Matthew Yonkovit
501 South Oakland Street
Saint Johns, Michigan 48879
989-640-4945
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mysqlguru
What have I done? What Do I do?
I am not going to bore you to tears with a traditional resume… there are about million of those out their for you to look at and see. Instead I am going to tell you about what I do, what I am passionate about, and where I would like to go. While putting on my resume that I work for MySQL ( Now Sun ) should peak the interest of many of those looking for a database resource, I actually do more than just database work. I help clients build & design web infrastructures, this includes helping them determine the best hardware, the correct number of web/app/db servers, and guide them through potential landmines in whatever stack they have chosen. I am a certified MySQL DBA & Developer ( some say certifiable ). I have multiple years of experience in almost every database environment I can think of. I am passionate, absolutely in love with solving and overcoming tough problems. There is nothing more satisfying than spending a week at a client site trying to figure out how to deliver 300K queries per second, or achieve page load times < .25 seconds.
I deliver incredible value to my clients and those I work with, take a look at my Linkedin page ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/mysqlguru ) to read some comments from some of the folks I have worked with, or better yet take a few minutes to read some articles on my blog http://www.bigdbahead.com. These should give you a good picture of who I am.
Employment History:
Sun Microsystems / MySQL
Senior Solutions Architect 8/2007- Present
Shandler Enterprises LLC
Technical Director 5/2005-8/2007
Jackson National Life Insurance
Database Architect 5/2006-8/2007
Penske Truck Leasing & Logistics
Lead Database Architect 8/2001-5/2006
Compuware
Senior Consultant 1998-2001
Database Administrator
ISERV 1997 – 1998
Key Area’s of Technical Expertise:
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Getting the most out of an application: Advanced tuning and optimization of web/app/database stacks for high traffic applications and websites
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LAMP ( Perl/PHP) optimization
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Websphere environments
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MySQL ( Certified DBA & Developer )
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Oracle ( RAC, Ebusiness suite )
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DB2 V8
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SQL Server/.NET
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AS400
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Design and implementation of high availability solutions for clients
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Heartbeat/DRBD
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Oracle RAC
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EMC SRDF
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SQL Server Clustering ( Active-Active & Mirroring )
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Provide high level database administration support for clients
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MySQL 3.x-6.x
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Oracle 7-10g
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SQL Server 7-2005
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DB2 7/8
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Sybase
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DB2 AS400 5.2
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Postgres
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Provide Linux/Unix/Windows administration support for clients
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Redhat/Centos, Debian, Windows 2000-2008, HPUX, Solaris, AIX
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Subject matter expert and Best Practice owner for the following strategic areas:
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MySQL database performance optimization
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MySQL/PHP development
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Hardware Configuration and Optimization
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Web development
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PHP/Perl
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Key Accomplishments:
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Built solutions that deliver 99.999% availability and achieve significant ROI by utilizing open source technologies like Heartbeat, DRBD, and MySQL Replication.
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Achieved over $200,000 in cost reductions by optimizing server environment for a leading web company that eliminated over 100 servers from the current years budget.
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Delivered several hundred thousand dollar reduction in capital expenditures while simultaneously delivering 10x increase in website performance for popular social networking site by re-architecting business and technical processes.
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Acted as database project lead on a $10 million data center consolidation project and met objective of consolidating data centers from around the globe to single location, projected to save millions of dollars annually.
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Saved over $100,000 managing Oracle E-business suite upgrade from 11.5.5 to 11.5.10 and delivered project under budget and on time by migrating from Sun Servers to Oracle Rac on HP Blades.
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Reduced database operating costs by $250,000 a year by redesigning the database server farm. Utilized VMware, EMC, and Blades to realize a reduction in the total number of servers from 110 to 22.
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Achieved an additional 30% reduction in licensing costs over original prices by renegotiating database licenses and support contracts.
Biggest Technical Challenges:
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Helped a leading retailer design and develop a web portal that was driven by over 5TB of data, with goals of achieving 250K selects per second and 100K inserts/update/deletes.
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Helped a client survive a massive spike in traffic leading up to a 2008 political campaign event, some of the work involved query time reductions of over 1200X
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Fully designed and built a distributed data center failover solution for a major media client. Solution utilized open source tools and packages to achieve data integrity.
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Consolidate 200 SQL Server instances into 12 servers.