.
-Design and implement high availability solutions for clients
-Provide high level database administration support for clients
-Provide Linux/Unix Administration support for clients
-Subject matter expert and Best Practice owner for the following strategic area within the Professional Services team:
MySQL database performance optimization
MySQL/PHP development
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Senior Consultant
MySQL
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)
I work for MySQL/SUN as a Senior consultant ( now a solution architect ). I provide clients with expertise in performance tuning, architecture and design, and high availability solutions. Every week is a new and exciting opportunity. My clients range from alexa top 500 clients to old school businesses. In my day to day job I wear many different hats, I am a DBA, a sysadmin, a storage engineer, and a systems architect all rolled into one.
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DBA
Jackson National Life
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)
* Acted as the database project lead for a massive global data center consolidation. Responsible for building test cases, building processes and standards for migrating multiple tera-byte worth of Oracle databases across data centers.
* Architected and built cross data center SQL Server 2005 cluster to support asset management application.
* Championed Oracle and SQL Server licensing restructuring which saved hundreds of thousands of dollars -
Technical Director
Shandler Enterprises LLC
(Research industry)
May 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 4 months)
In charge of the development and system administration team. This was a hands on position that required me to provide PHP/Perl development, MySQL Administration, and Linux Administration as well as direct the tasks and goals of consultants on day to day projects.
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Lead Database Architect
Penske
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
2001 — 2006 (5 years )
* Implemented drastic reduction in the number of servers supporting database applications. Saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing and support costs.
* Migrated infrastructure from individual stand alone servers to blades using common shared EMC storage and VMWare
* Migrated Oracle 11i from Solaris to Oracle 10g Rac
* Planned the infrastructure migration for Oracle Apps 11.5.7 to 11.5.10
* Managed Team of DBA's -
Lead DBA
GE Industrial / Penske Logistics
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years )
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Managing Director
Chromosphere Entertainment LLC.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
1998 — 2003 (5 years )
Chromosphere Entertainment was an online game development company with 2 featured products. College Small Market Baseball and SimGM baseball.
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Senior Consultant
Compuware
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CPWR; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years )
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DBA
The Iserv Company
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Matt Yonkovit’s Education
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Grand Valley State University
1995 — 1997
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Matt Yonkovit’s Interests:
Disk Performance, SSD, Databases, Uber Cool tech
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MySQL Professionals
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