Stivan Widick

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About Stivan Widick

Senior Database Engineer with 20+ years’ experience in managing complex, real-time, large-scale, highly-available, globally-replicated, heterogeneous enterprise database environments. Skilled in logical and physical database design as well as configuration of underlying server resources. Outstanding track record in ensuring databases run smoothly around the clock. Leverages expertise in data engineering and administration along with custom coding to automate a broad range of data and database management tasks, streamlining processes and freeing up time to focus on deeper work. Values teamwork for a thriving workplace. Loves making complicated ideas easy to grasp through open dialogue, attentive listening, and constant curiosity. Known for leading with vision, mentoring others, driving technical advancements, and encouraging team collaboration. Leadership is about inspiring the team, fueling their passion, and showing respect, honesty, and kindness in every interaction. Passionate about keeping up with the latest technology trends as well as creative pursuits such as designing interactive and immersive art experiences and cinematography. EXPERIENCE SUMMARY: Data Center and Cloud Services Environments (Azure) • SQL Expertise • Scaling & High-Availability Advanced Replication • Performance Tuning & Optimization • Activity & Performance Monitoring Data Model & Schema Design • Index Tuning • Root Cause Analysis • Failover Clustering Data Engineering • ETL Pipelines & Integration • Data Refresh • Data Analysis • Integrity Checks Server Builds & Consolidation • Azure Migration • Capacity Planning • Compliance & Auditing Reporting • Security • Backup & Recovery • Disaster Recovery Testing • Automation DevOps • Software Development Life Cycle • Change Management Process • Documentation Project Management • Understanding Business Requirements • Training & Mentoring Collaboration Skills • Large Project Implementation • Executive Presentations • 24/7 Support Specialties: Performance monitoring, analysis, and tuning; bidirectional transactional replication, peer to peer replication, and log shipping; Service Broker asynchronous messaging framework; SQL Server clustering and high-availability technologies; infrastructure design, including SAN topology.