Basil Evans

Current

• Specialist at Corporate Executive Board

Past

• IT Consultant at Unisys
• Implementation Engineer at Computing Options
• Database Administrator at Allware Solutions

• System Administrator/DBA at Nucleus Solutions
• Network Admin/Database Administrator at FDM, Inc.

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Education

• Strayer University
• University of Maryland College Park
• Washington-Lee High School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

Basil Evans’s Summary

• 9+ years of experience in database administration
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• 15+ Years System Administration
• Expert in SQL Server database 6.5, 7, and 2000 design
• Proficient in diagnosing hardware, software and network problems and implementing solutions
• Implementation/Systems Management/Project Management
• Proficient in Oracle 9i

Basil Evans’s Specialties:

Database Administration (MS SQL Server and Oracle), Systems Administration (Windows 2003, Linux, Unix), Technical Support, Customer Service, Client Interaction, System Development, Implementation management, Release Management

Basil Evans’s Experience

• Specialist

  Corporate Executive Board

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EXBD; Management Consulting industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

• IT Consultant

  Unisys

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  Public Sector, Administrative Office of the United States Courts
  
  • Install, configure and maintain MS-SQL 2000/2005 database servers within the AOUSC
  • Analyze and determine informational needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, dataflow and storage requirements and data output and reporting capabilities
  • Define logical attributes and inter-relationships and design data structures to accommodate database production, storage, maintenance and accessibility
  • Test designed applications using database management software or general application software for either web enabled or client server applications
  • Perform system level database maintenance, backups and database recovery
  • Provide task direction to team members as required
  • Designed, configured and managed all phases of system workflow using ASP.Net and C#.net to manage the workflow of AOUSC operations

• Implementation Engineer

  Computing Options

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

  October 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  • Responsible for all customer implementations
  • Coordinate all customer support communications
  • Final escalation point for all technical support issues
  • Responsible for database scripts, stored procedures and DB Change Requests in MS SQL and Oracle 9i
  • Design, develop, and maintain development, test and production databases
  • Create replication strategy between corporate and remote servers
  • Create backup strategies for customers and in house clients
  • Documentation of all processes as it pertains to implementation, db scripts and conversions

• Database Administrator

  Allware Solutions

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  • Administration of all corporate MS-SQL Servers including SQL Server 6.5, 7 and 2000
  • Design, develop, and maintenance of development, test and production databases, including database management, configuration, optimization, security, maintenance, and support
  • Develop stored procedures for better database performance
  • Create the databases, table spaces, tables, views, indexes
  • Tuning and optimization of all databases
  • Create replication strategy between corporate and remote servers
  • Create SQL alerts for database performance and notification
  • Implement notification and reporting Services

• System Administrator/DBA

  Nucleus Solutions

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — June 2003 (3 years 6 months)

  • Administered the network infrastructure and software systems
  • Designed and Implemented Windows NT to 2000 migration
  • Managed server based antivirus system using Symantec Corporate Edition
  • Managed 200+ user accounts for a multiple domain network
  • Diagnosed hardware, software and network problems and implemented solutions
  • Implemented and administered Firewall/VPN Solution using Checkpoint FW1/VPN1
  • Purchased hardware and software as required
  • Setup, maintained, administered and tuned MS-SQL Server 7.0/2000 development, test and production servers
  • Created and maintained DTS packages and scripts to handle daily production tasks for database servers
  • Scheduled DBA maintenance jobs for SQL Servers
  • Developed Interactive Voice Recognition system using VB Script and Zeacomm
  • Managed Telephony system using Avaya Definity G3si PBX
  • Installed and maintained Cisco Routers using Cisco 2600/1705/1600 Routers

• Network Admin/Database Administrator

  FDM, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 9 months)

  Project: Bailey, Emory, Patton Class Action Settlement
  Dates: April 1998-September 1999
  • Team member responsible for database design to administer an $800,000,000.00 tax settlement to retirees in North Carolina
  • Designed SQL Server 6.5 database to hold data for more than two million records
  • Imported all data from different sources including tape, ASCII files and Access databases
  • Assisted Application teams in data modeling and stored procedure coding
  • Provided technical and production support as needed
  
  Client: Productivity Point
  Dates: September 1999-December 1999
  • Planned and installed Epicor Platinum accounting information system
  • Administered SQL and Access databases
  • Migrated Access databases to SQL Server 7.0
  • Managed user and login requests and security maintenance
  • Performed daily maintenance jobs and backups on all MS-SL servers
  • Provided one on one training to users
  • Wrote technical documentation for the system

Basil Evans’s Education

• Strayer University

  Certificate, Computer Information Systems, 1992 — 1992

• University of Maryland College Park

  B.A, 1989 — 1992

• Washington-Lee High School

  1984 — 1988

Additional Information

Basil Evans’s Websites:

• My Company

Basil Evans’s Groups:

Microsoft Certified Professional –
MS 70-228, Installation, Administration and Configuration of MS SQL Server 2000
MS 70-229, Design and Implementation of SQL Server Databases
Microsoft Business Solutions Certified Professional – Installation and Configuration of Great Plains 8.0

Microsoft Certified Professional ID: 3567827

•    Unisys - Ever Worked - Employees and Contractors
•    Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
•    SQL Server Professionals

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