Tony Sheng

Current

Principal Catalyst at The Ember Cast, Inc.
Senior Database Engineer at SAIC

Past

Coordinator for Student Mission [Volunteer] at Grace Community Church
IT DBA Manager at Verizon Communications
DBA Tech Lead at Verizon Communications/Bell Atlantic

QA System Tester at Bell Atlantic
Assistant Analyst at RWD Technologies

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Education

University of Maryland Baltimore County
Capitol College
Charles W. Woodward

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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Tony Sheng’s Summary

Over fifteen years of experience in database technologies supporting mission critical business processes, ranging the whole lifecycle from design, implementation, maintenance to operations. Specific expertise includes high availability architecture; real time replication; and database/application performance tuning.

Over seven years of day-to-day technical leadership experience, including serving as the technical manager and leader for a DBA team for a Fortune 10 corporation and serving as an individual contributor to a DBA team responsible for a mission-critical suite of systems for a federal government customer.

Highly experienced at leading technical database-centric talent. Thrive on mentoring others, strengths based leadership [StrengthsFinder] and recruiting and retaining the best talent for teams I am involved with.

StrengthsFinder - Developer, Arranger, Positivity, Futuristic, Woo
MBTI: E N F/T J

Tony Sheng’s Specialties:

Sybase ASE version 11, Oracle 8i and 10g.
Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Data Guard, Shareplex for Oracle, Sybase Replication Server.
SQL, UNIX scripting, HTML.
MS Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Tuxedo.
Microsoft SQL Server, MS Office, MS Project.
leadership development, team building, project management, cultural intelligence, critical thinking and analysis.

Tony Sheng’s Experience

Principal Catalyst

The Ember Cast, Inc.

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

The Ember Cast is a faith-based global student leadership tribe. We throw fire.
Senior Database Engineer

SAIC

(Public Company; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Integral member of a database architecture team supporting full lifecycle development, deployment and sustainment for multiple products of an enterprise wide mission critical system for a DoD customer.

Specific deliverables included production support/operations and releases to improve database performance and availability, including:
- initiating and designing a proactive process for quantifying metrics about database growth, performance, stability and overall load profile.
- application performance upgrades that increased database performance by 50%.
- 3 Oracle patch/release upgrades per year to address DoD requirements, information assurance vulnerabilities and increase application stability.
- production support for data architecture elements, including two 3-node RAC clusters connected with an Oracle Data Guard physical standby configuration.
- coordination and arrangement of application/database components for an average of 10 production deployments per year.

As of October, 2008, also started serving as a Deputy Manager, Architecture and Operations group.
Coordinator for Student Mission [Volunteer]

Grace Community Church

(Non-Profit; Religious Institutions industry)

September 2003 — September 2008 (5 years 1 month)

From 2003 to 2008, I served as the coordinator of student missions for a local church, investing in students in the areas of culture, global missions and leadership through a ministry called SPACE.
This coordination included:
* engaging students with the synergy of GCC's global and local mission efforts.
* identifying and recruiting team leaders.
* designing and implementing team preparation, including team building, cultural engagement and ministry skills.
* growing partnerships with like-minded orgs and missions innovators.
* over the past five years:
- raised approx $280K for sending teams to impact local and global venues
- coordinated over 25 mission teams with over 300 team members and leaders
- personal mentoring of a core group of students and leaders to encourage and serve GCC's families around the world, including contexts in Brasil, Cameroon and Hungary while transforming them into people that will make a difference for humanity.
IT DBA Manager

Verizon Communications

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

September 2000 — March 2007 (6 years 7 months)

- Day to day hands-on management and leadership for a team of 8 Database Administrators supporting five mission critical 24x7 applications in the areas of data models, high availability replication architectures, application performance tuning, data conversion and general dataserver administration for both Sybase and Oracle platforms.
- Delivered an average of 4 functional releases per year per application, which included data model changes, performance tuning and data replication architecture changes and/or enhancements.
- Lead a team to re-engineer an existing data architecture for transfer to Oracle technologies and delivered 12 migrations and conversions a year for a new startup application, supporting a nation-wide application deployment in 20 months.
- Responsible for re-engineering of existing data conversion processes which reduced overall implementation time by 20%.
DBA Tech Lead

Verizon Communications/Bell Atlantic

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

March 1996 — September 2000 (4 years 7 months)

Served as the technical lead for a DBA team supporting multiple mission critical applications, which included responsibilities for standard DBA functions including implementing data models, maintenance and upgrades of data architecture infrastructure and design and implementation deliverables related to a real time database replication architecture.
QA System Tester

Bell Atlantic

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

March 1995 — March 1996 (1 year 1 month)
Assistant Analyst

RWD Technologies

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1994 — March 1995 (1 year 2 months)

Tony Sheng’s Education

University of Maryland Baltimore County

MS , Computer Science , 1991 — 1993
Capitol College

BS , Computer Engineering , 1987 — 1991

Activities and Societies:

Chair - Class Gift Committee
Charles W. Woodward

1983 — 1987

Additional Information

Tony Sheng’s Websites:

mobilizing::students::mission

Tony Sheng’s Interests:

technology, global cultures, leadership, film, travel, student ministry, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, StrengthsFinder

Tony Sheng’s Groups:

- "The Three Ps of Replication Server in a High Availability Environment," Presenter, Sybase Tech Wave, Orlando, FL, 2000
- “Implementing Database Maintenance in a 24x7 Environment Using Sybase Replication Server," Presenter (with Douglas Bell), Sybase Tech Wave, Orlando, FL, 1999